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  1. Re:Keller worked at Apple on the A4 and A4 on AMD Designing All-New CPU Cores For ARMv8, X86 · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, no, that is obviously a typo. T'was the A4, Letter and Legal.

  2. Re:Self censoring on Researchers See a Post-Snowden Chilling Effect In Our Search Data · · Score: 2

    Well, be careful what you think. You may be guilty of a thought crime.

  3. Re:Fairly broken unfortunately on Help EFF Test a New Tool To Stop Creepy Online Tracking · · Score: 1

    Hmm? What kind of sites are you visiting? Works for me. Oh... wait... maybe I don't really want to know...

  4. Re:Useless colors on Help EFF Test a New Tool To Stop Creepy Online Tracking · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter really - it is always red.

  5. Re:Ghostery on Help EFF Test a New Tool To Stop Creepy Online Tracking · · Score: 1

    I just tried it with Badger and Adblock - the site works fine. Usually I use Streamtuner for music and don't bother going to individual web sites, but then I mostly listen to European stations.

  6. Re:Don't think any place in Canada is a good place on Is Montana the Next Big Data Hub? · · Score: 1

    Well, Montana is in the USA you dum-dum. It is so poorly developed, the people drive hundreds of miles north to Calgary in Canada to shop.

  7. Monwhere? on Is Montana the Next Big Data Hub? · · Score: 1

    For those wondering where it is, Montana is the US boondocks somewhere south of Canada.

  8. Global cooling - ice age coming up on Scientists Race To Develop Livestock That Can Survive Climate Change · · Score: 0

    Pretty soon, the inter glacial will be over, so mankind would be better served by research into livestock that can survive an ice age.

  9. Re:But is it even usable? on Sony Tape Storage Breakthrough Could Bring Us 185 TB Cartridges · · Score: 1

    IMHE tape is always an order of magnitude slower than the advertized speed, so it is likely even worse than what you calculated.

  10. Re:Time for a new Sony Walkman Cassette Recorder on Sony Tape Storage Breakthrough Could Bring Us 185 TB Cartridges · · Score: 1

    Maybe Betamax will now be better than MP3?

  11. Re:Also, why dump the waste on earth??? on Understanding the 2 Billion-Year-Old Natural Nuclear Reactor In W Africa · · Score: 1

    Well, I hope you enjoy mowing the lawn of your elderly neighbour...

  12. Re:Market Share on Report: 99 Percent of New Mobile Threats Target Android · · Score: 1

    Of course. Linux has been labelled as a virus by important industry leaders, so 100% of Android machines run malware.

  13. Re:Market Share on Report: 99 Percent of New Mobile Threats Target Android · · Score: 1

    Simple. 99% target Android, because 99.999% of them don't actually work and the malware writers desperately keep trying different things.

  14. Re:Market Share on Report: 99 Percent of New Mobile Threats Target Android · · Score: 1

    I guess it only works on a Twitter and Facebook infested iPad, not on a real tablet like yours.

  15. Re:Market Share on Report: 99 Percent of New Mobile Threats Target Android · · Score: 1

    I dunno, given that the average American houshold is only slightly above Greece, maxed out US credit card info may not be particularly valuable: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04...

  16. Re:Huh? on One-a-Day-Compiles: Good Enough For Government Work In 1983 · · Score: 1

    Yes, 1983/4 was probably the last year of the punch card machines in government.

  17. Re:What's the problem? on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 1

    Think of the victims. He still got off easy.

    Anyhoo, I'm sure concerned volunteers a lining up around the block to help test a new killer concoction...

  18. Re:Screen has aged, and it shows on After a Long wait, GNU Screen Gets Refreshed · · Score: 3, Informative

    Still no serial support in tmux, so embedded developers need to use screen.

  19. Re:You're doing it wrong on You Are What You're Tricked Into Eating · · Score: 1

    Well, I'm sure you will lose weight if you eat a kilogram of Broccoli every day...

  20. Re:Was FORTRAN really that hard? on 50 Years of BASIC, the Language That Made Computers Personal · · Score: 4, Interesting

    No, it is more a case that access to any computing resources was very limited. Twenty years later, universities still had old time sharing machines running Fortran and BASIC that first year students trained on and COBOL, while PL1 on Sperry-Univac machines was the new thing for the seniors. A typical university only had two to four computers in total. I also started by learning BASIC with punch cards on a mainframe, since that was the only thing that was available. The small computer population explosion only really happened in the 1980s.

  21. Re:lol on You Are What You're Tricked Into Eating · · Score: 1

    Your math is true for a balanced diet. If you eat an unbalanced diet, then you can eat much more and still remain thin. That is the magic of Atkins.

  22. Re:You're doing it wrong on You Are What You're Tricked Into Eating · · Score: 4, Informative

    The word is ketosis. It is spelled totally different from voodoo. http://www.medicalnewstoday.co...

    If you restrict carbs, you force your body to process fat, which is the whole idea.

  23. Re:Anti-fat culture could be the cause of obesity on You Are What You're Tricked Into Eating · · Score: 1

    Yup. The easiest way to lose weight is with an unbalanced diet and the best unbalanced diet, is the high protein diet of Dr Atkins / Paleolithic. The worst way to lose weight, is with a balanced diet, since then you have to eat almost nothing and you'll feel terribly hungry all the time.

  24. Bread and Circuses on You Are What You're Tricked Into Eating · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The problem is that we metabolize bread just as fast as sucrose. Even Coca Cola gives less of a 'sugar rush' than bread (because Coke contains fructose).

    So, if you are big, fat and lazy, just stop eating wheat, potatoes and rice products and you'll be pleasantly surprised at the result. This is otherwise known as the Caveman diet, Paleo diet, Atkins diet, High Protein diet, or any number of other names. It works and there is no need to buy and read a book about it, though it won't hurt if you do.

  25. Re:5000 people annually on Minesweepers Robotic Competition Aims For a Landmine-Free World · · Score: 1

    Goats. The solution generally is to herd goats and sheep and let them detonate the things.