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  1. We could always convert from one format to the nex on Vint Cerf Wants Help Figuring Out the Future of the Internet and Communications · · Score: 1

    The biggest impediment however is the fact that *EVERYTHING* is protected by copyright, so historical preservation risks getting you hit by a lawsuit.

  2. Re: If they want to make money on Can High-Tech Academia Survive Silicon Valley's Talent Binge? · · Score: 1

    This wouldn't be a problem if enough public money was being put into basic research. I doubt 1960's NASA or the Manhatten Project had trouble keeping top talent. Increasing this funding also solves any public and private STEM shortages since kids will follow the money even without manipulative iniatives to get kids into science and programming.

    The public sector at the time of the manhattan project was still mostly farming; there was no "silicon valley" at that time, and if you were talented, the government and only a handful of large corporations (e.g. IBM) were worth working for. 1960 wasn't a whole lot different, though shortly after that saw the beginnings of the tech boom.

  3. Re:That "Made" the Atomic Bomb on The Handheld Analog Computer That Made the Atomic Bomb · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually it should be neither. From TFA:

    UPDATE: Commentor [lwatchdr] pointed out that the use of the FERMIAC began after the Manhattan Project had officially ended in 1946. Although many of the same people were involved, this analog computer wasn’t put into use until about a year later.

  4. Re:No surprise... on US-Appointed Egg Lobby Paid Food Blogs and Targeted Chef To Crush Vegan Startup · · Score: 1

    Your Body Mass Index (BMI) is 28.2 Kg/m2. This means your weight is within the Overweight range.

    Yes, this is true. However a big part of that is water retention (again, kidney disease) and furthermore even that being the case, it doesn't magically erase the information I've gathered on the subject.

    You may as well argue that a cancer treatment specialist suddenly knows nothing about cancer if they themselves develop cancer.

  5. Re: No surprise... on US-Appointed Egg Lobby Paid Food Blogs and Targeted Chef To Crush Vegan Startup · · Score: 1

    The best diets are low in acids.

    Hmm...no. Your metabolic system won't allow too many substances into your blood stream that might alter your blood pH. Second, your blood is a buffered solution, meaning it resists changes to pH even if something went wrong.

    As for the rest of your post, I'm going to call flat out bullshit and even say it's spam. The fact is, no diet anywhere will ever stop you from getting sick. Anybody who tells you otherwise has all of about zero understanding of how pathogens work.

  6. Re:Get used to it, this is the future on Why Apple's iPhone Upgrade Program Is a Bad Deal For Most · · Score: 2

    That seems foreign to me. I've always been putting a third of my income into savings every month, no matter what my income level, and my income has ranged from very low (12,000 a year) to what some call middle class (roughly 48,000.) Sure I always feel like I'm in a money pinch, but I'm so used to this being my standard of living that it doesn't bother me.

  7. Re:Well, yea... on US-Appointed Egg Lobby Paid Food Blogs and Targeted Chef To Crush Vegan Startup · · Score: 3, Informative

    Free market means that prices are determined by the forces of supply and demand, as opposed to artificial (non-free, as in liberty) forces that set price ceilings or price floors. Trade secrets are routinely held secret in free markets.

  8. Re:No surprise... on US-Appointed Egg Lobby Paid Food Blogs and Targeted Chef To Crush Vegan Startup · · Score: 1

    I actually believe that you're telling the truth. Oats are probably the least offensive cereal grain, IMO. However even if it were a sugary cereal, it's still possible to lose weight on it, just more difficult because you're more likely to get a food craving well before lunch time. In the end it's all about calories, and for most people, a high protein/high fat diet should make you feel sated longer because of how long it takes for your body to convert it to ATP. The advantage that sugar has is that you might feel sated quicker, but you'll also feel hungry again quicker.

  9. Re:No surprise... on US-Appointed Egg Lobby Paid Food Blogs and Targeted Chef To Crush Vegan Startup · · Score: 3, Informative

    Oh and by the way, when I say bacon, I'm talking thick bacon. If you eat the regular bacon found in US stores, generally those are thin and are around 45 calories each (read the label to make sure,) with egg being 76 calories each. At that rate, even if you did say 5 slices of bacon and 2 eggs, that's about 377 calories, which isn't bad even if you're somewhat sedentary.

