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Comment: depression link? (Score 1) 234

Maybe this is because people who drink coffee are less depressed?

One of the symptoms of severe depression is tireness. People with severe depression often sleep all day. People who are not severely depressed want to get up and out of bed, into the world, and drink coffee to help them do so.

Thus, mortality numbers are skewed by the suicides of the depressed (and thus more likely to fall ill, abuse drugs/alcohol, and/or commit suicide.)

Comment: Re:4th amendment. no new law required (Score 1) 147

by jgtg32a (#40043873) Attached to: Cops' Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking Now Better Than GPS
I'll play

What's being searched? My understanding is they aren't accessing your phone and making it tell them where it is, the police are just homing in on a signal that your phone is emitting.

Seems to me the best why to deal with this is to just add more to privacy laws, just like other PII, a person's location is protected information.

Comment: Re:This assumes I want Xbox Live Gold (Score 1) 530

by jgtg32a (#39930575) Attached to: Why You Don't Want a $99 Xbox 360
You might have trouble connecting the Kinect to you computer as well. From what I understand there are two Kinect models, the stand alone and the one that comes with a new xbox. The standalone can be connected to a computer it has a USB cable and a PSU. The other one has a proprietary USB cable that also provides power to it, I don't know if that will work with a PC.

Comment: Over exposure could still be a problem (Score 1) 120

by jgtg32a (#39926321) Attached to: Exposure to Wide Variety of Microbes May Reduce Allergies
Antecedal Evidence, myself. I grew up in a more rural area and did spend a lot of time outside as a kid with my two brothers. I was the one who played in the compost (grass/leaves) heap the most, eventually I got sick and broke out in hives. Now, I'm allergic to penicillin and the only one in the family with seasonal allergies.

Never raise your hand to your children -- it leaves your midsection unprotected. -- Robert Orben

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