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Comment Re:I'll die happy (Score 1) 251

You can eat anything and still maintain a low-calorie diet on a reasonable timescale.

The simplest (not easiest, simplest) way to do this is to fast. You eat, then you don't for a while, then you eat again.

As an experiment, let yourself grow good and hungry before your next meal (I'm not talking about the first pangs here, those disappear in an hour or so, I mean actual hunger). You'd be surprised how long that takes.

Comment Re:The largest ship in the British Fleet (Score 1) 4

Eh. Carriers are fine against sea-skimmers, even fast ones like the Moskit/BrahMos because modern fighters have look-down sensors (radar, IR, maybe UV and LIDAR too) and a sea-skimmer is a long, bright, hot, metallic thing in a vast flat expanse of nothing at all, to them.

Ballistic missiles, otoh... but the guidance is non-trivial then.

Comment Re:Verified, and will continue (Score 1) 502

As opposed to, I dunno, say, Martin Luther King, Jr.? Yeah, all of those weapons he was stockpiling sure helped shake things up.

Deacons for Defense and Justice. The Panthers.

And all of those 60s hippies who were so gung ho about engaging in armed conflict really made the difference in stopping the Vietnam War.

Weather Underground.

All of those fundamental shifts in how government has changed were accomplished through non-violent campaigns

3) England didn't have a massive arsenal of modern weaponry to use against the colonists

Yeah, no, you know jack shit about the history of your own country.

Comment Re:What about spies? (Score 1) 277

Where are they? Do they come with original autographs? Do you seriously believe Anonymous is exclusively (or, indeed, even primarily) teenagers? Because if you do, I have some very, very bad news for you.

Comment Re:Kaspersky (Score 1) 114

One component of one early variant of Stuxnet is also a component of a variant of Flame.

There is no time for people to analyze all the malware anymore. Instead, there are automated detection and signing routines.

When you read about the earliest variants of Stuxnet dating from 2008, that is not the time at which they were written, it is the time when a virus signature was added to a database by someone's detection engines.

So, a particular file was tagged at that time as "virus". No one looked further into it. Whenever something dropped that particular file, the new something was also tagged as "virus" and promptly ignored, because they were rarely seen in the wild. In this manner, a number of components of Stuxnet (and then, Flame) WERE being detected, but no-one connected the dots, as it were, until now.

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