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  1. Re:One blew out my speakers. on Senate Votes To Turn Down Volume On TV Commercials · · Score: 1

    Um, I see a conflict has occurred that should not have occurred had you not taken what I said to such an extreme degree. When I said smoke, I meant a little or tiny puff of smoke I didn't think I had to construct my message as some sort of steel horse chute to keep the horse on track so there would be no misunderstanding. I find it entertaining that I can truly describe this as akin to herding cats. The deal about Billy isn't a big deal either. As for saying I was startled almost enough to break a bone I wasn't expecting you to take it literally or to think I wanted some stupid sympathy, I was just being descriptive. Oh there's a reason I tend to startle easily but revealing that will just give you another excuse for your predilection for taking simple statements as some "Begging" bid for sympathy. If I wanted sympathy or even had it entered my mind, I would not have said I HAD (Past Tense) insomnia. The problem is you over-exaggerated what I meant. I don't want your tears, or your feelings of sympathy at all - its disgusting! I didn't say these things to get sympathy and I did not mean anything to the degree you made up, out of thin air. I was getting a bit upset at you and was determined to say two words to you that rhyme with "FU" but after reading this reply of yours proved to me where the error lay when you assume I have feelings I did not. Of course I've dealt with folks who have done as you have, and every one of those continued in their fantasy of mis-conceptions about people around them. Maybe you will be different, but I doubt it. Go back to living in your dark world full of sympathy vampires, I don't want to have anything to do with it. At least I learned one thing - To either stop posting here in slash dot or expect this kind of foolishness.

  2. Re:One blew out my speakers. on Senate Votes To Turn Down Volume On TV Commercials · · Score: 1

    Yep, its the effects that can kill. Like getting pneumonia from having a low immune response brought on by lack of sleep. Its like the flu. People say folks died from the flu when its the secondary infections or choking that kills most of them yet, nobody takes someone to task for saying someone died of the flu (Well the trolls here do apparently) because its a general statement, not meant to be a scientific fact. Sounds like a bunch of readers here have nothing better to do than to nitpick.

  3. Re:One blew out my speakers. on Senate Votes To Turn Down Volume On TV Commercials · · Score: 1

    Interesting. Range compression? I'm curious if this guess is what this means... The range refers to the highest and lowest decibels in the piece and the range compression raises the decibels of the lower range, so that the average loudness is higher?

  4. Re:One blew out my speakers. on Senate Votes To Turn Down Volume On TV Commercials · · Score: 1

    Not over exaggerating, I went through three weeks where I would go to bed and wake 30-45 minutes later, feeling like it was 10am and well past time to get up. After three weeks of this, I ended up catching pneumonia on December 25th 1997 because I was so exhausted from lack of sleep my immune system failed. You can Google about sleep and immune system but I would be genuinely surprised if a troll like you would be interested in enlightening themselves about this recant and admit to even possibly being wrong. I remember, because that Christmas was when I spent the week in intensive care at Feather River Hospital. So you can continue calling truthful people liars all you want but it won't change the facts.

  5. Re:Insomnia on Senate Votes To Turn Down Volume On TV Commercials · · Score: 1

    Six months? Wow, that's terrible, but an accurate description of what things feel like with depression too. Nothing felt real, it felt like everything was made of aluminum. For me the almost dying part was when it first came on. I would go to bed, wake 30 to 45 minutes later feeling like it was 10AM and time to get up and that was all the sleep I could get. It continued this way for three weeks, then I became bubble boy. The immune system needs sleep. There was one study where they took fifty people and woke them up at 3am and let them go to bed again at 5am. The first night of just two hours sleep deprivation took down immune responses by 25% on average. I hope you find some solution to your problem. Insomnia sucks.

  6. Re:One blew out my speakers. on Senate Votes To Turn Down Volume On TV Commercials · · Score: 1

    WTF??? I hit reply to your message not mine.

  7. Re:One blew out my speakers. on Senate Votes To Turn Down Volume On TV Commercials · · Score: 1

    The speakers were in an old style tv with just those little internal speakers. Didn't need anything near 700 watts to blow out one of those. You are a troll. your attitude reminds me of cat piss. Things start stinking real now, not later. There are cures for all kinds of things but there is no cure for being an asshole.

  8. Re:How about a rule that... on Senate Votes To Turn Down Volume On TV Commercials · · Score: 1

    I like this rule!

  9. One blew out my speakers. on Senate Votes To Turn Down Volume On TV Commercials · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I had severe insomnia - I even almost died of it - Yes you can! Anyway I would have the TV on so I could have something to focus on and I remember commercials especially from Billy Mays that would startle me so badly it felt like I came near to breaking a bone. Subjecting me to a sudden auditory explosion is enough to get me pissed off enough that I will black list the product. There are so many brands of each product, I don't have to buy theirs. They have been claiming the commercials are not louder than legal for years, yet one time I could NOT hear this show, so I started to reach for the control to turn up the volume. Suddenly a commercial came on so loud that it blew the speakers - smoke poured out. I remember getting into it with trolls here who said the commercials were not any louder it was just a perception caused by the average loudness being higher. Now they are acknowledging that they are louder? Seems news sources have a bit of trouble "Making up their minds". I guess it's a matter of perception. Startle me and you piss me off.

