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  1. Re:Religion's euphoric effects known for a long ti on Religion Is Good For Your Brain · · Score: 1

    Actually it would be more appropriate these days to say "TV (or media in general) is the opiate of the masses"

  2. Re:Life, The Brain Eater on Religion Is Good For Your Brain · · Score: 1

    No, the poor interpretation of life "eats your brain".

  3. Re:This is surprising? on Religion Is Good For Your Brain · · Score: 1

    I'd rather have morals with depression personally.

    Then you have succumbed to the propaganda sold to the "little man" for millennia, that there's nothing wrong with being poor, that it's good to turn the other cheek, that it's good to avoid violence.

    Pacifist propaganda to keep you in your place.

  4. Re:wow on Religion Is Good For Your Brain · · Score: 1

    It's meditation and it works, religious prayer capitalizes on the euphoria associated with deep meditation by telling you God did that, but really a non-deist Buddha follower gets the same or better effect.

    Prayer is meditation.

  5. Re:Schizofrenia is good for your brain. on Religion Is Good For Your Brain · · Score: 1

    Engrish plz kthnx.

  6. Ok, but... on Religion Is Good For Your Brain · · Score: 1

    When you're praying and in the zone you feel a peace of mind and tranquility.'

    You can get the same effect from simple meditation and breathing exercises, in fact that's really what prayer is, a form of meditation.

  7. Re:Laugh on Weak Apple PRNG Threatens iOS Exploit Mitigations · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't "famebait" be changed to "fanboi bait"?

  8. Hey on Why Are There More Old Songs On iTunes Than Old eBooks? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a business opportunity for someone, jump on it.
    There's a tidy selection of "old books" (really old) on http://www.gutenberg.org/

    Try buying Spinozas Philosophy in paper, it's expensive but you can get it at Gutenberg for free.

  9. The most entertaing theory yet on Malaysian Flight Disappearance 'Deliberate' · · Score: 1

    Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (also marketed as China Southern Airlines flight 748 through a codeshare) was a scheduled passenger flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing, China, when on 8 March this Boeing 777-200ER aircraft “disappeared” in flight with 227 passengers on board from 15 countries, most of whom were Chinese, and 12 crew members.
    Interesting to note, this report says, was that Flight 370 was already under GRU “surveillance” after it received a “highly suspicious” cargo load that had been traced to the Indian Ocean nation Republic of Seychelles, and where it had previously been aboard the US-flagged container ship MV Maersk Alabama.
    What first aroused GRU suspicions regarding the MV Maersk Alabama, this report continues, was that within 24-hours of off-loading this “highly suspicious” cargo load bound for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the two highly-trained US Navy Seals assigned to protect it, Mark Daniel Kennedy, 43, and Jeffrey Keith Reynolds, 44, were found dead under “suspicious circumstances.”

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/2-...

    Both Kennedy and Reynolds, this report says, were employed by the Virginia Beach, Virginia-based maritime security firm The Trident Group which was founded by US Navy Special Operations Personnel (SEAL’s) and Senior US Naval Surface Warfare Officers and has long been known by the GRU to protect vital transfers of both atomic and biological materials throughout the world.

    Upon GRU “assests” confirming that this “highly suspicious” cargo was aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on 8 March, this report notes, Moscow notified China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) of their concerns and received “assurances” that “all measures” would be taken as to ascertain what was being kept so hidden when this aircraft entered into their airspace.
    However, this report says, and as yet for still unknown reasons, the MSS was preparing to divert Flight 370 from its scheduled destination of Beijing to Haikou Meilan International Airport (HAK) located inHainan Province (aka Hainan Island).
    Prior to entering the People Liberation Army (PLA) protected zones of the South China Sea known as the Spratly Islands, this report continues, Flight 370 “significantly deviated” from its flight course and was tracked by VKO satellites and radar flying into the Indian Ocean region and completing its nearly 3,447 kilometer (2,142 miles) flight to Diego Garcia. (large enough runway)

    Critical to note about Flight 370’s flight deviation, GRU experts in this report say, was that it occurred during the same time period that all of the Spratly Island mobile phone communications operated by China Mobile were being jammed.
    China Mobile, it should be noted, extended phone coverage in the Spratly Islands in 2011 so that PLA soldiers stationed on the islands, fishermen, and merchant vessels within the area would be able to use mobile services, and can also provide assistance during storms and sea rescues.
    As to how the US Navy was able to divert Flight 370 to its Diego Garcia base, this report says, appears to have been accomplished remotely as this Boeing 777-200ER aircraft is equipped with a fly-by-wire (FBW) system that replaces the conventional manual flight controls of an aircraft with an electronic interface allowing it to be controlled like any drone-type aircraft.

