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  1. Re:Mr Mosley on UK MPs Threaten New Laws If Google Won't Censor Search · · Score: 2

    Max Mosley.... his Nazi-themed orgies

    That is exactly the reason why he is taking legal action. The whole Nazi themed bit was made up* by the News of the World to sell more news papers. Yet hear you are repeating it as if it were true. I'm no fan of MM - he may be a pervert but he's not a Nazi pervert.

    * http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/24_07_08mosleyvnewsgroup.pdf

    Page 54, section 232

  2. Re:I'm not in America! on Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do About SOPA and PIPA? · · Score: 1

    I'd really like to help, since if this passes it's only a matter of time before it's in the UK too.

    If you are based in the UK there is the E-petitions website:

    http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/search?q=sopa

  3. Re:Nothing to do with clicks! on Australian Tax Office Seeks Keylogger To Combat RSI · · Score: 1

    Omega-3 Fatty Acids supress inflamation which is whats causing the pain in your RSI

    More info at here.

  4. Re:What I want on Google's Chrome OS To Launch In Fall · · Score: 1

    There is plugin for browsers called Xmarks that will cache your bookmarks, passwords and session to an FTP server. I've been using it for a while on my own FTP box, apparently it works for IE and Chrome too but I only use it with FF.

  5. BBC covering their own backs on Regulator Blocks BBC DRM Plans · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The BBC board are not stupid, they know applying to have tax payer funded content restricted isnt going to fly. They are maneuvering to cover their backs. Despite what they say the BBC are very ratings focused. They are going head to head with ITV (the biggest independent TV station in the UK) over the Saturday night prime slot with their own reality TV/talent show for example.

    They want to broadcast popular shows but dont want content restriction to be used as leverage by the content providers. Rather than saying "we wont do that b/c its not in the public interest" the BBC are aiming to say "We cant use DRM b/c its against the law."

  6. Re:Grain lobby propagaunda on Fatty Foods Affect Memory and Exercise Performance · · Score: 1

    >There are plenty of carbs that humans can digest without cooking

    Fruit as I've already said contains sugar which is refined carbs. The dominant macro nutrient in nuts if fat (yes thats so called nasty sat fat too). By vegetables I take it you mean roots vegetables (carrots, parsnips, potatoes, etc) see my original point, the carbohydrate providing vegetables still need cooking before they can be consumed.

    Yes I've heard of whole grain, Oats and the like still need to be cooked before the body can access the carbs in them - if you eat raw oats its just counts as fiber. Which is exactly my point - humans cant process any carbs other than sugar with out some form of processing. The whole business of cooking your food isnt to make it taste nice, its to break down cell walls, denature the anti-germination enzymes so that the human gut can extract usable nutrients. Cooking also denatures toxins like alkaloids that are present in potatoes for example.

    >But please don't spread bullshit.

    Likewise Mr AC.

  7. Grain lobby propagaunda on Fatty Foods Affect Memory and Exercise Performance · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm always amused when this kind of research comes out, talking about how fats are bad for you. Its much more complex than that. You really should be measure total calorie amount not just fat content. Too many calories is bad full stop. As other posters have mentioned the lack of energy is probably only a short term effect of switching to fat as a fuel source. I've switched over to a high fat/low carb diet (F50/P30/C20) and have no issues with lethargy or lack of concentration. I've got no problems with day to day programming tasks and haven't encountered any strength or endurance degradation in the gym.

    I'm of the option that fat - esp saturated fat - is a much heather macro nutrient that carbs. The only carbs that the human digestive system can process in a raw state is sugar (think fruit), starch can be converted to sugar also but most of the other so called healthy carb sources needs processing before humans can consume them. Potatoes have to be cooked (try eating raw potatoes and see what happens), as does rice, wheat and grains have to be ground down into a powder. Fat on the other hand can be eaten straight off the animal. Humans aren't evolved to eat significant amounts of carbs.

  8. Rewarding incompetence on Adobe Chided For Insecure Acrobat Reader · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dont use Acrobat... There are several alternatives available all less bloated:

    GPL'd PDF reader: http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/index.html

    Commercial: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/

  9. Ununbium on Periodic Table Gets a New, Unnamed Element · · Score: 1

    All the heavy unstable elements already have names derived from their atomic mass, so 112 would be Ununbium

    Its also slap bang in the middle of the island of stability most heavy elements are too unstable to last before they decay into smaller elements. 112 Has a half life of 29 seconds, which isnt too bad considering 115 has a half life of 88ms.

  10. Re:Wait, wait, wait... on What The Banned iPhone Ad Should Really Look Like · · Score: 1

    This is in the UK/Europe:

    http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/

    Their website claims they've been around since 1962.

  11. People are fogetting..... on Judge Says, Record DNA of Everyone In the UK · · Score: 0

    That Britain is a police state, all for our own protection you understand. We are the most survailed society in the world (more CCTV cameras than anywhere else). The police have arbitrary powers to stop and search anyone - they got them as part of 'anti-terrorism' laws but are using them on the likes of environmental protesters. Add that too compulsory ID cards (comming in 2013, need a passport or driving license? You'll need an ID card to get them.)