  10. Re:Um, scuse me but Mac Os X does have IPv6 on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Page 2, last paragraph under the heading "You mean to say that IPv6 is actually different from IPv4???" states in part.... " all IPv6 systems support stateless autoconfig; Windows Vista and 7 support DHCPv6, but Windows XP and Mac OS X don't;". Therefore if all IPv6 systems support stateless autoconfig, and since the quote just above and the re-quoted paragraph below says that Ma OS X does not have it, and that other OSes do not, than the article is stating that only Vista and 7 support this *integral* and necessary feature of IPv6. So now that you had yourself directed right to what part of the article I read, perhaps next time you will re-read the article instead of assuming just because you didn't see it the first time, then it was not there. Complete paragraph from the article reads ... "The end result is a bit of a mess: all IPv6 systems support stateless autoconfig; Windows Vista and 7 support DHCPv6, but Windows XP and Mac OS X don't; on open source OSes a, DHCPv6 client can usually be installed if one doesn't come with the distribution; and Vista and 7 also use the temporary, random number-derived addresses by default, whereas other OSes don't." Url to the page .... http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/09/there-is-no-plan-b-why-the-ipv4-to-ipv6-transition-will-be-ugly.ars/2

  11. Um, scuse me but Mac Os X does have IPv6 on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    A simple google of "ipv6 for os x" reveals countless sites discussing how to enable it and test it? So this article says that only Windows Vista and Windows 7 has it but that OS X and other OS's don't? Whats up with that? What exactly are they talking about here?

  12. Re:Right now? on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    That's funny!! LoL. This is what happens when you treat a limited resource as an unlimited resource.

  13. The real meanings. on Microsoft's Chief Exec For Latin America Says 'Open' Means 'Incompetent' · · Score: 1

    Open means the incompetence is shared at the cost of time and frustration. Closed means the results of the incompetence is offered at a monetary cost plus time and frustration.

  14. Re:Oh well... on Construction of French Fusion Reactor Underway · · Score: 1

    Or Freesion :D

  15. Re:News To Me on How Good Software Makes Us Stupid · · Score: 1

    Totally agree. it might have this effect on the lazy, but if you give me a good tool I just do more.

  16. Re:Use with prosthetics on Two Research Groups Create 'Electric Skin' · · Score: 1

    Mine was can it double as a bug zapper for mosquitoes and other pests?

  17. Software patents are a mistake. on Patent Office Admits Truth — Things Are a Disaster · · Score: 1

    Sure there is reason for protecting one's work from being plagiarized but to do this with probably simple software techniques is a tragedy. You got lawyers and law makers who are NOT programmers who don't know the difference between the equivalent of some bozo trying to get a patent on the use of a hammer so he can have everyone else bent over a barrel and a real legitimate patentable technique. The other idea is this software patent idea precludes the idea that nobody else can think of it. You don't see folks making music patents (Yet) but if music were born under the conditions of today, a small group of greedy individuals would have us unable to whistle a catchy tune without risk of being thrown in the slammer. Thank God, we have a rich and varied musical heritage. Seems to me that software patents haven't gotten off the ground til recently, otherwise there wouldn't be this rich variety of choices for software that does basically the same things. Well for the exception of Adobe Flash and others that seem to have the corner on certain things and if you need to do flash development you got to buy their hammer. There are other ways to protect one's software, and if not, I'm sure there are still other ways.

  18. Re:Comment your code on Programming Things I Wish I Knew Earlier · · Score: 1

    I didn't forget. Pick up a job listing and you'll be lucky to find any job not requiring web based skills. Businesses who went web too early got burned, but today its programmers without web skills that are in the fire.

  19. Re:Comment your code on Programming Things I Wish I Knew Earlier · · Score: 1

    If You think you need to comment to help yourself and others understand the code years down the line but you don't know what to say, you're probably doing it wrong. The thing I wish I knew years ago, was that everything would go web. So many folks I know who are jobless because they didn't bother to learn web.

  20. So would breaking this law be a fooderal crime? on Court Bans Sandwiches Because They Could Be Thrown · · Score: 1

    :-p

  21. I wonder how good they are for a LIGHT shave. on How To Make Authentic Lightsabers · · Score: 1

    Sorry I just had to make pun of it. Neat pics but oh god it loads slower than a slothund in a bantha's stomach.

  22. Re:secure? on Microsoft's Security Development Process Under CC License · · Score: 2, Interesting

    if the thieves are getting past the guards, I would not want to emulate them. Something is wrong and needs to change, and till its changed I would not want to copy a security model that isn't secure. The question is, is it insecure because of a failure in the model or is it because so many resourceful thieves are finding ways around the so called safeguards. Who can know?

  23. This explains my behavior on Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime · · Score: 1

    I like to take breaks after learning a lot of new stuff, otherwise it starts to swim together and get jumbled and I thought this was my FAULT. Now they are saying it's normal. I wonder how many normal folks end up misdiagnosed with things because mankind STILL DOESN'T KNOW HOW THE MIND WORKS - Or doesn't work. :D

  24. Freedom has been sold to the greedy policy police. on Philly Requiring Bloggers To Pay $300 · · Score: 1

    Business and government have been making policy and using that word as an excuse not to make exceptions for decades and this is the result .. government agencies that are like retarded automatons, no thinking, no sense common or otherwise, no accountability, just the big machine rolling over people without any regard for justice or right or wrong.

  25. Some day Some one on Throwing Out Software That Works · · Score: 1

    Is going to find an old ancient iPad and take a look at it and say "WTH where they thinking?"