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  1. Re:Simply ignore studies ... on Low-Carb Diet Trumps Low-Fat Diet In Major New Study · · Score: 1

    The point I made is that exercise can make a 12 thousand calorie diet of pizza healthy.

    You seem to be equating low body fat with good health. A high sugar diet, even when combined with vigorous exercise, can lead to diabetes and heart disease.

  2. Re:Where are these photos? on Reported iCloud Hack Leaks Hundreds of Private Celebrity Photos · · Score: 2
    Photo Stream is on a one month loop. After that they're gone. They're not recoverable, even if Apple is not actually deleting them for some reason.

    The rumor is a brute force password attack through a path that didn't limit attempts. However, it seems unlikely that all these celebs would have guessable passwords and that the attacker would know their Apple ID.

    The details that are slowly emerging don't add up so well to an iCould (in particular) breach, but rather it's the emergence of a large collection gathered slowly over time through a multitude of sources and devices and techniques.

  3. Re:Reputation on Oregon Sues Oracle For "Abysmal" Healthcare Website · · Score: 1

    I have a pretty good opinion of the Oracle eBS suite, mainly because it puts money in my pocket

    "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair

  4. Re:How much, and other questions on A Movie of Triton Made From Voyager 2's Fly-by 25 Years Ago · · Score: 1
    You make it sound like the only purpose of the project was to take these photos.

    My cynical expectation is that you will now reply belittling the rest of the project as well, simply because to do so supports your silly notion and therefore you're not "wrong."

  5. Re: What to know on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Out As a Programmer? · · Score: 1
    I knew one very talented programmer in the 90's who was taking every short-term consulting job he could find. There was a shortage of talent and he had built a great reputation for reliability, so he often took on several jobs at once and was good enough to get them done properly and on time. He commanded crazy-high rates and sunk everything he made into the markets.

    Then one day in late 1999 he said "You know what? I have enough." He cashed out everything and retired at 39. He readily admits there was no foresight in it, he just got lucky and cashed out at the top.

  6. Re:The first ever business course on Professor Steve Ballmer Will Teach At Two Universities This Year · · Score: 2

    Apparently there was also to be a class on film processing, but only if he could get enough students to take it. Somebody took a video of his recruitment drive.

  7. Re:To each his own on Adam Carolla Settles With Podcasting Patent Troll · · Score: 1

    You sound a little like Bob Ross, the guy who used to do the painting show on public television.
    But what is that you're doing with the names? Is that numerology? Seriously?

  8. Re:Scrapped like so many other google projects on Google Sells Maine Barge For Scrap · · Score: 1

    Did they dogfood it?

    You know what companies never eat their own dog food? Dog food companies. Go figure.

  9. Re:Useless without measure of lossiness/distortion on A Fictional Compression Metric Moves Into the Real World · · Score: 1

    "Algorithm" is the distinction. Otherwise you're basically saying "What's my algorithm for doing X? I just demand X be done." Perhaps you could call it The King's Algorithm.

  10. Re:Certainly Amazon never thought of that! on Apple Acquires "Pandora For Books" Booklamp For $15 Million · · Score: 2

    You realize this is very different from "people bought X," right?

  11. Re:soddering on Researchers Successfully Cut HIV DNA Out of Human Cells · · Score: 1

    Good one! Apart from 'solder' English pronunciation is so consistent that this is absolutely shocking.

  12. Re:Wikimedia SCREWED UP on $10 Million Lawsuit Against Wikipedia Editors "Stragetically" Withdrawn · · Score: 1

    It would have been more impressive if you'd posted your analysis *before* the suit was withdrawn.

  13. Re:Stop these fsckers on FTC To Trap Robocallers With Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    Then they claimed they were from M$

    Did he actually pronounce it that way?

  14. Re:There's another treatment that stops most T2 on New Treatment Stops Type II Diabetes · · Score: 2

    I've commonly heard a rumor that artificial sweeteners impact insulin somehow

    A rumor without any reasonable evidence to support it.

