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  1. Re:Not the fault of science on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 1

    Two were meta analysis conducted last year which came to contradicting conclusions about the link between saturated fats and heart disease. The science has been unsettled like this for many years.

    If he had done the research, he would have come to the conclusion that he arrives at in the article. We don't really know what's going on.

  2. Re:Science... Yah! on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 3, Informative

    Check out a guy named Ancel Keys, who's 7 country study was enormously influential, as well as Dr Jeremiah Stamler, who published a self-help booklet in 1966 (sponsored by the corn oil industry) telling people to alter "habits even before the final proof is nailed down" with regards to saturated fats and heart disease.

    Sometimes, it only takes a handful of people in white coats who are well meaning and respected to change public opinion.

  3. Re:if these confirmers are reputable, who are they on Independent Researchers Test Rossi's Alleged Cold Fusion Device For 32 Days · · Score: 1

    Independence doesn't really mean anything. Objectivity does. You don't have to be independent to be objective.

  4. I'll invest in the now lucrative broom market and make a fortune.

  5. Re:Apple effect on Deadmau5 Accuses Disney of Pirating His Music · · Score: 1

    Why do I have an innate right to own property? Is it only because it is a cultural norm? If I lived in a culture where, say, land is so plentiful, it doesn't make sense for any one person to own it. Would I still have an innate right to own that land?

  6. Re:Uh what? on Why Did New Zealand's Moas Go Extinct? · · Score: 1

    That's an interesting narrative you have there. The settlements were/are about the Treaty and nothing else. The cultural stuff is important, and it's possible for a culture to appreciate the importance of the environment around them, and also over succeeding generations, make a total mess of it.

    It doesn't sound like you've read 'The Penguin History of New Zealand'. It should be required reading in schools. You should do yourself a favour and find a copy, if only the read the first two/three chapters.

  7. Re:And people called Atlas Shrugged Fiction.... on Venezuela: Cheap Television Sets For All! · · Score: 0

    Communalism != communism

  8. Re:Obsolete Humans on Autonomous Dump Trucks Are Coming To Canada's Oil Sands · · Score: 1

    Replaced by jobs in the low paying service sector. So while labour force participation has increased somewhat, real US household incomes have remained almost stationary for the bottom 80% of US workers.

  9. Re:When will he be arrested? on Atlanta Man Shatters Coast-to-Coast Driving Record, Averaging 98MPH · · Score: 1

    The Solomon curve seems to show that the safest speed to travel is just slightly below the average speed. This doesn't make any sense. X isn't variation from average. shouldn't it be speed in mph, with 0 being the speed limit?

    And, in the 50's, when the data was collated, how did Solomon accurately predict the speed the cars involved in these collisions were going at? We cant do that reliably now.

  10. You can't just throw money at it. on Sizing Up the Viral Threat · · Score: 1

    Taxonomy isn't a field that all scientists wish they could work in.

    Good luck trying to get high school science students interested in the concept of biological classification.

  11. Re:As soon as the smart car counts as the driver on Concern Mounts Over Self-Driving Cars Taking Away Freedom · · Score: 1

    It is possible to sleep drive in the same way you can sleep walk. A New Zealand woman drove 300 kmand operated her cell-phone while asleep.

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10912545

  12. Re:Guilty Until Proven Innocent. on New Zealand Court Orders Facebook Disclosure To Employer · · Score: 2

    Maybe you should hire better PM's so you don't have a 'crunch'.

  13. Re:Linus management technique works on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1

    Most managers are accountable to someone, and tend to balance the needs of various stakeholders, i.e. workers, internal/external customers, owners, suppliers etc.

    Who is Linus accountable to? When he swears at the other devs, which stakeholders' interest is he trying to protect? The users?

  14. Re:impossible on Larry Ellison Rejuvenating Hawaii's Sixth-Largest Island (Which He Owns) · · Score: 1

    There are no individual rights that aren't granted by the collective.

