Comment Re:Of course. (Score 1) 1174
TSA: Government Work Program for the unemployable.
What's weird is to think that these people are the result of unfunded federal mandates like No Child Left Behind...
Comment Re:Exactly! I was saying that too! (Score 1) 1174
Why ethanol? It seems like renewable forms would be much better and would not disrupt the food supply (and pricing). If you're talking about automobiles, we should move towards the new IBM "breathable" batteries, which weigh much less because they get some of their power from the atmosphere. Batteries in cars make the most sense, because it decouples "power generation" from "power usage"; the batteries can be filled from energy produced via water, wind, sun, nuclear, coal, fusion, and whatever the next quantum-based energy source is. (Siblings said similar statements, albeit with much more vitriol...)
Comment Re:Backdoor (Score 1) 164
Since 911 we are living in Jack Bauer land. Better hope the Good Guys never lose their moral compass.
IIRC near the beginning of season 2, Jack Bauer killed a suspect in custody. I think the good guys lost their moral compass years ago... (Besides, what "good guys"? The government is just the last thug standing.)
Microsoft Says Two Basic Security Steps Might Have Stopped Conficker 245
coondoggie writes "If businesses and consumers stuck to security basics, they could have avoided all cases of Conficker worm infection detected on 1.7 million systems by Microsoft researchers in the last half of 2011. According to the latest Microsoft Security Intelligence report, all cases of Conficker infection stemmed from just two attack methods: weak or stolen passwords and exploiting software vulnerabilities for which updates existed."
Scientists Clone Sheep With 'Good' Fat 233
redletterdave writes "Chinese scientists have cloned a genetically modified sheep containing a 'good' type of fat found naturally in nuts, seeds, fish and leafy greens that helps reduce the risk of heart attacks and cardiovascular disease. The gene, which is linked to the production of polyunsaturated fatty acids, was inserted into a donor cell taken from the ear of a Chinese Merino sheep. The cell was then inserted into an unfertilized egg and implanted into the womb of a surrogate sheep. With any luck, this process could be replicated in the future to clone more animals for safe and healthy consumption."
Comment Re:Gold isn't up at all. (Score 1) 531
In the Ron Paulite religion, gold is a sacred and mystical metal that can stave off recessions and makes economies unsinkable. Ron Paulites could be described as something of precious metal fetishists.
You have this backwards. To Ron Paul supporters, centralized banking is a recipe for extracting the wealth from a nation, through continuous boom/bust cycles, the boom being "easy credit" so people who shouldn't qualify for mortgages, do; the bust being "tightening credit" so those who shouldn't have qualified for mortgages are foreclosed on.
A stable currency won't "magically" cause these cycles to disappear. Moving away from centralized banking and fiat currency, will -- not magically, but because those cycles were designed in to the Fed's long con from the start.
Comment Re:Is it real at all? (Score 1) 232
IO is one of our primary tools in conflict, and we shouldn't somehow be ashamed of it
Well, I strongly disagree: it doesn't matter what the new label for "lying" is, "lying" is a behavior that I do not want my tax dollars to support. I am ashamed that my government lies to anybody.
Comment Re:Malnutrition (Score 1) 487
Thanks!
Comment Re:Vegan mums today. (Score 1) 487
Similar experience here: my sister was vegetarian for a number of years (half a dozen or so), and when she came out of it, the first meat she ate was bacon.
Comment Re:Cooking Stimulated Big Leap in Human Cognition (Score 1) 487
But cooking, by breaking down fibers and making nutrients more readily available, is a way of processing food outside the body. Eating (mostly) cooked meals would have lessened the energy needs of our digestion systems, thereby freeing up calories for our brains.
That is so cool. It makes me feel something like a sea cucumber, which extrudes its stomach and begins processing its meal outside its body.
Comment Re:Malnutrition (Score 1) 487
though don't try to steal any from the next pregnant woman you see on the subway - that won't go well
For certain: pregnant women aren't lactating. You probably meant "the next recent mother" or something similar.
Comment Re:Malnutrition (Score 1) 487
Hi, I was adding those books to my Amazon wishlist, and it looks like the authors of "Good Fat, Bad Fat" are William P. Castelli and Glen C. Griffin, 1997. "Why We Get Fat" was 2010, and an earlier book by Gary Taubes was "Good Calories, Bad Calories", from 2008. Just curious which earlier book you were referring to? (Not looking for points for pointing out an error, just looking to correct it -- and read the right references. :)
Comment Re:anyone surprised? (Score 1) 478
The 99% is the grass under the 1% elephants' feet.
Comment Re:Whoops! (Score 1) 345
It's going to look really good if they manage to miss bagging some criminal or terror kingpin because some foreign governement was double checking the paperwork to avoid another Kim Dotcom style mess.
(Emphasis added.) Surely the US government isn't going after themselves?
Comment Re:She's right (Score 1) 106
[...] but a widely respected policy like this should prevent draconian knee-jerk bullshit like shutting down social media sites just because a group of miscreants use them for illegal purposes.
Yeah, let's shut down the oxygen because some criminals are using it to breathe with. Let's cut off our noses, damned face!
