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  1. Re:The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. on Famous British Autism Study an 'Elaborate Fraud' · · Score: 1

    Persistant misbehavior by children just wasn't acceptable 25 years ago.

    Sure it was. Children in question were just "slow" or "retarded" and stowed into institutions.

  2. Re:My kids are not vaccinated. on Famous British Autism Study an 'Elaborate Fraud' · · Score: 1

    You drink recycled urine on earth too. Probabilistically, ever molecule of water on the planet was at some point in human urine.

  3. Re:My kids are not vaccinated. on Famous British Autism Study an 'Elaborate Fraud' · · Score: 1

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16322148?ordinalpos=1&itool=PPMCLayout.PPMCAppController.PPMCArticlePage.PPMCPubmedRA&linkpos=3

    Though his statement is misleading at best. Out of 9 cases (in a school of over 600), 7 of them were vaccinated (1 with a single dose, 6 with both doses) and 2 were not vaccinated. The 7 vaccinated cases falls within the typical vaccine failure rate.

  4. Re:Vaccine-linked polio hits Nigeria on Famous British Autism Study an 'Elaborate Fraud' · · Score: 1

    Your article fails to mention the vaccine in question is the oral polio vaccine (which can cause polio in about 1 in 750,000 vaccinations), which is not used in the US, Canada, or the UK. The injected vaccine does not have that effect.

  5. Re:Not sure it matters on Famous British Autism Study an 'Elaborate Fraud' · · Score: 1

    Generally, it's given twice, at 1 year and again at 5 or 6.

  6. Re:Whoops on Doctor Marries Doctor's Daughter, TARDIS Explodes · · Score: 1

    What is your suggested source of technology news?

  7. Re:Hype on Why BioWare's Star Wars MMO May Already Be Too Late · · Score: 1

    Also, just because Wow has 12 millions subscribers, does it mean it's the only measure of success? Is it possible to be viable at 1,2,3 or more millions? I'm sure they are ways to still make money and have a good community ready to stay with you if you respect them.

    Yes, it's fully possible to be good at 1, 2, 3 million. How many RPGs do you know of that have been able to get 1 million players? I know of 7 (WoW, Runescape, Guild Wars, Maplestory, Knight Online, Lineage 2, and Dofus). Most are in the low hundreds of thousands range.

  8. Re:private key on the machine? on PS3 Root Key Found · · Score: 1

    You understand it fine. It's just that Sony doesn't.

  9. Re:Why would you refuse a breathalyzer? on 'No Refusal' DUI Checkpoints Coming To Florida? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Low carbohydrate-high protein diets will produce acetone, which will screw with them. Diabetics with control problems will also give incorrect readings for the same reason.

    Also most ripe fruits will mess with them. Eat an overripe peach followed by a breath test and it will show you drunk enough that you ought to be dead. Repeat test 20 minutes later and it will still show you too drunk to drive.

  10. Re:No great surprise.. on Most Android Tablets Fail At GPL Compliance · · Score: 2

    Malata, the hardware OEM, is Chinese and thus not subject to US or European IP law regarding things like the GPL.

    The GPL's authority is based in copyright law and China is a signatory of the Berne convention (As well as the Universal Copyright Convention, the TRIPS agreement and the WIPO Copyright Treaty), so yes, they are subject to it. Just no one bothers to go after them about it.

  11. Re:Bias does not exclude fairness on World's Plant Life Far Less Diverse Than Thought · · Score: 5, Informative

    This doesn't inherently discredit them as a news organization

    No, the fact they filed and won a lawsuit arguing that they are allowed to deliberately lie about the news does.

  12. Re:Remaining inventory on Kodachrome Takes Its Final Bow Today · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily. There's a guy in New Mexico who got a hold of one of the last k-lab machines and is looking to get it operational, but Kodak has kept the chemical formulas for the dye couplers locked up tight. Maybe with the end of official processing that will change.

  13. Re:How about this one? on Amazon Censorship Expands · · Score: 2

    Rapeseed and canola are not the same thing. Canola is a specific type of rapeseed which was bred to contain less erucic acid and glucosinolates.

  14. Re:Go Amazon! on Amazon Censorship Expands · · Score: 1

    The number of competitors is irrelevant when one company holds 90% of the market.

  15. Re:Is this a case for voting with your wallet? on Amazon Censorship Expands · · Score: 1

    perhaps a local business that you could feel good about supporting

    What local business? The last independent bookstore within 100 miles went out of business 5 years ago thanks to amazon et al offering lower prices and (formerly) wider selections.

    "Voting with your wallet" breaks down once companies grow large enough and oligopolies and "industry standards" start to form.

  16. Re:Weather Alert on Paris To Test Banning SUVs In the City · · Score: 1

    A few huge power plants, even coal plants, are much more efficient than lots of tiny gasoline engines, even after factoring transmission losses and charging inefficiency.

    Also, France gets more than 3/4s of it's electricity from nuclear plants.

  17. Re:Quoting Homer on Once-Darling Ethanol Losing Friends In High Places · · Score: 1

    Less compression? Ethanol has a dramatically higher octane rating (114, vs. 89 for normal gasoline), so you want higher compression.

  18. Re:Good. on UK Banks Attempt To Censor Academic Publication · · Score: 2

    Consequently, PINs are almost never used in the US for credit card transactions.

    yes, instead you have signatures, which are just as laughable.

  19. Re:Nothing new here - and they don't 'work' on Placebos Work -- Even Without Deception · · Score: 1

    I don't understand why the Dr. was surprised by the result.

    They were surprised by them working even when they told the patients they were being given a placebo.

  20. Re:next step towards the corptocracy on RIAA, MPAA Recruit MasterCard As Internet Police · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is pretty much the definition of restraint of trade. If financial companies run this course, they might find themselves on the receiving end of a different kind of lawsuit, anti-trust.

    Has there been any meaningful enforcement of antitrust law in the US since 1974?

  21. Re:If you are paying for pirated movies... on RIAA, MPAA Recruit MasterCard As Internet Police · · Score: 1

    Yes, exactly like the ACTA treaty is about that.

    Perhaps you would be interested in this bridge.

  22. So you want to arbitrarily block transactions? on RIAA, MPAA Recruit MasterCard As Internet Police · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ok, fine. You are now liable for any criminal transactions you don't block.

    If you don't like that, you will send my money where I tell you to.

  23. Re:Business of government on Kodak's Patent Spat Threatens Photo Web Sites · · Score: 1

    Court fees, I presume.

  24. Re:Yeah i was thinking about that. on Electric Cars May Be Made Noisier By Law · · Score: 1

    I used to work in a neighborhood with a college (I don't remember if it was a college or a high school, right now) with a large number of blind people.

    Street crossing had a different kind of texture in the walkway. The traffic lights would make noises like "cross", "stop". While it was possible to cross it made a distinctive tone, changing it's pitch as time goes.

    It worked.

    Yes, because when the cross light/sound goes on, a forcefield pops up across the road, preventing some idiot yattering on their phone from going through the intersection and mowing down pedestrians.

  25. Re:Guantanamo on Senate Repeals 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' · · Score: 1

    I wish he would, but where will the prisoners there be taken to?

    Run them through the civilian court system, same as any other accused criminals. I'm sure there's some space in the federal prisons where they can await trial.