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  1. I don't all BS on many things, this article I do. on How Sliced Meat May Have Driven Human Evolution (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    I don't spend this much time on many things like this but for some reason this came across as bad science.

    A session with Google and no knowledge anthropology I found this:

    Chimpanzee's habit was an entire Continent away from H. erectus
    http://www.janegoodall.ca/abou...
    (not that big of a deal we do have Hurricanes, Cyclones and Typhoons to mix the groups)

    Chimpanzee's are a different time line than humans
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    So what do the modern apes—and in particular our closest relatives the chimpanzees and bonobos—eat? Plants. Yes, plants. ... But most chimps don’t eat such meaty treats often. Three percent of the average chimp diet comes from meat. On average, nine days a year are meat days for chimps.
    http://blogs.scientificamerica...

    Despite their hunting behavior, however, only a very tiny percentage–perhaps as small as two percent–of a wild chimp’s diet consists of meat or insects.
    http://www.allaboutwildlife.co...

    Google this phrase: what do you feed a chimpanzee - give one this blurb:
    It also eats leaves and leaf buds. Seeds, blossoms, stems, pith, bark and resin, insects, and meat make up the rest of its diet. While the common chimpanzee is mostly herbivorous, it does eat honey, soil, insects, birds and their eggs, and small to medium-sized mammals, including other primates.

    http://www.janegoodall.org/ is a worthless site unless you wish to give money.

    Topic: H. erectus meat consumption is associated with __________.
    Not one answer includes teeth
    http://science-forums.com/inde...

    The only thing that associates chimpanzee (meat eating) and evolve of humans jaws to is the submitted article itself.

  2. Re:If I remember right transmission is also includ on Transmission BitTorrent App Contained Malware (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Transmission started on the Mac. You really think that a couple $k for tools is a big deal to those with a job?

    TL;DR: Geez Louise, cuntcheese, if you don't know what you're talking about...don't say it!

    Just hits me as a tad odd that a program supplied as a default Linux program - that does the same thing, shares the same name, and not hit a copyright wall; so suspect as an update.

    All said and done it would appear my concerns a non issue. I just came across Transmission included in the excellent program "Portable Apps" https://sourceforge.net/projec... . Not as isolated as I tended to believe; many checks and balances.

  3. Re:If I remember right transmission is also includ on Transmission BitTorrent App Contained Malware (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Transmission started on the Mac. You really think that a couple $k for tools is a big deal to those with a job?

    TL;DR: Geez Louise, cuntcheese, if you don't know what you're talking about...don't say it!

    Just hits me as a tad odd that a program supplied as a default Linux program - that does the same thing, shares the same name, and not hit a copyright wall; so suspect as an update.

  4. Re:from the not-so-bright department on Scuba Diver Survives Being Sucked Into Nuclear Plant (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Here's a picture of the location of the buoy and a diagram of the intakes:

    http://imgur.com/a/Ve4to

    The buoy is close enough to the plant that there is no doubt that it is part of the nuclear power plant.

    From that diagram it says: "The intake pipes are protected by "velocity caps" which do not screen the intake, but cause the volume of water to pull in from all directions, which greatly reduces the velocity entering the structure. This prevents marine life from unintentionally getting sucked in, but does not make it impossible. Note that the diver would have to enter under the cap structure, which has a gap of between 6 and 9 feet and plenty of room between support columns. The velocity would not have pulled him in to the intake pipe until he got close to the center of the cap structure."

    He swam into the structure.

  5. If I remember right transmission is also included on Transmission BitTorrent App Contained Malware (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    In Linux Mint 13.

  6. Re:Yesterday's retracted news on San Bernadino D.A. Says Shooter's Phone Could Harbor "Cyber Pathogen" (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Africans drink cow piss and milk if I remember correctly, so I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.

    I read a lot of odd facts, many books on the subject, 000 in Dewey decimal system. My bathroom material is "Strange stories, Amazing facts"; which I take as fact. It was mentioned in one book.

    A nurse from Africa did verify this fact in one of those odd conversations one can get into.

    The reasoning behind it was the dietary habits of different cultures.

    Each post being seen as off topic, so a bit too much of a deviation from the main subject.

  7. Re:Yesterday's retracted news on San Bernadino D.A. Says Shooter's Phone Could Harbor "Cyber Pathogen" (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Balut is not the same as century eggs.
    Balut is an egg where the embryo is allowed to grow until almost ready to hatch.
    Century egg is an egg that has been chemically treated so that the proteins are altered.

    My bad, Balut is the only egg I knew of that's treated differently for it's outcome.

  8. Re: Yesterday's retracted news on San Bernadino D.A. Says Shooter's Phone Could Harbor "Cyber Pathogen" (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    > freedom of speech enables the truth to emerge from diverse opinions.

    Still waiting for that to happen...

    It's a good line, the article was rather large and I was looking for something short to explain it in one sentence. My first thought were the diverse opinions in a political discussion, the only people who are seen as right or on track are after the election. Yet it's diverse opinions that can sway an election.
    .

