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  1. Re:Repeat after me: on Asthma Risk Linked To Early TV Viewing · · Score: 1

    See my post above. The causation has been known for a long time. Exercise reduces and can fix Asthma.

  2. Re:Correlation vs. Causation on Asthma Risk Linked To Early TV Viewing · · Score: 4, Informative

    Exercise has been proven to reduce Asthma. It can even fix it in adults although it has to be dosed very carefully. There are elite runners (can't remember a name though) who started running to curb their Asthma.

  3. Re:Just unproductive on Asthma Risk Linked To Early TV Viewing · · Score: 1

    This is about childhood TV watching. Somehow I think you wouldn't want them to have sex in front of the TV.

  4. Re:Just unproductive on Asthma Risk Linked To Early TV Viewing · · Score: 1

    Newsflash: Promiscuity does often make babies.
    "Non-paternity" happens in DNA studies with around 5 to 10% probability, depending on the population. I hear the Brits are the, umm, I was tempted to say worst, but I'd have to say most successful at that.
    So this is clearly an evolutionary adaptation.

  5. Re:Promiscuity on Asthma Risk Linked To Early TV Viewing · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just my thought.
    I should have watched more TV as a child. Damn.

  6. 4 grand? on Dell's Rugged Laptop Doesn't Quite Pass 4-Foot Drop Test · · Score: 1

    So you'll have to drop a laptop from table height roughly once a year to make this economical compared to a run-of-the-mill machine?

  7. Re:A sad day on The Last Will and Testament of Circuit City · · Score: 1

    Just google "Philip Schoonover" and you'll see plenty of blame. I don't know much about Circuit City (although the one time I tried to buy something there I walked out without a purchase after experiencing most of what others have described here) but it seems that he single-handedly drove the company into the ground.

  8. Must have been on Big Swedish Filesharing Server Seized · · Score: 2, Interesting
  9. Re:Facebook?! on Why TV Lost · · Score: 1

    Just my thought.
    The main driver for the Internet is porn, so porn killed TV.

  10. Re:One word - ads on Why TV Lost · · Score: 1

    However, when I see an ad, I make a mental note not to buy that product.

    There, fixed that for you. An ad proves that the product is not exactly flying off the shelves. When was the last time you saw an ad for low fat milk or sliced bread?
    So, unless it's something really new that I haven't seen before and it actually has content, it's a waste of my time.

  11. Re:obvious but worth saying on NASA's Kepler Telescope Launched Successfully · · Score: 1

    The idea is to find potentially life supporting worlds, estimate their numbers, and later point larger telescopes at the best candidates and get spectral data to look for carbon dioxide, oxygen and water.

  12. Re:Casimir Force on Scale Models Can "Compute" Casimir Forces · · Score: 1

    <pedantic>XML parsing error.</pedantic>

  13. Re:Forgot one. on A History of Storage, From Punch Cards To Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    Clay tablets!?!?!?

    Yup. But those damn storage slaves always dropped and broke them, that why we developed redundancy and ECC back at Uruk U.

  14. Re:More technical input anyone? on MediaSentry & RIAA Expert Under Attack · · Score: 1

    It might be a good idea to look for the hashes.
    If there's nothing on P2P that has the same hashes as the files she allegedly shared that's indication that they were never downloaded [much.]

  15. Re:iStrain? on Amazon Releases iPhone Kindle Software · · Score: 1

    I want *high* resolution and low power consumption (yeah, so it wouldn't play video. I don't watch video on my phone.)
    Maybe the rumored OLED display is an option too, but right now the resolution is just too small for comfortable reading. 800 pixels would be a different story.

  16. Re:Why are they attacking him? on MediaSentry & RIAA Expert Under Attack · · Score: 1

    Let's call infringement murder since it "kills the artists' livelihood" and (hopefully) kills the RIAA.

    Off with their heads!!!

  17. Re:More technical input anyone? on MediaSentry & RIAA Expert Under Attack · · Score: 1

    I was a little confused by the way the report mixed refuting some of Jabobson's claims with points possibly exonerating Jammie Thomas.
    The possibilities of spoofed IP addresses are remote and just countering Jacobson's assertion that an IP address uniquely identifies a computer. If she ran Internet connection sharing or NAT only matters if she had an open wireless router.
    Realistic scenarios like that the MP3s might be just rips she did herself and that KaZaa might have shared files she didn't want to share are much more valid (I'd view that aspect of P2P programs as malware.) Did anybody check if the files' hashes match anything that's out on P2P? Were the files deliberately put into an upload directory or were they somewhere else on the disk? Did she own the CDs?
    Finally it would have been nice if the report had looked at Jacobson's software and found similar assumptions as in his testimony, showing that it was more of a sales pitch than factual statements.

  18. Re:Duh? on MediaSentry & RIAA Expert Under Attack · · Score: 1

    Oh come on. Someone implemented KaZaa for the printer's OS, burned it into an EPROM and stuck it in.
    The nefarious ways of the evil file sharers have no limits.

  19. Re:It's About Time on Amazon Releases iPhone Kindle Software · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't they have Li-ion batteries? There are much easier ways to start a fire with them. Rubbing, sheesh. How quaint.

  20. iStrain? on Amazon Releases iPhone Kindle Software · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Give me a phone with e-ink display first.

  21. Re:Tipping point on Smart Immigrants Going Home · · Score: 1

    No, a melting pot would retain the heaviest, which the US has quite well

    No, the densest.

  22. Re:To merge your phone with your PC... on Gnome, KDE, LXDE, IceWM All Working On Android · · Score: 1

    FWIW, that turned off the DPMS timer.
    'xset dpms force on +dpms' keeps it alive.

  23. Re:Evidence based medicine is extremely frustratin on Why Doctors Hate Science · · Score: 1

    Better give them some vitamin or sugar pills. You get the placebo effect, do no harm and it's cheaper.

  24. Windows server what? on Windows Server 2008 One Year On — Hit Or Miss? · · Score: 1

    I have yet to see one, and I see a lot of servers. Seems like 2k3 is good enough and people run other OSs for bigger tasks and virtualization. So... I've seen way more recent deployments of RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu LTS and W2k3 than 2k8. Maybe it's the Vista smell, I don't know.

  25. Re:Time to stop RIAA's misuse of legal systems on RIAA Santangelo Case 'Settled In Principle' · · Score: 1

    As long as we have a system where politicians are allowed to receive money from corporations, the politicians will, of course, pass laws favoring their campaign contributors.

    Amen. Private contributions to individual politicians are bad - many other countries have realized that a long time ago (genereally it's called bribery.) Such money needs to be funneled through an organization that spreads the money equally between candidates, typically the party.