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  1. Re:Atkin's Diet on Low-Protein Diet May Extend Lifespan · · Score: 2

    But it is the calories. Eating 20,000 calories from protein is still going to make you gain weight.

  2. Re:Atkin's Diet on Low-Protein Diet May Extend Lifespan · · Score: 1

    It probably didn't work because you were still getting too many calories from carbs. It's always about having the right percentage of calories from fat/carb/protein for your metabolic level.

    The point that I was making is that it's silly to cut out 150 calories when the rest your meal is still like 1500 calories. It's basically a nonsense gesture so that people think they're being healthy by doing next to nothing at all.

  3. Re:Atkin's Diet on Low-Protein Diet May Extend Lifespan · · Score: 0

    To add what I posted above, this is like ordering a supersized double quarter pounder meal from McDonald's and being "healthy" by having a Diet Coke.

  4. Re:Atkin's Diet on Low-Protein Diet May Extend Lifespan · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Riiight. Because the 150-175 calories from the bun is the tipping point on having a burger not the 300+ calories from just the fat from the beef (assuming 1/2lb. Of 85/15 beef). As the saying goes, that's being pennywise and pound foolish.

  5. Re:Atkin's Diet on Low-Protein Diet May Extend Lifespan · · Score: 0, Troll

    Blasphemy! My triple bacon cheeseburger without the bun is an extremely healthy diet food!!! Nothing is worse than icky carbs!!

  6. Re:Different Software - Same Problem on Bug In the GnuTLS Library Leaves Many OSs and Apps At Risk · · Score: 2, Informative

    No the issue was with conditionals and braces. The same issue would have happened even if it were two return statements .

  7. Re:From the FAQ on Bitcoin Exchange Flexcoin Wiped Out By Theft · · Score: 1

    The monopoly guy?

  8. Re:WTF on Apple's Messages Offers Free Texting With a Side of iPhone Lock-In · · Score: 1, Informative

    Then tell your friends to turn on the SMS fallback. The setting is been there forever.

    iMessage fails over to text ONLY if you're using an iOS device.

    That's total bullshit. I have iMessage turned on with SMS fallback and I text message people on android phones all the time.

  9. Re:WTF on Apple's Messages Offers Free Texting With a Side of iPhone Lock-In · · Score: 2

    Not if you enable SMS fallback. It's simply just resent as an SMS.

  10. Re:Ha ha on MtGox Files For Bankruptcy Protection · · Score: 1

    It's not FUD, that's just a poorly-worded summary. They obviously meant to say "The bitcoin exchange".

  11. Re:hacker vs hacker on Why We Need To Teach Hacking In High School · · Score: 1

    Whoosh? They were making fun of Unknown Lamer inserting his editorial trying to be a pedant but basically failed at it by saying "hacker and hacker" instead of "hacker and cracker". It's like laughing at a grammar nazi who was trying to correct someone but failed at spelling/grammar themselves in their post.

  12. Re:OSS to the rescue! on Apple Drops Snow Leopard Security Updates, Doesn't Tell Anyone · · Score: 1

    You're free to update to 10.9 as well.

  13. Re:OSS to the rescue! on Apple Drops Snow Leopard Security Updates, Doesn't Tell Anyone · · Score: 1, Insightful

    OSS to the rescue? So where are my security updates for Ubuntu LTS 10.4 desktop which was released 8 months after Snow Leopard? Oh right, Canonical stopped supporting that back in May of last year which is 3 months sooner than Apple did with Snow Leopard.

  14. Re:Ridiculous. on Exxon Mobile CEO Sues To Stop Fracking Near His Texas Ranch · · Score: 0

    Because you didn't click the Forbes link which is about him joining a lawsuit over fracking near his home? Apparently basic literacy isn't your strong suit.

  15. Re: riiiight on Killing Net Neutrality Could Be Good For You · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's because the entire argument is disingenuous. It's just an apology piece for Comcast. That anyone believes that Netflix is bullying companies many times their size is laughable. Especially when some of the very same companies are ones they license their content from.

  16. Re: riiiight on Killing Net Neutrality Could Be Good For You · · Score: 2

    Yes, they have their monopolies due to their own heavy lobbying for it. It's not as if the local governments just up and gave the monopolies to them against the the protest of these companies.

  17. Re:riiiight on Killing Net Neutrality Could Be Good For You · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yep, since prioritization is an abuse of their market power. And since there is little competition due to the telcos/cable companies buying local monopolies, there's nothing anyone can do as theu continue to try strangle out smaller competitors. This seems to be nothing but a false dilemma argument.

  18. Re:Probably the home router... on Whatever Happened To the IPv4 Address Crisis? · · Score: 1

    If they want us to foot the bill, they need to give us the option to pay extra for it.

    Yeah and they'll get responses like the tard above you:

    10s of billions of dollars are irrelevant, they are making much more than this.

  19. On what planet does giving someone expensive electronics in return for a service not count as "payment"?

    In the one where a producer of a show specifically says "Apple won't pay to have their products featured"?

  20. Re:Posting anonymously for obvious reasons... on Target's Internal Security Team Warned Management · · Score: 2

    Inplementing a boneheaded change password policy is not going to make your users act better. You are simply going to make no difference or make it worse.

  21. Re:Posting anonymously for obvious reasons... on Target's Internal Security Team Warned Management · · Score: 1

    Our users typically write their passwords down anyway, and they're already incredibly weak. Because of this, I think occasional password changes would be a significant benefit.

    No, you're simply rearranging the deck chairs to make it seem like you did something.

  22. Re:Posting anonymously for obvious reasons... on Target's Internal Security Team Warned Management · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You do realize that making people change their passwords all the time simply leads to people using weaker passwords or writing them down, right? This type of policy though up by some self-proclaimed security expert amongst the IT monkeys almost always leads to worse security than not. And you don't even need to take my word for it:

    The downside of changing passwords is that it makes them harder to remember. And if you force people to change their passwords regularly, they're more likely to choose easy-to-remember -- and easy-to-guess -- passwords than they are if they can use the same passwords for many years. So any password-changing policy needs to be chosen with that consideration in mind.

    https://www.schneier.com/blog/...

  23. Apple does not.

    http://www.dailytech.com/Apple...

    "Apple won't pay to have their products featured, but they are more than willing to hand out an endless amount of computers, iPads and iPhones," said Gavin Polone, producer of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm. "It's kind of a graft situation."

  24. Re:No Thanks on Federal Smartphone Kill-Switch Legislation Proposed · · Score: 1

    Riiight. Because you think local cops would come to your aid against the Feds?

  25. Re:No Thanks on Federal Smartphone Kill-Switch Legislation Proposed · · Score: 1

    Why would the government want to brick some people's phone? How can they track, snoop on the calls and capture metadata from a bricked phone?