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  1. Re:it's peanut allergy waves on Tower Switch-Off Embarrasses Electrosensitives · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As an allergy sufferer, I can tell you that she is tired of armchair doctors telling her she is wrong when she has done 100 times as much research on the subject as you ever will.

    If you just met her, I almost guarantee that's the case. I only discuss my allergies with people that care about me and actually want to have an honest conversation (see, Slashdot, I love you). Arguing with you about it is a massive waste of time that she has been through dozens of times already only to be told she's a loon job for not being like everyone else, so why bother?

  2. Re:Faraday Cage on Tower Switch-Off Embarrasses Electrosensitives · · Score: 0

    My house is very similar to this. I only get TV or radio signals next to windows.

    Fortunately I have satellite.

    As far as EMF, I knew a family that had their house FILLED with ridiculous amounts of electronic Christmas decorations. Everywhere you looked there was something. Your skin crawled just being in there because there was a magnetic field everywhere.

    First, the older daughter died of cancer at 16. The mother had had it as well. Then, the younger daughter got cancer. Also, I've known people that lived under the massive power lines where I grew up. Again, the rate of cancer was much higher than elsewhere in the city. I'm not convinced that it's completely unrelated.

    Also, as a food allergy sufferer, I've been told that I can't be allergic to MSG, aspertame/Nutrasweet, soybean oil, etc., but unlike these people, I can reliably tell when I have had any of the 3 in a blind test. Later in life, I found out that the Nutrasweet trials were faked by putting the common cross-allergen MSG in the "placebo", giving "similar effect as placebo". I also found out that while, in theory, soybean oil cannot be allergenic, in actuality people crush the beans because it is cheaper and there is a lot of soy protein in the oil. Only the non-allergenic baby food has the "pure" soybean oil. But it does get frustrating when people are telling you that you could not possibly be suffering when you have a migraine.

    If people are having problems, there is most likely something to it, even if it's not the towers. I think the pesticide angle is worth investigating...

    Notice people in Africa are not complaining about other people's TVs, cell phones or cars being in close proximity to them, even though they have as little understanding of these items as they have of the towers.

  3. Re:BDJ on Nintendo Wii To Get Netflix Streaming · · Score: 1

    If this were true, then it would work in ANY Blu-Ray player hooked up to a network cable. Can anyone confirm this?

  4. Re:TFA backs up parent.... on US Youth Have Serious Mental Health Issues · · Score: 1

    Not me.

    I LOVED being sent to my room. Much better than being spanked. The only "abuse" from being spanked is that I think my parents used it far too often when just telling me what they wanted from me would have worked.

    For example, one time the next door neighbors said that there were 2 ways to spell "but(t)". I asked my parents about it (genuinely curious) and they spanked me immediately for swearing. All they had to do was say that it was a slang term for a person's rear end and that they didn't want me to use it because they didn't think it was polite. I would have complied. I didn't need to be spanked for that. That type of thing happened more than a few times.

    When I got older (too old to spank, really), my mom started sending me to my room. That was GREAT! My Atari 800XL was up there and there was nothing I wanted more than to get away from them arguing about stupid nonsense all day long anyway. They would send me up there at 2:30 PM and forget about it until I came down for dinner at 6:00 PM. Fine by me.

    Overall, though, I am glad I was spanked and I think that a lot of problems come from kids with no respect of society or their elders. In fact, even schools in good areas are starting to get completely out of control because of undisciplined children.

    With my own children, we reserved spanking for when nothing else was working. My older daughter was spanked about once a year on average and the younger about 1.5 times a year. I discovered, though, that she HATES being sent to her room, so now I choose that for her instead.

    Everyone is always commenting how our kids are really good, without any prompting, so I think we are doing OK.

  5. Re:yes on Does a Lame E-Mail Address Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    Exactly.

    I used to work at a place in the 90s and we had a lot of PC Techs, some good and others bad (some really bad). We came to the conclusion that a simple 2 question interview would have given us 100% accuracy in hiring the good and rejecting the bad:

    1. Who is your ISP?

    Incorrect answers included AOL and "What is an ISP?"

    2. Who built your computer?

    The best answer was "Me, of course," but Dell, HP etc. were fine. Bad answers included "I don't know," Packard Bell and E-Machines.

    It was a joke to us (we didn't do the hiring), but it was amazingly accurate.

  6. Re:It WOULD work IF (Do that and you'll go BLIND) on Making a Liquid Invisibility Cloak · · Score: 1

    And this is exactly why a proper invisibility cloak must be computer controlled with millions of dots of resolution interspersed with millions of cameras. The idea is that, like a chameleon, you change to look like your background. With you inside, the cameras can also give you a view of your surroundings.

    And yes, it would still give off a heat signature, but most people aren't walking around with night vision goggles all the time.

