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  1. Re:Let's be accurate here on In the EU, Water Doesn't (Officially) Prevent Dehydration · · Score: 1

    Most western people have way to much salt in them already. You don't need salt as much as you think, the problem is more that you can't vary the sodium concentration to fast because the body can't adapt that fast. If you are dehydrated because of sporting the salt you sweated out needs to be replenished along with the water. Sports drinks are made for that. If you are dehydrated because you ate to much without drinking, simply haven't drank enough water in the first place, drank to much alcohol the previous night or messed around with amphetamines you need the water. Definately not the salt because in that case it will dehydrate you even more.

    There are different kinds of dehydration and they require radically different treatments and preventative measures.
    Reverting back to the article: drinking (bottled or tap) water can prevent and even cure mild forms of one kind of dehydration (the most common form: shortage of water), but can increase another kind (the least common form: shortage of electrolytes).

    Lower salt seems to be better for lower blood pressure. (note the "seems": I have not seen any succesfull studies of this, only reasons why it's impractical to test it and stories that it is most probably so.)

    IANAD, IANAMS

  2. Re:And in the US on In the EU, Water Doesn't (Officially) Prevent Dehydration · · Score: 1

    So tangerines, daylillies, banana's and apples are vegetables? It's not "new" and innovative by a long shot to put those in a salad. I don't even mean a fruit salad (wich is a dessert).

  3. Re:And in the US on In the EU, Water Doesn't (Officially) Prevent Dehydration · · Score: 1

    In the Netherlands the low fat mayo's are taking off, and while they taste differently they taste great in their own way. My arteries thank the good people at Calve for 3% fat mayo!

  4. Re:Supernovas on OPERA Group Repeats Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results · · Score: 1

    a supernova starts in the core of a star. As soon as that happens the neutrino's and the light are send out from the core outward. The neutrino's ignore the matter of the star and thus they have only a ligh speed delay between the core and the outer layer.
    Light doesn't ignore the star's matter and thus it bounces around for a few hours before it reaches the outer layer.
    The neutino's and the light travel with the same speed after they have left the star so the delay the light has is still there when they hit earth.

  5. Re:Well... on Toronto School Bans Hard Balls · · Score: 1

    Seriously, what is next?

    Sue the school for the phisycal training and education your kid is missing due to the rules against balls.

  6. Re:The Benefit of Backups is Non-Obvious on Why Do Companies Backup So Infrequently? · · Score: 2

    Learn how to make a buisness case. Use the limited fields of view of the bean counters for you. Talk money: (Chance of happening) * (cost of happening) = $X. Make backups with as many rotating copies and as often as possible within $X.
    If they deny, ask them why they have a fire insurance.

  7. Re:Safe-guarding on All French Nuclear Reactors Deemed Unsafe · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    For historic reasons France doesn't have an army, just a white flag.

  8. Re:Give me the security I traded my privacy for on TSA Puts Off Safety Study of X-ray Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    That would be usefull, true, but not what I meant.
    I was so bothered with spelling the damn word correctly I didn't think to check whether it's the right word.
    English is not my native language and this is an indication I should stop claiming to have mastered it properly.

    s/psychic/psychological

  9. Re:With an average high of about 70 degrees... on Mongolia Wants To Use Artificial Glaciers To Cool Capital · · Score: 1

    It sounds like proper insulation and a "heat recovery installation" (dunno the proper English word and Wiki won't help me. It's a kind of ventilation that heats/cools the incoming air with the outgoing air, expensive models have a way around the system if the temp outside is closer to the set temp as the inside temp is. Despite the name it works perfectly to keep your house cool in the summer, although it won't get your house cool).
    Airco's are unnessecary if the outside temp varies around the perfect temp. A decent solution should only cost about 1/20th of an airco solution (in energy cost). It doesn't even have to vary perfectly symmetrical, as long as the outside temp is below the perfect temp at night.

  10. Re:Give me the security I traded my privacy for on TSA Puts Off Safety Study of X-ray Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    Yes, let's outlaw thunderstorms. Fine the bastards.
    disclaimer: I am against easy acces to guns. I believe anyone who wants to carry a gun in public must undergo psychic analyses and have a damn good reason.

  11. Re:4 words on TSA Puts Off Safety Study of X-ray Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    The TSA is an ecoterrorist ploy to sterilise the full popluation of polluting air travelers. This way they will not pass their polluting ways and genes on to the next generation. Combine that with the decrease in overpopulation and the poor, sick mother earth can recover! Kumbaya!

  12. Re:And we're surprised by this? on TSA Puts Off Safety Study of X-ray Body Scanners · · Score: 2

    Sometitmes you gotta choose: radiation from a nuclear power plant or more radiation & CO2 & other nasties from a coal plant (you didin't believe fly ash was not radioactive I hope).
    And there is no way I am going to give up power (and thus computers) because then I would be unable to read /.

