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  1. Re:It's a complete game changer on Injectable Nanoparticles Maintain Normal Blood-sugar Levels For Up To 10 Days · · Score: 1

    What this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlBiLNN1NhQ twice a day ;)

    I choose to stay upstairs for now

  2. It's a complete game changer on Injectable Nanoparticles Maintain Normal Blood-sugar Levels For Up To 10 Days · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It doesn't only solve the two mentioned problems, it would completely change the life style!
    - eat whenever you want to
    - stop eating when you feel you had enough, instead of eating "enough" for the insulin you took
    - no need to wake up in the night to check sugar level
    - exercise whenever you want to w/o worrying that your sugar level is high enough for the effort

    And that for responsible adults. Now think about diabetic kids and their parents - how much easier and comfortable their life could be... I'm not even mentioning the first period when you get diabetes - it takes months to learn balancing insulin doses, timing of injections, type and amount of food and physical exercises.

    Pregnant diabetic women could be much less worried too.

    This medicine can be a complete game changer. No less.

  3. Re:A likely story on Bitfloor Indefinitely Suspends Bitcoin Trading · · Score: 1

    They didn't steal bitcoins, but their clients couldn't get back the wired funds that weren't converted yet to bitcoins.

  4. Re:A likely story on Bitfloor Indefinitely Suspends Bitcoin Trading · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Same happened in Israel 2 weeks ago - all accounts of bitcoin exchange companies were closed until further notice. They didn't even give them a chance to return funds to their customers.

  5. The best way by far is on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Block Web Content? · · Score: 1

    to live in Iran

  6. I'm playing scales on Ask Slashdot: Really Short Time Wasters? · · Score: 1

    I'm playing scales on a solid body electric guitar

    solid body => it's not loud
    it helps relaxing your fingers
    it's like meditation really...

  7. Patent writer? on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Stay Employable? · · Score: 1

    It's definitely not for everyone, but with an extensive technical knowledge and experience you could be very well employable till your 70's in a patent attorney firm as a paralegal technical expert. From my experience they see age and longer experience as a big advantage.

  8. Re:They need to stop arresting the FINDERS on Apple Loses Another 4th-Gen iPhone · · Score: 1

    iAnal? Is it another new product from Apple?

  9. I/O bottleneck on The NoSQL Ecosystem · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Let's not forget where the bottleneck is - the I/O. It's expensive but once you build a fast and solid storage system, correctly configure it and partition your data properly over a sufficiently large number of hard drives, RAIDs, LUNs etc., you might be able to use SQL. We run a database of 10TB on MS SQL with hundreds of millions of records with an equal rate of reads and writes and could not be happier.

  10. Re:containment theory... on Iran's Nuclear Ambitions · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Probably because someone thinks pointing out the double-standard for Israel is un-american or something

    I don't see any double standard because:
    1. Ahmadinijad keeps threatening to destroy Israel.
    2. No one in Israel said anything like that about Iran.

  11. Re:Flashing lights and the death of crap IT on Has the WebOS Finally Arrived? · · Score: 1

    The people who should fear clouds are the people who want their data in their own hands, and don't trust third parties to handle it for then.

    And yet you trust banks and investors with your money.

  12. Re:You've GOT TO BE KIDDING ME, part 85984374 on City Uses DNA To Sniff Out Dog Poop Offenders · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Can I guess - you have never been to Israel, have you?

    1. It's not Israel the country, but a single rather small city within Israel, with their own INDEPENDENT budget
    2. As someone already responded, DNA tests are quite cheap, especially in Israel
    3. It's just so typically arrogant to assume that you understand better than a the people who decided to do it, a bit of credit man...
    4. In Israel we use shekels, not dollars (see #3)

    Cheers,
    Anton.

  13. What about the open source RIA? on Is Today's Web Still 'the Web'? · · Score: 1

    Slashdot post that talks about RIA technologies, mentions Silverlight and doesn't say anything about OpenLaszlo? What should we expect from Microsoft then...

  14. Re:New Physics on Cell Phone Tracking Reveals Users' Habits · · Score: 1

    Obviously you weren't following the 4th season of Lost. Jeremy Bentham is one of them.

  15. Do not use iTunes, here's how to hack iPod on Mozilla CEO Objects To Safari Auto Install · · Score: 1
  16. Virtual Desktop on Best Technology For Long-Distance Travel? · · Score: 1

    You also might want to open a free account on one of the web desktops such as http://G.ho.st, YouOS, or DesktopTwo. In this way you'd have all your documents, pictures and email incorporated and easily accessed from any place in the world. G.ho.st actually is giving out a free 3GB for emails and 3GB for data.

  17. Re:Why only applications? on Microsoft and Google Duke It Out For the Future · · Score: 1

    I hope you're joking.

    When I started my first year in CS, there was no inet, or IOW, we had no bandwidth at all. A few years later we could slowly download and read markup content, nobody even dreamed about video. With a bit of extrapolation I think we will no

    and ISPs will always complain.

  18. Re:Why only applications? on Microsoft and Google Duke It Out For the Future · · Score: 1

    Of course web OS cannot solve all the problems of all the people. Also bandwidth is constantly growing, and soon it will not be a problem.

    Consider, for example, the needs of an average medium sized college. All they need is a simple office suite (email, editor, calendar), IM, and some data storage. With Web OS, their hardware and software maintenance troubles go down the drains.

  19. Why only applications? on Microsoft and Google Duke It Out For the Future · · Score: 1

    Why nobody talks about moving the entire OS to the web?

    Access from everywhere! No backups! No administration!

    There are many examples live and kicking:
    G.ho.st
    EyeOS
    YouOS

    There are more, but I liked these the most.

  20. May the power be with you on Headband Gives Wearer "Sixth-Sense" · · Score: 1

    I guess now it means the battery

  21. Re:India on The Air Car Nears Completion · · Score: 1
    It sucks for America, sucks HARD

    1) Have you been to Manhattan recently? There have more rickshaws than in India.

    2) IMO it sucks HARD for cities with good public transportation. I probably will not need it in Paris or Amsterdam. However it should do great in large cities with pour public transporation like Rome or Tel Aviv.

  22. Killer feature on Firefox 1.5 RC1 Released · · Score: 1

    Praise the Lord - ...Answers.com added to the search engine list...

    I wouldn't be bitching but it comes placed up high in the changelog before Improvements to product usability and Better accessibility...

  23. Re:Here we go again... on Microsoft Invents A 'Play-Once Only' DVD · · Score: 1

    I want it.

    -- Agent Ethan Hunt

  24. I'll call my next cheese Googonzola on Google Ant · · Score: 1

    as a tribute to the usefullness of the full zoom at Google moon

  25. Mozilla hits back on IE More Secure Than Mozilla? · · Score: 1