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Comment Re:The debate is long from over. (Score 1) 590

by ThinkOfaNumber (#31003574) Attached to: The Lancet Recants Study Linking Autism To Vaccine

Or its proof there was something else wrong with the person who took the vaccine and it was all coincidental that they showed symptoms after being vaccinated.

And you're telling me this because...?

Let me say it slowly: I. Agree. With. You.

I'm not drawing any links between MMR and Autism. I was just talking about proofs in and of themselves, nothing to do with MMR / autism.

The night before I showed symptoms of ALL, I had been playing with a late 1970s Han Solo blaster pistol in my uncle's unfinished basement. Dose that mean a toy gun, an unfinished basement and/or playing are linked to ALL?

If that's what you want to think, but that's going a bit far.

Comment Re:The debate is long from over. (Score 2, Insightful) 590

by ThinkOfaNumber (#31003380) Attached to: The Lancet Recants Study Linking Autism To Vaccine

"Descending into autism" is an awfully broad term. It's sure as hell not scientific. Just right for anecdotal evidence really.

I'm not trying to use it as scientific evidence. I said "descending" because she wasn't diagnosed until much later, but the symptoms started then.

If you talk to autistic children's parents you'll find they often describe it as a descent. Changes don't happen immediately, or from birth, but they often reach a developmental point and then start going backwards, hence my use of the word

The scientific studies conducted over hundreds of thousands of people that showed no evidence that MMR caused autism may carry more weight than what your friends say.

Of course, but I never claimed to:
  - be a scientist
  - conduct studies
  - believe the link between MMR and autism

I was previously talking about proofs. I used an example because I have a close relationship to the story.

Comment Re:The debate is long from over. (Score 2, Informative) 590

by ThinkOfaNumber (#31003230) Attached to: The Lancet Recants Study Linking Autism To Vaccine

me too, but that's my point which you might be missing. You can't take one healthy MMR-vaccinated person and prove that all MMR vaccine cases will never cause any side-effects.

It only takes one person with a side effect LINKED to the MMR vaccine to prove that they're all potentially dangerous. Note the link has to be well proven.

I'm not saying it is or isn't a good vaccine, I'm just talking about proofs.

Comment Re:The debate is long from over. (Score 1, Interesting) 590

by ThinkOfaNumber (#31003018) Attached to: The Lancet Recants Study Linking Autism To Vaccine

Nope, it doesn't work like that.

It only takes one exception to disprove a rule, but to prove a rule you need to prove it for all cases.

Friends of ours have a daughter who started descending into autism one week after the MMR vaccine.

However I think the larger issue here is the weakening of the human race - as we continue to vaccinate, use antibiotics, and fix defects with surgery, we're allowing weak genetic traits to propagate that would otherwise be bred out. Nevertheless I still get my kids vaccinated.

Comment Re:xinerama and xrandr (Score 1) 460

by ThinkOfaNumber (#30943902) Attached to: 2 Displays and 2 Workspaces With Linux and X?

xinerama + xrandr does not solve the question posed by the OP.

Yes it does.

... or a separate screen on each monitor which does not allow moving windows between screens).

OP wants two monitors with their own separate workspaces,

Xinerama.

while still being able to drag windows between them.

Xinerama

In other words, OP wants to be able to transfer running applications between separate X screens,

No he doesn't. You implied separate X screens. The OP just wanted separate virtual desktop switching.

which to my knowledge is not currently possible (or, if it's possible, the functionality is not exposed in Gnome or KDE).

Xinerama

This isn't "+1 Insightful", it's "-1 Didn't bother reading the OP" (or "-1 Doesn't really know what xinerama+xrandr does").

There are two types of xinerama. X xinerama, and nvidia xinerama. nvidia's xinerama is provided so that nvidia twinview (which fools X into thinking you only have one monitor) doesn't make windows maximise across two screens and dialogs pop up in the centre. You can use the original X xinerama without using nvidia's twinview which gives you separate virtual desktops and everything the OP wants. X sees the two monitors and uses it's own xinerama.

xinerama is understood by metacity, compiz, wine, tvtime, mplayer, xscreensaver, and a whole host of other programs. Even if they don't, it's usually sufficient for the window manager to handle it.

Comment Not the Dymaxion vehicle's fault? (Score 2, Informative) 203

by ThinkOfaNumber (#23899819) Attached to: The Life and Times of Buckminster Fuller

FTA:

The first prototype of the Dymaxion Vehicle had been on the road for just three months when it crashed, near the entrance to the Chicago World's Fair; the driver was killed, and one of the passengers-a British aviation expert-was seriously injured. Eventually, it was revealed that another car was responsible for the accident, but only two more Dymaxion Vehicles were produced before production was halted, in 1934.
Although Wikipedia claims "The cause of the accident was not determined, although Buckminster Fuller reported that the accident was due to the actions of another vehicle that had been closely following the Dymaxion."[1][2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_car
[2] http://shl.stanford.edu/Bucky/dymaxion/index.htm
Security

Submission + - Pointless Internet Banking Security (blogspot.com)

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ThinkOfaNumber
ThinkOfaNumber writes: "I hate some of the stupid internet banking security features, with a vengeance. I have tried to convince readers as to why one particular method (on-screen keyboards) serves no practical purpose. Am I right or am I wrong? Perhaps I am just frustrated... no not _that_ frustrated ;) Anyway, the article is here: http://nthrbldyblg.blogspot.com/2007/07/internet-b anking-security-feel-good-fuz.html. From it: "I would like to separate criminals interested in getting your account details into two groups: 1. Those who are doing a dedicated attack on an individual 2. Random script-kiddies exploiting worms / trojans / security holes who install a keystroke logger. Now let me say that you have no hope of avoiding the first type of criminal. ... It follows therefore that the only criminal you can protect yourself from, is the opportunistic criminal, who downloaded some 1337 Warez, and who thinks he is a hxr." "It is highly unlikely that a great series of consequences would lead our criminal to this point. [accessing your bank, username, and password] And if you want to make sure, there are some simple measures you could use to thwart him at the start:" I am about to submit this argument to my bank who, guess what, recently installed an on-screen keyboard along with a bunch of other frustrating security measures. You could help me refine it."

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