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  1. Re:not really a ban on FDA Considers Banning Acetaminophen-Based Pain Killers · · Score: 1

    But what do you take if you are a child with a fever? It has a purpose and INSTRUCTIONS, you don't read those and die, well perhaps you should be put up for a Darwin Award.

  2. Re:not really a ban on FDA Considers Banning Acetaminophen-Based Pain Killers · · Score: 1

    In fact according to that ever reliable source the WHO recommends it for children with a fever over 38.5C.

  3. Re:not really a ban on FDA Considers Banning Acetaminophen-Based Pain Killers · · Score: 1

    ok so what's a safe* anti-fever drug for children? *within certain limits paracetamol can be considered safe, if you stray not very far over those it's a bastard, so don't do that.

  4. Re:No need on Lenovo Tinkers With Larger Delete and Escape Keys · · Score: 1

    Yeah you need to use the task manager shortcut to open task manager. It's Ctrl + Shift + Esc if you haven't worked this out for yourself.

  5. Re:He should'a known... on AT&T's Bad Math Strikes MythBusters' Savage · · Score: 1

    The problem is not maths, per se, but numbers and the ability to read them. There is not really much maths involved in being able to read a number. It's not like customer service people work out the charges themselves.

  6. Re:Why? on Netbook-Run Dice Robot Can Rack Up 1.3 Million Rolls a Day · · Score: 1

    What people believe to be random and what is actually random are usually far apart. Most people would expect to see an approximate even distribution for true randomness, but this is not what happens. You get clumps, actually the size and distribution of these clumps, I believe, can be used to tell exactly how random said data is. My point is most people wouldn't know random if it hit them in the face, so 'believably random' is a non-sequeter.

  7. Re:How to get out of a recession in 2 easy steps.. on Intel Receives Record Fine By the EU · · Score: 1

    Well the EU have forced the split of various national telecoms companies, forced competition into the postal markets and generally messed with things over here (there are many other things also, so this is merely the tip of the iceberg, they don't seem to care where the company is from but if it is anti-competative they will stop them). But we accept government in Europe and that it is a force for the people, it does get it wrong sometimes but at least we have someone fighting for the consumer and not just the corperation...

  8. Re:Why so feeble? on When Comets Attack · · Score: 1

    You need to enrich your material from which to make your bomb. That costs money and resources, if you have enough raw material at a good enough purity making a bomb (not an efficient one) is actually not that hard. But getting weapons grade material is not easy.

  9. Re:non competes only make sense when... on CA Vs. MA In Battle Over Non-Compete Clause · · Score: 1

    This is legal, you just specify the notice period, and you can either stipulate in the contract or just do it later to force this to be leave, and include a non-compete whilst an employee. Because only when you pay me do you get to tell me what to do.

  10. Re:Both arguments make sense on CA Vs. MA In Battle Over Non-Compete Clause · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No. Once you stop paying me you don't have any right to tell me what to do. You don't want me to join a competing company for say a year, you can damn well pay me for a year to sit on my ass. I'm fairly sure that they are not allowed in the UK anyway, so I'm fine.

  11. Re:Hey on CA Vs. MA In Battle Over Non-Compete Clause · · Score: 4, Insightful

    However if a company wanted you to take 6 months paid leave before you could leave I have no problem. But once you stop paying me you stop telling me what to do, that's mostly the way employment works.

  12. Re:For Coffee Too on Soy-Based Toner Cartridges? · · Score: 1

    We use milk, you know from a cow. I do not know of this 'creamer' of which you speak, I hope never to encounter such a thing.

  13. Re:Shift in dynamics on Senator Arlen Specter Becomes a Democrat · · Score: 1

    But the Communists and Fascists were ORGANISED, the republicans not so much.

  14. Re:Shift in dynamics on Senator Arlen Specter Becomes a Democrat · · Score: 1

    He's close enough to the democrats that they would talk to him and even allow him to run for another term. I would suggest that his views may have something to do with that.

  15. Re:Shift in dynamics on Senator Arlen Specter Becomes a Democrat · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He lies in the middle of the political spectrum and he feels that he might get a more of a chance to air his views with the democrats than with the republicans, who from the UK at least seem to be crazy right wing nut jobs at the moment, well more so than usual. Seems like a sensible move to me.

  16. Re:Don't see the point on The History of Microsoft's Anti-Competitive Behavior · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Mostly because I've used more Windows boxes in the last 15 years I find issues far easier to diagnose with a Windows box than a Mac. Apple do tend to hide an awful lot of things, which for the most part normal users don't need, so diagnosing issues can be more problematic. Apple are just as bad as MS, for example I can plug in my iphone into a Windows box and browse using Explorer to retrieve the pictures from the phone. On a Mac I can't use finder (or at least it is non-obvious) to do the same I have to use itunes. So realistically it depends on what you want to achieve as to which is the best tool for that task. Zealotry for any one platform is pointless, because as Mr Wall say's there's more than one way to do it, choose an appropiate tool for the job at hand. The 'just works' moniker is only mostly true, try for example adding networked 'host based' printers if you want some fun.

  17. Re:Geek Phone? on Cinder Mobile OS Lets Users Send More Power To Slow Apps · · Score: 1

    Did you mean 3. ??? 4. Profit ?

  18. Re:Huh. on South Park Creators Given Signed Photo of Saddam Hussein · · Score: 1

    Yes but if the rope is too long, you do still get instantaneous death, but from decapitation.

  19. Re:Year of the Linux Console on EVO Linux Gaming Console Opens Pre-Orders · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Better than mplayer? on VLC 0.9.9, The Best Media Player Just Got Better · · Score: 1

    It was true using 0.8 tended to display directX overlays in a separate window, but I've not had that since I put 0.9.6 on a machine...

  21. Re:The birth of europa? on Jupiter's Great Red Spot Is Shrinking · · Score: 1

    He is, like most of the people who wrote stories yesterday, possibly lacking the funny.

  22. Re:In the spirit on Instant Messaging Vulnerable To New Smiley Attacks · · Score: 1

    I believe what you meant to say was *sigh*, it's not going to stop today. You knew it was coming you could just have avoided the interwebs today.

  23. Re:One or two April Fools stories: humorous... on Google Launches CADIE, the First True AI · · Score: 1

    Because most people are not funny, those that are are funny for the entire year, those that are not try on this day to be funny and fail. There has been lots of fail today.

  24. Re:Yeah, free pie (i mean software) to iPhone user on iPhone App Refund Policies Could Cost Devs · · Score: 1

    A 7/14 day cooling off period would be nice of apple to offer, but I agree that 90 days is far too long, the system will be gamed by people.

  25. Re:RF modulator on Game Publishers Pressuring Sony For PS3 Price Cut · · Score: 1

    If you were in Europe you got much better tech (see regulation is good) because of the need for interoperable standards in the whole of Europe, thus meaning hardware makers could make one model for the entire of Europe (plugs aside), and it would interconnect to other peripherals easily with the standard SCART socket.