  15. Re:What's wrong with "normal" voting? on In France, a Showcase of What Can Go Wrong With Online Voting · · Score: 1

    A recount of a paper ballot will generally give a different result.

    If you have an electoral system where each vote is counted towards the composition of the government, then this is a problem.

  16. Re:Statistics can be misleading on Surgeries On Friday Are More Frequently Fatal · · Score: 1

    I haven't run into a specialist yet that does any meaningful work past Wednesday. It's mostly golf the rest of the week.

    Maybe the 'who ever is left' category of people who are left at the end of the week aren't so good at surgeries.

  17. Re:Put them at restaurants on Tesla To Blanket US With Superchargers In Two Years · · Score: 1

    Why not just swap the battery out with a fully charged one? I guess they would be pretty heavy (the leaf battery is around 300 kg), but if you get the system in place, then you can just set up a robot arm to do the changing, and setup a car wash style conveyor belt thing?

    Then, we could use the batteries that are being stored as an energy store connected to the grid (so we can make better use of some renewable connected to the grid like wind and solar), with the added benefit of only having the charge the batteries at night when power is supposedly cheaper.

    I swap my propane gas bottle in this fashion. The stations around don't bother having the large tanks to refill the bottles, they just keep a dozen or full so people can swap them. You just have to build in the depreciation of the tanks into the price of the swap.

  18. Re:Good News / Bad News on Early Brain Response To Words Predictive For Autism · · Score: 1

    ++

    mod parent up please!

  19. Re:robots can't kill people on UN Debates Rules Surrounding Killer Robots · · Score: 1

    You make it sound like the UNHRC has a majority and can do what it likes. Currently, the UNHRC has 15 members from the OIC out of a total 47 members who sit on the council. This works out to about 30%. The OIC has 57 member states from a total of around 193 total UN member states, which works out to around 30%, so OIC member states are not over-represented on the UNHRC.

    Also, the UN makes laws, but they do not go over national laws. It's up to nation states to adopt treaties. States have sovereignty.

  20. Re:Makes perfect sense to me on White House: Use Metric If You Want, We Don't Care · · Score: 1

    It's metric. It's built to make the 'multiply by 100' really simple.

  21. Re:Remind me,,, on Amazon, Google and Apple Won't Need To Pay Tax, Despite Goverment Threats · · Score: 1

    Class warfare exists because there is a 'class' of people that identify themselves as a 'class' because they had to 'fight' in some conflict.

    The warfare between classes is something that actually creates identity in a class which leads to more class struggle.

    So, as long as people identify as proletariat or bourgeoisie, there will be conflict and class warfare.

  22. Re:Not even close on Larry Page: You Worry Too Much About Medical Privacy · · Score: 1

    Opening up all the statistical information contained in the medial records of the entire population could certainly be a massive benefit to the whole of humanity.

    The usefulness of the information comes from the flexibility that comes from being able to look at the data is any number of ways.

    Then again, companies can already get a limited view of your medical condition by looking at what you spend your money on. Aged between 20 and 40, are female and are buying baby clothes, cots, push chairs and lotion on your visa? You're probably pregnant. Allow me to market to you directly! Think about how much they could infer when you look at GP/hospital visits and what you've been buying over the counter at the pharmacy.

    We can try and save our privacy, but in the end we'll realise we gave it all away, willingly. As long as good is done with it (for the individual as well as the community), then it wont really seem that we're being coerced.

  23. The answer to the question on Defense Distributed Has 3D-Printed an Entire Gun · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The NRA thinks more guns are the answer. Looks like we'll find out if that's true when when we can put a gun in the hands of everyone, rich or poor.

  24. What passes for a study these days? on Play Tetris To Fix Your Lazy Eye · · Score: 1

    Two groups of 9 volunteers?

    How difficult can it be to get people who are willing to play video games for an hour a day over 2 weeks?

  25. Dune on Ask Slashdot: Science Books For Middle School Enrichment? · · Score: 2

    The first book of the series. The depth of the ecology perspective surprised me when I read it the first time. There aren't many books that have a focus on planetary ecology.