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  1. Don't forget the TTIP on How Perl and R Reveal the United States' Isolation In the TPP Negotiations · · Score: 1

    USA is also working on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the EU. That one is supposed to be done in 2015, and it seems surrounded by much more secrecy.

  2. Who cares? on Chinese Gov't To Tighten Internet Controls Even Further · · Score: 1

    In China, the power cares that you could disseminate information and mobilize society. In western countries you can disseminate information and mobilize society, but the power does not care. At all.

  3. Re:hemoglobin test on Affordable Blood Work In Four Hours Coming To Pharmacies · · Score: 1

    There must be something I fail to grasp: how is 3-5 business day a good delay? When I have the blood drawn at noon in the lab next door, I have the results at 18:00 the same day.

  4. Re:Lol on Yahoo Encrypting Data In Wake of NSA Revelations · · Score: 1

    If you read me carefully, I referred to the status of stored traffic if the CA gets compromised.

  5. Re:Lol on Yahoo Encrypting Data In Wake of NSA Revelations · · Score: 1

    If you secure your own inter-datacenter links, you accept only certs signed by your own private CA, hence the compromised CA is not a problem. And even if your private CA is compromised, ephemeral DH exchange ensures stored traffic remains difficult to decipher.

  6. Re:That's cool on Scientists Propose Satellite Early Warning System For Forest Fires · · Score: 1

    I wish I had mod points for you. Indeed preventing small fires leads to giant ones.

  7. Re:Simple solution on Time For a Warrant Canary Metatag? · · Score: 1

    The US produced the armies that helped end two world wars

    You known veterans from WWII would not make very good soldiers anymore,right? (not speaking of those from WWI)

    and prevented a third one,

    What conflict do you refer to?

  8. WTO on NJ Gamblers May Be Locked Out By Flaws In Virtual Fence · · Score: 1

    Another fence for with USA willget slapped by WTO...

  9. Hook turn is an expert's error. Beginners are too scared to attempt touching anything at landing time :-)

  10. Re:Education con game on Questions Raised By Education Dept's Road Show On College Value · · Score: 1

    Correcting myself: US accounts for 38%, NATO for 53%. The point is still valid: cold war is over, there is no big enemy.

  11. Re:Education con game on Questions Raised By Education Dept's Road Show On College Value · · Score: 1

    France does not have an army service anymore (whether it was a desirable move is another debate), it is still a major military power, and the country spends one third of its state budget for education.

    But your point is still valid, though. The problem is that USA spends 50% of world military expenses. And since NATO countires account for 80%, one can wonder where is the enemy that justify such a big military expense.

  12. No ethernet on Dell's New Sputnik 3 Mates Touchscreen With Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    It seems there is no ethernet port. Too bad, the machine looked quite good, but I like reliable networking, hence Wi-Fi only is not for me.

  13. You can skip that one on How Big Companies Can Hamper the Surveillance Infrastructure · · Score: 2

    TFA just says tech giants do not want to cooperate with NSA. No real news here. Save your time, skip that one.

  14. Re:Corporate donors on Yearly FreeBSD Foundation Fundraising Campaign Is On · · Score: 1

    They borrowed from NetBSD and OpenBSD too. Depending on the OS X version, you find more RCS strings from one or the other. X.4 had more from NetBSD than the others, for instance.

  15. Re:calories on Soylent: No Food For 30 Days · · Score: 1

    There are papers on the topic: http://scholar.google.fr/scholar?q=omega+3+obesity

    But keep in mind that we are not looking for a regimen to make an obese person thin, but an explanation why a long term high omega 3 / omega 6 ratio in the diet would make people burn more calories, instead of storing them as fat.

  16. Harmful documents on NSA Wants To Reveal Its Secrets To Prevent Snowden From Revealing Them First · · Score: 1

    In this article, it seems the NSA implicitly acknowledges that no document harmful to national security was released yet.

  17. Portability on MenuetOS, an OS Written Entirely In Assembly Language, Inches Towards 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Writing code in assembly means giving up on portability. Is it wise to bet on x86 in 2013?