  9. Re:Yesterday's retracted news on San Bernadino D.A. Says Shooter's Phone Could Harbor "Cyber Pathogen" (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Asians will see a pile of shit on the ground and the first thing that pops into their heads is "Can I eat that?"

    Gelatin blood cubes, century eggs, dogs, cats, monkey brains, elephant feet, tarantulas...there is nothing that asians won't stick into their mouths.

    I've lived in the Philippines, the family invited to many Filipino parties which included a feast of food, nothing there I wouldn't eat except Balut (your century eggs). Yet the eggs seen as quite a delicacy.

    Rats, yes at carnival's they came flayed on a stick and eaten as a treat. Again something I've never given a try.

    Cats, can't say, they are rather rare and can't I remember seeing any.

    Monkey brains, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... says it's a tribal thing. I've never heard of them as food outside of a tv program that made it seem a rare and expensive indulgence.

    Dogs, yes as a boy scout in the Philippines a yearly event was to walk 50 miles of the Bataan death march, during which I've seen a few dogs laid out being butchered. I've lived all over the world (Air Force dependent) in many Asian/non-Asian countries I see dog as a dietary main stay when they can be found, or raised.

    As I understand it there's no nutritional value in poop, so more energy eating it than it provides. Plus the sanitary facilities make it rather hard to acquire.

    The rest of your list (elephant feet, tarantulas (spiders)) I can imagine them being eaten, but not by the general populous as they aren't common but to a small area.

    A tribe in Central America eat huge spiders common in that area, they toss them into a fire and turn till done (History channel).

  10. Re:Yesterday's retracted news on San Bernadino D.A. Says Shooter's Phone Could Harbor "Cyber Pathogen" (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Eating beef , for certain cultures is as disgusting as all of the above.

    Drinking Milk by most Africans is seen as the same as drinking piss.

  11. Re: Yesterday's retracted news on San Bernadino D.A. Says Shooter's Phone Could Harbor "Cyber Pathogen" (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Isn't this basically enciting panic? If people do anything stupid based on his fantastic story can he be held liable?

    Freedom of speech and freedom of press... Rather than having the government establish and dictate the truth, freedom of speech enables the truth to emerge from diverse opinions. http://www.lincoln.edu/crimina...

  12. Re:Yesterday's retracted news on San Bernadino D.A. Says Shooter's Phone Could Harbor "Cyber Pathogen" (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Asian people will eat anything. They are disgusting.

    Tic

    We eat what keeps us alive. Asians have an odd diet due to what's available, Japanese eat anything out of the sea, and the United States will eat anything disguised as meat.

  13. Re:Yesterday's retracted news on San Bernadino D.A. Says Shooter's Phone Could Harbor "Cyber Pathogen" (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Think of a computer illiterate trying to sound as smart as possible talking about a virus for the first time. If you substitute "trojan virus" for "lying dormant cyber pathogen", it sounds a lot more realistic.

    Think of the San Bernadino computer techs that are most likely now working 24/7 searching all of their computer system for the most mundane of things :)

    A blessing for those who out of the blue had all this overtime dropped into their laps.

  14. Re:Yesterday's retracted news on San Bernadino D.A. Says Shooter's Phone Could Harbor "Cyber Pathogen" (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't have a link handy, but I saw something in the news yesterday or today saying there was no good reason to think this is true.

    It's a very interesting theory legal wise, but I don't buy it.

  15. Re:Un... goto politifact. Cruz really lies a lot. on Why You May Not Like Ted Cruz's Face, According To Science (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    On the grounds of equal time, Trump ain't exactly being honest.

    http://www.politifact.com/pers...

  16. Re:Sparcstation 10 on Join the Hunt For the Government's Oldest Computer (muckrock.com) · · Score: 1

    Wide-area version of this?
    http://bash.org/?5273

    That's too funny, at least one other person has heaps of laundry laying all over the place.

  17. Re:Posting AC due to NDA on Join the Hunt For the Government's Oldest Computer (muckrock.com) · · Score: 1

    I really don't know if NDAs involving high security clearance expire.

    I was at an government auction with a friend when a SPARCstation came up for bid.. It was him against a contractor who had a customer for it, the final bid cost him $500, the contractor said it was a nice system even with the hard drives they way they were. This was news to the both of us, looking at the two drives installed inside they had taken a bad saw, sawing each hard drive half way through (to the spindle) ; as the system had come out of a secure area.

  18. One in the running was melted down for rare metals on Join the Hunt For the Government's Oldest Computer (muckrock.com) · · Score: 1

    The government holds auctions on old or now unusable equipment from the nuclear reservation Hanford.

    At one time I was going to bid $300 (US) on a Univac that took up an entire corner; if I'd of gotten it, it would of taken over the house (it's huge, with many pieces).

    I got the bid on another batch of items -when picking them up I asked about the Univac and was told it was pulled as no bid came close to the value of the gold and other heavy metals it could be melted down for.

