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  1. Re:Find me a gun with auto targeting and mouselook on Looking at Video Games and Violence · · Score: 1

    You've obviously never done Extreme Sesame Street.

  2. Re:Meta-study? on Lose Weight The Slow, Boring Way · · Score: 1

    Please cite ONE study that reduces the amount of dietary carbohydrate WITHOUT producing any health benefits.

    It's not "any" health benefits we're after or simply "reducing the amount of dietary carbohydrate". We're interested in *long-term* weight loss and the Atkins diet.

    None of your studies even *mention* weight loss. It's all concern over side effects of dieting, which might be interesting to doctors, but not people actually trying to lose weight.

    The article shows that Atkins doesn't help people lose weight and keep it off. The article shows that, yet again, Atkins is uncovered as a scam and a cult. They already cited the studies, I'm not going to redo their work.

  3. Re:Multiverse to Nadaverse to Omniverse on Parallel Universes Are Real · · Score: 1

    Fair enough, but he didn't do a proof by contradiction. He assumed that since he couldn't find any evidence, that it must be false. This is acceptable in a court of law (e.g. innocent until proven guilty) but in logic it's called an argument from ignorance.

  4. Re:Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! on Cryptographers Find Fault With Palladium · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...

    It's a miracle! I'm cured!!

    I can read again! And I can write! And... oh God, I'm reading slashdot! FUCK MEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

  5. Re:Oh no, more Grey Goo worries! on Top Physicist Advocates Scientific Self-Censorship · · Score: 1

    Besides, let's face it: the whole planet getting eaten by grey goo would be cool as shit.

  6. Responsive Customer Service on AOL Sues Spammers · · Score: 1

    With another 8 billion complaints, maybe I can get my account cancelled!

  7. Re:Multiverse to Nadaverse to Omniverse on Parallel Universes Are Real · · Score: 1

    What you're writing is long, and not terribly novel.

    From this, i concluded that there cannot be a begining.

    You're trying to prove a negative. Can't be done, sorry.

  8. Re:Find me a gun with auto targeting and mouselook on Looking at Video Games and Violence · · Score: 1

    So I'm wondering... if the violent games don't have any effect on you, how do all the educational programs do any good?

  9. Re:Low carb diets do work on Lose Weight The Slow, Boring Way · · Score: 1

    My point was simply to rebut your argument that rice will make you fat because of those bogus notions that sugars can't be digested.

    And you proved it: we *all* come from societies that have been eating grains for thousands of years. Europeans have been eating wheat, Asians rice. *Both* are pure starch, and starch = sugar.

    The only things that matter are calories in must be balanced against calories out. Anything else is trying to avoid thermodynamics and is, quite frankly, a lie.

  10. Re:RTA! he doesn't suggest you hide porn on it on Stash Your Hard Drive In The Attic · · Score: 1

    Unless you're into nasty shit from the Stile project or kiddie porn, how the hell can it be so bad you'd have to hide it from the police?

    I think the editors just gave us Too Much Information.

  11. Re:Weight loss my way on Lose Weight The Slow, Boring Way · · Score: 1

    I'd lose fifty pounds, but I'm not chopping my dick off, no thank you!

  12. Re:Meta-study? on Lose Weight The Slow, Boring Way · · Score: 1

    Can you cite any of these studies? Please cite studies that aren't funded by the Atkins center.

  13. Re:Low carb diets do work on Lose Weight The Slow, Boring Way · · Score: 1

    Okaaay... when was the last time you saw a fat Asian?

    Now go down South and find some good ole boys who eat plenty of red meat, pork rinds, fried chicken...

  14. Re:hacker's diet works on Lose Weight The Slow, Boring Way · · Score: 1

    So tell me, how much do you weigh now? And how long have you kept the weight off?

  15. Re:hacker's diet works on Lose Weight The Slow, Boring Way · · Score: 1

    If you're already 500 pounds you probably burn 3000 calories just getting to the toilet to take a shit.

  16. Re:YES! DRINK NOT SNACK! on Lose Weight The Slow, Boring Way · · Score: 1

    Please read the article. Atkins has been discredited time and again, and this study is just another nail in the coffin. More info on Atkins is here.

  17. Re:This is Singapore... on Webcams to Enforce Singapore Quarantine · · Score: 1

    Riiight:

    `(5) COMMENCEMENT OF PROCEEDINGS- The Attorney General shall place an alien detained under paragraph (1) in removal proceedings, or shall charge the alien with a criminal offense, not later than 7 days after the commencement of such detention. If the requirement of the preceding sentence is not satisfied, the Attorney General shall release the alien.

    `(6) LIMITATION ON INDEFINITE DETENTION- An alien detained solely under paragraph (1) who has not been removed under section 241(a)(1)(A), and whose removal is unlikely in the reasonably foreseeable future, may be detained for additional periods of up to six months only if the release of the alien will threaten the national security of the United States or the safety of the community or any person.

  18. Re:Fink is a problem on Interview with Fink's Project Leader · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sir, I salute your trolling abilities!

  19. This is Singapore... on Webcams to Enforce Singapore Quarantine · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Before you start on about 1984, this is happening in Singapore, not the US.

    And to head off the inevitable Ashcroft / Patriot Act recriminations, please offer actual *proof* of claims that our civil liberties are being eroded.

  20. Re:fp on Implementing VisiCalc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You failed it.

  21. Re:What does this mean? on VIA C3 Random Number Generator Reviewed · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wrote a program that intelligently replies to Slashdot posts:

    10 PRINT "You fucking kharma whore!"
    20 PRINT "How the hell is that +5 funny?"
    30 PRINT "Quit fucking bitching about Slashdot posters!"
    40 GOTO 10

  22. The obvious list on What Would You Put Into A Software Survival Kit? · · Score: 1

    For working with OS X machines, you really only need to OS X CD (for resetting passwords quickly) and Drive 10 from Micromat for repairing disk problems. If the machine you're using supports Firewire target disk mode, you can restart it and mount its internal hard disk on your iBook.

    Aside from that, your iBook with developer tools should have all the functionality you need for fixing a Unix. You might want to grab MacOSX::File from CPAN which makes it much easier to work with resource forks and whatnot. psync (part of that package) is a pretty good utility for quick backups, just:

    sudo psync -d / /Volumes/SomeFirewiredrive/
    sudo bless -folder /Volumes/SomeFirewiredrive/System/Library/CoreServ ices"

    will do a bootable backup of your disk onto an external Firewire drive. There are other options for bless to make bootable backups of OS 9, too, and it is supposed to work over network mounts.

    Working with older MacOSes is a bit more challenging. You'll want system CDs for 6.whatever 7.6.1, 8.1 (the latest OS 68K machines can run) and 9.2.2. MicroMat's TechTools is pretty comprehensive, but I've used FWB's tools and HardDisk Speed Tools, and of course Norton Disk Doctor.

  23. Re:thr1d ps0t on Windows Media Format Could Hit Linux-Based Devices · · Score: 1

    Strictly speaking, you are AC, but you're not an AC.

  24. Re:prediction on Windows Media Format Could Hit Linux-Based Devices · · Score: 1

    That'd be 1.embrace 2.extend, since you first embrace the standard and then extend it to be incompatible.

  25. Old News on NARA Goes Online · · Score: 1

    NARA.gov has been online for at least two years, and now simply links to archives.gov.