  15. Re:There's another treatment that stops most T2 on New Treatment Stops Type II Diabetes · · Score: 2

    Pretty much the only way to avoid that in most cases is to eat so little that you aren't meeting your daily caloric needs, which means you'd need to starve yourself to death in order to avoid taking insulin.

    Well that's certainly not true. You can eat plenty of meat, eggs, spinach, broccoli, olive oil and much much more.

  16. Re:There's another treatment that stops most T2 on New Treatment Stops Type II Diabetes · · Score: 1

    What do you eat? Serious question, not an argument.

  17. Re:An absurd "crisis"! LOL on How To Fix The Shortage of K-5 Scholastic Chess Facilitators · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The argument made in that article that chess is somehow good for the goals of "STEM" makes me laugh out loud

    I have to agree with this. I was a successful player as a student; my high school team won the national championship, I won an individual state championship, and before this article I had no idea there was even anything called a "chess facilitator."
    Chess was not in any way a "gateway to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics." Other than the satisfaction and enjoyment of the chess itself, the one other thing it did for me later was give me a couple of big breaks in my career, as I unknowingly (at the time) impressed somebody during some casual games.
    Anything I learned about "science, technology, engineering and mathematics" I learned in spite of playing chess, not because of it.

  18. Re:Fair enough on The Oatmeal Convinces Elon Musk To Donate $1 Million To Tesla Museum · · Score: 1

    Never go full potatoe [sic]

    The "potatoe" incident was not Gerald Ford, it was the legendary Dan Quayle.

  19. Cars on the ground can, with little exception, stop any time they feel like giving up the chase and turning themselves in to the officers.

    "And once they've turned themselves into the police, they'd be the police and they can drop the charges!"

  20. Re:Sooo on Police Using Dogs To Sniff Out Computer Memory · · Score: 1

    What if you loaded the thumb drive with pictures of squirrels? Would the dog recognize that?

    You mean like Squirrels Gone Wild?

  21. Re: A good thing on Oklahoma's Earthquakes Linked To Fracking · · Score: 1

    Well obviously there is a certain amount of energy building up that is going to be released somewhere, at some time. Breaking that up into small, tolerable releases seems like not such a bad thing. I have no idea if fracking is good or bad overall, but this might be a small positive.

  22. Re: i don't wanna hear how lazy americans are. on In Düsseldorf, A Robot Valet Will Park Your Car · · Score: 5, Informative

    People chose bacon over low cholesterol... get over it.

    A big part of the problem why Americans (and others) are fatter and fatter are because of misbeliefs foisted upon them.
    Fatty foods don't cause heart disease. Sugar, stress, and smoking do. A high cholesterol count does not cause heart disease. It is a *symptom*, not a cause. It is your body attempting to repair the damage.
    Avoiding fats is a very good way to fatten yourself up. You'll instead be ingesting sugar and other carbohydrates, and you'll quickly feel hungry again. The sugar in your bloodstream requires the release of insulin to process it. The insulin tells the fat cells to open up and start sucking up all that sugar. When there an over-abundance the walls of your arteries get inflamed in the process, causing your body to *produce* cholesterol to attempt to heal the damage. Then you've got leftover insulin in the blood, and so you feel hungry again so you can put it to use.
    Stop accepting what you've been told all your life. Stop eating sugar and stop avoiding fats. It's good for your brain and your heart, and you won't eat as much because you'll feel full for much longer.

  23. Re:OR on Unintended Consequences For Traffic Safety Feature · · Score: 1

    Let me guess: the King of clubs, seven of diamonds and Jack of spades...

    A good guess, but it turns out the answer was Stan Musial, Albert Pujols, and Rogers Hornsby.

  24. Re:Good. on Google Starts Removing Search Results After EU Ruling · · Score: 1

    the only anecdotes are a lot of money or to hide yourself completely from the world

    I'm not so sure. That seems like just antidotal evidence to me.

  25. Re:Makes sense on Human Language Is Biased Towards Happiness, Say Computational Linguists · · Score: 1

    When it comes to innuendo

    Innuendo? What is that? Some sort of Italian suppository?