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  1. Re:new slogan on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 1

    Google "raw for 30 days". I own the DVD that documents an experiment on several people with diabetes. 2 of them were type 1, one was cured, the other reduced insulin use to fractions of what he was taking.

    Alternative diet cured my asthma, my allergies and several medical conditions while medicine and doctors couldn't for years.

    I am sorry for you that you do not understand this, nor have the balls to post under your own account.

    I do not blame the victim for her diet, it was a joke, imposing that it was as stupid to blame the manufacturer as it would be to blame the victim, her diet or authorities to allow the sale of GMO/corn syrup. I blame the TSA assholes and the girl's decision to go with the scanner instead of trusting her doctor on that one.

    If you fail to understand these, well, then the insults are on you sir, your mentality is retarded.

    peace ...

  2. Re:Forced her? on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 1

    Yep. On top of that I drive every Saturday to the organic market where I buy food for the week. I do not drink from plastic bottles and I am strict vegan, 90% raw.

    Haven't seen a doctor for 20 years (except when I blew my eardrum, not even a bike crash with fractured ribs and dislocated this-and-that - enduro is rough)....

    Wow or not, I get enough EMF exposure at work from Wifi, Bluetooth, GSM and AC transformators for computers and gadgets. Why have them on when you sleep and don't need them. Less $$ on juice too.

  3. Re:Forced her? on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 1

    I don't expect anything. When I was 16 I would have probably gotten into trouble with these people if they forced me to do anything I have the right to refuse.

    My habits are not paranoid. They are careful. The TSA's cooker is not safe. It wasn't tested for short- and long term exposure health effects.

    Wi-Fi and cell phones also lack sufficient study on the developing brain (or the adult for that matter) so for safety's sake and for being a good citizen of the planet I turn them off when they are not used. Why have 4-5 APs on when everyone is sleeping at the house and what needs to run is wired.

    Long term EMF exposure is responsible for cancer cases. Scanning for strong fields is wise, not paranoids. I work with computers 10-12 hours a day, many hours in Wi-Fi, so it is normal to try to minimize other radiation.

    Makes sense now?

  4. Re:new slogan on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 0

    Funny how many people attacked over the silly post. I do not think the manufacturer should be blamed for not behaving good when microwaved, so I pointed, that something else could be blamed.

    BTW type II can be cured with diet and in some cases type I too. Happens to be raw vegan diet which most will deny for the sake of enjoying greasy sugary foods.

    That said ... yes ... silly post ...

    Wonder how the part got ignored about them forcing her instead of the one on diet... hmm ... I touched a nerve with the diet issue, or WTF.....

  5. Re:new slogan on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: -1

    She has diabetes. You could also blame the FDA and the GMO corn syrup and not the pump.

    I do not get it... why didn't she just opt-out? You have the right to do that, no? Not anymore?

  6. Forced her? on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 1

    I am confused. AFAIK you can deny passing through the machine and opt to go through a pat-down and a metal detector. I passed through the Salt Lake City airport with a foreign passport and a bag full of electronics choosing the metal detector lane when both lanes were empty (late flight). Interestingly they were doing a pat-down on a lady who was from the states and passed through the microwave oven already while no one cared about the contents of my backpack even though I am a foreigner with a funky accent.

    So how can you force someone into the machine when it was stated clearly that you have the right to opt out. I always opt out as I completely refuse to pass it. And no, I do not own a microwave oven and I turn all wireless off for night and minimize use during the day (phones, machines, APs). I regularly check my spaces with an EMF detector tool (50-60Hz) for EM fields where I sit (office, home office, living room) and where I sleep (well, mostly the bedroom).....

  7. Democratic way? on Do Women Make Better Bosses? · · Score: 1

    Sorry to break it to you, but companies are not democratic structures. It is dictatorship. If it wasn't you would work as little as the owners and make as much as them, you would work 6 hour workdays ... etc.

    While I am discussing technical issues - code and middleware - with my team, there is a long list of things that are decided by me or upper management.

    I am not saying this is right, but that is how it is.

    That said: I never had a female boss in 20 years of IT work: not as a sysadmin, nor as a programmer. I had one month working with a female team lead, but she didn't have a typical "boss" role, just some administrative things.

  8. The opposite with the mac mini on iFixit's Kyle Wiens On the War On DIY Electronics · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Interesting to mention this while the Mac Mini went the opposite direction. You needed a "special tool" (spatula) for the previous models (and literally "crack" them open - if you heard the sound you know), and since they got all aluminum you don't even need a screwdriver to upgrade memory.

    And to all the commenters complaining about how big of a pain it is to upgrade an Apple product: you are comparing desktop PCs to compact machines and laptops. My Macbook pro was easy to take apart, my macbook (older white) was a little harder. I had to change a cooling fan on the latter and unlike my Toshiba, it survived the procedure, and without a scratch... still my media player...

    Funny how people complain about "closed systems" too recently. These are the people who do not understand, that you can develop whatever the hell you want for your devices... the distribution is Apple's..... most of my smaller problems can be solved by "web apps" - controlling my appliances, cameras, lights alarms etc .... jqtouch or icefaces take you far-far without writing native code ... unless you need a real app...

