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  1. Re:While that 40 minutes a week might help the hea on Scientists Study How Little Exercise You Need · · Score: 1

    The simple claim is that if you eat less than you burn, you lose weight. It IS that simple.

    Yes it's simple but rather useless when you're trying to figure out the details of how stuff works. What you've said is about as enlightening as saying if you don't eat you will lose weight.

    Fact is if you eat 2400 calories and "burn" 2400 calories, you will also lose weight.

    Because:
    1) you won't have enough to maintain the cells that fall off (hair, skin) or are excreted.
    2) the bacteria in your digestive system take their cut of the 2400 calories and some of them are excreted.
    3) Some of the 2400 calories also get excreted undigested, and this proportion differs depending on the gut flora and the person.

    Scientists have found that gut flora affects weight gain (and even insulin resistance, albeit in rats but I'm sure it applies to humans).

    Not all calories are the same, a protein calorie is not the same as a carb calorie. There are even different types of proteins, and different types of carbs (google for resistant starch).

    Given this you could have two people of the same weight same muscle-fat-bone ratios, eating the same amount of calories, and doing the same exercises, but one could lose weight and the other might gain weight. Might even happen if you have two people with the same weight etc, eating the same stuff, not just same measured calories. Just one happens to somehow shit more often.

  2. Re:Don't do this if you're very unfit. on Scientists Study How Little Exercise You Need · · Score: 1

    Of course it's true, it's just the unhealthy people who drop dead after working their hearts too hard ;).

    Seriously though, you do hear of athletes and apparently fit people dropping dead of heart attacks or other heart problems.

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

    (See those past 1970 who are less likely to be heavy smokers, and more likely to be fit athletes).

  3. Re:Interval Training on Scientists Study How Little Exercise You Need · · Score: 1

    The ethanol and mexican food go in at one end as fuel, the methane comes out the other end as exhaust...

  4. Re:My grandpa wasn't a monkey, or pond scum! on Did Life Emerge In Ponds Rather Than Ocean Vents? · · Score: 1

    Jesus will make you commie elitists pay when you die!

    OK. Can l give him my soul as payment?

  5. Re:While, in the same time... on LibreOffice 3.5 Released · · Score: 1

    I think it's better than LibreOffice, but LibreOffice was still rather unstable and flaky as of 3.3 - I haven't downloaded the latest version.

    Kingsoft Writer doesn't have some features- it doesn't have the search and replace within selection (at least the free version doesn't - I could have sworn it used to have that feature). But I think it does bullets and numbering better. And it didn't hang and crash after I did a few undo commands. Whereas I could hang/crash LibreOffice 3.3's Writer when doing the same thing.

    Kingsoft's Spreadsheet didn't use to have the minverse function, but now it seems to have it.

  6. Re:No reason to be trusted in the first place on 99.8% Security For Real-World Public Keys · · Score: 1

    1) The complaint in the link stated that a CNNIC cert was in the Mozilla browser store, AND it was signed by Entrust.

    2) I've given you proof that CAs _do_ sign each other's certificates. Whether they are included in the browser depends on the Browser bunch and nothing to do about whether the CAs trust each other or not. In this case the CNNIC cert was likely to have been included by Mozilla.

    So I don't see how you can say that I've given you proof "that they could sign each other's certificates. But that they don't because they're untrustworthy. ". But you can keep sticking your head that deep in the sand if you want.

    FWIW I use Certificate Patrol.

  7. Re:No reason to be trusted in the first place on 99.8% Security For Real-World Public Keys · · Score: 1

    Huh, they do. That's WHY you should trust CA certs less.
    See: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.security.policy/browse_thread/thread/7ba51ca49de0f6cf
    Summary: At least one CNNIC CA cert (think Chinese Gov) is signed by Entrust. So by default most browsers that trust Entrust will also automatically trust CNNIC.

    Which is not so good if one day the Chinese Gov decided to MITM you.

  8. Re:Self-signed certificates on 99.8% Security For Real-World Public Keys · · Score: 2

    And you may trust it more than you trust a CA signed cert.

  9. Re:Gameplay is important on Twisted Metal Designer Rails Against Storytelling Games · · Score: 1

    They're still pretty much bad-ass nowadays. A relatively small group of people, but very high per capita number of nobel prize winners, top scientists, actors, musicians, directors, doctors, mathematicians, etc.

    The atheists may say whatever they like but IMO the Jews sure still seem to be God's Chosen People. I don't support them in everything they do though - from Biblical history they often do the wrong stuff ;).

  10. Re:While, in the same time... on LibreOffice 3.5 Released · · Score: 1

    Maybe it has more future, but I've resorted to Kingsoft Office: http://www.kingsoftstore.com/kingsoft-office-freeware.html
    It doesn't have as many annoying bugs.

    When I last tried LibreOffice, Writer was still very buggy and hung a lot for simple stuff like undoing after a step by step replace within selection (at least the step by step replace within selection finally works, it used to replace the entire selection with the replacement text! And that replace bug was present for years in OpenOffice, so yeah there's some progress but the code base must be really crap).

    And Impress was a piece of crap.

  11. Re:Virtual Desktops on GNOME 3: Beauty To the Bone? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Once you become consistent, you know that you can use a keyboard shortcut to switch to any of these windows, without having to Alt+Tab cycle through them

    If that's mostly what you want, if you ever use windows you can use a utility I wrote: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linkkey/

    Or you could try Windows 7 with their winkey+number shortcut - with that you can switch to a particular app (LinkKey is to a particular window).

