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Comment Re:The Child is Usually Right? (Score 1) 173

In many ways, it does know more than the parent, and is closer to what's innovative, but maybe hasn't figured out how to hone that energy yet

Without commenting on the validity of the analogy, I for one found that as I get older I increasingly realize my parents were usually right.

Antoine St. Exupery's "The Little Prince" has a few things to say about this topic.

Comment Re:Easy to test (Score 1) 515

Still, there are reports of people hearing AM radio through their dental work, and the concept isn't really that absurd: If the radio signal causes resonance of the filling, the audio component of the signal, the modulation, *could* be transferred from the filling, through the jawbone, to the ear canal. Something similar could be happening to this individual, where any amplitude modulated portion of the signal could be affecting his inner ear, which might explain the dizziness and headaches.

Perhaps it is the 404 error that is giving him the headaches. If he could find someway to put in the correct WEP password...

Comment Re:Easy to test (Score 1) 515

The problem with this claim is that WiFi uses the 2.4 gigahertz frequency spectrum along with Bluetooth phones, cordless home phones, and just about any other consumer wireless device. If he really had an 'allergy' like that, he wouldn't have been able to leave his house for the past 15 years.

Many people develop allergies later in life. I, myself, have just recently developed a form of hay fever at the age of 40. Who's to say his EMF allergy isn't recently formed?

Comment Re:Well . . . (Score 1) 793

Why not use this as a defense: I bought these albums 20 years ago, and along with the album cam a license to back them up to any media I desire. I downloaded the songs, then discarded the albums along with my turntable because they were warped. So, yes, I did download the music for archival purposes, but set up my torrent client not to share with anyone. Would this work?

Comment Re:Not that exciting (Score 1) 220

All you have to do to write a piano concerto is to press the right buttons at the right time. All you have to do to write the Great American Novel is to press the right keys in the right order. All you have to do to write a great application is to punch the right keys in the proper combination. All you have to do in order to get a hole in one is to hit the ball in the right place with the right club. All you have to do to obliterate life on this planet is to press the big red button on the desk at the White House. Everything is easy, you see?
Space

Submission + - Total Lunar Eclipse This Weekend

SeaDour writes: This Saturday night, March 3rd, a total lunar eclipse will be visible from nearly all inhabited parts of the world. A great shadow will stretch across the surface of the moon, eventually casting it in an eerie red glow as sunlight filters through our atmosphere onto the lunar surface. Viewers in Europe and Africa will have the best vantage point, able to watch the entire eclipse in action, while observers in most of the western hemisphere can see it eclipsed as it rises just after sunset.
Businesses

Submission + - Best Buy Confirms 'secret' Website

Iberian writes: Courant.com confirms Best Buy does indeed maintain a second website for what one could only assume is for fraudulent purposes.

State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal ordered the investigation into Best Buy's practices on Feb. 9 after my column disclosed the website and showed how employees at two Connecticut stores used it to deny customers a $150 discount on a computer advertised on BestBuy.com.

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