    Just my 2c. I really have a feeling the people criticizing haven't owned a recent-day mac or iWhatever.

  9. Not to protect the employer on Bring Back the 40-Hour Work Week · · Score: 1

    Not to protect the employer, but realize, that YOUR overtime many times are caused by the very person sitting next to you - slacking off...

    When your team is understaffed, underpaid, burnt out, and you are one of the idiots who "CARE", then whether you are told or not, you will end up putting extra hours in, since the hours in the week/day are just simply not enough anymore to complete the task.

    Well ... just my though .... looking at my colleague looking into a css file, making a 3-keystroke edit every 15 minutes for the last 2 hours. In the meantime I wrote lots of lines of code and had time to good-off to slashdot. I am probably going to stay longer, even though I came an hour earlier..... I am not told to do that, I am doing it because it is the right thing to do.

  10. client-server on the server on Ask Slashdot: Writing Hardened Web Applications? · · Score: 1

    You can build a client-server architecture on the server. E.g. a SOAP server with the DB connection and a SOAP client+web on the visitor facing side.
    You will need security on the outer edge too, but you gain an extra level of security by separating the outer edge from the DB. This way you can also handle security where you know: server application (SOAP).... this could be C, JAVA, PHP, whatever else you want, while the web can be HTML/JS/AJAX with or without PHP.....

    You can also scale by adding more clients or servers based on loads ..... of course you cause an overhead this way ......

  11. Re:Crazy vs. Evil on New Study Confirms Safety of GM Crops · · Score: 1

    And that is why I do not eat at restaurants (maybe 2-3 times a year when I have absolutely no other option) ... then I go with salad, nothing cooked, no dressing... I assume that most of their products are GMO, flavor enhanced and are dipped in MSGs ....

  12. Re:Crazy vs. Evil on New Study Confirms Safety of GM Crops · · Score: 1

    You can keep pest away with plant based safe "pesticides". A local hydro farmer uses a mix of garlic and lemon on lettuce. Not a bug, not a byte on his produce...

  13. Re:Crazy vs. Evil on New Study Confirms Safety of GM Crops · · Score: 1

    I am strictly vegan for 5 years, vegetarian for 20, 95% raw. I support local farmers where I buy 90%+ of my food, 100% of that 90+ % is organic.

    I started my own hydroponic garden where I use no pesticides or herbicides, but the nutrients for the first run are not organic certified (will move in that direction after my first few successful harvests).

    The future is in organically grown hydroponic vegetables. You can grow them in a vertical garden on tall as your structure can support. With natural or artificial light, in a green-house, tropical tent or just outside.

    Land is destroyed by oil based fertilization, the use or herbicides and pesticides. Number one however is animal farming. It is not just cruel, but its environmental effect is devastating.

    Thought I would chip in .... I am sure there are others who are interested in gardening and are environmentally conscious = vegan or at least vegetarian....

  14. Don't like it: don't watch it on US Bans Loud Commercials · · Score: 1

    I cannot watch TV anymore. There are very-very few programs I would actually watch but those few have so many commercials and so frequently that i am literally unable to watch them.

    When my wife switched providers a month ago I left my home office's TV unconnected. I would actually prefer not having TV (channels). The TV is a good device for games, movies and I use a 40'' as a monitor as well ...

  15. Re:Is it worth the risk? on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 1

    Where do you put those in the statistics who are drinking a hot coffee to get sober while talking on the phone to a friend to put the address into the GPS while being punched in the nose by the passenger who is happy about the touchdown/goal/whatever he just saw on the TV built-into the dashboard?

    Sounds unrealistic? I saw my mother in law trying to take notes on a paper notebook, talking on the phone while trying to turn .... that was the point where I warned her to shift down because we were going 25km/h in 4th gear. Minutes before we were going 40 in 1st gear..... she was on a different phone call.... I remember her getting a hands-free set for Xmas after that. She used it twice, then it ran out of batteries :O ... And she is a teacher/business woman ... now try to explain this to your average idiot whose hobby is "shooting shit" in the desert/forest/etc ....

  16. Re:multitasking - manual transmission on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 1

    Shifting with a manual transmission (or paddle-shifters and tiptronic-style clutch pedal-less devices) IS PART of the driving.

    In fact I absolutely hate automatic transmission because I feel I am missing some control over the vehicle. I also ride enduro bikes where braking is many times just using your clutch/gears. If you drive sporty/dynamic and have a manual car (with hopefully RWD as FF cars are shit for anything but winter driving maybe) then you already are using these techniques.

    Automatic is for the people who want to talk on the phone, eat, watch a movie, text etc ... generally people in the Americas. Just compare the cup holder sizes in US/Euro models .. if the Euro model has one at all (My BMW has NONE, my Ford (Euro model) has 4, none of them can hold the smallest Clean Canteen... at best a small cup of coffee paper cup...

    Now the question is: should I let the asshole talking on the phone in front of me and then slow down to 10kms/h before every turn, or risk the person behind me letting him/her in and then they might crash me from behind...

