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  1. Iain Banks on What's In a Username? the Power of Gamer Tags · · Score: 1

    Not a fan (well, I didn't like Consider Phlebas much) but it's Iain Banks. Stuff like this bothers me as much as people writing Tolkein.

  2. Re:There's only one thing; on Start-Up Founders On Dealing With Depression · · Score: 1

    And then there are studies who exaggerate greatly the effectiveness of SSRIs. If they actually helped, why do people need to switch regularly and add / remove other meds as well. My experience is that it's just like throwing things at a wall to see what sticks.

  3. Re:Depression on Start-Up Founders On Dealing With Depression · · Score: 1

    SSRIs have been proven to be barely effective. So no idea what you mean with "remedied". Popping Vit B might help you, but it's not a magic cure.

  4. Re:There's only one thing; on Start-Up Founders On Dealing With Depression · · Score: 0

    Another caveat, and a much more important one at that: there is something called TRD: Treatment Resistant Depression. SSRIs have been proven to have barely any effect at all (https://www.google.com/search?q=SSRI%20ineffective ).

    What seems to be way more effective is ketamine: https://www.google.com/search?... But it suffers from not being easy to administer (40 mins IV drip), not being approved for treatment in depression. And maybe most importantly (or tinfoil hat): there's little money in it...

  5. Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear. I read it recently, and can recommend it.

  6. You mean the C way ... on Introducing a Calendar System For the Information Age · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Horrible Headline: google voice still around on Goodbye, Google Voice · · Score: 1

    And write a summary that pisses of at least 20 people ;-)

  8. Re: Firefox is the most unstable program in common on Firefox Was the Most Attacked & Exploited Browser At Pwn2own 2014 · · Score: 2

    Funny that you mention Linux. Firefox crashes about twice a week here, most often with multimedia content. Linux and 8GB of memory. And yes, I am one of those that keeps 50+ tabs open.

  9. Re:And .. on 1GB of Google Drive Storage Now Costs Only $0.02 Per Month · · Score: 1

    Bittorrent is only going to make a difference if multiple people want to download /your/ data at the same time.

  10. Re:Summary of Thread on Stanford Bioengineer Develops a 50-cent Paper Microscope · · Score: 1

    14. In xxx microscope develops you And I think "last week" in #2 should be "10 years ago" ;-)

  11. A few years ago my mother was coming to visit us, in Mexico. Someone working for Continental put her on a Continental flight to Oklahoma (instead of Veracruz), not even checking her ticket, not even wondering why "her" seat was already taken. Continental couldn't even be bothered to call us at Veracruz, and an employee of continental treated us like shit when we finally figured out that my mother was not on the plane, blaming her.

  12. iPad on Ask Slashdot: Linux For Grandma? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Maybe not the answer you're looking for, but let your (grand)mother try an iPad. My mother (who is also a grandmother) loves it, and keeps telling me so.

  13. Re:my daughter on Who's On WhatsApp, and Why? · · Score: 1

    My wife uses WhatsApp to stay in touch with mothers who have their children at the same school as us. She doesn't want to add them all to her Facebook page, so that's one possible reason to use both.

  14. Sanborns, Xalapa, Mexico on What Are the Weirdest Places You've Spotted Linux? · · Score: 1

    Sanborns, Plaza America, Xalapa, Mexico has a "Linux Terminal" at the magazines section. It has a Sun keyboard with a Spanish layout :-).

  15. Re:Everybody drinking the Google-Aid now? on Chromecast Now Open To Developers With the Google Cast SDK · · Score: 1
    Recommended reading to understand "market share": http://www.theguardian.com/tec... and http://9to5mac.com/2014/01/10/... Quote from the former:

    So what's wrong with the sentence? After all, in the third quarter of 2013 Android did have around 80% of worldwide market share. That's correct - here are the ABI research figures.
    It's simply wrong, though, to extrapolate from that to think that four in five smartphones in peoples' hands are Android-powered. Here's the reality: at the time this was written, more than 40% of the smartphones in use in the US (a key market for Nike) were iPhones. Only about 51% of the smartphones in peoples' hands in the US are Android phones. The ratios are more in Android's favour elsewhere, but nowhere outside of China (and perhaps India) would you find four in five smartphone owners using an Android phone.

  16. Re:Google spamming on Elsevier Opens Its Papers To Text-Mining · · Score: 1

    Yup, see: http://johnbokma.com/mexit/200... However, this doesn't work if they check for IP ranges.

  17. Re:Google spamming on Elsevier Opens Its Papers To Text-Mining · · Score: 2

    The technique is called cloaking. You basically check if a page request is coming from Googlebot or not to decide what to return (or redirect). See: https://support.google.com/web...

    The services you mentioned have different rules, of course.

  18. Re:If the Internet is killing Newspapers on Elsevier Opens Its Papers To Text-Mining · · Score: 3, Informative

    Because news or "news" [1] can be gotten for free on the Internet while peer reviewed scientific papers is a bit harder. My experience is that quite some sites bait Google search results (see my earlier post; you google for pdfs but end up on a landing page which allows you to buy one time access for 30+ USD for a handful of pages). My successful workaround (so far) has been contacting one of the authors for a copy (for personal study).

    [1] a lot of people don't seem to care if it's made up or not

  19. Re:Google spamming on Elsevier Opens Its Papers To Text-Mining · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Several sites that have pay walled PDFs somehow manage to get the contents of those PDFs crawled by Google (probably others as well). Google has rules against this, but somehow those sites get away with this. E.g. if one googles for "some keywords filetype:pdf" (without the quotes) results Google show might give the impression that that the full PDF is available but when clicking one lands on a HTML page which shows the abstract and a "buy this document" link. Access is in the 30+ USD range, so about 2 USD/page or more... One of those sites is Elsevier. Or at least was, can't find an example.

    When this happens to me, I contact one of the authors and end up with the paper anyway, for free, most of the time.

    Another parasite is scribd.

  20. Re:If it's gone use 410, not 404 on Fixing Broken Links With the Internet Archive · · Score: 1

    .htaccess

    As for trash files for test, you could keep them in a single directory and make a rule that if the file doesn't exist to return a 410.

  21. If it's gone use 410, not 404 on Fixing Broken Links With the Internet Archive · · Score: 1

    Sure we get the odd server down. But we also have cases where we have a deliberate take down of information, due to legal, or personal reasons.

    If it's gone use 410, not 404, see: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rf...

  22. Re:You lost me at... on CES 2014: Stefan Lindsay Demonstrates the gTar (Video) · · Score: 1

    Yup, and there are plenty of people who don't understand why people pay so much for an Android phone, especially the phablet stuff.

    As for your son's android phone, maybe check one of these?

    The sad thing is, if this would've been Linux you would've been flamed for not doing enough research and having bought the wrong hardware....

  23. Re:You lost me at... on CES 2014: Stefan Lindsay Demonstrates the gTar (Video) · · Score: 1

    A lot of those Androids are indeed of the el cheapo type. Oh, and why is it that every idiot who doesn't understand a market hates on people who buy?

  24. Re:Spell it out the first time on Linus Torvalds: Any CLA Is Fundamentally Broken · · Score: 1

    No. Because shitty editing drives traffic.

  25. Re:Never about search on Actually, It's Google That's Eating the World · · Score: 1

    Like eh.... a search engine?