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  1. Re:Huge Idiot on White House Fingers PlayStation As Obesity Culprit · · Score: 1

    It's still your responsibility to watch what you put in your mouth, high-fructose corn syrup included. And even if your intuition is screwed you can (and should) watch your weight with an objective method, like scales.

  2. Re:Huge Idiot on White House Fingers PlayStation As Obesity Culprit · · Score: 1

    If you ate the right amount of bacon each day you could lose exactly as much weight as you wanted. It'd be terrible for the rest of your body though.

  3. Re:Huge Idiot on White House Fingers PlayStation As Obesity Culprit · · Score: 2, Informative

    Do you know what the leading cause of obesity is?

    Eating too much.

    Blaming it on the food you eat isn't going to help anyone. You could lose weight eating only bacon, cholesterol notwithstanding, if you limit your intake. The only way to lose weight is to consciously make an effort to eat fewer calories than you burn.

  4. Re:Solution: on Some Windows Apps Make GRUB 2 Unbootable · · Score: 1

    This looks like an intentional, if misguided feature of these programs. It's not like they run as Administrator by default and mess up your stuff without any input from you.

  5. Re:can we make it? on Why the World Is Running Out of Helium · · Score: 1

    As far as I know, not unless you have a sun.

  6. Re:Is he bloody stupid? on Tensions Rise Between Gamers and Game Companies Over DRM · · Score: 1

    You forgot Valve.

  7. Re:Iran Opens Its First Nuclear Power Plant on Iran Opens Its First Nuclear Power Plant · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm from Hungary. We spoke Russian for 50 years anyway. Thanks America.

  8. Re:Wait... on Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks · · Score: 1

    They're not even taking their cars! How the hell is this draconian? Try living in a real police state sometime.

  9. Lumbar puncture on Spinal-Fluid Test Confirmed To Predict Alzheimer's · · Score: 1

    Is there any sense in doing a rather nasty test for a disease we can't cure yet anyway? It's not like you can fix it if you find out early.

  10. Re:Well on Servers Ahoy — Startup To Build Floating Data Centers · · Score: 1

    No. Ships are still subject to their country of origin's laws, even in the high seas. They're better off staying in Iceland.

  11. Re:The Net is no Substitution for University on Forget University — Use the Web For Education, Says Gates · · Score: 1, Funny

    I guess you learnt to spell online, huh?

  12. Re:Completely Disagree on Web-Based Private File Storage? · · Score: 1

    And it's not like it'll have serious repercussions on your death.

  13. Re:Completely disconnected from reality on Why NASA's New Video Game Misses the Point · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think a sufficiently detailed Mars explorer "game" that uses procedural generation to fill in the gaps in the DEM data in a spectacular manner would be amazing for any age group.

  14. Re:What about movies? on How Will Contemporary War Games Affect Veterans? · · Score: 1

    The thing is that depressing isn't a bad thing for a movie to be. However, not fun is (generally) a bad thing for a game to be.

  15. Re:What about movies? on How Will Contemporary War Games Affect Veterans? · · Score: 1

    I think it would have to be visceral, poignant and depressing, but not fun per se; escaping from the firebombing of Dresden for instance.

  16. Re:What about movies? on How Will Contemporary War Games Affect Veterans? · · Score: 3, Informative

    The difference is that movies can show that war is hell. Games, by definition, have to make war fun.

  17. Oh well on Negroponte Offers OLPC Technology For India's $35 Tablet · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess it'll be the India's $200 tablet now.

  18. Well that's easy to remember! on 'I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up!' v2.0 · · Score: 1, Funny

    0118 999 881 999 919 725

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  19. Re:Solution on TI Calculator DRM Defeated · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well they can do that now. There must be a way of making a case that you can't open without breaking it.

  20. Solution on TI Calculator DRM Defeated · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They should sell two models with exactly the same capabilities, except one should be as locked down as possible and the other should be totally unrestricted and have a wildly different color scheme so you can tell them apart. This way hackers get to hack and examiners can be sure if they're not using the calculators to cheat.

  21. Re:why? on TI Calculator DRM Defeated · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's because a major selling point of their calculators is that you can use them in exams. If you can hack them to cheat, they won't be allowed any more.

  22. Re:Not good on The Canadian Who Holds the Key To the Internet · · Score: 2

    This is like all the phone books in the world going up in flames. The network would still work, but you wouldn't know people's numbers.

  23. Re:PostgreSQL a better choice for database on How Should a Non-Techie Learn Programming? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Basic CRUD stuff is the same in any variant of SQL, and MySQL has the benefit of being available on free hosting. I think there's a time and place for advocating PostgreSQL, but this is not it.

  24. Re:PostgreSQL a better choice for database on How Should a Non-Techie Learn Programming? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think MySQL's language is just fine for the kind of thing non-techies want to do.

  25. Cool, but on A $20 8-Bit Wikipedia Reader For Your TV · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Cool, but places where people have televisions also have public libraries. It's not like they can't find knowledge if they want to.