  12. Re:Gameplay is important on Twisted Metal Designer Rails Against Storytelling Games · · Score: 1

    The Israelites were barely "iron age" in the early stages - you can see the progression from bronze to iron. Even at the time of "1 Kings" the Philistines were better armed.

  13. Re:Blackhole on Cryptome Hit By Blackhole Exploit Kit · · Score: 0

    The Symantec messages had the phrase "the attack was resulted from", is this considered OK for US English?

    Or they've outsourced that bit to somewhere else?

  14. Re:Maybe... on Is Santorum's "Google Problem" a Google Problem? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's democratisation of language. If enough people use santorum with that meaning then it has that meaning, and Google is right in listing those pages for that keyword.

    If you search for a keyword which has multiple meanings, you are unlikely to want all the top results to be based of the same meaning. Google being an information provider is doing the right thing by listing the popular meanings when you search for just that keyword alone. After all who in the world searches for santorum alone?

    1) People looking for Rick Santorum - Google's results serves them
    2) People looking for information on the notorious definition (it is provably newsworthy) - Google's results serves them too.

    The more people talk about this, the more likely the meaning will spread and be adopted. You may think it's "gay" and "awful"[1], but good luck convincing more than 180,000 sites to stop listing that definition.

    [1] Meanings of these words have also changed over the years.

  15. Re:Color Me Paranoid on Best Practice: Travel Light To China · · Score: 1

    How'd the student install the keylogger?

    Did the student need to power down the machine? Or did they know the password?

  16. Re:Greenhouse gas emissions on Sergey: In Soviet Russia, Rocket Detonates You! · · Score: 2

    Is the Atlas Heavy still going to use russian rocket engines as the Atlas V and Atlas III do?

  17. Re:What? on Facebook Details Executive Salaries, Bonuses · · Score: 1

    Hell, when middle and upper middle class people started actually buying stocks directly (as day traders), their was an incredible amount of bitching and moaning from the rich

    In contrast poker players trying to make money are actually happy if more fish join the table.

  18. Re:because it works? on Bad Guys Use Open Source, Too · · Score: 1

    The disadvantage of using .Net or Powershell for malware is they require the victim to have .Net / Powershell installed.

    As for OSS, Perl malware might be interesting (TIMTOWDI for polymorphic self modifying malware that looks for new instructions via LWP), but the resulting standalone windows executable would be more than 1MB and closer to 4MB I think (could try to shrink it with upx, but it's still going to be more than 1MB).

  19. Re:How much energy? on Battery Turns Saltwater Into Drinking Water · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Any scientific study to back that up? e.g. proof that total amount of "good minerals" excreted in urine per day is more when you drink pure water. AFAIK if I drink RO water, I pee more often, but the pee is clearer in colour and if I'm losing more sodium that's a plus not a minus - since I'm a sedentary person who probably consumes more sodium than the RDA, and I'm not an athlete.

    Passing pure water through plumbing is a bad idea since it would dissolve all sorts of bad stuff (some places still have lead pipes so they need "hard water") and then you'd drink it... And drinking pure water without taking enough salts and minerals in your diet would cause problems. But that doesn't prove it's bad for you. That's like saying fruits are bad for you because you're not getting enough calcium from them.

    And I've had RO and distilled water that wasn't actually pure - some had the taste of acetone, some had some other weird acrid taste. So if the study is not done correctly with actually pure water you might be poisoning the animal/human with the impurities. The problems might not be the pure water.

    You want enough minerals, eat more sardines with bones for calcium and a potato/banana for potassium.

  20. Re:How much energy? on Battery Turns Saltwater Into Drinking Water · · Score: 2

    RO water is much purer though. However efficient it gets I doubt this method will remove the other crap from the water, including crap...

    Isn't this similar to electrodeionization?

  21. Re:Because everyone needs a gullwing suv on Tesla Reveals Its Model X Gullwing SUV · · Score: 1

    See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CLvA7Y5law#t=0m20s

    FWIW, I'm a skinny person who can get out of a Japanese car (with conventional hinged doors) that's closer to a wall than that delorean was. But the situation is not that bad - many SUV passengers would want more clearance than that, plus the Tesla Model X apparently has folding gullwing doors that need even less space.

    I'd be more worried about the vertical clearance of this SUV in a parking lot with low roofs (common in some countries). But I suppose that might not be a problem in the USA.

  22. Re:Because everyone needs a gullwing suv on Tesla Reveals Its Model X Gullwing SUV · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Despite the costs it'll still happen on FDA Unveils Biosimilars Guidance · · Score: 1

    If I had Crohn's Disease and the cheap stuff didn't work well, and they suggest kilobux per month treatment, I'd seriously consider fecal/stool transplants.

  24. Re:Thank god we still have Radio Shack on The Gradual Death of the Brick and Mortar Tech Store · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Might be reflective of the USA's electronics manufacturing industry.

    You want to see old school radio shack style stuff (and more), go to China (especially Shenzen). Of course there's a difference, in those places you may see people doing dubious stuff like assembling batteries in front of you and sticking the "original" holograms on them: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=283 ;)

  25. Re:knowledge is power on Ask Slashdot: How To Deal With Refurbed Drives With Customer Data? · · Score: 1

    If the data was government/military, there's a headache you don't want.

    How can they tell whether you looked at it or not before deciding whether to give you a headache?

    Just because you said you didn't?