  17. Re:Symantec? McAfee? on Japanese Man Arrested For Storing Malware · · Score: 1

    High risk businesses have a lot of attacks. Throw-away servers get some malware here and there. These are next-next-next install boxes with default LAMP and wordpress/joomla/etc .... Most of the attacks are unsuccessful, but they leave traces, sometimes binaries uploaded here and there.

    BTW I program full time now and let the network people deal with this kind of stuff. :)

  18. Re:Symantec? McAfee? on Japanese Man Arrested For Storing Malware · · Score: 2

    I ran servers for years and years as a sysadmin, now I run/develop for servers. From time to time this and that gets hacked, most of the time it is just attempts that leave some binaries, sources here and there. I always keep these to see what they do, how they do it and as a reference to any in-the-future attempts to see if a name, email or something pops up again from an older attack. I keep logs, hacked files packaged and usually password protected.

    This law is stupid! I 100% agree. Even writing malware is something legit if you do not distribute it. Be it a hobby, a profession, or whatever else.

  19. Useless on A Tale of Two Countries · · Score: 1

    I personally think, that a large portion of jobs I did (unfortunately) did not add too much good to this world. Sure it made someone richer and paid the bills, but in terms of usefulness to society: 0.

    Now that said, I would imagine that many of us could do a lot of useful things with their profession, but instead of creating cool and good and dreams, many times it boils down to what pays the bills. Then there is your extra time when you can try and work on your hobby projects.

    Then try to explain it to your colleagues and people you know (I prefer to not refer to them as "friends") who ask you why you don't work on something that could make a lot of money instead of trying to build whatever you are building. On this @#$% planet and in this society.

    So unless you consider adding to the GDP and paying the bills useful, you could consider most jobs on this planet useless and ignorant behavior.... ahm ..

  20. Intelligence on Earth on Diver Snaps First Photo of Fish Using Tools · · Score: 1

    At least we know now, that if we finally wipe our kind out somehow (nuclear war, disaster, climate change, etc), the planet has capable candidates to take over our place, rule the planet, and somehow destroy it again at one point. Cool. Well, as far as we have oceans left that are habitable.

    More about the article: isn't the spitting fish using a tool to catch airborne prey? Water balls? (or is it fish spit technically?)

  21. Re:Millions of stale users? on Google: Orkut Will Co-Exist With Google+ · · Score: 1

    Interesting, after logging in today after a long time I noticed, that I had a bunch of friend recommendations with Indian names... maybe you are right. Not sure if your comment is a little racist, or if Orkut really has that demography though....

  22. Millions of stale users? on Google: Orkut Will Co-Exist With Google+ · · Score: 1

    Every time I hear about Orkut I log-in and check if my account still exists, if there is ANYTHING in there. Usually I see the friends' profiles with outdated images and 3 year old posts.

    It makes me wonder whether the other tens of millions of users are also just stale accounts or if anyone is still using the service actively.

  23. Quit using it on Facebook More Hated Than Banks, Utilities · · Score: 1

    If someone hates a service : stop using it.

    I personally find it very useful to keep in touch with old friends, since I moved to an other continent. It is also a good promotion tool for businesses with it's API interface.

    But really, if someone hates it: stop using it. Same with banks: keep your money in gold, dig it int your garden, utilities: get off the grid. Why B*tch about a FREE service?

  24. Stimulus in your face on Power Grid Change May Disrupt Clocks · · Score: 1

    And that gentlemen is: a new stimulus package. Start re-buying all your crap.

    I still do not get btw, how an ethernet port is still not an option on kitchen/home appliances, all that problem would be gone, being able to adjust time from a time server. Of course an RTC module could help too :) with this specific problem.

  25. The illegal plant on Politics: Paul-Barney Bill Would Legalize Marijuana Federally · · Score: 2

    Every time this subject comes up I am just shaking my head and do not understand: how can any government make a plant illegal? This includes mushrooms, cacti, salvia divinorum (still not illegal at most places), and other psychoactive substances.

    I am even more shocked when I see religious groups (Christians) going again an in fact rather useful plant. Why? Well, if these plants are the forbidden fruit, please revise your book. If not, live with the fact that your God put it on the planet so you can some it, eat it or make clothes from it.

    I am strongly pro marijuana, especially for medical use. It is a lot safer pain medication that most pills/shots that you can take.

    I also believe, that it is a lot better recreational drug than alcohol. It turns people into Earth loving peaceful hippies, while alcohol makes people aggressive. But government and big business does not like these properties: they want people sick, fighting and in jail, because there is more money in these things. Pot makes you sit home, watch movies, eat cookies and love. This is somehow something they should be banning.

    Is there any logic in this?

    Additionally: when people buy their drugs on the street, they tend to buy larger quantities, so they end up with drugs at home. When you have it, you use it. As opposed to this, when you can get a joint legally at any time, you do not have to stack up, you can buy one on Friday night, go out (or stay in), and you do not end up with any storage.

    With pot legal, you could openly buy a high quality vaporizer, that eliminates a lot of the carcinogens compared to smoking, that relies on combustion. This would make pot even safer, more suitable for medical use as well. The last thing you want to introduce into a cancerous body is more carcinogens to kill pain.

    Just my 2c :)