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  1. God's time on Flies See the World In Slo-Mo, Say Researchers · · Score: 1

    So an omnipresent being (everywhere, the size of everything), should have a time scale which relative to ours approaches zero.

  2. Barriers between identities on Can Internet Pseudonymity Be Saved? · · Score: 3, Informative

    With tracking cookies and javascript hacks being as prevalent as they are I've been using separate sandboxes for browsing profiles for some time now with Sandboxie. I suppose I could go extra paranoid and throw in a proxy, too.

    As long as the sites which know your real identity are walled away from the rest of the internet tracking then some level of anonymity can still be expected.

  3. Re:Also... on How Amateurs Destroyed the Professional Music Business · · Score: 1

    One might also note that the mainstream industry makes orders of magnitude more money (a measure of success) than the "bedroom produced" music and talent scene that you belong to.

    By that logic, Budweiser makes the best beer and Microsoft makes the best OS?

    By that measure Budweiser is the most successful beer, which it is.

  4. Re:Tor, now 98.2% run by secret services on Tor Usage More Than Doubles In August · · Score: 1

    Unless they are sending all of their data to the NSA this is good for Tor.

  5. Re:Grocery Store Secrets on Researchers Discover Way To Spot Crappy Coffee · · Score: 1

    Fascinating. Does your dog like the leftover bits/essence of coffee that winds up in his bowl? Does it make him/her hyper? Do you like the dog food essence in your coffee? I wonder if I'm missing out on something here.

  6. Re:Easy - Wrong category mod. on Researchers Discover Way To Spot Crappy Coffee · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I thought this way when I lived in Seattle. Now that I live on the East Coast I find that Starbucks hits the 90th percentile for quality around here. Standardization of shit is a huge step up in most of the country.

    To give you an idea of how bad it is- most people here seem to think that Dunken' Donuts has the best coffee.

    God do I miss a perfectly pulled shot of espresso where the bitterness is only on the tip of your tongue and there is no salty aftertaste.

  7. Re:Let me help you understand those figures on Open Source Mapping Software Shows Every Traffic Death On Earth · · Score: 2

    The last time I took a written test it was only 25 questions, but they were selected randomly from a much larger pool of questions. Most of the ones I got were really quite stupid and have nothing to do with driving. For example, do you know the penalty for passing a school bus with it's flashers on?
    Setting the standard higher doesn't help when the test is stupid to begin with.

  8. Re:Correlation does not imply causation on Soda Makes Five-Year-Olds Break Your Stuff, Science Finds · · Score: 2

    I disagree. I don't think we have sufficient data about the amount of data to draw such a conclusion yet.

  9. Re:Help an uneducated on First Portions of Aaron Swartz's Secret Service File Released · · Score: 1

    Haven't you been paying attention at all here? It was PUBLIC DOMAIN material. He did not violate copyright, he merely exceeded/broke the ToS in downloading all of it instead of tiny bits. He broke a wall between the public and things that belong to the public already.

    Besides, most states have laws ensuring property owners have access to their property. That's why you can't keep the power company off your land when they want to read your meter. Why can't that apply here, too?

  10. Re:Brain diabetes on Study Ties High Blood Sugar To Dementia · · Score: 2, Funny

    The MCTs are inherently ketogenic. The gut and liver separate them out from other fats and metabolize them right away, yielding ketones.

    Given the ketogenic diets not using MCTs are effective in protecting against or reversing the effects of various brain disorders (epilepsy, Alzheimer's, parkinsons etc.) and given that we know some of the mechanisms through which ketones are neuroprotective, it's reasonable to presume it isn't the MCTs directly which help, it's the keytones that they promote.

    If the above is true, then while MCTs may be fine, a proper ketogenic diet would be better, since it improves blood sugar control.

    So quit eating vegetables and start eating lots of saturated fats, eggs and fatty meat if you don't want to go doolally in your old age.

