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  1. Re:Spray tans are paint on There's No Such Thing as a Safe Tan (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    Spray on "tan" isn't a tan. It's paint.

    No, it's a stain. Much like what tanners use.

  2. Router logs differ depending on the router, and what it's configured to do. There's no set format for what a router logs or how; it depends on the router OS, model and configuration.
    Changes in routing information would normally go in router logs, along with information on packets that cannot or would not be routed, and interfaces that go up or down.

    "A station associated" seems to me to be an access point log, not a router log. (Granted, these days some call everything a "router", much like they called every computer a "cpu" or "hard drive" in the past.)

  3. No, that's truths, not facts. "This court finds it to be true that ..."
    A truth, as far as a court is concerned, is what is likely, either "upon preponderance of evidence" or "beyond reasonable doubt". It does not require or establish fact, only truth.
    If they were facts, we would not need courts.

  4. What does incorrect have to do with anything?
    Courts aren't tasked with determining facts, only truth. Don't confuse the two.

  5. While my router forwards logs to a lan server, and also saves daily logs to a USB key, the remote mac address is not normally logged.
    I would think that would be fairly uncommon.

  6. Well, maybe they have considered it. But maybe the bomber isn't very tech savvy and doe not know how to do that or got sloppy. The MAC address seems like a reasonable lead to follow.

    In that case, the reasonable cause of action would be to ask Motorola which device model had this particular MAC address, and where it was sold, and then follow it through the serial number to the buyer.
    I can only presume that they have tried and failed this, and that's why they're asking.

  7. Destiny isn't a great game,

    Good to know. I hadn't even heard of it.
    Back to RDR2 :)

  8. Re:don't need AI for that on Netflix Password Sharing May Soon Be Impossible Due To New AI Tracking (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Except that without some intelligence, artificial or human (if it still exists), it won't work.
    I have two internet connections, load balanced, and which one is used depends on which one currently has the least traffic. They show up as two different states.
    Others may share a VPN, and get the same location for two different users.

  9. Re:More Amazing than Any Other PC Aspect on 15 Years After Announcing the 1GB SD Card, Lexar Unveils 1TB SD Card (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    You must have a very large pinky (these are SD cards, not micro-SD), mr Hulk.

    Anyhow, to put it in perspective, in my first job, we used punch cards. Up to 80 7-bit characters per card. A big box of 2000 cards could hold a little over 136 kB.

    My first personal computer, I bought a 20 MB Winchester hard drive for, and didn't know what to do with all that space. I ran a BBS on it, but there was plenty of unused space.

  10. Re:Or they do not care about their jobs... on People Older Than 65 Share the Most Fake News, Study Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The other alternative is that they truly do not care about job security.

    I think there are many factors, including simply having more time and not as much to spend it on - hanging out with the remaining friends and family on Facebook and sharing fairly indiscriminately as a way of "keeping in touch" might be more prevalent.
    And probably growing up at a time when news came from newspapers which had actual journalists that verified the news, and a desk with editors that approved publishing. Post-Murdoch, news just isn't what it was.

    The other tidbit, that republicans are far more likely to share fake news than democrats, I don't think is entirely due to fake news being Trump-friendly. i have a feeling that if adjusting for that, republicans would still be ahead. If nothing else because of a correlation between political affinity and accepting outrageous claims and long-living memes like the Jewish carpenter story. I.e. a propensity for believing over questioning.

  11. Electricity can be stored for later use, you know. Cells and capacitors aren't exactly new inventions.

  12. Yes we are all poorly-educated, etc, etc. We are so dumb that we can't understand anything!

    It doesn't have to be all, it just have to be a majority of those who vote, locally or nationally.

  13. Re:Also ignores the fact... on Cancer in America Is Way Down, For the Wealthy Anyway (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    And we now know why so many rural folk are dying of cancer.

    Predominantly because rural folk get older than in the past, and with age comes cancer.

  14. Re: Health insurance on Cancer in America Is Way Down, For the Wealthy Anyway (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    What does the Declaration of Independence have to do with anything?

    The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 25 states: "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services."

    It's ironic that this part, which in large parts was drafted by Eleanor Roosevelt, is so blatantly disregarded by a single western country, the United States of America.

  15. Re:Is this a good thing? on Cancer in America Is Way Down, For the Wealthy Anyway (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, increased cancer screening doesn't reduce cancer as the summary incorrectly states. Increased screening increases cancer cases on statistics, because a non-zero segment of the population will be found to have cancer but die of other causes. If it weren't found, it would never have showed up in the statistics.
    It reduces deaths from cancer, which is a different thing altogether than reducing cancer, as the summary incorrectly assumes was meant.

