Given the choice of a gluten-free world and a cure, I'd get cured.
That's kind of like saying if they could find a cure for lung cancer, you'd pursue the cure so you could keep smoking.
This is not accurate. In terms of nutritional content wheat is way above potato and white rice, when it is whole grain wheat.
All that whole grain goodness is a rare commodity in processed food, which is where the majority of wheat is consumed. Even if you have a bowl of "whole grain" cereal out of the box, the box still has other additives to "enrich" it. Along with milk, which is a large amount of dairy fat (outside of skim milk). Beyond that, wheat is not the sole potential source of dietary fiber.
Only a very small subset of humans can't tolerate gluten, and most of those don't even know they can't.
Which doesn't mean that they aren't sick as crap, it just means that the medical profession has problems.
Most grazing animals have evolved specifically to digest it and anything else from Poaceae.
"Most" does not mean all. And just because you happen to be able to stuff something down your gullet does not mean that you won't have negative consequences long term. Also, "most" animals do not process their food and stick in multiple additives. Which is another subject entirely.
I understand your statement about all the different tastes of bread and especially the "mouth feel." Part of this is because Gluten free cooking is still in it's relative infancy, with many people being diagnosed after they have been exposed to bread their entire life. Another part is that it's difficult to not be munching down on what everyone around you is buying and eating. But it's hard to argue with better health. The gluten free community needs to develop it's own better recipes rather than have a lot of bread envy.
Beer is an optional beverage that has not been made an integral ingredient to everything on the store shelf. People do not have to buy beer to fix dinner. But they are led to buy a host of other products to fix meals.
But beyond that, beer will induce health problems with long term consumption. This is regardless of whether anyone thinks people should give up drinking it or not.
Such illnesses probably remained sub-clinical in people in previous centuries but now, aided by enhanced severity, we better understand what's happening and we are better able to diagnose the trouble.
It's still sub-clinical. 97% of Celiacs are going undiagnosed and leading lives of increasing misery because gluten is in e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g.
As you so well pointed out, wheat is being used increasingly in heavily processed food because they have have hybridized the wheat kernel so much that they kernels are large and stuffed with gluten and is incredibly cheap to produce. But there is no reason that wheat has to be used other than it helps in making processed foods. The fact is there are other starch sources that easily could take the place of wheat. The fact is, humans are not dependent physiologically on the wheat kernel for anything.
In addition to allowing gluten to be made more tolerable to those with Celiac disease,
Why should people be forced into eating gluten? When the wheat kernel is eaten, the entirety of the kernel is destroyed. Gluten in the wheat kernel could be an adaptation to prevent animals from eating the seed in the first place.
Even though this researcher found the specific peptides that cause problems for Celiacs, the fact is nobody entirely digests the gluten protein in bread. The only thing nutritional about bread is that it is a starchy carbohydrate and it might have a small amount of fiber. Otherwise most flour is artificially "enriched."
Wheat/gluten is not the wonderful food source that it is made out to be, and human existence is not dependent on eating it. Producers love it though because it's a cheap food source with a high profit margin that they can be used as filler in all the processed food in boxes out there.
There are faulty engineering and management decisions every step of the way when producing this well. This is not the first disaster for BP that ended in the loss of life. The question is why is there not criminal prosecutions for bad engineering that leads to the loss of life? Why is it that only people with guns who kill people get criminal prosecutions?
I guess the fear surrounding what people don't understand will never go away.
It's justified. Back in the seventies everybody was into strobe lights and using them in theater productions left and right. Until people started falling over.
The law of unintended consequences could still be at work here.
So long as either side refuses to acknowledge the flaws in their arguments we are not going to see reasonable debate about where copyright ought to be.
Besides that, who really has been "freeloading" with 11 copyright extensions over the years, with the last one (Sonny Bono/CTEA) not having the public get anything in return?? I think it's not a question of both sides, but the side of copyright holders that need to see the flaws in their demands.
Let's see if we can leverage the wisdom of the crowds, or if crowds are all idiots (slashdot included, of course).
Hi, this is the smarmy sarcastic post that will be kinda funny but not really and will distract the crowd from garnering the bits of their collected wisdom and divert them to a completely unrelated subject but still will be tangentially related enough that it won't be considered offtopic.
Your ignorance is appalling. Please just smash your computer with a sledgehammer and go for a long walk on a short pier.