    That was over 25 years ago so imagine it's part of an engagement ring at this time.

  19. ... rolled back to an old backup. As a result, we lost audit data for about 147 roots.

    How the fuck are there that many changes for root CA's withing the period of one backup?

    Edge is involved, Win10 is a different beast, if one has the proper certs they can bypass the windows firewall. Every since Windows supplied a firewall with their OS that's been the way it has worked.

  20. a submission had a link of how badly it had done on DARPA Moves Ahead With Radical Vertical Take-Off Aircraft (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    This was phase 1 and the results so bad they just quit testing it anymore; there are 3 more phases (including phase 2) it must go through before being accepted.

  21. Re:So what type of Windows PC do you need. on Oculus Founder: Rift Will Come To Mac If Apple "Ever Releases a Good Computer" (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If a high end Mac won't support it. You will need a higher end PC which will be beyond most people's budgets.

    Below is a sig I use on an Overclock site, the system is over 5 years old, and just this year at it's potential (Drives are now Sata 6's). Computer cost $1100 or less; it's the video card that will cost you and not part of the given cost. I did the leg work putting this together and for gaming you don't want AMD and what I had planned for at first.

    CPU: Intel Core i7-950 4.2Mhz 8 core
    Motherboard: P6X58D
    Memory: Corsair Dominator (x3) 6GB TR3X6G1600C8D 1800Mhz
    Graphics Card: EVGA GTX 760 1280GB
    Hard Drive (my bottleneck): Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS 1TB SATA 3
    Power Supply: Corsair HX850 Silver Certified, Modular power supply
    Case: Cooler Master HAF 922
    CPU Cooling: CORSAIR H-50 Cooling Hydro (Push/Pull)
    OS: XP64, some Win7 64, anything - bios supports VM.
    Monitor: Samsung 32" HDTV

  22. Re:You know... on Maryland Public Buses Record Passengers' Conversations (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    If you don't want the Federal government to surveil you, don't use banks, roadways, phones, internet.

    I guess I just don't see a problem here unless the surveillance is being done without the citizens knowledge.

    I used to be quite the rip off, cigarettes were in the open back then and fair game.

    Now I figure I'm being monitored everywhere I go (or assume so and a good assumption). Picking my nose or scratching my rear is now done with a bit of forethought :)

    I can't think of many stores that mentions video monitoring. 15-20 years ago I had a friend who worked for Sears, his job was to monitor for shoplifters - he was an artist's; I've watched him pick up a person at the entrance as they entered and followed them everywhere they went - they had a lot of cameras for that ability, some even set in eyes of the mannequins.

    The cameras, nor surveillance were ever mentioned or posted. Nor is it now and I'm sure that surveillance system or newer is still in use.

  23. Re:You know... on Maryland Public Buses Record Passengers' Conversations (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    They almost certainly have video surveillance in those busses and trains too, yet no mention of that being "mass surveillance".

    In addition, if both conditions are clearly posted in the vehicle, then the rider can choose not to board that vehicle.

    I guess I just don't see a problem here unless the surveillance is being done without the rider's knowledge.

    I feel the same way you do. Our bus system in the Washington State has audio and video equipment set up in almost all of the buses. Normally two; one set in the front to monitor the bus and another set to watch the rear door (clearly labeled). Now I don't know if they've ever been used or on all the time as I've yet to see a light on them to indicate one or the other.

    I've always felt off, yet the driver can activate them at any time.

    I've heard of no complaints nor do I have any. If nothing else it may help defuse any gang related activity, something I've never seen yet the newspaper is full of it.

  24. A long time ago I read an article on Howstuffworks.com titled "How Penny Per Page Might Work" http://computer.howstuffworks.... coming across it again I found it amusing they had taken a large article and split it into many sections with lots of right pane and middle page advertising.

    Seems if things continue it may be a business model of some sites in some future time. But it's rare for an article to be restricted to one site, even if it's a summery.

    A common sense approach is to use a HOST file, yet many sites have started seeing mine as an ad blocker, and honestly surprised as while I've satisfied the request of going to that site, I just don't make it further than the localhost itself.

  25. Re:As all are aware Einstein's math showed an expa on Scientists Find That Conditions For Life May Hinge On How Fast the Universe Is Expanding (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Hmm... I have to refer back to Brian Greene again. IIRC...

    I've read his book "The Elegant Universe". He's very much into string theory, his description of gravity and it's ability to transverse dimensions explains dark matter to me - right or wrong I'm comfortable with my understanding of it. It's best described in the DVD's that comes with the book. The book itself is easy reading and the library normally carries it.

    But it's the 8 episode series season 1 of "How the Universe works" narrated by Mike Rowe (of Dirty Jobs) I've watched untold times, it puts me to sleep at night :) it's Mike's voice, knocks me right out. and the series does indeed explain how the Universe works, I've learned much from it. The series is on Youtube https://www.google.com/search?... (best if watched in order 1-8)

    As are the DVD's supplied with "The Elegant Universe" https://www.youtube.com/result... (1-3)