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Comment Re:Massive conspiracy (Score 1) 465

I presume people have modded it funny because they have forgotten Nixon was forced to resign over 18 minutes of missing tape out of 200 hrs of conversation related to the break in at Watergate.

18 minutes of tape was hardly the only evidence.

If we've forgotten anything as a nation, it's how to act when a President gets out of line. Seems the concept of impeachment was also on that 18 minutes of tape.

Comment Re:I knew it! It's those damn blue LEDs! (Score 1) 138

No, the router does not need to pump 20mA through five blue ultrabrights. I do not need a blinking blue LED to tell me that the monitor is in standby mode. Dim those motherfuckers or, even better, give me an option to turn them off completely.

Many suffer of this issue. The home router manufacturers should include a simple front panel toggle switch to turn the LEDs on and off. It would certainly provide extra value for many people and increase their interest to buy the product.

Or, they could just cut costs and realize that not all of us need shiny blinking lights for every bit of activity flowing through hardware.

Comment Re:I knew it! It's those damn blue LEDs! (Score 1) 138

No, the router does not need to pump 20mA through five blue ultrabrights. I do not need a blinking blue LED to tell me that the monitor is in standby mode. Dim those motherfuckers or, even better, give me an option to turn them off completely.

Use the option the vendor doesn't provide you.

I too, have an insanely bright array of LEDs on my router. Didn't realize when I bought it how annoying it really is. Put electrical tape over all the LEDs on the router and cable modem. Instant blacked-out hardware. Works like a champ.

Comment Re:the obesity smoking gun (Score 1) 138

You're one of those gym rats aren't you?

Much easier than 'packing on muscle' is eating the right combinations of food at the right time. Activating the triple-burner in chinese-speak.

What's funny about a lot of people that go to the gym and 'exercise' is that they don't realize that most of the benefits come from using your body properly, not the actual exercises.

If you can do the whole primary series in ashtanga yoga, you can call it a day.

Then again, it wouldn't be very USian to work smarter not harder right? Might makes right after all.

How ironic, as my gym is more often a Yoga studio than not.

Yes, I learned to work smarter while beating my body up with rigorous exercise years ago. Then I found certain exercises (like Yoga) are just as efficient while not beating my body up as bad. Running became cycling and so on.

You tend to become wise to this as your body starts reminding you that engines only last so long, and parts wear out. If you don't accomodate for this, unending pain can be the result, which can be as bad mentally as it is physically.

Comment Re:OK, Whatever... (Score 1) 156

industry's top researchers are being threatened by lawyers and law enforcement over their efforts to track down vulnerabilities in internet infrastructure.

Yes, it's surprising when companies get bent out of shape when random "security researchers" hack into their systems uninvited.

Sure, it's nice to know if you are vulnerable, but still, it is difficult to take at "face value" when some random "security researcher" claims to have altruistic aimes when caught hacking your network...

Why, because it's so difficult to believe these days that any system would have vulnerabilities that need to be addressed?

Perhaps I would question the source a bit, but being alerted via email isn't exactly the standard Way of the Black Hat. They prefer you find out the hard way, and given that fact alone, I'd probably put some value on the face of the notification.

The legal reaction described is quite pathetic. Hiding behind your lawyers instead of trying to look into an identified problem isn't going to bode well long-term. And hiring a dozen more of them isn't going to get customers to buy your shitty, broken product you refuse to fix.

Comment Re:the obesity smoking gun (Score 1) 138

It's simple math. Consume less than you burn.

This idea is simple, pervasive, and wrong. The body's metabolism responds dynamically to the amount of fuel available, and exhortations to "eat less" are not at all helpful to someone who is trying to lose weight.

Our bodies are machines.

Machines require proper fuel, and proper lubricants. Vegetable oil is NOT a proper fuel for warm-blooded bodies. Polyunsaturated vegetable oils suppress the metabolism, shunt carbohydrates to fat production, are not easily burned for energy, and distort the body's hunger signals.

Using vegetable oil in the human machine is like substituting a random grade of mineral oil for the transmission fluid the manufacturer designed your car to use. Your transmission might work for a while, but I wouldn't expect it to last for long.

