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Comment Re:Have I lost my mind? (Score 1) 378

Exactly what it sounds like.

Humans have gut bacteria. These bacteria are required for the gut to function properly. In some cases a person can lose theirs following a course of really powerful antibiotics ...

Fully agree, I’ve been health my entire life and haven’t had any heath problem and was in great health and even slightly underweight, but after going into the doctor about a year ago for what looked to be an ingrown fingernail I thought might need to be cut out, but instead my doctor just prescribed me a heavy 10 days course of antibiotics and sent me on my merry way. I never felt fully healthy or the same since ever since. It was only after the first or second day of antibiotics that I started reading about the full effects of antibiotics and once you start you’re not supposed to stop... In hindsight, my finger was healing on its own slowly and I probably should have never taken those antibiotics the doctor prescribed because it “looked like it might be infected”.

I’m not going back to a doctor again unless I’m on my death bed which will probably be much sooner now after those poison pills. I’m really starting to distrust the medical industry; half the commercials on TV now are for pills or hospitals. Why do hospitals and health offices need to advertise? It feels like the health system is becoming the new car dealerships and service garages for your health and is just trying to make a quick big buck on the lack of transparency and informed choices you can make.

Comment Re:My action on adds (Score 1) 132

Same here, all ads make me think is that a portion of my purchase price is going towards the ad instead of a better product. I tells me that their product does not have enough merit on its own that they have to advertize it to you instead of informed buyers choosing their product based on its ability alone.

Comment Re:Wait, what? (Score 1) 295

$70,000 / 0.0076kwh (cost per kwh) ~=921052Kwh
2.7 seconds ~= (~0.3 seconds less than time of fastest car to get to 60mph)
921052Kwh * (3600 seconds) ~= 3315789474 kws(seconds)
3315789474 kws / 2.7 seconds ~= 1228070176 watts ~= 1.21 Gigawatts
Yeah, I see what you’re really doing there Google ...
Those three days were spent umm, filling a capacitor of some kind I think...

Comment Re:Methinks people don't appreciate the scales her (Score 1) 299

Shit, I don't even think we have the MATH to travel those kind of distances.

"Shit, I don't even think we have the MATH to travel those kind of distances." Sure we do: "thirty-nine digits are sufficient to perform most cosmological calculations, because that is the accuracy necessary to calculate the volume of the known universe with a precision of one atom." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi#Motivations_for_computing_.CF.80 Humans know over a trillion digit.

Comment Interesting (Score 2) 86

It seems like all this would do is just decrease the brute force speed since you would have to do image analysis (assuming you could write a decent CAPTCHA solver). How would this be different than passing a password through an algorithm 1000’s of times? Also it seems like it might decrease password security. Depending on what is known about the encrypted data, an attacker may not have any way to check if the password is correct. With the CAPTCHA, I would think it would be quite easy to detect the characters that are out of the norm of randomness even if you can’t tell the letters and pass it to a human or deeper scan. That is unless there are false positive CAPTCHA outputs?

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