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  1. Re:they need an incentive on UK Council To Send Obese People 'Motivational' Texts Telling Them To Use Stairs · · Score: 1

    No. Your information is absolutely incorrect. Kick your insulin and you store. Don't kick the insulin, you'll nourish from your body's stores. Every nephrologist will give you that answer. Read Taube's "Good Calories Bad Calories"-- horrificly long as it is, and you'll know this answer. It's undeniable.

  2. Re:they need an incentive on UK Council To Send Obese People 'Motivational' Texts Telling Them To Use Stairs · · Score: 2

    That's a rationalization. You can be happy anywhere. Certainly the affluent are perceived to be happy, but mostly it's because they're drunk, or stoned, and trying to get a grip like everyone else. Happiness is what you make of it.

    There's no magic about one place or another, it's all your own attitude. It's very personal, and carbs are horribly addictive. Take out the carbs, and life is much better. Less sugar means your insulin doesn't kick in and store everything to your tissues. This takes place in London, Bath, Stokes, Leicester, Wales, wherever. It's how we're put together. Depression causes people to carb-load. That's a personal problem, not a regional one. Carb loading to increase serotinine is a well-honoured pass-time.

  3. Re:Think of the children on Why Does Facebook Need To Read My Text Messages? · · Score: 2

    There is snoopwall and others that stanch the flow of bad stuff. But honestly, Facebook ought to heavily fined for their boorish invasion of privacy. The data hogs need to be taught a lesson of the value of ecosystems, which is that if your customers revolt, your business model is dead.

  4. Re:So obvious on Midwestern Fault Zones Are Still Alive · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Well, there was that "Kendall" in his name. Once in a while, there is a response that enlightens you as to the context of such responders, so as to be able to decide if long interaction is worthwhile or nihilistic.

    So I march on, until there's a stop point that often corroborates suspicions with more data. Once in a while you can hit the right button on a LIbertarian, and all sorts of stuff flies out their butts in this cavalcade of WTFs. If nothing else, it provides awe and humor value for the immense diversity of humanity.

    And other times, it's a stick up the hornet's next. I like to wear gloves on those missions, but sometimes it's just worth the honey.

  5. Re:So obvious on Midwestern Fault Zones Are Still Alive · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ends don't justify the means. You all but admit the monetary motivations. I don't justify the maltreatment of people anywhere. Not even in Texas.

    Nah, even those University of Texas resources can't be believed.

    Tell me this: are you an astroturfer? Do you get paid to shill for these guys? I'll take an honest answer. If you really believe this, I'll criticize no further.

    We're far from agreement on the issue of fracking, however. I believe it's detrimental, and holds down the inevitable transition to other less-caustic fuel sources.

  6. Re:Care to publish your source? on Midwestern Fault Zones Are Still Alive · · Score: 2
  7. Re:Oh, Frack on Midwestern Fault Zones Are Still Alive · · Score: 1

    No one is doing a lot of work to prove it one way or another. It's best to watch Justin Beiber get busted, rather than do any real research. Sign.

  8. Re:Oh, Frack on Midwestern Fault Zones Are Still Alive · · Score: 2

    It's true Indiana doesn't have fracking; I believe the same is true of Virginia. Indiana doesn't quite lay on the New Madrid, rather it's to the S and W of Indiana-- look on a map.

    Is fracking a contributor? Some evidence says yes.

  9. Re:Oh, Frack on Midwestern Fault Zones Are Still Alive · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Correlation doesn't equal causation.

    That said, there is a statistical incidence that wants to correlate heavy fracking with earthquakes. Whether the New Madrid is just unstable, or becoming unstabilized with mounting fracking is unknown. The statistical correlation between seismic movements and fracking remains, however.

    So turn on the tap, and light your cigar.

  10. Oh, Frack on Midwestern Fault Zones Are Still Alive · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Can't be all that juice pumped into the ground.

  11. Re:Seriously? on Does Anyone Make a Photo De-Duplicator For Linux? Something That Reads EXIF? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yeah. Thanks. It's a simple question. So far, I've seen scripting suggestions, which might be useful. I'm a nerd, but not wanting to do much code because I'm really rusty at it. Instead, I'm amazed that no one runs into this problem and has built an app that does this. That's all I'm looking for: consolidation.

  12. Re:write it yourself on Does Anyone Make a Photo De-Duplicator For Linux? Something That Reads EXIF? · · Score: 1

    Imagine tons of iterative backups of photos. Generations of backups. Now they need consolidation. Something that can look at file systems, vacuum the files-- but only one of each photo, even if there are many copies of that photo, as in myphoto(1).jpg, etc.

  13. Re:first outing! on Ukrainian Protesters Receive Mass Text Message Ordering Them To Disperse · · Score: 1

    This order to disperse sponsored by McDonalds- We do it all for you!

  14. Re:Not only in the US... on Canadian Health Scientists Resort To Sneaker Net After Funding Slashed · · Score: 1

    But both require funding. Patents for protection. New pharma for profits before the patents can expire. Patent portfolio trading and litigation. Oppress the innovators, for they don't make us any revenue.

    Lead the lemmings to the cliffs. Make them buy or die. Threaten new products with massive litigation costs so that investors will shy away. Bribe the legislatures to protect the monopolies. Buy out any interesting startups so that no one can take their place and use their intellectual property as threats to others that might try.

