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Comment Hmm (Score 1) 100

by Christopher Woods (#42500389) Attached to: Has CES Lost Its Star Appeal?
In stark contrast to the original commentator's thoughts on CES' irrelevancy, BBC News this weekend published a fairly insightful article looking forward to how CES has been (and will continue to be) adapting to follow the zeitgeist. It also mentioned how a Chinese company snapped up most of the premium floorspace previously occupied by Microsoft...

I think we'll see many more mobile device iterations and perhaps some new product (soft?)launches at CES this year. Sure, MWC is the destination event for mobile devices, but CES started as a spinoff of a music conference, its scope is more than broad enough to survive a while longer. And hey, there's first generation production OLED screens to be demoed! You won't see those in Barca.
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Facebook Opens Up Home Addresses and Phone Numbers 459

Posted by timothy from the 1600-pennsylvania-avenue-should-do dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Do you really want third-party app developers on Facebook to be able to access your mobile phone number and home address? Facebook has announced that developers of Facebook apps can now gather the personal contact information from their users. Security firm Sophos describes it as 'a move that could herald a new level of danger for Facebook users' and advises users to remove their home address and phone numbers from the network immediately."

Comment Re:Eh... no. (Score 1) 507

by Christopher Woods (#31254280) Attached to: NHS Should Stop Funding Homeopathy, Says Parliamentary Committee
I was using Vark to solicit possible treatments for a bad knee. When someone tried to hawk me 'Lifewave nanotech patches', I initially wanted to rage at them, but then felt compelled to pick apart their suggestion with maths and science. Here's what I wrote in my reply:

Offence not intended, but those patches are homeopathic, not nanotech. I also happen to believe homeopathic medicine is bad science. With the extremely dilute concentrations of active ingredients which almost all homeopathic products contain, I'm of the opinion that any positive effect is psychosomatic. (I've seen people participating in drug trials exhibit improvements in physical condition from nothing more than a chalk-based placebo.) Those LifeWave products have potencies of 10x, 30x & 1LM. 1LM is orders of magnitude more dilute than 10x (which in and of itself is ridiculously weak; 1x potency is one tenth of the original concentration, 2x is one one-hundredth, and it increases in powers of ten - so 10x is a concentration of 1 in 10,000,000,000 parts. at 24x you're nearing Avogadro's limit, at which point you have about ~10% chance of finding a single molecule of the original ingredient."

Surprise surprise, she had nothing of substance (ha) to riposte with.
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NHS Should Stop Funding Homeopathy, Says Parliamentary Committee 507

Posted by samzenpus from the how-am-I-going-to-align-my-chakras-now dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Homeopathic remedies work no better than placebos, and so should no longer be paid for by the UK National Health Service, a committee of British members of parliament has concluded. In preparing its report, the committee, which scrutinizes the evidence behind government policies, took evidence from scientists and homeopaths, and reviewed numerous reports and scientific investigations into homeopathy. It found no evidence that such treatments work beyond providing a placebo effect." Updated 201025 19:40 GMT by timothy: This recommendation has some people up in arms.

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