I never really enjoyed listening to jazz until the first time (and one of the only times) I got drunk, freshman year in college. We ended up at a cafe with a live jazz trio and the music sounded and felt great.

No doubt, jazz has its intellectual appeal to those in the know, but it can also be viscerally thrilling to somebody in a receptive state (chemically-induced or otherwise).

Mod parent up (AC or not). From what others have said, it looks like this drug might not be a bad thing to have. Even if it wasn't necessary, almost half a billion is peanuts next to what's been spent on a war of dubious merit since 9/11.

Cut me some slack. When I saw that the story was only 23 minutes old, I almost peed my pants and rushed to submit it to Slashdot. I had to think of *something* to say along with the headline and URL, and that was the best I could do. Apparently it was good enough.

It's been years since I'd even bothered to submit anything (and, as you can gather from TFS, none of my previous submissions were accepted). The fact that I'm strutting around right now as if I'd won the Superbowl must give you a sense of how rich and full my life is.

Well, exqueeze me!! How about the wings? Didn't TFA mention something about wings? Don't *they* have a cooling effect?

Don't jet engines have a propeller-like thing called a turbine? Wouldn't they have a similar effect?

That's a scary story!! I'd heard about thalidomide and any number of other major medical blunders, but not that particular one before.

I'm not quite following your math here, though, "11/3 of all hospital patients"?

Good point. However, my boss can be pretty funny at times and I doubt she posts with such candor on LinkedIn. Also, though I joined LinkedIn, I hardly ever visit the site. Between Slashdot, facebook, and Newsvine (though, since MSNBC bought them, I've found the quality of discussion has gone down dramatically and I visit very infrequently), I've got about all the social media I can handle.

I can relate. A good many of my friends are co-religionists, many of whom I've never met. Others are friends from college, few of whom are very religious. Consequently, I find myself not wanting to be too religious for fear of offending the secular folks and afraid of being too worldly for fear of appearing less devout to the religious. So, I end up lurking mostly (and also because I'm friends on facebook with my boss and don't want her to think I'm spending all day on the site).

I bow before your superior pedantry! Please pardon me while I sell my belongings, move into a cave, and ponder this dilemma for the next 30 years. :)

Is it on-topic? The headline specifies "the Most Abused Word in Tech". GP argues that the F-word is the most abused word, period.

What the author is trying to say is that conventional cameras are set to one particular f-stop at any given time. Of course, the f-stop can be changed, but you're still only using one setting at a time. With HDR photography/videography, the same image is captured multiple times at different f-stops.