    However, this report notes, though this aircraft can be controlled remotely, the same cannot be said of its communication systems which can only be shut down manually; and in the case of Flight 370, its data reporting system was shut down at 1:07 a.m., followed by its transponder (which transmits location and altitude) which was shut down at 1:21 a.m.
    What remains “perplexing” about this incident, GRU analysts in this report say, are why the

  10. Re:Chrysanthi Lykousi on Google and Microsoft Both Want To Stop Dual-Boot Windows/Android Device · · Score: 1

    Because Linux devs still haven't made an REALLY good default GUI to this day *holds up Unity as an example*

  11. Think of all the names on Google and Microsoft Both Want To Stop Dual-Boot Windows/Android Device · · Score: 1

    We could have given their bastard children..
    Metroid
    Winroids
    Andows

  12. Re:Good on Mozilla Scraps Firefox For Windows 8, Citing Low Adoption of Metro · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Now if only the metrosexuals would follow that advice...

  13. Re:How long will it take Microsoft to get the mess on Mozilla Scraps Firefox For Windows 8, Citing Low Adoption of Metro · · Score: 1

    we're now all tablet

    Pity.

  14. Dear Microsoft on Mozilla Scraps Firefox For Windows 8, Citing Low Adoption of Metro · · Score: 1

    Release a service pack (or call it an update) with the traditional start button and desktop for Windows 8 users, and then remember how much this sucked for everyone come Windows 9 time.

  15. Laugh on Weak Apple PRNG Threatens iOS Exploit Mitigations · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The SSL "flaw" was too public, so they introduced a new flaw, and I am sure more than one.

  16. What's interesting on First Mathematical Model of 13th Century 'Big Bang' Cosmology · · Score: 1

    Is he did it without the higher maths and computers, which leads me to think the mind is capable of fully grasping reality and it's creation/dissolution but that explaining it (writing it down for others, etc) is the hard part.

  17. Re:Amazon Glacier on How Do You Backup 20TB of Data? · · Score: 2

    They charge you to download it too.

  18. Ok on How Do You Backup 20TB of Data? · · Score: 1

    First "LOL", sorry had to get that out of the way.
    1st choice for that much and to be reliable use tape, 2nd choice multiple hard drives and by that I mean multiple backups not just one, 3rd choice BlueRay disk, after that backingup starts using bandwidth, Amazon Glacier is cheap to upload and store, they get you when you want it back.

    Or you could sign up for Mega at 50 GB a pop.
    20 Mega accounts = 1 TB, yes go ahead and laugh but I have a terabyte of storage online for free. (use their sync app)

    I used a Gmail account to sign up, so lets say your Gmail is "turtle@gmail.com" well did you know you can use "turtle+01@gmail.com and it will go to "turtle@gmail.com"?
    Yeah it will, so my Mega sign up scheme is turtle+01@, turtle+02@, etc, and I can manage it all from "turtle@gmail.com"

    Finally I would like to offer an apology to "turtle@gmail.com", nothing personal it just popped into my head.

  19. Re:Do they all go to elephant school? on Study: Elephants Have Learned To Tell Certain Languages Apart · · Score: 1

    Better pack a trunk and leave....

  20. Elephants are smarter than you might think on Study: Elephants Have Learned To Tell Certain Languages Apart · · Score: 4, Insightful

    elephants have a total of 257 billion neurons, three times more than humans.[1] The elephant's brain is similar to that of humans in terms of structure and complexity—such as the elephant's cortex having as many neurons as a human brain,[2] suggesting convergent evolution.[3]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Their trunks are also quite dexterous, I'm actually surprised there isn't more tool use amongst them.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  21. The obvious solution... on iRobot CEO: Humanoid Robots Too Expensive To Be the Norm · · Score: 1

    With over 8 billion people in a few years, and fewer jobs, the obvious solution is humans mounted with something along the lines of Google Glass, telling them what to do, where to go, how to do it, when to speak, etc.

    You're hired, they give you Glass, the computer tells you what to do, "go put more toilet paper in the bathroom" "clean up the parking lot" etc, humans are cheap and disposable because there are so many of them.

  22. For what purpose on Ars Technica Reviews Leaked Windows 8.1 Update · · Score: 1

    Does Microsoft create this interface without a start button and traditional desktop option? What is the drive to do away with choice? Why not have the option for both traditional desktop and Metro?
    It's like Unity, it fucking sucks there is no choice, just a "here suck on it" attitude.

  23. Wants to go to Mars... on SpaceX Wants To Go To Mars — and Has a Plan To Get There · · Score: 1

    Why?

  24. Then there's this on Facebook To Pay City $200K-a-Year For a Neighborhood Cop · · Score: 1

    facebook ad fraud? Is it real?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    In any case I question the motivations of Zuckerberg.

  25. All is not as it seems. on Facebook To Pay City $200K-a-Year For a Neighborhood Cop · · Score: 1

    Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, were the most generous American philanthropists in 2013, with a donation of 18 million shares of Facebook stock, valued at more than $970 million, to a Silicon Valley nonprofit in December.

    Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

    That non-profit?
    Silicon Valley Community Foundation
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    "Regional Planning: This includes plans related to both land use and mass transit options in the Silicon Valley area.[15][20]"

    As well as being a great tax tool it appears to exert influence in required areas.