    We have to remember that in the early ages, Unix had its success because it was written at 98% in a high level language, which was an innovation at that time

  18. Re:If you can defend it .. it's yours on Hotel Tycoon Seeks Property Rights On the Moon · · Score: 1

    Agreed. Property right is a consequence of the social contract, but the social contract cannot be enforced outside of territories controlled by the society.

  19. Re:calories on Soylent: No Food For 30 Days · · Score: 1

    polyinsaturated fatty acids known as omega 3 and omega 6 are used by the body to produce Eicosanids. Those are signaling molecules that have strong effect on various body functions. From the wikipedia page:

    • PGD2 Promotion of sleep
    • TXA2 Stimulation of platelet aggregation; vasoconstriction
    • PGE2 Smooth muscle contraction;inducing pain, heat, fever; bronchoconstriction
    • 15d-PGJ2 Adipocyte differentiation
    • PGF2 Uterine contraction
    • LTB4 Leukocyte chemotaxis
    • PGI2 Inhibition of platelet aggregation; vasodilation; embryo implantation
    • Cysteinyl-LTs Anaphylaxis; bronchial smooth muscle contraction.

    A diet rich in omega 3 fatty acid from fishes will lower cancer risk (through reduction of inflamation), hearth attack risk (platelet aggregation), and... an fat storage, through inhibition of adipocyte differentiation.

  20. Re:calories on Soylent: No Food For 30 Days · · Score: 1

    That puzzle is tricky! You did not address rice rinsing during cooking, but I do not know how widespread it is.

    We could imagine that there is a genetic adaptation to high carb intake, but there have been studies telling us that Japanese people can get fat when they move to US and adopt a western diet. That leads me to another idea: what about omega 3/omega 6 ratio?

    Arachidonic acid, an omega 6 found in cattle fed with soy, is transformed into eicosanoides that promote adipocye growth. EPA, an omega 3 found is fishes has the adverse effect. What is important here is not the content of a given meal, but the ration you have been eating for 6 months. I always though that omega 3/omega 6 ratio influence on fat accumulation was dwarfed by high carbs intake, but perhaps I was wrong here?

  21. security to trump IP on Could Slashdot (Or Other Private Entity) Sue a Spy Agency Like GCHQ Or NSA? · · Score: 1

    IMO there are different rights at stake here. Indeed there is intellectual property, but I suspect CGHQ would argue spying has its root into the people right to security (they spy on us for our own good, right?). The latter is likely to trump the former. But perhaps the idea that spying on us is for our security can be debunked?

  22. Re:calories on Soylent: No Food For 30 Days · · Score: 1

    The rice eaten in Japan is overwhelmingly white rice, which has a high insulin score

    How do they cook it? IIRC, Vinegared rice is rinsed, which may remove some starsh. And vinegar is known to lower glycemic index.

  23. Re:calories on Soylent: No Food For 30 Days · · Score: 1

    Beef has an insulin score of 51 ± 16, pasta 40 ± 5, which contains more carbs?

    That result is interesting: I knew pasta contained resistant starch (counted as digestible calories, but not digested... unless your gut bacteria do it for you), but I did not imagine it was so low

    .

    That is a possible explanation for rice in Asia not feeding obesity, as you noted. What rice is it, how is it cooked, and are there resistant starch there?

  24. Re:Pay no attention to the man behind the Back Doo on Microsoft Warns Customers Away From RC4 and SHA-1 · · Score: 1

    [for BEAST] client hardening is the correct solution

    Indeed. TLSv1.1 is not vulnerable, and most browsers that are still limited to TLSv1.0 are able to use the 1/n-1 split workaround to BEAST (notable exception is Safari on MacOS up to X.8). The right approach would be to detect TLSv1.0 clients that do not use 1/n-1 split and deny them access before they exchange anything sensible.

  25. exploit vendors on The Operations of a Cyber Arms Dealer · · Score: 1

    Of course there are links, there are even companies specialized on it