SlowOnTheUptake

I haven't tried either of those things and frankly I don't think it's likely that either would be effective, at least based on the explanations I've seen for them. They seem to be based on fixing problems (e.g. misalignment of bones and nerves or who knows what) that I don't believe have a basis in objective reality. On the other hand if people get relief from them I can't argue with it -- you can only go with what people report. As the old saying goes: believing is seeing.

According to their site, they claim to be treating "temporary tinnitus" of the kind that is brought on by exposure to loud sounds. Being a "temporary" symptom, I'm assuming that they are claiming to relieve it sooner than it would otherwise clear up naturally -- that's frequently an area where medical quacks operate.

Here is a link from Wikipedia to a site at UC-Irvine http://today.uci.edu/iframe.php?p=/news/release_detail_ifram... about substantially the same thing and you can listen to a sample of the therapeutic sound for free.

I also have the chronic (and unexplained) kind of tinnitus and my understanding is that there is no treatment for it. I know it can be quite bothersome for some people.

Somehow this story reminded me of the well know known quote about regular expressions: "... Now you have two problems."

It's unlikely that even positive "customer feedback" can overcome the laws of physics.

Any less likely than satellites colliding?

He's the new US Secretary of the Treasury. Under the circumstances, if I were he, I'd be a little nervous too.

The date at the top of the page is: 2004-11-10 , so that would make it about 4.2 years old.

I'm a little unclear on one point: knowing that 3ms * 186000 miles/sec is roughly 550 miles, wouldn't the radius be ~275 miles? (Round trip travel time before timeout)

That is assuming that packets could actually travel that fast through a wire.

FTA: "Although one can never be sure of what will happen at some future time, there is strong historical precedent for presuming that the present Gregorian calendar will still be in effect by the year 2000. Since we also hope that VMS will still be around by then, we have chosen to adhere to these precedents."

The writer proved remarkably prescient but,alas, Digital Equipment Corporation was not there to greet the new millennium.

BSoD

It reminded me of: http://xkcd.com/327/