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  1. Re:The debate is long from over. on The Lancet Recants Study Linking Autism To Vaccine · · Score: 1

    an order of magnitude higher than the 0.1% chance for autism you stated (from which source, btw?)

    There is no source, because vaccines don't cause Autism. He was saying that EVEN IF there was a 0.1% chance, it would STILL make more sense to get the vaccine.

  2. Re:The debate is long from over. on The Lancet Recants Study Linking Autism To Vaccine · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Also consider this: nobody has absolute proof that vaccines DON'T cause autism.

    Also consider this: nobody has absolute proof that my rock DOESN'T repel tigers.

  3. Re:And cue the pyramid in 3...2...1... on And Now, the Animated News · · Score: 1

    Oh god, that "wa-CHUNG!!" sound of the pyramid flying onto the screen is FOREVER seared into my brain. Heaven help us.

  4. Re:Elementary School in the 80s on Dying Man Shares Unseen Challenger Video · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure the operative words are "Elementary School".

    I'm sure the jokes there are just as tasteless as ever, just about different subjects.

  5. Re:Screw PHP, I write everything in C on Facebook Rewrites PHP Runtime For Speed · · Score: 1

    Heh, I agree. I was required to be written in Java. :)

  6. Re:Screw PHP, I write everything in C on Facebook Rewrites PHP Runtime For Speed · · Score: 1

    Hey, writing a web server is pretty freaking easy. Here's one I did in Java for grad school. Copy away!

    --------------------

    import java.io.*;
    import java.net.*;
    import java.lang.*;
    import java.util.*;

    public class HttpServer
    {

    static String proto = ""; //should be HTTP/
    static String errorMsg = ""; //output to terminal
    static boolean errorFlag = false; //error flag
    static String origUri = ""; //orig uri2
    static String uri2 = ""; //uri2
    static String fileType = ""; //file type
    static String contentType = ""; //content header stuff
    static String headerMessage = ""; //header message
    static String errorHTML = ""; //error HTML page
    static int errorNum = -99; //error code (404, 500, etc)
    static String errorMessage2 = ""; //File not found, etc
    static int portNum = -99; //port num to run on
    static long fileLength = -99; //file length in Bytes

    public static void main (String args[]) {

    String versionStr=""; //the full HTTP version string
    String versionNum=""; //version number
    String frontTok=""; //first token in line
    String method=""; //HEAD or GET
    String responseHead=""; //response header
    String statusMessage=""; //status msg for terminal
    String debugMessage=""; //echo of request line
    boolean hostMode=false; //make sure only one Host: line
    boolean gotMethod=false; //make sure only one method is called

    try
    {
    //check if there's a portNum argument, if not, quit
    if (args.length > 0)
    {
    portNum = Integer.parseInt(args[0]);
    }
    else
    {
    System.out.println("Usage: java httpServe port number");
    System.exit(1);
    }

    //time to create our server socket
    ServerSocket serverSocket = new ServerSocket(portNum);

    //infinite loop, waiting for connections
    while(true)
    {
    System.out.println("Waiting for connection on port "+ portNum);
    Socket client = serverSocket.accept();

    BufferedReader httpIn = new BufferedReader (new InputStreamReader(client.getInputStream()));
    PrintStream httpOut = new PrintStream(client.getOutputStream());

    hostMode=false;
    gotMethod=false;
    errorFlag=false;
    method="";
    debugMessage="";
    statusMessage="";
    errorMsg="";
    errorNum=200;

  7. More Conservative Lies! on Give Space a Chance, Says Phil Plait · · Score: 1

    You are completely, 100 percent full of shit:

    NIH budget in 2002: $19,319,125,000
    NIH budget in 2008: $23,841,208,000

    % increase: 23.4%

    source: http://www.nih.gov/about/almanac/appropriations/index.htm

    Not exactly double, eh?

    *****************

    Do you also remember how Bush was going to double NSF's budget? We all know how THAT went:

    News about bill from 2002: http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200210/senate.cfm

    According to the bill, NSF's budget was supposed to be $9.8B by 2007.

    Actual 2007 budget: $6.43B.
    Actual 2009 budget (even later): $6.85B.

    So yeah, don't trust Bush or anyone who supports him. Nuff said.

  8. Re:No story here on US Grants Home Schooling German Family Political Asylum · · Score: 1

    If by "brainwash" you mean parents cannot teach their children that Jesus Christ is their Savior who died for their sins, then you're wrong. This is a right guaranteed by the First Amendment.

