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Comment Re:Wikipedia ruined the internet (Score 4, Informative) 517

Not necessarily...see this report http://www.scientificamerican....

In this study, however, docs told patients they were getting placebos. Eighty patients with irritable bowel syndrome were instructed to take two sugar pills daily. The bottle even had "placebo" printed on it. After three weeks, 60 percent of the placebo group reported relief from symptoms, compared to 35 percent who’d received no treatment at all.

Comment Re:Electrostatic... (Score 1) 344

by ouija147 (#35811298) Attached to: I prefer to listen to recorded media via ...

And I thought these were ridiculous...

http://www.genesisloudspeakers.com/g1p2.html

I listened to these when they were the IRS (Infinity Reference Series) in about 1983 and the klipschorns...The IRS blew them away...way out of my price range at 40K in '83

(heresy for anyone from Arkansas to say the above...the Klipsch home base was just south of where I currently live...even visited the factory years ago)
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Why Use Virtual Memory In Modern Systems? 983

Posted by timothy from the virtually-useless dept.
Cyberhwk writes "I have a system with Windows Vista Ultimate (64-bit) installed on it, and it has 4GB of RAM. However when I've been watching system performance, my system seems to divide the work between the physical RAM and the virtual memory, so I have 2GB of data in the virtual memory and another 2GB in the physical memory. Is there a reason why my system should even be using the virtual memory anymore? I would think the computer would run better if it based everything off of RAM instead of virtual memory. Any thoughts on this matter or could you explain why the system is acting this way?"

Comment I voted, for the local races, but not for Pres. (Score 2, Interesting) 709

by ouija147 (#25660893) Attached to: In the U.S. election just ended, I voted ...

Ron Paul wanted to greatly reduce the size of the government. If you agree with him, why not vote for him?

Would have loved to vote for Ron Paul, but our dysfunctional nominating process meant that all I had to choose from were two of the many candidates that should have been dropped. One way too old and the other way too inexperienced.

So why vote for one of the two worst possible candidates?

My state holds primaries about five months after Iowa...by that time anyone I was interested in was gone. Hell why should Iowa and NH have such a large stake in who I get to vote for? Sorry Iowa, yes I have lived there, but your choices bite.

Our system NEEDS SERIOUS REFORM...
It's funny. Laugh.

UK UFO Sightings Declassified, Still No Intergalactic Relations 319

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the stupidity-is-universal dept.
schwit1 is just one of the massive flood of readers (and publications) writing to tell us about the recently declassified UK Ministry of Defense account of a supposed UFO sighting. Included are nineteen sightings between 1986 and 1992, with the most notable being a sighting in 1991 with a US Air Force pilot's first-hand account. Not that this lends an air of credibility to anything, just more papers with more words. "Almost 200 such files will be made available by the MoD over the next four years. [...] UFO expert and journalism lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, Dr David Clarke, said the documents would shed new light on relatively little-known sightings. He said some conspiracy theorists would already have decided that the release of the papers was a 'whitewash.' He added: 'Because the subject is bedevilled by charlatans and lunatics, it is career suicide to have your name associated with UFOs, which is a real pity. The National Archives are doing a fantastic job here. Everyone brings their own interpretation. Now you can look at the actual primary material — the stuff coming into the MoD every day — and make your own mind up.'"

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