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Comment Re:Totally offtopic (Score 1) 261

Oh that?

That's just the good old All-American tradition of coming up with euphemisms for everything. What we now know as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was once known as shell shock. Being a fatass is now obesity. Old people are senior citizens. Now lab-rats are called 'animal models'. It's a vicious cycle designed to protect middle-class Americans from anything they might think is even remotely scary.

The Courts

Submission + - Girl sues ASUS for using fake CPU in her laptop (techarp.com)

crazyeyes writes: "David, in the form of a young Chinese girl , has finally slung a stone at the giant Goliath we know as ASUS. She sued the computer company for a cool 5 million US dollars after ASUS was caught using an Intel engineering sample processor in her laptop. The engineering sample is a free, uncertified processor Intel gives to companies like ASUS for test purposes. Intel maintains they must not be sold as they are not qualified parts and are often broken in some way, but the story claims that Intel is fully aware and even supports the misuse of those samples.

Coming at the back of reports of fake boxed Intel CPUs , that's pretty believable. The Chinese are obviously comfortable about counterfeiting everything from milk powder to eggs. What's a processor to them? Whether Intel actually supports their activities is something for all Slashdotters to ponder..."

Medicine

Submission + - Reliable Male Contraceptive in the Works

Hugh Pickens writes: "BBC reports that recent tests in China indicate a monthly injection of testosterone, that works by temporarily blocking sperm production, could be as effective at preventing pregnancies as the female pill or condoms and could revolutionize birth control. In trials in China only one man in 100 fathered a child while on the injections and six months after stopping the injections the men's sperm counts returned to normal. "Our study shows a male hormonal contraceptive regimen may be a potential, novel and workable alternative," says Lead researcher Dr Yi-Qun Gu, from the National Research Institute for Family Planning in Beijing, China who added that if further tests proved successful the treatment could become widely available in five years from now. Previous attempts to develop an effective and convenient male contraceptive have encountered problems over reliability and side effects, such as mood swings and a lowered sex drive. However despite the injection having no serious side effects, almost a third of the 1,045 men in the two-and-a-half year study did not complete the trials and no reason was given for this. The news was welcomed by family planning experts. "If a male contraceptive like this became available it would be great and would give people another choice," says Laurence Shaw, of the London Bridge Fertility Center. "It would empower men to make a decision which involves more than just a condom. At the moment the onus is on the woman and men do not have that much choice.""

Comment Re:Here we go! (Score 2, Informative) 466

If you're going to be a grammar Nazi, at least try to be an effective one. 'Queue' means line up, cue means "An action or event that is a signal for somebody to do something". Therefore, cue is the proper term here, he just misspelled it. You, on the other hand, managed to make yourself look like a jackass. Way to go man, way to go...

Comment Re:What is the difference? (Score 3, Insightful) 124

You're ignoring the fact that that $8,000 Rolex is probably made of gold/platinum, with actual diamonds/whatever. You pay the insane prices for the quality of the watch as well as the name. So while the $80 counterfeit watch may look the same, it's only the same watch on a very superficial level. So yes, about $4,000 of the price is for the name alone, there is a very real difference between genuine and counterfeit goods.

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