    Yes, a diet very high in saturated fats will drastically reduce your chances of experience this or any other disease typically associated with old age.

  11. Where have I heard this before? on Study Ties High Blood Sugar To Dementia · · Score: 5, Informative
  12. Re:Please make it anonymous on NTSB Calls For Wireless Tech To Enable Vehicles To Talk To Each Other · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and there's no way to spoof random serial numbers.

    Airplanes already have this. They're unencrypted and easily spoofed (yes you can screw with the air traffic controllers quite easily). No reason to assume the same system in cars wont be just as poorly implemented.

  13. Re:This is awesome on Long Range RFID Hacking Tool To Be Released At Black Hat · · Score: 1

    Why stop with pets? Have a favorite employee? Favorite child?

  14. Re:Three feet away... on Long Range RFID Hacking Tool To Be Released At Black Hat · · Score: 1

    The old phreaking practice would work well here. Just spray-paint some tupperware tan and use some double stick tape to attach it to the wall near the card reader you are targeting and put your device in it. Painted boxes attached to walls are practically invisible.

  15. Re:+5 Insightful for on Jimmy Carter Calls Snowden Leak Ultimately "Beneficial" · · Score: 1

    It is a tankless job

    No it isn't: It's one of the few jobs that involves tanks in any way!

    Dukakis would disagree.

  16. First Successful on First Successful Unmanned Drone Landing On an Aircraft Carrier · · Score: 1

    The headline implies that there have been other, unsuccessful attempts at landing a UAV on a carrier (or else 'first successful' sounds redundant). Yet there is no mention of the failures.

  17. Re:Physical access? on Russian Federal Guard Service "Upgrades" To Electric Typewriters · · Score: 2

    That's where social engineering comes in. You call up the grunt employees and start saying big words like 'firmware update' until they just start doing whatever you tell them to.

  18. Re:Sounds like FOIA time on Discovering NSA Code Names Via LinkedIn · · Score: 2

    That pdf is just someone copy/pasting keywords they recognize but apparently don't understand. For example they are looking for experience with penetration testing, and then the next requirement is pen testing. Reverse Engineering comes up twice in the same list. It's so repetitive that I'm just not sure I can believe this is a legitimate document of any sort.

  19. Re:Sounds like FOIA time on Discovering NSA Code Names Via LinkedIn · · Score: 2

    My bet is they will talk about Snowden some more.

  20. Crack on You Will Get DirectX 11.2 Only With Windows 8.1 · · Score: 1

    I wonder if DX11.2 really requires Win8.1 in any meaningful way or if a few nops in the installer could bring it to win7.

  21. Re:Meh. on AMD/ATI Drops Windows XP Support · · Score: 1

    If you have a second video card and a processor which supports VT-d, you can get solid performance on games in a VM by installing AMD/NVidia drivers. Losing XP support really impacts this (admittedly tiny) segment of the market.

  22. Why it's unnecessary on How Not To Be a SEO Spammer · · Score: 1

    I just checked, and google is the #1 result for search on bing.

  23. Can't they get him out on One Year Since Assange Took Refuge in Ecuadorian Embassy · · Score: 0

    I thought they'd be able to fly him to Ecuador by now. The inside of their limo's are also considered part of their embassy aren't they?

  24. Re:Google has a problem. on Google's Crazy Lack of Focus: Is It Really Serious About Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    What has google done that is just for the enjoyment of it's founders? What I see when I look at google is a company striving to get it's feet in the door of the markets it thinks will be dominant in 20-30 years. They want to be at the forefront of wearable computers. They want to drive your car for you. They want in on the internet access business.

    Try to imagine the world post-singularity. Now look at what google is doing. Heck, they even have a program named 'Singularity-U' where they bring together people they think will be influential in the future for networking. Their position seems crystal clear to me.

  25. Re:Genius judge on Federal Judge Says Interns Should Be Paid · · Score: 2

    Students still pay tuition when they do internships. Volunteering is free, this is pay to work.