  13. Re:30 seconds per page, what's the big deal? on Skilled Readers Recognize Words By Shape · · Score: 1

    My lips tend to move when speed reading. I spell out the absolute gist and some conclusions "No, no, no, yes" as in "this is not what I am looking for, this neither, nope isn't it, yes this is it"
    I never speed-read novels because it's more fun to really read them.

  14. Re:This is news? on Skilled Readers Recognize Words By Shape · · Score: 1

    It seems fonts have different lookup tables for me. I have to slow down when the font changes, usually the "read buffer" is already full when I notice the font change, so I have to re-read the text (when reading at max speed).
    For this cursive, buld and caps are definately different fonts, and I hate people who use them to much.
    Caps are terrible anyways. They mess up the shape of the word. People who use all caps shoud be castrated with a blunt chainsaw.

  15. Re:EU still has some sense left, compared to US on EU Approves Unified Full Body Scanner Regulations · · Score: 1

    Do you really believe the scanner manufacturers don't charge for their equipment?

  16. As long as I can remember on Skilled Readers Recognize Words By Shape · · Score: 1

    I am a bit dyslexic, though not enough to have much troubles. I have been reading words instead of letters for as long as I can remember. I must have changed it because I mess up the letters anyways. I do remember not understanding the reading lessons, and reading as one of the fastest in the class. After 2 years reading I was 4 years ahead of my fellow kids.
    My sister is a bit more dyslexic than I am. She never learned to read words instead of letters (maybe due to being a bit more dyslexic. Dunno). She has had troubles reading for years. A couple of years back we talked about reading (and how it came to be I read so fast, while I had sort of the same troubles recognising letters). She must have tried to read in the same way, since she started reading for fun after a few months (she devoured the Harry Potter series).
    I think it would be usefull for most children to try to read words instead of letters, although I do not have any clue about how the curriculum would be. I started reading words after I learned how to read letters (wich didn't work for me but may have given me enogh of a foothold to form words and build that database), but a more dyslexic kid may have to much troubles reading letters to get to words.

  17. Re:Kindle DX on Ask Slashdot: Building an Assistive Reading Device? · · Score: 1

    I advise against plasma for this. The letters will burn in like hell if you torture the plasma like that.
    My 1 year old plasma burns in way faster than my old 20-odd year old TV.

  18. Re:Passenger can opt out... on EU Approves Unified Full Body Scanner Regulations · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Terrorism is a way of warfare through fear. The US has already lost this war (TSA, PATRIOT and the general reduction in civil rights). The EU just makes sure we don't lose it as well.
    Correct me if and where I am wrong, for this is not my field of study.

  19. Re:Sometimes they get it right on EU Approves Unified Full Body Scanner Regulations · · Score: 2

    People are made (partly) of water, while splitting it would end their life. It has been demonstrated that terrorists are willing to end their lives for their cause, so if you limit their availability of water they might simply go on and split their own water.
    I say: ban humans on planes!

  20. Re:EU still has some sense left, compared to US on EU Approves Unified Full Body Scanner Regulations · · Score: 1

    No I am not sure. I just used Communism in the disclaimer because I had used in the joke. Socialism would have been more appliccable.

  21. Re:EU still has some sense left, compared to US on EU Approves Unified Full Body Scanner Regulations · · Score: 1

    True, hence the large disclaimer. I thought of the "In Sovjet Europe" as a joke, but had to incorporate my true opinion into the post.

  22. Re:EU still has some sense left, compared to US on EU Approves Unified Full Body Scanner Regulations · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In Sovejet Europe government controlls commerce.

    Disclaimer: I am European and I do think the perfect government is a balance between Communism and Capitalism. I do think these regulations are a good plan.

  23. Internet censoring device on China Building Gigantic Structures In the Desert · · Score: 1

    This is a device designed to censor the internet through the minds of the webadmins who watched the satphotos.
    The Chinese Government noticed the Great Firewall of China wasn't working. They saw the potential of virals and made a mind control image, big enough to be seen on Google Maps. They predicted the image would go viral and thus many bored webadmins would see it. At a time when enough webadmins have seen it the great leaders will send a signal through our TV's (wich they have hacked). From that moment on all the webadmins will start deleting all content containing keyphrases like "Free Tibet" and "Great Firewall of China". Thus all content against the Great Republic of China will be removed.
    Al hail Hu Jintao!

  24. Paywalled on B&N Sought DoJ Inquiry Over Microsoft Patents · · Score: 1

    Article is paywalled. Base price (for 1 year) is E94.38. Although they do have a entry in their form for "Delivery instructions". Can I please have the weekly digital digest delivered on a 3TB harddisk?

  25. Re:Where's the beef? on World Emissions of Carbon Dioxide Outpace Worst-Case Scenario · · Score: 1

    That may make a vicious circle. Historically the heat rises from some source (increased solar activity for example) thus the oceans heat up. As the oceans heat up their CO2 absorption rate lowers (thus the CO2 levels rise).
    Now we have started by elevating the CO2 levels and, assuming the models are correct in this, thus the temperature will rise. As the temperatures rise the oceans will release CO2. There will be an equilibrium ofcourse, but will we be able to live in it?