Obese patients eat more calories than they use. Eat less that you use and you lose weight. It's the law.

Trust but verify, and copy. For local archival storage, it's as easy as copying it to a new hard drive ever year or three. That way you don't end up with as much bit rot or incompatible data. It takes less and less (percentage-wise) storage each time the data is copied, because capacity grows so much. The older the data, the smaller it is.

Dr. Oz is not science. It is still true (as science has maintained for a lot of years) that if you digest more calories than you burn, you will gain weight. It's the law of conservation of energy (a.k.a. science). Eat too much and you get fat. Eat less than you need, and you'll lose weight. Period.

I guess we'll have to shop at Alibaba.

There is no such thing as a one-time tax.

You don't need a bomb if you've got a proper pickup truck. http://www.dallasnews.com/news...

Any headline with "revealed" and "secret" is highly questionable.

This is absolutely true. The major languages today have some serious problems, but the IDE makes it faster to program in them despite the problems.

However, chest thumping is fun. I hope to see a lot of new languages.

The U.S. Senate, that is.

Why do I suspect this is horse crap?

Why does Obama want to retaliate against North Korea for hacking a Japanese movie company, but not Russia for hacking U.S. and international banks?

DIce Holdings, via Slashdot, is carrying on a worldwide harassment campaign against people who type fast.

Isn't the army supposed to protect us from foreign threats? This seems like a job for domestic law enforcement.

We should give up more of our constitutional rights NOW, before it's too late.

I've just had two 5tb Seagates fail. Out of two.