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Comment Re:Gun resembled controller (Score 1) 1343

After having read the friendly article, it's clear that Nintendo's designers didn't design this controller. In fact, before this incident they may not have been aware that it existed. The family apparently had to look for - and look pretty hard - a realistic-looking gun controller for the Wii manufactured in a foreign country.

Yes, that's right, as gun owners they went to considerable effort to obtain for their 3 year old child a toy that looked as much as possible like the actual firearms present in their home.

What can you even say?

Comment Re:Homeopathy is more effective than Placebo (Score 1) 507

Or, you might assume that people who are really sick soon learn that homeopathy does nothing for them and seek some treatment based on something other than distilled water, thereby reducing the percentage of homeopathic patients who actually suffer serious health concerns.
News flash: if you go to a hospital, you're going to find sick people there. The obvious conclusion to draw is not that going to a hospital makes you sick.

Comment Re:more expensive in the long run (Score 1) 507

It doesn't take anything specific to produce a placebo effect. That's exactly what the placebo effect means, actually. So these people could be given anything at all, there's no need for them to receive any specific substance (particularly a specific homeopathic remedy).
But there's also the nocebo effect. Which is to say that it isn't true that treatment by placebo is free from negative side effects. If you believe you're getting real medicine, and you believe that real medicine produces side effects, then you may suffer from them.

Besides which, homeopathy ain't exactly cheap.

Comment Loophole (Score 2, Funny) 507

Even if the government stops paying for homeopathic medicine, you can just take your last subsidized dosage and add it to a gallon of distilled water. Not only do you now have more of it, it's now phenomenally more powerful! And when you're almost out, you can do it again! And it only gets better!
Seriously, why ever pay for this stuff more than once?

Comment So, if I understand this properly (Score 1) 353

All you have to do is identify a large quantity of emails that you're already 100% certain are spam generated by one particular system using one particular template. Then this process can analyze it and deduce the template so that in future you can... be 100% certain that certain emails are spam generated by one particular system using one particular template.

Yawn.

Comment Re:Fair use and for profit (Score 1) 335

You are missing something. But it's a common misconception. What defines fair use is complicated, and there are no clearcut lines such as non-profit = non-infringing. It'd be nice if there were, and most people assume there are. But there just aren't. That's why these things always involve lengthy and expensive court cases.

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