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  1. Positive Thing Out of Year on How the Year Looked On Slashdot · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Many horrible things worldwide happened in 2011, but most striking positive thing for me was Kepler mission, the stars of the galaxy are full of planets of all kinds. It won't be long before we're taking spectrographic measurements of atmospheres of worlds in "goldilocks zones"

  2. Re:Yeah, yeah...everything enjoyable is bad for yo on Does 'Supersizing' Supershrink Your Brain? · · Score: 1

    what are you whining about, that's a great deal. Take home the leftovers for another meal.

  3. Re:Vague? on Where Would Earth-Like Planets Find Water? · · Score: 1

    don't need "to get there" to find a world with oxygen breathing creatures, spectrographic analysis of atmosphere can do that and such a probe is not only within realm of existing technology but is actually on budgetary hold

  4. Re:http://xkcd.com/936/ on Ask Slashdot: Changing Passwords For the New Year? · · Score: 1

    now I don't even need the xkcd $5 wrench to get yours.

  5. Re:1Password + Dropbox on Ask Slashdot: Changing Passwords For the New Year? · · Score: 1

    it's hardly the end of the world if you lose all your passwords, you can go through the hassle of "I forgot my password" on four dozen sites.

  6. it's easy on Ask Slashdot: Changing Passwords For the New Year? · · Score: 1

    write 'em all down, store them in a couple safe places. In general access to people's information, identity theft, and fraud isn't done via passwords, there are much easier ways.

  7. Re:Vague? on Where Would Earth-Like Planets Find Water? · · Score: 1

    besides, we've already found water in other star systems and nebula. loads of water in this universe, documented fact

  8. water is very common in universe on Where Would Earth-Like Planets Find Water? · · Score: 1

    true, we've already found large amounts of exo-solar system water in nebula, dust around young stars, spectra of cool stars. not a rare compound at all in this universe.

  9. Re:Live like an ape on Does 'Supersizing' Supershrink Your Brain? · · Score: 1

    Actually, tree squirrels don't hibernate. But they do like to be fat to survive the winter. The human body likes to store fat too, gives it preference over muscle when food is scarce. Maybe fat coupled with fit cardiovascular system and heavily exercised muscle isn't a bad thing to have.

  10. Re:Open API? - what a dumb name on Open Source Increasingly Replaced By Open APIs · · Score: 1

    an API can be closed, if it isn't documented people can't write code for it.

  11. off by a few decades on Open Source Increasingly Replaced By Open APIs · · Score: 1

    The open API model was used at least since the late 1950s, business computer systems have always needed customization and developers.

  12. Re:Live like an ape on Does 'Supersizing' Supershrink Your Brain? · · Score: 1

    but in terms of weight control and body composition, diet is much more important than exercise. But you are NOT talking about science, the rigid controls were not in place for experiments because humans were the subjects. So instead we are in the realm of bias, prejudice, opinion, agendas, self-fullfilling prophecy. No, you will not build proper muscle just eating food, no matter how "healthy". You can eat the american "barnyard diet" of eggs, pork, beef, cheese and be fine if you exercise / work hard, been done, balance intake with energy output.

  13. Re:Weather, not climate on New Record High Temperature At South Pole · · Score: 1

    but see, I was speaking of Scandinavians who came here to the land of cheap booze. Now I'll tell you which ethnic group is LOUD, that's my wife and her friends (southeastern chinese). They actually caused warning to be served from neighbors to quite down or police would take action. It was a bunch of middle aged women playing cards and talking at dinner table causing the "disturbance of the peace"

  14. Re:Yeah, yeah...everything enjoyable is bad for yo on Does 'Supersizing' Supershrink Your Brain? · · Score: 1

    yes, huge portions plus little exercise leads to very poor health

  15. "fast food"? on Does 'Supersizing' Supershrink Your Brain? · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of place around me that serve "fast food" that is very healthy, not all fast food is a bacon double cheeseburger with 2500 calories (even before the fake powdered ice cream "shake" and oily fries are added).

  16. Re:Live like an ape on Does 'Supersizing' Supershrink Your Brain? · · Score: 2

    the squirrel I have been making obese with peanut butter, cashews, pecans and other nuts over the last 7 years has far outlived the normal 4 to 5 years. And the truth is human lifespan has dramatically improved since your nostalgic caveman days, even in the last 50 years with fast food and "chemicals". I'll agree with you the exercise is good, probably even more important than eating "health food diet".

  17. Re:Yeah, yeah...everything enjoyable is bad for yo on Does 'Supersizing' Supershrink Your Brain? · · Score: 1

    As of May 2008, there has been and is no transfat in McDonald's fries. At any rate, if one were to exercise hard, there would be no harm whatsoever from a properly varied fast food diet (go heavy on the salads and fiber) or the american "barnyard diet"

  18. Re:Business opportunity on No IPv6 Doomsday In 2012 · · Score: 1

    yes, I've done that. I get paid more now

  19. Re:I'll be getting ready now, thanks on No IPv6 Doomsday In 2012 · · Score: 1

    I do major infrastructure deployments for a living. Deploying IPV6 in a home, even with a few servers, is not one of those

  20. Re:I Have an Idea! on What's Wrong With the US Defense R&D Budget? · · Score: 1

    you're confused, goats don't bray heee-haaaw like those D.C. critters.

  21. Re:Weather, not climate on New Record High Temperature At South Pole · · Score: 0

    and exactly which of the millions of models generated with the billions of euros, dollars, and yen would those be? right, the ones the "climatologists" cherry-pick after a weather event. "gobal warming will cause droughts", "global warming will cause flooding", "global warming will cause stronger hurricanes", "global warming will cause blizzards".....and so the nonsense has gone on for the last 15 years, year after year. Ex post facto selection of models and claims of justification to get more funding.

  22. Re:Weather, not climate on New Record High Temperature At South Pole · · Score: 1

    it was fucking hilarious. You are the one needing chemical stimulant. drop a 'lude or some meth, man

  23. Re:Weather, not climate on New Record High Temperature At South Pole · · Score: 0

    and many, like the French, are very soap-thrifty

  24. Re:Weather, not climate on New Record High Temperature At South Pole · · Score: 1

    having a few friends from Scandinavia, my theory on why they are so loud and boisterous is that they're always half-tanked up with booze. and if it's not that it must be the viking genes, now that plundering and pillaging are out of vogue as outlets

  25. Re:I'll be getting ready now, thanks on No IPv6 Doomsday In 2012 · · Score: 1

    you are being a drama queen since it's so easy, I set up ip6 tunnel for myself in three hours a year ago including the pf rules, been working flawlessly for two home servers (accessible from the internet at large), two workstations, and three laptops.