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  1. Re:I know one thing we can do on Specific Gut Bacteria May Account For Much Obesity · · Score: 1

    Exercise and don't eat too much food. It comes down to input vs. output. If you double your food intake, you will almost certainly gain weight. People don't like to hear that they should eat less, however.

  2. Re:man, that is stupid. cyber think crime, no than on NYPD To Identify 'Deranged' Gunmen Through Internet Chatter · · Score: 1

    You don't have to ignore the problem, but it would be nice if the government and the press did not go into hysterical overreaction. Many conservatives, who traditionally support smaller government, want to hire hundreds of thousands of armed guards to guard every public school in the nation. Many liberals, who traditionally oppose censorship, want to ban this type of violence in all computer games. Instead, maybe we could just enforce the laws we have now and go on with life. 27 people (or so) died in the shooting. 30 people a day die in alcohol-related accidents.

  3. Re:man, that is stupid. cyber think crime, no than on NYPD To Identify 'Deranged' Gunmen Through Internet Chatter · · Score: 1

    As long as we're going to live in the police state, is there any chance we could stop drunk driving? More people die daily from alcohol related accidents than died in that school shooting. This was not in the news recently. Weird, huh?

  4. Re:I am a terrorist. on NYPD To Identify 'Deranged' Gunmen Through Internet Chatter · · Score: 2, Funny

    A dead pan? That's just sick.

  5. Re:FTW on NYPD To Identify 'Deranged' Gunmen Through Internet Chatter · · Score: 1

    That's not true. Ammonium nitrate will blow up just fine without diesel if you do it right (i.e., add enough pressure).

  6. Re:Hopefully on Will Japan's New Government Restart the Nuclear Power Program? · · Score: 1

    I agree. Japan has to import all its coal and petroleum. Nuclear power makes a lot of sense for the country.

  7. Maybe it's the SEC on Google+ Chief Grounded From Twitter By Larry Page · · Score: 1

    When an exec of a public company as large as Google inadvertently tweets something that might be considered "material information", the SEC and class action lawyers tend to get involved. Sometimes they're not very nice.

  8. Re:The guilty ones on No Charges In UK For Gary McKinnon · · Score: 1

    If you are working in my house, then you are responsible for locking the door when you leave.

  9. The guilty ones on No Charges In UK For Gary McKinnon · · Score: 2

    If anyone should be punished, it's those incompetents who did not secure the computers in the first place. It's like leaving the door to the office building unlocked and unguarded. There's nothing like a foreign scapegoat to distract the news media.

  10. Re:Cookies and referers on Ask Slashdot: Facebook, Twitter For Business, Is It Worth the Privacy Trade-Off? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Aw, man... I've been doing it backwards!

  11. Re:Do they actually do anything yet? on Researchers Build Water Soluble Chips · · Score: 2

    I was wondering the same thing. Where does it get power? How does it communicate? It's obviously a breakthrough, but a few "topics for further research" remain before they can use the applications mentioned in the article.

  12. Re:Withdrawn without explanation on Russia and China Withdraw Bid For Internet Control · · Score: 1

    Most people around the world don't hate the U.S. The term for thinking that is "paranoia", or possibly "the media".

  13. Throw away the competitive advantage on Washington Post To Go Paywall, Along With Buffett-Owned Local Papers · · Score: 1

    Why do people go to washingtonpost.com instead of nytimes.com or wsj.com? One reason is the paywall at nytimes and wsj. What should a competent CEO do? Naturally, throw away the competitive advantage, lest it be unfair to the others.

  14. What? No Invalid Causation? on Using Multiple Forms of Media At Once Correlates With Depression, Anxiety · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's really nice to see an article on correlation without invalid conclusions of causation. This means that /. readers are more scientifically literate than the rest of the world.

  15. It's a National *Historic* Park on Historians Propose National Park To Preserve Manhattan Project Sites · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is a difference between a National Park and a National Historic Park. The proposed "National Park" is a National Historic Park, about 3 notches below a National Park in terms of visitors, staff, and funding.

  16. It's a Brigantine! on NZ Pirate Party Takes Issue With Pro-Trans-Pacific Partnership Website · · Score: 1

    Are they daft, man? That's a two-masted Brigantine, which is clearly not a sailing ship (at least to us purists). Piratebay, on the other hand, has a true sailing ship.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_ship

  17. Free, Unregulated Internet? on Orphaned Works and the Requirement To Preserve Metadata · · Score: 1

    Are the people proposing this micromanagement of my photos the same ones who are demanding a free and unregulated internet? It's like making it illegal to copy a paper photo without including any comments that were penciled in on the back. I do include the metadata on my photos whenever possible, but I prefer to do it voluntarily.

  18. Re:HP DVD Drives on Slashdot Asks: SATA DVD Drives That Don't Suck for CD Ripping? · · Score: 2, Informative

    There are some artificially staunch Windows 8 supporters on Slashdot, Reddit, and other discussion groups. Try making a post critical of Windows 8 and you'll see this in action.

  19. Re:Beware - overview may be severely biased... on Antarctic Marine Wildlife Is Under Threat From Ocean Acidification, Study Finds · · Score: 1

    Try comparing the number of molecules in the atmosphere to the number of molecules in the ocean. The ocean is huge compared to the atmosphere, in terms of mass, atoms, or molecules.

  20. Re:Beware - overview may be severely biased... on Antarctic Marine Wildlife Is Under Threat From Ocean Acidification, Study Finds · · Score: 1

    I heard on NPR a couple of days ago that the ocean's acidity has increased 30% since the dawn of the industrial age. The pH certainly didn't drop 30%, so maybe the pH dropped 7.00001 to 7.000013 or something similar. The ocean is huge -- it cannot change its chemical composition rapidly from the atmosphere. There are just not enough atmospheric molecules for that.

  21. It's for our own protection. on In Mississippi: 15-Year Jail Sentence For Selling Pirated Movies and Music · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Our government must protect us from those sociopathic individuals would would reduce the potential profits of giant music corporations. I feel safe!

  22. Re:Are you serious? on Nike+ FuelBand: Possibly a Big Security Hole For Your Life · · Score: 1

    What? No melody?

  23. Compared to Windows 7? on Windows 8 Defeats 85% of Malware Detected In the Past 6 Months · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How does an updated version Windows 7 with Microsoft Security Essentials compare? That information might make this article meaningful.

  24. Re:It's already done. on How To Build a Supercomputer In 24 Hours · · Score: 1

    Of course the cloud is not suitable for many applications, and it won't compete head-to-head with traditional supercomputers. But is does work for some applications. Least year a Pharmaceutical company used a 30,000 core system on AWS for a short period, and a company is already in business that specializes in cloud supercomputing. I expect the capability will grow.

  25. Re:quantum entanglement -- my brain to wind ? on How To Build a Supercomputer In 24 Hours · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why do you use 16th century English? Is this really how you speak, or did you run this through an obfuscator? What are tares, and what does "lest while ye" mean?