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  1. Re:Bad idea on FBI Seeks To Legally Hack You If You're Connected To TOR Or a VPN · · Score: 1

    The Battle of Athens

  2. Re:Bad idea on FBI Seeks To Legally Hack You If You're Connected To TOR Or a VPN · · Score: 1

    Capitalism in and of itself may not contain a moral principle (in the same way that a trig table doesn't), but as members of our society, capitalists are expected to behave morally. Capitalism is just the tool.

  3. Re:Bad idea on FBI Seeks To Legally Hack You If You're Connected To TOR Or a VPN · · Score: 1

    Many users of corporate VPNs are using their own PC at home. They just install the client there (which is a licensed use)

    I doubt very much the corporations would be amused if the FBI starts hacking away.

  4. Re:Most Secret War on Winston Churchill's Scientists · · Score: 1

    So you're saying it is better to enslave the many in poor conditions for the benefit of the few rather than enslaving the few under posh conditions for the benefit of the many?

  5. Re: Tony Blair quoting Churchill quoting Verne on Winston Churchill's Scientists · · Score: 1

    The tax code is complex so the wealthiest can simultaneously pay less taxes than the value they derive and denigrate those who pay more taxes than they can afford and derive less value than they put in.

  6. Re:Tony Blair quoting Churchill quoting Verne on Winston Churchill's Scientists · · Score: 1

    That's a good question which capitalism has utterly failed to answer. Generally, for the first part, we push them into something they hate and so they do as little as possible (often for crappy pay) and in the latter, we pay them just enough to keep them from starving in the street but not enough to get an education in something that is in demand.

  7. Re:Worst idea ever. (Well, one of them). on FDA Approves Implantable Vagus Nerve Disruptor For Weight Loss · · Score: 1

    Suicidal ideation can also be a sort nihilism. That is, even if you have no intention of committing suicide, you either think you might be better off if you died from some external influence or you don't feel strongly motivated to prevent such a death (in that case, surely improved motivation would help).

  8. Re:You gotta be kidding me... on FDA Approves Implantable Vagus Nerve Disruptor For Weight Loss · · Score: 2

    Unlike smoking, eating is a basic natural drive. More powerful than sex, less than breathing. Your suggestion that some people should walk the fine line between starvation and satiety, feeling hungry most of the time in order to avoid offending your delicate sensibilities is absurd.

    Didn't you claim above that there wasn't significant variation in BMR between people? Now you at least acknowledge that that isn't the case but claim it doesn't make a difference.

    I'm sorry if you need to look down on others to avoid feeling like a steaming pile. Perhaps if you tried refraining for a while it would help.

    In the off chance that you're mis-understanding is sincere, do you REALLY think parroting the same advice that has been given without helping for the last century is at all useful?

    But have a look Here.

    The research is out there. If you WANT to understand it, it is available to you. If you just want to keep tsk tsking people for failing to ignore a fundamental biological drive, you'll want to avoid reading on the subject. Perhaps you should attempt to maintain a state of voluntary partial hypoxia for a few minutes and then imagine keeping it up for the rest of your life.

    BTW, a funny thing about smoking, now that more people are quitting or not starting, the rate of lung cancer hasn't fallen nearly as much as predicted. The problem is simple. Before, if the patient had ever smoked, smoking was the go-to blame. Thus, a fair percentage of those cases attributed to smoking were not actually from smoking. Not that I recommend smoking.

  9. Re:You gotta be kidding me... on FDA Approves Implantable Vagus Nerve Disruptor For Weight Loss · · Score: 1

    Incorrect means that the research doesn't bear out what you're saying. Other research shows a different basal metabolism between different people.

    Many people would seemingly prefer death by slow torture over admitting that fat people might have some issue beyond their control, but that's what the research suggests.

    Same diet, same strain of mice, same living conditions. Some had 'fat' microflora, some had 'thin' microflora. The researchers could move the mice from one group to the other at will by transplanting. That suggests that the speed of consumption doesn't suggest it. Absorption differences driven by the microflora could be in play.

    For your theory to be correct, they should have all ended up fat.

  10. Re:Worst idea ever. (Well, one of them). on FDA Approves Implantable Vagus Nerve Disruptor For Weight Loss · · Score: 1

    It's not surprising, in fact it was the initial theory exactly because it seems reasonable. It just doesn't pan out when examined closer. It has been researched since it was an important distinction to make.

    Suicidal ideation is a lot more than considering suicide. It can be gauged by a therapist. Were the parsimonious theory correct, it would imply that those patients could be screened out to avoid the problem. Alas, it doesn't work that way.

