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  1. Re:Am I the only one who is surprised? on How About a Megatons To Megawatts Program For US Nuclear Weapons? · · Score: 1

    They probably continue to apply lessons learned long ago. Unfortunately technology screw-ups are often easier to fix than policy screw-ups, or "you have to pass the bill to see what's in it," and we can only guess what will happen.

  2. Because Anti-America on How About a Megatons To Megawatts Program For US Nuclear Weapons? · · Score: 1

    We couldn't possibly give up our strategic advantage in an area that has almost no usefulness in this period of time!

    Tell it to the Chinese and Russians.

  3. Re:wait... on We Can Avoid a Surveillance State Dystopia · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Perspective matters for some things, but not everything if words actually have meaning.

  4. Re: Well for once I agree with religious crazies on UAE Clerics' Fatwa Forbids Muslims From Traveling To Mars · · Score: 2

    It isn't a suicide mission but rather lifetime testing. Suicide results in premature failure.

  5. Re:transplanting on Gut Bacteria Affect the Brain · · Score: 1

    A fecal-smoothie enema .... why would you go to Kickstarter?

    My guess would be to afford "marketing," .... maybe a snappy new name to put a fig leaf over it.

  6. Re:Machines on Gut Bacteria Affect the Brain · · Score: 1

    FILTHY HUMAN SHELL:

    You mean, "Ugly giant bags of mostly water."

  7. Re:We are a colony organism on Gut Bacteria Affect the Brain · · Score: 2

    Maybe not genocide, but at least germicide.

    Don't worry, you can backfill the little buggers.

  8. Re:What good are freedoms? on Schneier: Break Up the NSA · · Score: 1

    "Xenophobic"? Hardly. But I'm interested as to why you think so. Is it because I notice the people on Slashdot that state that they hope the US is brought down, or destroyed, or otherwise weakened?

    I don't recall that -1 Disagree was an option. Are you sure you understand the role of the moderator? In the past far too much negative moderation has been based on facts contradicting political ideology, with the facts losing the contest.

    I don't defend everything the NSA does, I simply point out the facts. Many people make false claims about the law, current events, terrorism, national security, the founding of the country, and the role of intelligence in defending a free society. That something legal is also disagreeable seldom changes its legality. Denying the existence of a fact does not change it. Intelligence agencies can pose a potential danger to a free society, but that is not the same as genuine current oppression.

    The truth is the truth, the facts are the facts. They don't change based on their popularity. Do even 10,000 people claiming a lie is true change it from a lie to the truth?

  9. Re:wait... on We Can Avoid a Surveillance State Dystopia · · Score: 1

    Sorry A, but that still isn't a list of terrorist attacks other than passing reference to the Libyan sponsored German disco bombing that killed two U.S. soldiers.

  10. Re:Wait what on We Can Avoid a Surveillance State Dystopia · · Score: -1, Redundant

    "Woosh" youself, there were terrorist attacks in the US in the 80s. The list above is nonsense.

  11. Re:umm no on We Can Avoid a Surveillance State Dystopia · · Score: 0

    The housing crisis was "a huge blunder" that was a forced error due to Federal intervention trying to drive up home ownership. There was a reform attempt, but it was blocked in the Congress by, guess who? Dodd-Frank is an impediment to recovery, and yet another excuse for Federal snooping.

    Post Mortems on the Financial Crisis

  12. Re:Wait what on We Can Avoid a Surveillance State Dystopia · · Score: -1

    The only terrorist attack you listed was the attack by Iran's proxy terrorist group Hezbollah on the Marines in Lebanon.

  13. Re:Healthy bacterias on Gut Bacteria Affect the Brain · · Score: 1

    I think there has generally been a reluctance in Western medicine up until fairly recently to make use of therapies of that sort, probably for a lot of reasons. Drugs and surgery tend to be well known treatments, and have the halo of modern science and a certain specificity to them. Using leaches*, maggots, and hookworms would seem medieval, and to be something of a Pandora's box, even if it works. Still, at least some treatments of that sort are making a comeback.

    Medicinal Leeches: Nature’s Finest Surgical Tool From the Swamps

    Although long dismissed as quackery, the medicinal leech has recently made a modern medical comeback and is now being used by doctors to treat everything from reattaching severed fingers and salvaging necrotic tissue to treating potentially fatal circulation disorders.

    Maggot Therapy Takes Us Back to the Future of Wound Care: New and Improved Maggot Therapy for the 21st Century

  14. Re:Healthy bacterias on Gut Bacteria Affect the Brain · · Score: 1

    Do they? The ones I remember seeing (IIRC) were trying to alter balance of existing gut flora, not replenish after a loss due to treatment with antibiotics. In that case, yes, that is what I recall - at least for a particular methodology for doing so.

  15. Re:umm no on We Can Avoid a Surveillance State Dystopia · · Score: 1, Insightful

    we are less free then ever here in the US of A.

