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  1. Re:Instead of complaints, we need answers on US Senate Committee Passes PROTECT IP Act · · Score: 1

    The issue is the 'accused' part - all you have to do is cry out "copyright violation" and supposedly the plug gets yanked. Note that actually having been in violation is not in play...

  2. Re:+Insightful on US Senate Committee Passes PROTECT IP Act · · Score: 1

    The DMCA does not apply to this.

  3. Re:Instead of complaints, we need answers on US Senate Committee Passes PROTECT IP Act · · Score: 1

    Yea... I don't think that will fly.

    The "common" can go ahead and vote that in, but anyone with an ounce of aptitude will say "no" and nothing will get done. Watch the new economy grind to a screeching halt over it.

  4. Re:PEBKAC on Mac Malware Evolves - No Install Password Required · · Score: 1

    I'm also sure they are working on taking care of that "PEBKAC" issue. The way this thing is advancing, in another week it will be a silently installing drive-by download...

  5. Re:round? on 10-Year Study Reveals Electron Shape · · Score: 1

    Can you read? Well, you made it through the title at least.

    OK, so you can't comprehend shit.

    Reread it. It should be obvious.

  6. Re:Units on 10-Year Study Reveals Electron Shape · · Score: 1

    I think you could have left that short (heh) at "your UID doesn't fucking matter, you fucking cunt" and described it quite succinctly :)

    (I've seen plenty of low-UID idiots)

  7. Re:It's called "Being Fair"! on Doctors To Patients: First, Do No Yelp Harm · · Score: 1

    Oh. One other thing.

    The extra radiation exposure in Tokyo over -weeks- after Fukushima was only just over twice that of a chest X-Ray. If this helps put things to scale.

  8. Re:It's called "Being Fair"! on Doctors To Patients: First, Do No Yelp Harm · · Score: 1

    No, fluoroscopes are run at a fraction of the power level as regular X-Rays. It's actually fairly hard to see, mostly white cloud with a bit more opaque areas where bones are. I was also in a position to see the control panel as well, and I did see it was cranked way down (near the lowest possible setting actually). Typical exposures are apparently between 20–50 mGy/min, keeping in mind that "The average radiation dose from an abdominal X-ray is 1.4 mGy, that from an abdominal CT scan is 8.0 mGy, that from a pelvic CT scan is 25 mGy, and that from a selective CT scan of the abdomen and the pelvis is 30 mGy." (from wiki, yes. at least it's cited from a real source!)

    Keeping in mind as well you're exposed to around 8 times the radiation of a dental X-Ray just flying from New York to LA, which is something that I've done too often to count.

    All in all, my own mental risk analysis came out on the side of getting it done.

  9. Re:Streisand Effect on Doctors To Patients: First, Do No Yelp Harm · · Score: 1

    I don't think QED means what you think it means.

  10. Re:Streisand Effect on Doctors To Patients: First, Do No Yelp Harm · · Score: 1

    Ah, but your rotting corpse might cause disease, or explode the microbial fauna population causing other issues.

    You just can't win, can ye?

  11. Re:It's called "Being Fair"! on Doctors To Patients: First, Do No Yelp Harm · · Score: 1

    That's odd.

    I've never seen a massues take a motion X-ray, watch bits of my spine misbehave, measure the angle of curvature in various parts, plug it into a computer, and fix the fucking problem.

  12. Re:It's called "Being Fair"! on Doctors To Patients: First, Do No Yelp Harm · · Score: 1

    He may be an idiot, but chiropractors can certainly be the real deal.

    Myself, I had tones of problems. One of my legs was starting to go numb now and then. I realized (while picking an ingrown hair of all thigns) that I could jab one leg and it would hurt a lot less than on the other.

    That's a scary realization.

    About 4 visits with him and the majority of the issues were nearly gone. 10 later and there is absolutely nothing wrong now. I can look up without feeling some pain. My legs feel normal. I don't get back spasms in the middle of the day any more. I get much fewer headaches as well.