    Keep the government out. They have no place here. It should all be in the hands of private business to manipulate at will. Keep the masses fighting about social issues so that these will eclipse what's going on behind the curtain of the Oz built from the fruits of the yellow bricks.

    This isn't about future generations; this is about wealth protection for the current generations so that their children can survive the coming dark years before the end times.

    Sorry, I was channeling Palin again.

  15. Re:Obligatory on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Often-Run Piece of Code -- Ever? · · Score: 1

    error: out of memory in 40

  16. Re:no way the biggest hosts on Amazon and GoDaddy Are the Biggest Malware Hosters · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Of course they make money. Plain and simple: never credit consipacy where sloth was the problem.

    Yeah, they gain by being sloppy. But there's not a single law enforcement entity that gives a flying fleep, either. Do you see the FBI jumping in to save the day? Har. CIA? I'm ROFL. Justice Dept? ho ho ho. FTC? Huh?

    But you didn't tell me: how do you know what's malware and not, so that a judge doesn't throw out a warrant or an order? And you didn't tell me: what kind of secondary auth is going to be acceptable? And you didn't tell me how they're going to police it-- parse incoming streams? Audit what are supposed to be private sites? With what? Updated with what?

    Grow up.

  17. Re:no way the biggest hosts on Amazon and GoDaddy Are the Biggest Malware Hosters · · Score: 1

    Never credit conspiracy when stupidity will do.

    You can get in and out of a lot of providers with a credit card or less. No one wants to be the first to use a secondary auth to protect integrity. Worse: providers like Tumblr use Amazon storage as back-fill and more. So does Amazon police Tumblr?

    I believe your accusations against GoDaddy might be libel or worse; they're not actively seeking to do what you accuse them of, but they're not inhiibiting it, either. IANAL, but you might consider that they might be immoral, rotten citizens, and loose-with-rules, but then, so is the NSA.

    Some of my friends believe that Windows is malware..... that aside, I want to know much much more about how that number was achieved, not that I don't believe it, rather, calling something malware is nebulous.

  18. Re:Test scores on How Good Are Charter Schools For the Public School System? · · Score: 1

    While you were doing #1, 2, and 3, children, who learn at vastly different rates, weren't getting the job done. The job is to learn, and be exposed to ideas, to memorize a lot of stuff.

    The charter schools are horrible ideas because it allows the public system to erode further by sucking energy, mindshare, community, and especially funds away.

    Is it a good idea to have specialized schools? Sure! But charter schools don't serve this purpose. Instead, they allow pseudo-self identification for parents, and also harken back to the days of segregation.

    Certainly safety is important, but many of the public schools I've seen are more 7-4pm babysitters. Parents, trying to hold it together working two jobs (esp single moms) can't give their children the time that they need with parents to overcome obstacles. Obstacles get big, and you open the opportunities for gang activities, lack of community involvement, and the ability to excel.

  19. Re:Wouldn't someone think of the children? on Parents' Campaign Leads To Wi-Fi Ban In New Zealand School · · Score: 1

    Is it an accident that microwave oven frequencies are really close to WiFi? No. Yet older color televisions also emitted Xrays. And lots of basements emit radon. Older watch dials glowed nice and radioactively.

    Let's consider the facts:

    A microwave oven has over 500w, often much more. WiFi? Limited to a skinny watt, often less.

    Older color TVs emitted xrays-- out the back and bottom. Unless you put it in your lap for weeks at a time, not much exposure.

    Basements in some areas do have a lot of radon. Oops, this one's real and needs to be dealt with through the use of radon detectors and remediation.

    Finally, those old watch dials that glowed in the dark indeed had mild radioactivity.... about as much as ten minutes in the sun.

    Conspiracy junkies? Paranoia is rampant, and often foolish.... although once in a while it's rewarded.

  20. Re:Elgan is a Google sycophant; biased in the extr on Is a Super-Sized iPad the Future of Education? · · Score: 2

    Dude, understand what an intraveneous abbreviation is. IV, as in his freaking veins.

  21. Re:Wouldn't someone think of the children? on Parents' Campaign Leads To Wi-Fi Ban In New Zealand School · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Mercury in vaccines causes autism.

    WiFi boils the brain and causes cancer.

    Obama is the Anti-Christ.

    You will never stop stupid people because stupid can't be fixed. Once that one realizes that correlation != causation, you have a chance. Until then, you can only introduce the facts and hope for the best. It's tough to stanch meme propagation when the propagators are teary-eyed mothers with dead children. But it has to be done.

  22. Elgan is a Google sycophant; biased in the extreme on Is a Super-Sized iPad the Future of Education? · · Score: 1

    That Computerworld let's him have the forum when Elgan has an IV of Google connected to his femoral artery just blows my mind. He's also the ex-editor of Windows Mag and not exactly a neutral observer of this stuff.

  23. Re:Youtube? on Bots Now Account For 61% of Net Traffic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The noise is now above the signal. We're screwed.

  24. Re:thought police on App Detects Neo-Nazis Using Their Music · · Score: 1

    These don't correlate well. One is inwardly destructive, while the other is outwardly exclusive and destructive.

    One involves a network of producers, processors, distribution, and sales, whilst the other is ideological, delusional, tribal, and "evangelical".

    Oh, wait....

  25. Re:When it's out of your control on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Protect Your Privacy When It's Out of Your Control? · · Score: 1

    Best to stay under the radar. And remember to vote for those whose interests aren't otherwise lined by the DMA, Google, and others whose business models is anti-privacy.