This study allows writing a hypothesis, but doesn't actually provide us much in the way of scientific knowledge.

This study really does tell us very little, except that they don't know how nutrition variables affect health outcomes. They don't have any idea why the one group lost weight over the year of the study, and there is no long term result (i.e. over your lifetime). There also aren't any details about the kind of LDL. The summary is either intentionally misleading or the submitter didn't read the whole article (not surprising) as the article says specifically they didn't test for that.

The study also didn't actually determine how many calories were consumed. It was a "general guidelines" with very little controls or limits. They encouraged lean proteins, but allowed saturated fats in small or moderate amounts, but there was no limit afaict. They also didn't say how overweight the people were at the beginning of the study. I presume they were overweight as both groups lost weight, and these weren't 20-21 BMI people who somehow dropped into the unhealthily underweight range, but - again - hard to tell.

It's interesting, no doubt, as was the recent study tracking the use of reduced vs full fate dairy products (there was, iirc, no statistically significant weight or health change difference in the two groups). Unfortunately, without the "why" we're left with yet another set of potential guidelines which are based on observations but without a compelling reason. Good for religion, not so good for science.

Did you even feel the breeze?

For 3-5% of gross vehicle weight, each drone can have a safety parachute which activates automatically in the event of any stability failure or rapid drop in altitude. Failsafe systems can be engineered to protect the life of anyone who might be on the ground to several nines reliability. A decent drone recovery reward will get the equipment back - either for re-use or for evaluation of failure mechanism - and onboard camera(s) and real-time flight recording will ensure that sabotage is prosecuted ($100k and 20 years in federal prison, currently).

Try $100,000 and 20 years in federal PMITA prison.

That will be one more gun-toting idiot either financially destitute or behind bars. $100,000 and 20 years is the maximum federal penalty for firing on a commercial aircraft. Lock and load, baby!

Jobs machines do are incredibly cheaper than humans doing those same jobs in nearly all cases. Humans are insanely expensive, even mostly untrained ones. A $10,000 drone, especially one purchased quantities in the tens or hundreds of thousands, seems like expensive kit for just doing deliveries. But you could throw it away every 4 months instead of maintaining it and it would still be cheaper than hiring a human.

No you don't - just turn off the rockets and let it fall half way there (accelerating) under the other planets gravity, then turn around so that you slow down at the rate of earth's gravity pulling you back for the second half of the trip. All you need is the fuel to get to orbit and you're practically done.

*ducks*

Duh, there's already a documentary on that.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt01...

Oh he's not a doctor. But he did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

This is why it isn't common.

I think, though, that this is more of a temporary hurdle. Once it's in place, IF it's used properly, there's really no issue. Every bank teller in America has a camera on them at all times, as does nearly ever cashier and casino worker. Most every cube-dweller is subject to email and web tracking software at work as well, watching ever online click and transaction. For most everyone it's not an issue, and in this case there are more reasons - as a cop - to want it than not in the long run because it has the opportunity to make their job easier when it happens to be the hardest.

The brown dwarf that orbits the sun is called Jupiter.

That's kind of my point - it already exists. And it exists on the most gullible user, cash-rich platform ever - iOS. Find My iPhone would allow an attacker to send a message to the user informing him or her of a complete wipe of their data unless they paid up. These are folks who would have no idea if they've backed up their phone or not, and even if they had half of them done' know how to reinstall what they lost. Tens of millions of phones with owners who would drop $100 in a heartbeat not to lose their friends texts or pictures of their grandkids. And yet it's not happening.

How many iPhones and Android devices are currently being remotely wiped? I ask because both have the feature to do so currently.

You do realize that both Android and iOS have this feature baked in, right? You can remotely wipe your phone, and with a court order the police can coerce you to do it as well (if you worry about such things). All that's required is the device lock, which is fairly trivial given the propensity for modders to brick phones accidentally.