    And the interesting bit? Nothing else changed, only my going to see a chiropractor (who actually does real things). This all said he wasn't the kind you think of that just lay you down and start cracking things - X-rays were taken, and when some issues were apparent the next step was a fluoroscope to see how things were in motion. Even I could see several spots where vertebrae just didn't flex (almost like they were fixed together). My neck was also straight - rather than the gentle bow that is supposed to be present.

    The adjustment tool of choice was this weird little two-hammer type thing. I watched the computer as he probed my back (pushed down on the bone until the device "snapped", and it measured how much force it took to cause movement and how much movement was registered when it happened. After probing, he made a few adjustments on the machine, changed it's mode, and it worked similar to a jackhammer. While doing so, it again measured, and when done it showed a before/after and an "optimal" response curve. Wish I knew what it was called.

    Neat stuff.

  13. Re:The latest GUI innovation... on Mozilla Labs: the URL Bar Has To Go · · Score: 1

    mmm I sure do love alpha software!

  14. Re:Torrent on Fedora 15 Released · · Score: 1

    Consumer ISPs. Internap et al doesn't count.

  15. Re:Great on New Bacterium Lives On Caffeine · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have a hard enough time even bothering to use my bean grinder!

  16. Re:Microsoft and Skype on Microsoft Kills Skype For Asterisk · · Score: 1

    Er, why would that have anything to do with costs?

  17. Re:Ohio is in the US [Re:One more nail] on Increased Power Usage Leads to Mistaken Pot Busts for Bitcoin Miners · · Score: 1

    which is the fault of the judges issuing the warrants, not the cops for doing their job.

    The Judge is supposed to... GASP! judge if it warrants a search or not.

  18. Re:Great on New Bacterium Lives On Caffeine · · Score: 1

    Actually, if they can get these things to leave... leavings... less offensive than ammonia, this could well be a boon for decaf coffee. Washing the caffeine out without effecting anything else is apparently really difficult.

  19. Re:Fedora in my pants on Fedora 15 Released · · Score: 1

    Like this. Just put it in an inventive location... (SFW)

  20. Re:Torrent on Fedora 15 Released · · Score: 1

    ISPs hosting mirrors? HAH!

    We wish we had that. If we ever did, it stopped somewhere in the 90s. (USA)

  21. Re:Torrent on Fedora 15 Released · · Score: 1

    demonoid is good, if you get lucky or someone is willing to extend you an invitation. No porn is allowed, which is (IMO) a good thing.

    There's a lot of the usual stuff, but there's also tons of things that /are/ legitimate. I myself seed 5 or so torrents with the author's permission.

  22. Re:Does it still crash all the time? on Fedora 15 Released · · Score: 1

    I hate when people do that, especially people who do it in email.

  23. Re:Does it still crash all the time? on Fedora 15 Released · · Score: 1

    I started with Debian back in 2001 and to this day keep flopping back between the two. I really have no complaints and feel just as at home in either. I mean, when you can build packages for either system without too much trouble, this tells you something.

    Hell the current stable on both feels modern enough for me to have no need/want for something "fresher" like Fedora or (shudder) Ubuntu, and they both have the rock-steady stability we love.

    The one thing RHEL/CentOS has going for it is the close SELinux integration. Getting to that point in Debian is a pain in the ass. Call me a weirdo but I like SELinux.

  24. Re:Does it still crash all the time? on Fedora 15 Released · · Score: 1

    6? Wow...

    Hell you'd have a better (and just as stable, if not more so) time using RHEL5/6 or CentOS5/6 - or Debian should you want a break from the RH family.

    That is unless you have particular wants/needs keeping you using older versions of just about everything.

  25. Re:Does it still crash all the time? on Fedora 15 Released · · Score: 2

    12, 13, and 14 were pretty solid from my experimenting. Hell I even managed to cooperate with SELinux!

    Give it a try.