  11. Re: Worst idea ever. (Well, one of them). on FDA Approves Implantable Vagus Nerve Disruptor For Weight Loss · · Score: 1

    Yes, for people who actually need them, SSRIs can provide the motivation to do things as part of lifting the depression. But the research showed that for some people (fortunately not you), especially adolescents, they can actually cause suicidal ideation that was not there before.

  12. Re:You gotta be kidding me... on FDA Approves Implantable Vagus Nerve Disruptor For Weight Loss · · Score: 1

    Sorry, you are incorrect. Go look at the research again. For example, the research where they performed fecal transplants on mice and were able to reliably manipulate their weight in spite of feeding them a consistent formulated diet with no opportunity for 'snacking'.

  13. Re:Worst idea ever. (Well, one of them). on FDA Approves Implantable Vagus Nerve Disruptor For Weight Loss · · Score: 1

    Actually, recent research suggests that the fat-free craze ios a contributor to the rising obesity rate. Fats stimulate satiety.

  14. Re:Worst idea ever. (Well, one of them). on FDA Approves Implantable Vagus Nerve Disruptor For Weight Loss · · Score: 1

    Yes because that works so well! At least it does in La-La land, apparently.

  15. Re:Worst idea ever. (Well, one of them). on FDA Approves Implantable Vagus Nerve Disruptor For Weight Loss · · Score: 1

    Couldn'ty that cause a gambling problem in susceptible individuals?

  16. Re:Worst idea ever. (Well, one of them). on FDA Approves Implantable Vagus Nerve Disruptor For Weight Loss · · Score: 1

    I'm always reminded of the old days when we would smack the TV to get the picture to stop rolling.

  17. Re:Worst idea ever. (Well, one of them). on FDA Approves Implantable Vagus Nerve Disruptor For Weight Loss · · Score: 1

    Actually, that theory doesn't seem to explain observations. I have seen research that the suicidal ideation itself can be stimulated by SSRIs, not just the motivation to act on existing suicidal ideation.

  18. Re:Can someone explain what the huge debate is? on Systemd's Lennart Poettering: 'We Do Listen To Users' · · Score: 1

    OH MY GOD you should be ashamed of yourself!

    It ios NOT udev. I knopw because when I used apt to switch from systemd to sysVinit, it started working exactly as intended and I was still using udev. Further, I have ben quite clear that the problem, exists for soft RAID as well. From that, a reasonable person might manage to guess that by worked for over a decade I am referring to a degraded raid or to the more general case of a degraded redundancy

    You are obviously deep into propaganda mode. Yes, the VM was broken. I fixed it by replacing systemd with sysVinit. It's just comical when you try to claim that soft RAID with sysVinit if fragile. Did your face at least turn a little red when you said that or are you entirely without shame?

  19. Re:If NSA thinks they are so great ... on NSA Prepares For Future Techno-Battles By Plotting Network Takedowns · · Score: 2

    As much as the Iraq war has cost, we could have dropped the cash all over the country and solved the whole problem with nobody hating us.

  20. Re:90 days is really long on Google Releases More Windows Bugs · · Score: 1

    A turn of phrase can have more than one application. Some tasks are inherently serial.

  21. Re:Spoofing! on Insurance Company Dongles Don't Offer Much Assurance Against Hacking · · Score: 1

    And there will probably be someone who wants to develop an OBDII interface who will find a simulator helpful.

    After all, it's dangerous to debug while driving.

  22. Re:Yet another click-bait story by Timothy on Spanish Judge Cites Use of Secure Email As a Potential Terrorist Indicator · · Score: 1

    I guess no word means anything at all as far as you're concerned anyway. Since you can possibly imagine a scenario where the sun won't rise tomorrow, there is no such thing as sunrise.

    Take your pedantry elsewhere.

  23. Re:Memory on Hibernation Protein May Halt Alzheimer's · · Score: 1

    Actually, that's a common mis-interpretation. The average lifespan is low mostly due to infant mortality. Same deal for the west during the middle ages.

    In general, I agree with you here. Alzheimers is not manageable outside of a nursing home for long. It may not be as big of a problem in Africa due to the likelihood of accidental death once dementia begins.

  24. Re:Spoofing! on Insurance Company Dongles Don't Offer Much Assurance Against Hacking · · Score: 2

    You better watch that talk about spoofing people's dongles. We don't want another scandal.

  25. Re:Hello insurance fraud on Insurance Company Dongles Don't Offer Much Assurance Against Hacking · · Score: 1

    There would be limits, but it could do things like changing wide open throttle to accelerate to speed in 2 seconds into moderate throttle to come to speed in 4 seconds.

    As long as you don't diverge too far from reality, the rest can be explained well enough by inaccuracy in the hardware. In some places GPS gets really inaccurate normally.

    I'm not saying it's a good idea, just that it's close enough that there will be people trying it.