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  1. Re:Hackers Diet FTW. on Why Doesn't Exercise Lead To Weight Loss? · · Score: 1

    There is a solution to that. Get over it. Walk over there and start working out. If you bother to talk to a couple of those serious(avoid the 18 year old idiot, talk to the guy in his late 20s or early 30s) muscular guys you'll find most of them used to be fat. At some point they decided get over themselves and fix the problem instead of whining about how embarrassed they are.

  2. Re:More articles like this please on Study Says US Needs Fewer Science Students · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That doesn't make me happy about it. For a grand or two a month for an education, I get rather irate over good instruction being "a nice plus". If they primary focus isn't education, maybe the organizations ought not be calling themselves schools.

  3. Re:Over-simplify much? on Study Says US Needs Fewer Science Students · · Score: 1

    Because, If someone never comes out ahead, then the cost vs benefit of the education comes out to a negative. At some point, a sufficiently negative differential will dissuade even the most passionate person from pursuing the education course of action.

  4. Re:More articles like this please on Study Says US Needs Fewer Science Students · · Score: 0

    Being that I'm a student, I really like my professors to teach. If you don't want to teach, what am I paying you for?

  5. Re:Maxwell Equations on Researchers Discover "Magnetic Current" · · Score: 1

    About 10^-8 libraries of Congress

  6. Re:Maxwell Equations on Researchers Discover "Magnetic Current" · · Score: 2, Funny

    You have just discovered the secret to marketing. Now how about a pet rock for $20?

  7. Re:Context please on FBI Investigates Liberator of Court Records · · Score: 1

    It's pretty common for the FBI to look into you if your sending a request every 3 seconds to a government computer. Unless, of course, you have coordinated with that computers admin such that he will know it isn't a DOS attack. This guy didn't coordinate, the admin didn't know, the FBI investigated.

  8. Re:Impressively stupid thinking. on Dissolvable Glass For Bone Repair · · Score: 1

    They aren't really after you. Just take a deep breath, relax, and try to realize that your not really that important and the black helicopters aren't coming for you. Fluoride isn't a mind control drug, it really does help your teeth. Mengele is dead.

  9. Re:I'm curious if this could sh-sh-shatter on Dissolvable Glass For Bone Repair · · Score: 1

    By the time it reached that point the bone will have healed. Once healed the bone will provide structure and force transfer while the implant just hangs out on the sidelines until completely dissolved. This could be a problem if someone breaks the bone again while the implant in a weakened state.

  10. Re:I'm involved in something closely related. on Dissolvable Glass For Bone Repair · · Score: 1

    lies, damn lies and statistics. As a portion of overall spending, medicare spends significantly less than private insurance. On a per patient basis, medicare admin is significantly more. Considering medicare currently covers the people who tend to need the most expensive medical care, do you think extending its coverage to millions of people who need $200 office visits paid for instead of $30k hip replacements means the current per-patient admin or the current overall spending admin numbers are a better indication of the future admin spending rate?

  11. Re:I'm involved in something closely related. on Dissolvable Glass For Bone Repair · · Score: 1

    The authorization is all that is in the constitution. The protection from competition is federal law.

  12. Re:Bad decision? Is it? on For New Zealanders, No More Phones As Sat-Nav Devices · · Score: 1

    Then they will lose in court because of those studies and you don't need a new law. Anybody can always argue in court, most arguments just happen to be ineffective.

  13. Re:Protection? on 250-Foot Hybrid Airship To Spy Over Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    Good luck trying to move any of those gun unobserved through Afghanistan. Someone who wants to shoot a blimp first has to get within range of the blimp, set-up, load, aim, and then fire. People tend to notice an AA piece getting towed down the road.

  14. Re:The perfect weed? on Alabama Wages War Against the Perfect Weed · · Score: 1

    We have Kudzu all over the state as well.

  15. Re:Reject the premise on Bringing Convenience and Open Source Methods To Higher Education · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't care about the degree(I love MITs online stuff) if the HR department didn't care about the degree. For most people; any accredited degree( no matter the quality) will vastly improve their life. I currently have a friend who spent nine months unemployed. To get a job he had to move to no-where Arizona. Can't sell his house so his wife lives two days drive from him and he lives with roommates in a crappy apartment. Two months after he got laid off he found a job that he was perfect for him. Good pay, he had all the needed qualifications, years of experience but he didn't have a degree. If he had had a BS of Thumbtwidilling he wouldn't have had to move, wouldn't be separated from his wife, and wouldn't be doing a job that required over 50% of his time to be on the road. There are a huge number of jobs that require a piece of paper, and thus a huge number of people who need a piece of paper.

  16. Re:tests? on Bringing Convenience and Open Source Methods To Higher Education · · Score: 1

    If you have that many people consistently in your office hours, is it possible your not teaching effectively? Quite possibly there is a gap between what you lecture, and the assumed knowledge needed to complete homework/tests?

  17. Re:Erm.... Labs? on Bringing Convenience and Open Source Methods To Higher Education · · Score: 1

    I have yet to have a lab that wasn't a waste of time at the undergrad level. I'm almost an electrical engineer, so I will admit it is possible that the 3-400 level chemistry and physical sciences labs may be useful.

  18. Re:I wonder on Risk Aversion At Odds With Manned Space Exploration · · Score: 1

    If you want the oil companies to pay to maintain stability in the areas they drill, then encourage them to use private firms like Blackwater. They will pay for their security directly and thus the cost will be passed on to the consumer.

  19. Re:Let's Pretend!!??? on ELF Knocks Down AM Towers To Save Earth, Intercoms · · Score: 1

    Do you have a reference for ELF(frequencies, not the group) damage to people?

  20. Re:Bad summary on How a Team of Geeks Cracked the Spy Trade · · Score: 1

    The difference is: All earlier implementations would apply the classification to a whole document or report, this implementation tags the specific facts or segments that hold classification levels. Many times a classfied report will only have a single sentence or paragraph that is really sensitive. This new tool appears to allow a person with a low to mid level clearance to search the large percentage of a sensitive report that isn't to sensitive for them to see. Another way to approach it: Previously the whole report would be denied to anyone not cleared to read the complete report. This tool allows automatic redacting, and thus to release of most of the data in a report to someone not cleared to read the whole thing.

  21. Re:they don't want real broadband... on Major Carriers Shun Broadband Stimulus · · Score: 1

    You seem to forget, whomever funds, controls, and directs the military are the government.

  22. Re:The Real Reason.... on Major Carriers Shun Broadband Stimulus · · Score: 1

    How would it be illegal. If a new law is passed, it is by definition legal.

  23. Re:We don't read field manuals on Army Asks Its Personnel to Wikify Field Manuals · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, they understand them perfectly. They just happen to be years out of date and not applicable to the current equipment and/or enemy.

  24. Re:And the DRM? on Sony Takes Aim At Amazon's Kindle · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sony's readers support multiple non-DRM formats. PDFs are included in that.

  25. Re:Intriguing on Navigating a Geek Marriage? · · Score: 2, Informative

    More of a skills advancement instead of discrete levels thing.