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Comment Re:Standard practice... (Score 1) 192

It was bad, she got also skin reactions from mere touch and she did (still does though) carry an Epipen with her at all times, but the doctors said they've treated even worse cases. Apparently the treatment is more effective / more likely to work in younger children. The treatment is still somewhat experimental, luckily I live in a town with a university hospital that does a lot of research. I'm not a medical professional so I'm not able to advice you further sadly, but if you're interested try to contact them (or have your doctor do so).

Comment Re:Standard practice... (Score 5, Interesting) 192

My daughter's milk allergy (yes, milk allergy, not lactose intolerance) was treated this way. It started with an almost homeopathic dosage, one drop of milk diluted to 1/20 per day, gradually increasing the dosage over six months. Now she's able to use dairy products freely, which is great. But the treatment doesn't really get rid of the allergy, it just builds a resistance for it, requiring that she gets at least some milk protein in her diet daily. I'll echo the summary though - don't try this without a medical professional.

Comment Re:Freedom is not a "problem". (Score 2) 44

In other words, unlike GPL, it's not viral. It's this viral aspect of GPL that is turning people against it, and towards the more permissive BSD and MIT licenses.

Which is why we just heard Linux running out of funds? Oh wait, we didn't. And WebKit is LGPL (and not an Apple creation but a fork of KHTML - undoubtedly refined since though).

(For the record, I've nothing against BSD-licensed software, but people seem to be fine with GPL and its derivatives. Linux seems to be the platform of choice for most of smartphones and completely owns supercomputing. The desktop part is missing, insert compulsory joke about "YEAR OF LINUX DESKTOP" here - but generally it seems GPL is not scaring people away. And yes, even you, running Safari on your i-Device - you're running LGPL software.)

Comment Re:I'll be happy (Score 1) 338

I'm willing to buy the first argument up to a point, although once they've visited a site it should show up as a suggestion in the address bar - but perhaps they'll still search for it, the stupidity of some never ceases to amaze me. I'm not sure about the second one though - if you check the list (it's the first top 10 list - the page is in Finnish but you can ironically enough use Google to translate it), those are all web sites. Basically all they'd need is to be appended with .fi or .com depending on the site, and most of them wouldn't really make much sense in a more verbose query. And right below it is "on the rise", there you'll find queries with more words in them.

Comment Re:JavaScript trap (Score 3, Insightful) 340

Yeah, and that position is just lunacy. Stallman complains about JS in Google Docs taking half a megabyte, minified. How large would it be unminified, with comments and all? It's not like there aren't any tools to do so if you wish. Fill in the variable names as you please and you should be able to "de-obfuscate" the script quite easily, debug it Firebug or whatever you wish. There is a very clear technical reason for minifying JS, it's beneficial both for the server and the client. While I appreciate some of the foundations laid by Stallman/FSF, nowadays they just seem to be crackpots with no connection to reality (see the this article for example - give a substitute for Youtube as a present, WTF?).

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