    Just because you can do something doesn't make it a good idea.

  9. Re:xinerama and xrandr on 2 Displays and 2 Workspaces With Linux and X? · · Score: 1

    And what string did you search on such that those solutions popped up?

  10. Re:No contract need for 3G! on Apple's "iPad" Out In the Open · · Score: 1

    Who cares, CDMA *sucks*. SOLD

  11. Re:What is the point? on Apple's "iPad" Out In the Open · · Score: 1

    Apple has always released crippled products and insisted that they were superior.

    Yeah, I really hate my substandard octo-core 2.8GHz Xeon Mac Pro with 18GB of memory. So crippled.

  12. Re:we've been to the moon . . . on Obama Choosing NOT To Go To the Moon · · Score: 1

    Already been done, my friend:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Willzyx

    He's dancing in his Moon Castle!

  13. Re:Rules 1 through 7 of using a Cell Phone on The Cell Phone Has Changed — New Etiquette Needed · · Score: 1

    Many of you will hate me for saying this, but I firmly believe it should be illegal for the driver to place and/or answer a cell phone while driving. Period!

    Are you also prepared to outlaw other in-car distractions?

    Audio system
    Speaking with passengers
    Eating/drinking
    Thinking about something besides driving
    Being tired/upset/in a bad mood

    Otherwise this sounds like a selective "It's easy to catch/observe so let's make it illegal", instead of actually doing an analysis. Just as speeding is easy to catch, but not the chief cause of most accidents.

  14. Re:Free-thinking? on The Apple Paradox, Closed Culture & Free-Thinking Fans · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Please see my sig:

  15. Re:Jurassic xterms on Designing the Computer UIs In Movies · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but I thought that fsn and tdfsb were created AFTER the movie to mimic the look. Not sure where I heard that...

  16. Jurassic Barbeque!! on Scientists To Breed the Auroch From Extinction · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Enter the Matrix was OK... on Failed Games That Damaged Or Killed Their Companies · · Score: -1, Redundant

    +1

  18. Javelin! on A Space Cannon That Might Actually Work · · Score: 1

    On a very small scale, of course: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FGM-148_Javelin

  19. Re:What about my stress level on Antitrust Case Against RIAA Reinstated · · Score: 1

    Well, there is a difference between "share your toys" wherein the act of sharing does not create an exact duplicate of the toys and "share your digital music" where the act of sharing does create an exact digital duplicate.

    It's physics that keeps people from cloning plastic toys. If they could, they would, ignoring the Plastic Toy Association of America just like they do the RIAA.

    Digital media just happens to be the first thing that came along that makes copying really, REALLY easy.

  20. Re:The cynical... on Human Males Evolve At a Faster Pace Than Females · · Score: 1

    As long as men continue to make more money and are in a better position for career advancement, women can make fun of us as much as they want. ;)

  21. Re:In the words of the great Ken Titus... on US Youth Have Serious Mental Health Issues · · Score: 1

    Anmd instead of having a bump on their head, now the helmet they fall on breaks their jaw.

    If the fall broke their jaw, I think it would create more than a "bump on the head" if they weren't wearing a helmet.

    Head injuries are one of the very, very few safety issues I'm really concerned about when it comes to kids.

  22. Re:And this is news why? on CES Vendors Kicked Out of Hotels For Showcasing Wares in Room · · Score: 1

    Secondly, a hotel can refuse service to anyone, at anytime, for any reason. Hotels are privately-owned businesses

    Then the companies/people who booked the suites need to get every penny refunded to them.

  23. quazi-oblig on Futuristic Sex Robots Now Just "Sex Robots" · · Score: 1

    www.videosift.com/video/Futurama-Dont-Date-Robots

  24. Re:Shrimp free zone? on Air Canada Ordered To Provide Nut-Free Zone · · Score: 1

    I'm a business. Why the hell should I have to spend good money on making my facility accessible to the handicapped? Screw ramps, screw handicapped parking spaces.

    Tada! Same logic applies. So you're against accommodating anyone with any kind of disability?

  25. Re:What if on Startup Tests Drugs Aimed at Autism · · Score: 1

    More seriously, what if high-functioning autism was a somewhat beneficial trait for a few individuals, provided not everybody in a community was like that, and natural selection has formed the balance we see now?

    The exact same thing has been postulated about color-blindness, which affects 10% of the male world population.