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  1. Re:Falsifying evidence? on NH Man Arrested For Videotaping Police.. Again · · Score: 2

    Assuming you are NOT under arrest, and they don't seem to be digging on you (eg "did you see such and such back over there") not being an ass and actually being helpful is the nice and ethical thing to do.

    Unless you have drugs on you or something stupid like that, then you're fine. Cops are people too.

    Now, if you DO have something on you or you DID do something, then you should be careful. I'm not going to get into the whole "wtf were you doing/thinking" aspect as this really doesn't matter. Just because you are not under arrest NOW, does not mean they won't take your actions NOW under determination LATER.

  2. Re:Research money has to be divided more fairly. on Can Long Term Research Survive the Coming Age of Austerity? · · Score: 1

    You know, come to think of it... I'm pretty sure she was either a Chinese or Japanese immigrant. Definitly one of those, though I can't say I remember enough detail to say which. The name sounded like "Jow" so I guess Chinese?

    Good Doctor - I miss her.

  3. Re:Research money has to be divided more fairly. on Can Long Term Research Survive the Coming Age of Austerity? · · Score: 1

    I think so. We use "prescribe" but I've not used medical services when I've been out of the country, so I don't actually know if this is a locality thing?

  4. Re:Research money has to be divided more fairly. on Can Long Term Research Survive the Coming Age of Austerity? · · Score: 1

    That's funny. My Doctor (a real Doctor, not an alternative-medicine "doctor") out in California was dead-set on using medications as a last resort. Diet changes, activity adjustments etc all took priority.

  5. Re:Research money has to be divided more fairly. on Can Long Term Research Survive the Coming Age of Austerity? · · Score: 1

    I wasn't aware that one could subscribe to medicine - only newspapers, magazines, and other media.

  6. Re:Chicken? on Linux 3.0 Release Delayed · · Score: 1

    No worries. It'll take more than a couple of misunderstood posts to effect it to the point where it bothers me.

  7. Re:Chicken? on Linux 3.0 Release Delayed · · Score: 3, Funny

    Project Manager: Did it build?
    Developer: Yea, but we haven't even run the thing yet
    Project Manager: Ship it!

  8. Re:TL; DR on The Science of Password Selection · · Score: 1

    Hope you have good backups, and $DEITY help you if you have some sort of memory loss (eg get hit by a bus, get a nasty infection, lose the genetic lottery, etc)

  9. Re:TL; DR on The Science of Password Selection · · Score: 1

    I like to make nonsensical but easy (for me) to remember combinations of such memorable phrases.

    "So long and thanks for the wretched hive of scum and villainy" - two memorable phrases that, put together, are unlikely to be next to each other in a dictionary-type attack. This is even assuming they search for whole phrases. I'd bet almost nobody does... and even then, there are a LOT more words than symbols to rotate through...

  10. Re:Well, that's one way to advertise.... on Facebook Bans Google+ Ads · · Score: 1

    Especially as it reads like he wasn't even advertising it, just making it easy for people to find him on it.

    It's not like it read "click here to find me on Google+ and abandon this shitty service" instead...

  11. Re:Prior Art? on Company Claims Ownership of Digital Messaging · · Score: 1

    ... and yet user IDs still don't have any meaningful significance.

  12. Re:Subject-Verb Agreement on Researchers Debut Proxy-Less Anonymity Service · · Score: 1

    It's a quote. You are not obligated to correct it, and if you do, you must signify that you've done so.

  13. Re:A Smart man once said... on Internet Use Found To Affect Memory · · Score: 1

    Hell your brain already uses such a system!

    Working set < Short-term < long-term

  14. Re:A Smart man once said... on Internet Use Found To Affect Memory · · Score: 1

    It's not always related to motivation.

    Eg, I have memorized a relatively large chunk of the [1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 ... 4096] set out of common use and familiarity. At no point did I say to myself "gee I should memorize these numbers!" - and buried down I do know the how/why of them too, but I have to think about it for a moment because i almost never use that fact.

  15. Re:A Smart man once said... on Internet Use Found To Affect Memory · · Score: 1

    I can't even remember the last time I had to add numbers with more than 2 digits by hand... ... that said, I -do- remember how to do it.

  16. Re:Supplements to improve memory on Internet Use Found To Affect Memory · · Score: 1

    While that tea may do the job, some of the other things on the site scream "BS" to me. For example (I'll bold the parts that seem especially bad)

    Ingredients:
            Nutritional Yeast and Brewer’s Yeast – high in the B vitamins
            Spirulina(Spirulina platensis) – a blue-green algae high in protein, beta carotene, and other essential nutrients – a perfect food, no carbs
            Bee Pollen – a perfect food for humans containing all the life force energy found in flowers
            Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) – high in all known vitamins and minerals

    Really? It's an algae. It's not a 'food' - and WTF? "No Carbs"? It's a fucking pill.
    I won't even get into the "life force energy" part.

  17. Re:The number itself is entertaining but ... on Microsoft Developer Made the Most Changes To Linux 3.0 Code · · Score: 1

    I believe this is also true for scheduling - if host and guest cooperate (which necessarily requires special code running in guest's kernel), they can do much better at it.

    I don't know about CPU scheduling, but I don't think that applies really - The host lets the guest do the work, it doesn't need to know what exactly the guest is doing.