    The DNA database applies to anyone who has been arrested and you cant get yourself removed even if your innocent or are never charged. We are already 2 thirds there, all Britian needs is a government that passes some nice fascist laws to make expressing a dissenting opinion a crime.... Oh, hang on, they already done that with animal rights protesters..... All for our own protection.

  12. Re:The ICBM contains...... on Relic Russian ICBM To the Rescue for Science · · Score: 1

    There, does that cover it all?

    Apart from the naked, petrified Natalie Portman on the nose-cone shoving hot grits down your pants while shouting:

    1 Conduct Cold War
    2 Build ICBMs
    3 ???
    4 Profit

    Now your covered.

  13. Re:The Ten... on The Ten Worst Products of the Year · · Score: 1

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  14. Re:And the best of it is on Britain is the World's Surveillance Leader · · Score: 1

    Wrong on 3 points:

    1. Does thousands of troops in Iraq stop the insurgents from bombing? No.

    If a terrorist has a sufficiet motivation no level of deterant will stop them.

    2. How often do you hear on the news that x bombs were diffused? Never. You only hear when survalance fails. The only people who truly know how effective the cameras are, are the terrorists and secuirty forces.

    3. The cameras are in PUBLIC PLACES not in private homes. The security agencies dont need cameras to watch you when your in public. Cameras just make it more efficient.

  15. Think Tanks on When Think Tanks Attack · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is a misleading name... they're just lobby groups that are trying to give themselves some credibility.

  16. Re:Bah on BBC Buys Google News Keywords In Kelly Case · · Score: 1

    The Sun is a tabloid rag. Its (in)famous for gross distortions, hysteria and outright lies. Believe nothing that you read in it.

  17. Wont be missed on Star Trek: Enterprise in Danger of Being Cancelled · · Score: 1

    I stopped watch Enterprise after about 4 episodes. Could hack it any longer - and that includes watching them on my Tivo at double speed. It seams that once Berman and Braga took over all the episodes could be written into 5 easy templates:

    1. Boy-scout moral challenge
    2. Random female characters breasts
    3. Time travel/spacial anomaly/alien of the week
    4. Ship/character gets trashed but all is well at the end of the show
    5. All of the above

    Take it off air for 10 years. Study JMS, Rockne OBannon and William Gibson. Come back when they have some interesting scripts.

  18. Re:Corporate logic on Qwest & Cablevision Launch VoIP Service · · Score: 1

    What kind of idiot decided that _you_ should pay when someone calls you? As long as y'all accepts that, you'll be getting screwed bigtime by your telcos.

    Its b/c they're using homogonised phone numbers. Ie cell phones don't have their own dialing code like the UK (which uses 07###), for all intensive purposes a cell number is the same as a land line in the US. A caller wouldn't know if they were calling a cell phone and wouldn't know if they would incur extra charges. It was deemed unfair the the person making the call, hence the person taking the call pays the charges.

    The only way they can change this is to give cell phones their own dialing code a la UK.

  19. Re:Mozilla needs it on Branding Mozilla: Towards Mozilla 2.0 · · Score: 1

    There is an easy solution. Create a profile just for her. Set her profile to accept all cookies but limit their life to the session.

  20. Weeeeeee! on Dotcom Era Fads · · Score: 1

    They missed out gonads and strife!

  21. Re:Good Thing(tm) on PostgreSQL Inc. Open Sources Replication Solution · · Score: 1

    I think you don't understand 'replication in a real time environment'. Go back and re-read my post. I said that pseudo-replication was possible at application layer.

    Replication and Synching are different things.

    Replication = backup/archive
    Synchronisation = Multiple live DBs with mirrored data

    you can not pull the data out of table and stuff it into another table under even a reasonable workload.

    You don't need to pull it out of a table. If your running synch at the DB layer all your master needs to do is mirror the SQL commands to the slave DBs.

  22. Re:Good Thing(tm) on PostgreSQL Inc. Open Sources Replication Solution · · Score: 1

    Heh, actually it was quite fun. Take a look here for a quick and dirty script in ASP it works great for synching SQL server to an Access archive.

    And yes, I know I can use DTS ;)

  23. Good Thing(tm) on PostgreSQL Inc. Open Sources Replication Solution · · Score: 4, Interesting

    While this is a good thing, pseduo replication is possible at the application layer. Think using PHP to squirt a table in one DB into anther one.

    Now that Postgress can replicate at DB level other, more interesting things are possible. You can use replication for both failover and performance clustering.

  24. The Sun.... on UK to Put Monitors in Every Car? · · Score: 1

    Is one of the UKs most notorious tabloid rags. Take the article with a big pinch of salt.

  25. Sid Mier.... on Protecting Cities from Hijacked Planes · · Score: 1

    Did it right in Civ 2. Build SAM batteries in all your cities!