On slashdot the standard procedure is to have them turn in their nerd card first. Then we smash their computer for them and tell them to buy an apple. In the end, it's better for everyone that way.
With VHF having significant problems and the FCC wanting to chop another 20 UHF channels out, they want to make you pay.
Maybe they aren't talking about UHF channels, maybe they want to whack out FM Broadcasters, or maybe even ham bands. I agree this could be a terrible news. Maybe somebody could clarify with more information.
I view signing a petition as serving the same purpose as holding up a picket sign.
If you are holding up a picket sign, you're not necessarily giving out your address on the picket sign (i.g. the "Anonymous" demonstrations against Scientology with everyone wearing Guy Fawks masks).
You seem to feel strongly about your comments on Slashdot. In your reply to this comment please post your name and address so I can come over and discuss this with you.
>I'm going to do my part by buying some iron supplements and a can of chili, and heading off towards the ocean.
Men and children should not take iron supplements beyond what is found in food as it can be dangerous. Women, who lose some blood on a monthly basis, can take iron supplements. Consult with your physician.
Regarding your specific case, can you reverse-engineer a solution?
Firmware chips can desoldered and be disassembled in most instances. Unless this is a cellphone, where the firmware is integrated with the CPU and fuse links burned to prevent access. Then, more advanced and involved efforts could get at it. But it would be time consuming and require a team resources.
Depending on the device and circumstances (and I agree the community should know what the devices are) it might would be worth it to chase after it in court. If only to get the build environment released as GPL. As another poster noted, it needs to be known that "Tivoization" can not be used to steal code.
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Given the choice of a gluten-free world and a cure, I'd get cured.
That's kind of like saying if they could find a cure for lung cancer, you'd pursue the cure so you could keep smoking.
This is not accurate. In terms of nutritional content wheat is way above potato and white rice, when it is whole grain wheat.
All that whole grain goodness is a rare commodity in processed food, which is where the majority of wheat is consumed. Even if you have a bowl of "whole grain" cereal out of the box, the box still has other additives to "enrich" it. Along with milk, which is a large amount of dairy fat (outside of skim milk). Beyond that, wheat is not the sole potential source of dietary fiber.
Only a very small subset of humans can't tolerate gluten, and most of those don't even know they can't.
Which doesn't mean that they aren't sick as crap, it just means that the medical profession has problems.
Most grazing animals have evolved specifically to digest it and anything else from Poaceae.
"Most" does not mean all. And just because you happen to be able to stuff something down your gullet does not mean that you won't have negative consequences long term. Also, "most" animals do not process their food and stick in multiple additives. Which is another subject entirely.
I understand your statement about all the different tastes of bread and especially the "mouth feel." Part of this is because Gluten free cooking is still in it's relative infancy, with many people being diagnosed after they have been exposed to bread their entire life. Another part is that it's difficult to not be munching down on what everyone around you is buying and eating. But it's hard to argue with better health. The gluten free community needs to develop it's own better recipes rather than have a lot of bread envy.
Beer is an optional beverage that has not been made an integral ingredient to everything on the store shelf. People do not have to buy beer to fix dinner. But they are led to buy a host of other products to fix meals.
But beyond that, beer will induce health problems with long term consumption. This is regardless of whether anyone thinks people should give up drinking it or not.
They might want to eat it.
Are you sure? Or is it all the sugar, salt, butter, and grease that goes along with wheat products that people really want to eat?
Such illnesses probably remained sub-clinical in people in previous centuries but now, aided by enhanced severity, we better understand what's happening and we are better able to diagnose the trouble.
It's still sub-clinical. 97% of Celiacs are going undiagnosed and leading lives of increasing misery because gluten is in e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g.
As you so well pointed out, wheat is being used increasingly in heavily processed food because they have have hybridized the wheat kernel so much that they kernels are large and stuffed with gluten and is incredibly cheap to produce. But there is no reason that wheat has to be used other than it helps in making processed foods. The fact is there are other starch sources that easily could take the place of wheat. The fact is, humans are not dependent physiologically on the wheat kernel for anything.
In addition to allowing gluten to be made more tolerable to those with Celiac disease,
Why should people be forced into eating gluten? When the wheat kernel is eaten, the entirety of the kernel is destroyed. Gluten in the wheat kernel could be an adaptation to prevent animals from eating the seed in the first place.