    Compare that to a single muffin, which alone typically amounts to somewhere north 400 calories (unless it's a small muffin.) And a muffin is all carbs, which means you'll get a sugar crash before your typical lunch time, leaving you craving more calories.

  10. Re:No surprise... on US-Appointed Egg Lobby Paid Food Blogs and Targeted Chef To Crush Vegan Startup · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Also it's worth nothing that a classic egg and bacon breakfast is still only really fine if you have a classic farmhand's expenditure of energy in the morning.

    It's still fine even if you're sedentary, just consume less of it. So for example, a farm hand might have 2 eggs and 5 slices of bacon; if you're sedentary limit it to say 1 egg and 2 slices of bacon. I work in IT, and I limit breakfast to 250 calories. So long as those calories are mostly meat/egg, I'm usually sated until well into the afternoon, and I'm 5'11" 202lbs. I remember that I would have to eat a large bowl of cereal to get the same effect (which it turns out the typical American cereal bowl is about 600 calories worth of food, and some people eat two of those in the morning...think about that, 1200 calories of basically all carbs...it's no wonder people are getting obese.) At my peak I think I weighed about 290lbs.

  11. Re:No surprise... on US-Appointed Egg Lobby Paid Food Blogs and Targeted Chef To Crush Vegan Startup · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually I think the health problems are more caused by the wrong advice given by both the FDA and the American Heart Association. Basically for the last 50 years, both of them have been recommending low fat diets, and the FDA only reversed its stance recently, with the AHA (a nongovernment organization) yet to follow suit.

    Research after research has proven that not only is dietary cholesterol not bad for you (and doesn't actually raise your blood cholesterol afterall,) but saturated fat isn't either, and in fact low fat high carb diets themselves are likely the cause of obesity, high blood cholesterol, and a number of other problems. It's likely not a coincidence at all that while these things have been rising in the last 50 years, dietitians have been making the wrong recommendations for the past 50 years. (Just as an example, one might look at how much the "food pyramid" has changed over that span; in fact it is no longer even used because it was proven wrong so many times.)

    Vegan diets are ALL ABOUT low protein, low fat, high carb. It is NOT a healthy way to live (if you fail to watch your amino and mineral balance, you can have really bad things happen, such as blindness.) The fact is that protein and fat raise blood leptin better than carbohydrates do, which makes you feel more full on less overall calories. The only reason some vegans may appear healthier is because usually they don't consume too much sugar (a simple carb) often found in breads and snacks that are made in part by egg and/or dairy products. However neither egg nor dairy products are inherently bad, it's just the high amount of carbs found in these that are.

    An example of a really bad dietary habit that most Americans (and a lot of the world at large) have is that they consume cereal grains for breakfast, (such as oats, grits, corn, wheat) or even worse, cereals that are also loaded with sugar. Classic egg and bacon breakfasts, believe it or not, are a much better option.

    And no, I don't work for any food company, rather I have a number of health problems that require dietary maintenance just to keep in check, so it just happens that I've done a ton of reading on this. (And no, these health problems weren't caused by a bad diet, for example one is an immune condition called IgA nephropathy.)

  12. Re: Bad in any case on Plug In an Ethernet Cable, Take Your Datacenter Offline · · Score: 4, Informative

    The mode button triggers "express setup" which is basically a lazy way to configure the shit for retard small business/enterprise admins so they don't have to console the device via rs232 to configure it.

    For which model? In every Cisco device I've used (including the C3560 switches I own for CCIE training) the mode button only does anything at all if you have it held down while the switch is powering on. Doing so goes into ROMMON, which allows you to change the configuration register to ignore the startup-config.text file on the flash (the startup-config.text file is what contains all of the password information, so if it doesn't execute, then you effectively have a factory configuration switch, although your configuration files are still present if you need to use them.)

    By the way, you can also modify the configuration register so that if the mode button is held at bootup, then it simply wipes the configuration files entirely, that way you don't have to worry about somebody stealing your configuration data if you have a switch that's in a geographic location that you can't reasonably have physically secured.

  13. Re:And for WP8? on Adblock Plus Returns To Android and Arrives On iPhone For First Time · · Score: 1

    You could do that. Not a 100% solution (i.e. it isn't going to work on every network you're likely to be using,) and may slow you down a bit, but other than hat it should work.

