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Comment Re:The truth about caffeine (Score 1) 506

As a former caffeine addict, I would *love* to see some serious studies come out describing the long term consequences to long term caffeine use. Of course, we'll never see that because there's more money behind caffeine than alcohol and tobacco, combined.

My favorite study, and one I quote often is this

Summary: In a study of more than 125,000 people, one cup of coffee per day cut the risk of alcoholic cirrhosis by 20 percent. Four cups per day reduced the risk by 80 percent.

Comment Re:oh, please! (Score 1) 881

You tell them to come in, explaining that you have a secret rocket that will take some of us off of this planet. When they arrive, you have social services take the kids away and the police can take her to the nearest asylum for the criminally insane.

I think it would cost less taxpayer money to just convince them they are wrong.

Comment Re:feign ignorance... (Score 1) 606

To add to this, not only do people blame me for when my help doesnt go perfectly, they get frustrated with me because my typical solution IS to re-install the system

The problem lies with the fact that they keep making the same stupid mistakes, downloading untrusted software, not saving their data, not protecting their computer.

Then they call me because its blue screening, or some unknown software is throwing some unknown cryptic error. I'm not an expert on every free piece of software but i'm expected to be because "i'm in computers".

call me lasy, call me stupid, but i just dont have the time or energy to teach my family/friends how to make reasonable choices PRIOR to hozing their system so they can avoid doing so, or limit the impact if it does happen.

Comment Re:Check out twinhan DVB-S cards for an alternativ (Score 1) 345

My favorite theory is that ATSC stations have so much bandwidth and so little content, that its only time before small channel networks start coming to NBC, ABC, CBS and the likes to bring content over the air nationally.

Add to that a mass exodus from cable, and perhaps we will see more of this sooner
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Kremlin-Backed Nashi Admits Cyberattacking Estonia 181

An anonymous reader writes "Russia's Kremlin-based youth movement Nashi admits being responsible for 2007 cyberattacks against Estonia. An interesting point is that when you DDoS the systems, it's not the fault of some people who want to crash it but instead the systems' for blocking their users due to technical limitations. So if I shot someone to death it's not my fault for shooting them, but theirs instead because of technical limitations of their body."

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