    People in the US are freer today in some ways, and less free in others. There is almost always pressure for the government to do something about this or that. The result is more regulation, and more laws. Economic freedom in the US has been falling, and making economic recovery more difficult. The result has been devastating to many people whether they are new graduates or the unemployed that can't find a job. Various other questions are being settled in the courts, such as the legality of recording the police, 2nd Amendment rights, and various questions of employment law.

    The effects of Obamacare, the Dodd-Frank bill, and various others are starting to really kick in. There are other dangers posed, such as the DHS's license plate tracking proposal (scuttled, for now), and many others.

    The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

  16. Re:Healthy bacterias on Gut Bacteria Affect the Brain · · Score: 1

    The results of various antibiotics on gut bacteria are fairly well known - it kills them. The results on the digestive system can be "unpleasant." That is why you want to eat the yogurt, to aid in repopulating the gut with the bacteria needed for the digestive system to work properly.

    It's because of the monoculture problem that I've come to favor Kefir. Yogurts commonly only have 1 or 2 strains, I think I might have seen varieties that have 4, or maybe even 6. But Kefir, depending on the variety, will have from 10-12 different strains. I think Kefir is going to be preferable to eating dirt since they all live nicely in the human gut. The stuff in dirt ...??

  17. Re:We are a colony organism on Gut Bacteria Affect the Brain · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...the human genome is a monolithic kernel, and the bacteria are all the shell scripts and daemons that help manage it.

    So what you're telling me is essentially that the viability of myself and any offspring is going to depend on a massive collection of perl scripts. Lovely. I'm forked. :(

  18. Re:Healthy bacterias on Gut Bacteria Affect the Brain · · Score: 1

    ... a negligible impact on healthy gut bacteria.

    If you are on an antibiotics regimen that is what you may not have. The idea is to replace them when the antibiotics have killed them. I've had doctors recommend it to me (eating yogurt when on antibiotics). I would now use Kefir.

  19. Simple solution on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Manage Your Passwords? · · Score: 0

    Tattooed on the inner thigh. Forget a password? Just find the nearest restroom. With these new non-permanent tats its better than ever, and much less of a space issue. For extra security (in case anyone has X-ray specs) you can do a rot-13. Of course you do have to be careful if you go swimming, such as wear an old style suit or a maybe a "burkini" if a woman.

  20. Re:Healthy bacterias on Gut Bacteria Affect the Brain · · Score: 1

    It is often advisable (consult your doctor) to eat a probiotic food such as yogurt with live cultures when on, and after, an antibiotic treatment. I've become a fan of Kefir .

  21. Re:We tried this with AT&T already on Schneier: Break Up the NSA · · Score: 1

    President Kennedy was assassinated by communist defector Lee Harvey Oswald, not the CIA.

    The Real Culprits

    In 1963, a popular Democratic president was assassinated by a Marxist named Oswald, who had actually defected to the Soviet Union and returned to the U.S. with a Soviet wife, was an active member of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, and had attempted to assassinate a right-wing general named Edwin Walker earlier in the year.

    Yet those who write history found these facts inconvenient. They created a different history ...

  22. Re:since when is the FBI a spy agency? on Schneier: Break Up the NSA · · Score: 1

    Two things. First, the actual misconduct was on the part of Senator Wyden.

    Second, the "LOVEINT" issue is misconduct, not an approved NSA action. The people that engage in that are subject to discipline, which generally means they lose their job and security clearance. That has a significant negative impact on their career options.

  23. Re:Author doesn't understand the NSA on Schneier: Break Up the NSA · · Score: 1

    The size of the facility, the capabilities listed by NARUS, and the
    required cooling that is massive for the MULTIPLE centers show
    that its a enormously powerful tracking system that tracks FAR more
    then what they are admitting too.

    Maybe you haven't heard, but there are nearly 200 countries in the world, most of them have a military, many host some groups that could be a threat, some countries are actually hostile, and a few aim nuclear weapons at the US or its allies. That makes for a lot of military units, ships, planes, submarines, missiles, and terrorist groups to keep track of. That makes for a lot of radio, radar, satellite, and network traffic to capture and analyze for intelligence, threats, and countermeasures. On top of that you can add concerns about various wars and conflicts that could have an impact of the US and its allies: a war between Japan and China, for example, or China and Taiwan. There is a lot to capture and analyze, and you don't seem to be acknowledging that.

  24. Re:Author doesn't understand the NSA on Schneier: Break Up the NSA · · Score: 1

    No, that wasn't NSA spying. It wasn't approved, it was against policy.

    That was individual employees engaged in misconduct for which they were disciplined / fired.

    You need to look closer.

  25. Re:Tomorrow's News on Schneier: Break Up the NSA · · Score: 1

    Can you point to any instances where it was proven that the US Federal government did that to one of its citizens?