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  1. Move every 20 minutes! on Standing Desks May Not Be Healthier Than Sitting All Day, Say Scientists (fortune.com) · · Score: 0

    Just sitting or just standing is not the answer -- it's the moving your body every 20 minutes. The duration of the movement is not important, it's that you actually move your body. See here for more https://open.buffer.com/health...

  2. Re:How is this "Your Rights Online" ??? on U.S. Scientists Say They Are Told to Alter Finding · · Score: 0

    > Environmental scientists, like almost all
    > specialists, see things very narrowly, and many
    > place disproportionate importance on the
    > unnatural preservation of some ideal, imagined,
    > "human-free" ecosystem.

    If only this planet were to be so lucky as to be "human-free". :)

  3. Re:Prove it on Astronaut: 'Single-Planet Species Don't Last' · · Score: 0

    In which case we get what we deserve.

  4. Re:Heisenberg / Uncertainty Principle on Closest Ever Asteroid Passage Revealed · · Score: 0

    Actually, an object doesn't need to be even remotely near the planet to wipe us all out. Check out this entry in my blog. This may be what really caused the extinction of the dinosaurs...

  5. Heisenberg / Uncertainty Principle on Closest Ever Asteroid Passage Revealed · · Score: 2, Funny

    So due to the Heisenberg / Uncertainty Principle it would have hit us if we had not measured its trajectory, right?

  6. Re:So when is PerlOS coming out? on Rubyx OS - A Testament To The Power Of Ruby · · Score: 0

    There was also some talk (I don't know how far this was pursued) about using Perl as your interactive shell program. Does Ruby have that?

  7. So when is PerlOS coming out? on Rubyx OS - A Testament To The Power Of Ruby · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If Ruby can have its own OS, so should Perl.

    BTW, on a somewhat related note, I still think Cons is a better idea than SCons but now were getting into language wars...

  8. What about Newbridge modems on Security Issues For Many Alcatel DSL Modems · · Score: 1

    Is there any info on Newbridge MainStreet Xpress ADSL modems? I was told by the tech who installed my modem to leave it on so that they could do firmware updates. This whole article does not give me a warm fuzzy. What is the joe average user supposed to do?

  9. Please!!! on Happy Odd Day! · · Score: 1

    Could we all start to use the ISO date format... It would make life just that much easier! Thanks. See here for more about ISO 8601, which BTW is also covered in ANSI X3.30-1985(R1991).

  10. Why? on Why Mozilla is Alive and Well · · Score: 1

    Could someone please take the time to
    explain to me why the open-source community
    has not early and eagerly supported/encouraged
    the Mozilla project? What seems to have
    happend (at least as I see it anyway) is that
    the project has at best been ignored
    and at worst openly scorned.

    This makes no sense to me as:
    1. This would have been a great chance
    to show other companies that opening
    up their source code is a good thing
    that will benefit all parties.
    2. The browser is perhaps the most
    important application on the desktop
    today and not having a good one
    can severly hurt an operating systems
    adoption

    Just my 2 cents...