  14. Re:MS, Amazon, Google payoff Adblock+ on Adblock Plus Returns To Android and Arrives On iPhone For First Time · · Score: 1

    Well in order to make that list, it has to be benign advertising. However if you want it to "fully" work, just uncheck the box marked "allow some non-intrusive advertising."

  15. Re:And for WP8? on Adblock Plus Returns To Android and Arrives On iPhone For First Time · · Score: 1

    Microsoft has Windows Phone locked down so badly that there's not a chance in hell you'll ever see any kind of ad blocking for that platform. And they've already sunk so much money into it (over $20 billion so far, and rising) with nothing to show for it, I highly doubt they'd allow anybody to bring any harm what little money they get from it.

    That said, even if you could run third party browsers, (REAL third party browsers, not just alternative shells for the Trident rendering engine) they'd NEVER let you configure it as the default browser.

  16. Re:Awesome on Adblock Plus Returns To Android and Arrives On iPhone For First Time · · Score: 1

    I doubt that, but I also wonder why this is news.

    For a long time now, I've been running Firefox on Android with AdblockPlus, Searchonymous, Ghostery, and Lastpass installed.

  17. Re:Financial Motivation on Microsoft Continues To Resist US Warrant For Irish Data · · Score: 1

    As I mentioned, Finland.

  18. Re:Financial Motivation on Microsoft Continues To Resist US Warrant For Irish Data · · Score: 1

    If the DOJ can place Microsoft in an impossible situation they will be forced to move that data back to the US in future... Or at least duplicate it so that it is accessible under US jurisdiction. Or Microsoft will leave the US, but I can't see that happening.

    If push came to shove, I could. You'd end up in a situation where they're forced into either following US laws and effectively only being allowed to work in the US with practically all foreign revenue cut off, OR, they could just relocate overseas and just silo their US operations. They wouldn't have to leave Redmond entirely, rather they'd basically just transfer their flag. That would involve something like creating a new company on a foreign stock exchange, having that become the parent company, and sell all non US assets and ALL intellectual property assets to that company.

    Big companies have done this kind of thing quite often.

    Microsoft already has a lot of ties to Finnland due to the whole Nokia thing, and Finnland would love to have a big tech company move over there to solve their unemployment problem, so I'm sure they'd welcome Microsoft with open arms.

  19. Re:Financial Motivation on Microsoft Continues To Resist US Warrant For Irish Data · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What really gets me is the US has a law called the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act that makes it illegal in the US for a company to break certain laws overseas. For example, in a lot of foreign countries, giving somebody a gift at a business meeting is obligatory and considered polite, whereas in the west it's considered a bribe. So US corporations are held to observing the laws in whatever country they're doing business with (i.e. if it's considered a bribe there, then the US will punish them.)

    But then on this issue, the DOJ does a 180 and tells them that they MUST violate the law of the foreign country that they're doing business in.

  20. Re:I agree with Microsoft here. on Microsoft Continues To Resist US Warrant For Irish Data · · Score: 1

    It's ignoring US law in Ireland.

  21. Re:I guess it makes sense.... on John McAfee Pondering Presidential Bid · · Score: 2

    He stopped having anything to do with antivirus since the early Windows 98 days. That is, Windows ME wasn't a thing, and neither was Windows XP for that matter.

    During those days it wasn't any slower than any other antivirus software that I recall, and it was actually easy to remove if you wanted to do so. It wasn't until about 2004 that both McAfee and Norton became the dread of many a computer user.

  22. Speak of which, how does one begin to learn FPGA programming (or indeed ASIC design) these days? Back in the old days, processors were much more simple, but now understanding how they work is a GIGANTIC undertaking.

  23. Re:Stirring research, or merely shaken? on Whisky Aged On NASA's International Space Station Tastes "Different" · · Score: 4, Informative

    It would probably impact beer more since beer is carbonated. Because adding CO2 to a liquid turns it acidic, it adds a sour flavor. When you shake carbonated liquid, the CO2 is going to be more likely to combine and turn into a gas, floating to the surface and raising the pH, making it less sour.

  24. Re:oops on Steve Wozniak "Steve Jobs Played No Role In My Designs For the Apple I & II" · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Basically.

    Although I'm not a fan of Apple or Jobs, I am a fan of Woz.

  25. Re:Amazingly bad management on Microsoft Killing Off Nokia's Windows Phone Apps · · Score: 1

    Oh so they do. Here's a fix for it as well:

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...