    Anyhow, if we live long enough, all of us will get cancer. It's unavoidable given how our cells reproduce and our DNA ages. There's no evolutionary benefit to making us live far beyond the age of fertility and child rearing, and more benefits to letting us die to not compete for resources with our own offspring. I.e. cancer that hits late in life is good for our genes.

  16. A couple of hours walking to begin with is extreme.

    If done in one chunk, sure. But a few shorter walks throughout the day is a different matter, and very doable. If you get up and walk for 15 minutes every two hours, that's your two hours.

    Given that the average US adult watches TV for 5.5 hours per day, taking just a small part of that for moving is doable for almost everyone, and if starting out in really bad shape, can have a profound health effect within weeks, and continued improvements for life. With added health benefits that a diet can't give.

  17. Re:Ketotards think cheeseburgers are healthy, derp on The Impossible Burger 2.0 Is a Plant-Based Beef Replacement That Uses Soy Instead Wheat Protein To Take On New Forms (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    It only takes one example to falsify a claim.
    Which, by the way, is not a scientific claim in any way.

  18. Re:Ketotards think cheeseburgers are healthy, derp on The Impossible Burger 2.0 Is a Plant-Based Beef Replacement That Uses Soy Instead Wheat Protein To Take On New Forms (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Science says you're wrong, Americans eat crap and that's the cause of obesity, exercise is only affecting the last 20% of our caloric intake. Most human energy is burned just respiring and digesting. You're uneducated.

    If he's uneducated, you're badly educated, which is worse. You're affirming the antecedent here. That exercise is only affecting 20% (whether it's last or first or otherwise is logically irrelevant) is precisely because so many people are sedentary.

    I have have a basal metabolic rate of 1500 kcal and burn another 1500 kcal through activity. That's 50%. And that's just me - there are plenty of people who are more active.

    In fact, I dropped from a BMI of 30 to 19 in seven months just through exercise, no diet. That does not jive well with your claim - face it, you're looking for excuses to be a lazy fat fuck.

  19. It's not about what you eat - eating soy burgers will also make you fat. It's about you burning more than you eat.
    Start moving. A couple of hours of walking a day to start with should do you good, and with your current weight it will burn more calories than what you can burn by going on a starvation diet.

  20. Re:Ketotards think cheeseburgers are healthy, derp on The Impossible Burger 2.0 Is a Plant-Based Beef Replacement That Uses Soy Instead Wheat Protein To Take On New Forms (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    For those on a low carb diet (which I don't in any way advocate), the problem isn't a perceived lack of protein, but a very real abundance of carbohydrates:

    100g of raw ground beef: 0g carbohydrates
    100g of raw soy beans: 30g carbohydrates

  21. For lengths, Imperial can be a real bitch. Adding 5-3/8" to 3-7/16" is a heck of a lot more complicated than metric.
    And then there's the mix between different base systems. 12 inches to a foot, but the inch itself is divided by 8/16/32/64 instead of by 12 like the foot is. Then there's three feet to a yard, and 32*5*11 yards to a mile, 16 ounces to a pound, and 14 pounds to a stone.

    Then there's the money with 1, 5, 10 and 25 cents, but 1, 5, 10, 20 dollars. Why is there a 25 cent coin but not a 25 dollar bill?
    I think Americans like being confused so they have an excuse for being bad at maths and needing a calculator for everything.

  22. Basically everything around us that uses a measurement system of any kind has either both or only one.

    This is true for most countries in the world, including the US. Think about it...

  23. Re:monocropping annuals on Facing Soil Crisis, US Farmers Look Beyond Corn and Soybeans (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    Clover and field peas are not weeds, though.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    If when I say "weed" you think, "any plant I didn't want in my field," then you won't understand it.

    https://en.oxforddictionaries....

  24. Max value of 32 bit integer is only 2,147,483,647 (2.1 billion).

    One would presume that distances are measured unsigned not signed, which has the range of 0-4294967296.
    But anyhow, if I remember correctly, NASA has historically used BCD notation, which has no logical limit on size or precision, only physical and asserted limits. (And metric, except in press releases.)

  25. Re:Now fake news is getting modded up on Slashdot on Hospital Prices Are About To Go Public in the US (ajc.com) · · Score: 1

    Not that hard to find.

    The German Dr. Theo Seiler developed and performed the world's first LASER surgeries on human eyes - PTK (1985) and PRK (1987).

    In 1988, Dr. Svyatoslav Fyodorov opened the Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery Complex, where PRK was quickly offered as an advancement over radial keratotomy (invented by the same Fyodorov 16 years earlier). And clinics in Europe quickly followed.