    Now, I/O scheduling - in such a case it's actually far more productive to have the guest just not do it - as it has no idea what other work on the host is going on, nor does it know anything about the actual device that is being I/O'ed to. The guest does it's own work without arranging things carefully (like any other program would) and the host then treats it like any other program. Having both do it actually mucks it up for the one that matters (the host).

    (tip: the kernel parameter you want to run in linux guests is 'elevator=noop')

  18. Re:Community Myth on Microsoft Developer Made the Most Changes To Linux 3.0 Code · · Score: 1

    Re-read what he said. They "could care less" - meaning they care to an extent already.

    Now, that's probably not what the fool meant, but the fool wrote the opposite instead. Pity him.

  19. Re:Community Myth on Microsoft Developer Made the Most Changes To Linux 3.0 Code · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Saying one thing and meaning it's exact opposite is not an evolution of an "idiom" - it's just idiocy.

    Unless you're telling me that in 300 years "4" might actually mean "27" or something along those lines?

  20. Re:64-bit is a misfeature on Firefox Is Going 64-Bit: What You Need To Know · · Score: 1

    Flash, most likely.

  21. Re:If Mozilla has no idea what to expect on Firefox Is Going 64-Bit: What You Need To Know · · Score: 1

    Unless someone's doing some retarded* pointer arithmetic or -expecting- particular data sizes... the only change involved would be a compiler switch.

    It shouldn't be any work if it was coded correctly to begin with :/

    * - eg, not able to handle different "bitness" without exploding into fiery chunks

  22. Re:App idea that is directly related to this! on Firefox Is Going 64-Bit: What You Need To Know · · Score: 1

    Well, you can't deny that issues between the CNS and the guts it enervates could have some kind of effect... though unless serious enough to be an emergency it wouldn't be something major. Perhaps just a degradation in one of a few systems (eg lowered endocrine output?) Taking that example, such a thing could push an already stressed or damaged system "over the brink" - snowballing into an actual acknowledged problem.

    Now, figuring out exactly what and to what extent to such a degree of certainty that you can point a finger and say "I told you so!" is probably a bit beyond us right now...

  23. Re:App idea that is directly related to this! on Firefox Is Going 64-Bit: What You Need To Know · · Score: 1

    It's late, I'm tired, and you're already downmodded so why not feed the troll?

    1. MD is pretty broad. I'm sure it's happened. I'm also pretty sure that any kind of spinal trauma resulting in pinching/damage to the nerves could be considered a subluxation. That said this is the domain of a chiro, so of course this is something they do that others tend not to! Or are you telling me an internal medicine specialist should be expected to routinely set bones or do inner eye surgery?

    2. Gee, I never took meds and now I'm pretty normal. Certainly helped me out. Unless the subluxation or whatever is causing endocrine issues, then this has no link. If you DO have that, then mental issues are probably a lower priority than adrenal failure, or bloody urine...

    3. Hmm, then how is it that I can hear out of my right ear? Oh right, because the implant they implanted lets the vibrations reach my cochlea (which didn't happen before, see below) ... I fail to see how chiropractic practice has anything to do with hearing. All of the enervation in that area are in the skull, none of that passes through the atlas and as such the spine has -nothing- to do with them.

    4. Can't comment with this. Cancer is a bitch. It's also runaway processes at a cellular level. It's waaay below the 'level' the CNS can influence. Perhaps some systemic change influenced by a subluxation aggravated or triggered something that was benign or otherwise not yet being cancer - but saying correcting such a thing is curing cancer is retarded. ... I fail to see how chiropractic practice has anything to do with hearing. All of the enervation in that area are in the skull, none of that passes through the atlas and as such the spine has -nothing- to do with them.

    There. Had to get rid of some of that troll feed... it was going to go bad soon!

  24. Re:App idea that is directly related to this! on Firefox Is Going 64-Bit: What You Need To Know · · Score: 2

    Well, I had some pinched nerves. He had me hold my arms out and try to hold them level while he pushed on them. One arm was definitely weaker. To prove his point he handed me a weight and had me compare. Once brought to my attention, I could definitely feel a "lopsidedness" in my arm strength. You might think this was normal, but after tweaking my neck and upper shoulder area, the gap between greatly closed and it became easier to lift in both.

    Similarly, pressure points on my ankles (that I could self apply) also made me realize I was much less pain sensitive in one leg. Adjustments in my lumbar area and suddenly I could feel the pressure point (again, more in both, but also much closer to being equal). My skin was also a bit more sensitive overall on my legs/feet and I "felt" stronger (eg walking about I felt lighter, so my muscles must have been responding better?)

    I'm sure some spout a lot of garbage... but you can't argue with something like that.

    Stop and think as well. Your CNS is distributed from your spine. Nerve signal propagation -is- impaired when pressure or other disturbances are inflicted upon them. It makes perfect sense that such disturbances on the branches coming out from between vertebrae could have negative effects. Now, how 'strongly' such effects could be without some sort of obvious problem or trauma (bone spur, crushed disk etc) I couldn't say - but I could see some 'systemic' symptoms to occur or other conditions exaggerate because of this.

  25. Re:released? on Adobe Released 64-bit Flash For Linux · · Score: 1

    That's odd. Am I the only one seeing the word "release" in the term "beta release"?

    Just because you deign not to say the word, doesn't mean it is not there. A release is a release, the 'stable / beta / etc...' part is just a qualifier.