Follow Slashdot blog updates by subscribing to our blog RSS feed

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×

Comment Obese people need to lose weight. (Score 1) 252

These people were all obese and had metabolic syndrome to start:

Sixteen overweight/obese men and women 30-66 years old, with a BMI between 27–50 kg/m2 participated in this controlled dietary intervention (Table 1). Participants had metabolic syndrome defined as having three or more of the following criteria: waist circumference (101.6 cm men, 88.9 cm women), blood pressure (130/85 mm Hg) or current use of antihypertensive medication, and fasting plasma glucose (100 mg/dL), triglycerides (150 mg/dL), and HDL-C (40 mg/dL men, 50 mg/dL women).

Hard to draw any conclusions from this study for normal people. If you're fat, you have bad numbers and you need to lose weight and going on a high fat or low fat diet doesn't make much difference.

Comment Re:So, does water cost more? (Score 1) 377

Most of the GMO seeds from big agribusiness (Monsanto, etc.) are engineered to be resistant to the chemicals which you must apply to get the high yields. The chemicals kill everything else. You must buy the seeds and the chemicals together to get the high yields.
This makes economic sense (if not environmental sense) in developed countries but completely fails in less developed economies. This is the problem with foisting developed country "solutions" on developing countries. They end up with high cost, unsustainable agriculture.

Comment Re:All very nice (Score 2) 74

Iridium ran out of money before they could get enough satellites up to make the service viable and lost billions. It was also very expensive compared to ground based networks so was only viable in isolated areas, giving them a very limited market. But post bankruptcy is still operational and will start launching it's next generation of satellites (with better data capacity) next year. Elon Musk's SpaceX has been contracted to launch the satellites. Now, twenty years later it is a viable business.

Comment Re:Still a niche company (Score 3, Informative) 111

Right now they are constrained by the supply of batteries. They are building a factory to make enough batteries for 500,000 cars a year so in a few years they will not have this constraint.
Currently their gross margin on cars is 30%... much higher than any other car company. They also have a 2-4 month backlog of orders without doing any advertising and having a very limited distribution network. They are projecting 50%+ growth for the next few years.
The competition has so far only produced pathetic electric cars (limited range using old designs and chassis from their ICE cars). These are equivalent to what a weekend mechanic could build in his garage. None of the established car companies has attempted to make the investment required to build a real electric car from the ground up like Tesla has... they could do it but they are at least 5 years behind the curve so it will take them a long time to come out with something equivalent to today's Tesla... and by then, Tesla will have moved on to something better.

Comment Re:Still a niche company (Score 3, Insightful) 111

In the past I've had a Porsche and a Land Rover that were each more expensive (adjusted for inflation) than my Tesla as well as a bunch of less expensive German cars. The Tesla is by far the best car I've ever owned. The whole driving experience (power, handling, comfort, etc.) is incredible... an order of magnitude better than anything I've ever owned.
The fact that it is environmentally friendly is just icing on the cake (but was the primary reason I bought it).

Submission + - WireLurker Mac OS X Malware Shut Down (threatpost.com)

msm1267 writes: WireLurker is no more. After causing an overnight sensation, the newly disclosed family of Apple Mac OS X malware capable of also infecting iOS devices has been put to rest. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks confirmed this morning that the command and control infrastructure supporting WireLurker has been shut down and Apple has revoked a legitimate digital certificate used to sign WireLurker code and allow it to infect non-jailbroken iOS devices.

Researchers at Palo Alto Networks discovered and dubbed the threat WireLurker because it spreads from infected OS X computers to iOS once the mobile device is connected to a Mac via USB. The malware analyzes the connected iOS device looking for a number of popular applications in China, namely the Meitu photo app, the Taobao online auction app, or the AliPay payment application. If any of those are found on the iOS device, WireLurker extracts its and replaces it with a Trojanized version of the same app repackaged with malware.

Patient zero is a Chinese third-party app store called Maiyadi known for hosting pirated apps for both platforms. To date, Palo Alto researchers said, 467 infected OS X apps have been found on Maiyadi and those apps have been downloaded more than 350,000 times as of Oct. 16 by more than 100,000 users.

Slashdot Top Deals

Always look over your shoulder because everyone is watching and plotting against you.

Working...