Even though this researcher found the specific peptides that cause problems for Celiacs, the fact is nobody entirely digests the gluten protein in bread. The only thing nutritional about bread is that it is a starchy carbohydrate and it might have a small amount of fiber. Otherwise most flour is artificially "enriched."
Wheat/gluten is not the wonderful food source that it is made out to be, and human existence is not dependent on eating it. Producers love it though because it's a cheap food source with a high profit margin that they can be used as filler in all the processed food in boxes out there.
Vaporware, literally.
Now, patenting the air we breathe will finally be possible.
Submitter is DonLab....Don...Don... DON KNUTH! Is that you? Is this the "exciting announcement you were going to make?
Actually HP calculator quality has been falling off significantly the past few years as they have seemed to be outsourcing and cutting corners. I can't help but think that Carly Fiorina was largely responsible.
Steps for world domination the open source way;
1) Get one of your employees to ask the friendly open source community on Slashdot how they would implement a massive takeover plan.
2) Implement said plan as posted with your deep pocket resources.
3) Own every open source software worth mentioning.
$) Profit!!!
The hobby is gone forever.
It'll be like disco. It will make a huge comeback. Just like abba
Rob Pike likes to program in Forth in his spare time.
There are faulty engineering and management decisions every step of the way when producing this well. This is not the first disaster for BP that ended in the loss of life. The question is why is there not criminal prosecutions for bad engineering that leads to the loss of life? Why is it that only people with guns who kill people get criminal prosecutions?
I work at the SEC, and this does nothing for me.
I guess the fear surrounding what people don't understand will never go away.
It's justified. Back in the seventies everybody was into strobe lights and using them in theater productions left and right. Until people started falling over.
The law of unintended consequences could still be at work here.
Yet lack of uptake by young people will hardly stop the rush to apps
No, but a deflationary environment can.
Hmm, sounds like a book to me.
Agreed. In fact, he could wire his whole town with something called a library
Using super-high pressures similar to those found deep in the Earth or on a giant planet
In other words, it's unobtanium.
So long as either side refuses to acknowledge the flaws in their arguments we are not going to see reasonable debate about where copyright ought to be.
Besides that, who really has been "freeloading" with 11 copyright extensions over the years, with the last one (Sonny Bono/CTEA) not having the public get anything in return?? I think it's not a question of both sides, but the side of copyright holders that need to see the flaws in their demands.
Let's see if we can leverage the wisdom of the crowds, or if crowds are all idiots (slashdot included, of course).
Hi, this is the smarmy sarcastic post that will be kinda funny but not really and will distract the crowd from garnering the bits of their collected wisdom and divert them to a completely unrelated subject but still will be tangentially related enough that it won't be considered offtopic.
Your ignorance is appalling. Please just smash your computer with a sledgehammer and go for a long walk on a short pier.
On slashdot the standard procedure is to have them turn in their nerd card first. Then we smash their computer for them and tell them to buy an apple. In the end, it's better for everyone that way.
With VHF having significant problems and the FCC wanting to chop another 20 UHF channels out, they want to make you pay.
Maybe they aren't talking about UHF channels, maybe they want to whack out FM Broadcasters, or maybe even ham bands. I agree this could be a terrible news. Maybe somebody could clarify with more information.
I view signing a petition as serving the same purpose as holding up a picket sign.
If you are holding up a picket sign, you're not necessarily giving out your address on the picket sign (i.g. the "Anonymous" demonstrations against Scientology with everyone wearing Guy Fawks masks).
You seem to feel strongly about your comments on Slashdot. In your reply to this comment please post your name and address so I can come over and discuss this with you.
>I'm going to do my part by buying some iron supplements and a can of chili, and heading off towards the ocean.
Men and children should not take iron supplements beyond what is found in food as it can be dangerous. Women, who lose some blood on a monthly basis, can take iron supplements. Consult with your physician.
It's as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced...but everyone clicked on something else and were fine.
Regarding your specific case, can you reverse-engineer a solution?
Firmware chips can desoldered and be disassembled in most instances. Unless this is a cellphone, where the firmware is integrated with the CPU and fuse links burned to prevent access. Then, more advanced and involved efforts could get at it. But it would be time consuming and require a team resources.
Depending on the device and circumstances (and I agree the community should know what the devices are) it might would be worth it to chase after it in court. If only to get the build environment released as GPL. As another poster noted, it needs to be known that "Tivoization" can not be used to steal code.