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Re:Crime Is Up In Palo Alto. Yes, This Is Funny. on Saturday November 01, 2008 @08:05AM (#350684)
it also shows how easy it is to fool the profilers: If you're a black criminal don't wear a do-rag.
Re:The One Thing in Life You Can Control: Effort on Friday October 31, 2008 @10:31AM (#349960)
Interesting post. It seems the guy was inspired by the breakup with his girlfriend into putting the hours in. I would argue that initiative is as important as effort - no one wants the world to fall down around them in order to force them into action.
Re:Reduce Your Business Costs With Free Stuff on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @11:50AM (#338999)
Good article with quite a list of 'free things'. Surprised it missed putting Skype on your mobile (cell phone) - especially useful for international collaborations.
Re:Ask News.YC: How hard was it to learn to be a self-starter? on Saturday October 18, 2008 @06:36AM (#336377)
if you did that, obese kids would be the norm, school (if kids went at all) would end up teaching the finer points of getting to the next level of supermario. Kids need guidance, but also a forum for innovation.
Re:Re-analysis of vials sealed in 1953 shows Miller-Urey more successf... on Friday October 17, 2008 @09:42AM (#335583)
Creating amino acids isn't really has difficult as it was thought to be back in the 50's. Amino acids that aren't known on Earth have been found in various meteorites and the like. Although they can be considered bio-markers, they aren't very good ones.
Re:Alcohol shrinks women's brains more than men's on Thursday October 16, 2008 @11:18AM (#334522)
Hmm. It would be interesting to have a way to boost neurons - a neuron rich drink every day . . Something for the bio-scientists I think.

Broadband speed tests questioned

Posted by aaronjerling on Thursday October 16, 2008 @11:09AM
from the news.bbc.co.uk dept.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7669713.stm

Long have we moaned to our ISP's that the speed we pay for is not what we're getting. Now Virgin Media (UK) are launching a super-fast service, that they argue will be faster than everyone will actually measure. . .They've got some interesting points, but I still don't think that the speeds advertised are anywhere near what they should be.

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Re:Internet use 'good for the brain' on Thursday October 16, 2008 @05:06AM (#334269)
well, this applies as you get older at least. At least you will not be a senile hacker and start coding web 0.0 sites :p
Re:Alcohol shrinks women's brains more than men's on Thursday October 16, 2008 @05:01AM (#334266)
A friend of mine once argued that alcohol boosted brain performance; it went something like this. Alcohol kills brain cells. Darwin's theory implies that the weakest and slowest to adapt will be the first to die out. Thus: Drinking alcohol kills weaker brain cells and boosts brain performance.

Does that mean that women are smarter than men because more of their braincells get killed (or shrunk) according to this research?

Re:Chrome: is Google losing it? on Wednesday October 15, 2008 @08:33AM (#333211)
Surely taking the best of a lot ideas and putting them into one browser is a good thing. That's how processes become streamlined and businesses flourish.