  7. Re:Ob. Matrix quote on 8% of Your DNA Comes From a Virus · · Score: 2, Informative

    On top of all that, the fact that "The Flood" actually has even earlier recorded sources (Sumerian, for example) just make the whole thing even more, well not maybe comical, but at least mildly amusing.

    Yes, amazingly almost every culture on earth has a global flood story with a single boat, a bunch of animals and a negotiation of sorts with a god or gods. There are over 200 of them, involving nearly every culture that was on earth in early history.

    For instance, this one from China, where the person is even named Ndrao-Ya.

    http://www.archives.ecs.soton.ac.uk/miao/songs/TranslatedSongs/m131/m131tr.pdf

    Here's a handy chart to summarize the similarities:

    http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v2/n2/flood-legends

  8. Re:Pattern? on New Pi Computation Record Using a Desktop PC · · Score: 1

    If you would put the outcomes in a graph would a pattern arise?

    When I graphed it, I got a perfect circle...

  9. Re:taunting? on Escaped Convict Continues To Update Facebook · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A low-security US prison may be preferable to most of those locations...

  10. Re:Antibiotic abuse on Man Challenges 250,000 Strong Botnet and Succeeds · · Score: 1

    The most intelligent design will prevail...

  11. Am I the only one... on New Antifreeze Molecule Isolated In Alaskan Beetle · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one that was more interested in the ice cream?

  12. Re:Sadly, the article makes no sense on Scientists Crack 'Entire Genetic Code' of Cancer · · Score: 1

    Ah, but it is somewhat inherited, because pasty white boy is far more likely to get cancer than ultra-dark black man, because his melanin doesn't block the sun and lets more mutations happen.

  13. Re:Oh wait, what? This again? on Supreme Court Takes Texting Privacy Case · · Score: 1

    It's California. IANAL but standard practice trumps ANY policy or writing in a workplace.

    If he can get affidavits of officers stating that they all understood the policy the same way, the written policy has been rendered irrelevant.

  14. Re:Too bad the US can't comprehend this concept on Microsoft Fined In India For Using "Money Power" Against Pirates · · Score: 1

    This is exactly what I think. Loser pays the lesser of the 2 legal bills to the winner. If the individual wins with his country lawyer, he gets his legal fees back and it costs him nothing. If large megacorporation wins, the individual is still punished by paying double HIS legal fees, but he is probably not bankrupted by this.

  15. Re:What can't I f**king decide for myself? on EU Recommends Noise Limits On MP3 Players · · Score: 1

    It's just like religion, opposition to abortion and stem cells on the political right

    Yeah, and they're always stopping you from killing adults, too. What a bunch of killjoys! They should just let you gun people down if you want to. Born, unborn, who cares? Kill them all.

  16. Re:Time Machine on AT&T Moves Closer To Usage-Based Fees For Data · · Score: 1

    Sure they can. Build more towers.

  17. Re:Mostly the court said the defense sucked on Court Says Fair Use May Hold In Some RIAA Cases · · Score: 1

    Yes, because that's never happened before. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_activism

  18. Re:Obvious (?) question on Super Strength Substance Approaching Human Trials · · Score: 1

    Who let them out of the cages that they've been in since birth?

  19. Re:Obvious (?) question on Super Strength Substance Approaching Human Trials · · Score: 1

    You know, now that you mention it, it would be nice to move the Escalade that's taking up 2 spaces...

  20. Re:One time comcasts DNS servers were down... on How Does the New Google DNS Perform? (and Why?) · · Score: 1

    Just switch ONE of your servers to 8.8.8.8. Leave the other alone. Then you have the best of both worlds.

  21. Where are my mod points? on Woman Filming Sister's Birthday Party Gets Charged With Felony Movie Piracy · · Score: 1

    Parent is funny stuff...

  22. Re:Simple! on What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink? · · Score: 3, Funny

    No wonder the staff is disgruntled...

  23. Re:not a bargain on What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink? · · Score: 1

    And the first time you boot the printer, the Epson uses a ton of ink "cleaning" its brand new self. It also does this any time it has been off for more than a day. I get almost no pages out of Epsons, which I why I quit using them. If they used un-full cartridges, they might not print any pages at all!

  24. Re:I Second this on What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink? · · Score: 4, Informative

    1. My Brother lasers cost around 1.2c per page, including paper, using the high capacity cartridge.

    2. Canon Pixma is THE CHEAPEST line of color printers there is. By my calculations, it costs about 7c per page. Also, they don't waste your ink or tell you that you can't print anymore (they do, but you can override it and keep printing until the ink actually runs out).

    3. HP costs about 10-12c per page and Epson is as high as 15c (12c-15c).

  25. Re:I Second this on What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink? · · Score: 1

    I love my $50 Brother laser printer. And the $250 networked laser is equally good as well. And best of all, it takes full reams and they keep up on the drivers, even for Windows 7.