I did clarify in my original post that a proper diet is key. I think we both agree that eating shit all day will result in you feeling like shit, and your body acting like shit. I found I could fuel myself with quite a few more calories when you use the right fuel, but that was also combined with good exercise that helps burn it off too. Again, it's both working in unison that creates maximum efficiency.

Comment Re:the obesity smoking gun (Score 1) 138

No, YOU, and other ignorant people, BELIEVE it is simple math.

BTW, science isn't 'excuses'.

I do whole heartedly agree with the body is a machine and needs to be used. Movement is a key part of the 'design' of the human body, it aids in everything from circulation, breathing, digestion, waste elimination, breakdown of toxins, etc...

If you have any amount of competent control over your body, i.e., able to consciously control autonomous systems, you'll also know that different body configurations require different fuels and burn them at different rates.

Yes, and I stand by my argument that 95% of the population thinks that exercise is optional, along with eating right, so the variables don't really matter when you haven't even made it past the first step in fixing ANY machine, regardless of shape or size. Blood pressure, cholesterol, sugar levels, all of these are factors, and for 95% of the population, they can be controlled with good diet.

The body reacts massively to change, which translates to efficiency. Watch what happens to overall efficiency when you feed the machine RIGHT. Then watch what happens when you burn that GOOD fuel to help maintain the machine.

Start packing on some muscle, and you'll watch your metabolism go through the roof. It's like adding a turbocharger to an engine.

Comment Re:polymer AR lower recievers... (Score 1) 490

There are several commercially successful makes of polymer AR lowers. In AR-land, the serial is on the lower. A 3d printed lower gives you the ability to print a non serial numberd AR. Which is legal (US federal. YMMV) because home-made guns don't have to be serialized.

On top of that, after you've printed your (non-serialized) lower, you can order the rest of the parts over the internet with ease, and no further requirements for registration are necessary.

This is about the only valid issue that I think gun-fearing goofs will want to address today, even though milling machines have been around for decades, and Cavalry Arms was making plastic lowers long ago.

The UK tests were rather pointless. Even a moron should understand plastic isn't going to support the pressures in the chamber or the barrel.

Comment Re:the obesity smoking gun (Score 1, Interesting) 138

Citation for your 'common sense' which is actually not true?

People have different bodies, shocker!, different metabolisms, and even different preferences for fuels. Truth is stranger than what your feeble intellect has come up with.

It's simple math. Consume less than you burn. That applies for 95% of the population to manage weight properly, so let's drop the excuses already pointing to metabolism and fuel.

On top of that, proper diet is only HALF of the issue, which most ignorant people feel it is the only thing to focus on.

The other half of the problem is an utter refusal to exercise. Our bodies are machines. They need to be worked properly to maintain proper function. Food is merely the fuel for that activity.

And that has been proven time and time again, and does follow "common sense", so again, knock it off with the excuses already.

Comment Re:Or maybe, you know... (Score -1, Flamebait) 138

The most obvious correlation to me would be......If you don't get a good night's sleep, then you are less likely to exercise during the day.

Yes, because a lack of sleep is the #1 reason why people don't exercise and eat right.

Give me a break.

I wouldn't be surprised if the "extra ambient light" in the bedroom is coming from the microwave they hauled in there.

Next up, the new diet craze for lazy people. Blackout blinds.

Comment Re:Guilty (Score 3, Informative) 207

Not voluntarily unless required by law? Why do companies release statements like this? It just makes them seem more guilty. Better not to say anything.

Uh, no. I'd rather know about it so then we can at least attempt to do something about it. Not knowing would do nothing to resolve the issue.

And it's quite the serious issue. Where we used to have only the government legally allowed to sit behind the bullshit excuse of "cannot confirm or deny", they have now expanded that standard legal waiver (via NSLs) to every American corporation they touch.

And the secret monitoring will be legally allowed to continue without your knowledge. Sorry, but until they dismantle secret courts, Snowdens revelations haven't done a damn thing to change policy or weaken the NSAs capability at all.

Comment Re:I want to teleport instead of download. (Score 1) 202

That will make our internet faster and will end the Comcast/Netflix deal.

I'd be careful with wild cards. You could fill hard drives in seconds with that.

And whatever you do, do NOT teleport at work. It would be a bitch to explain to the boss why the corporate file server became instantly full of porn.

Comment Re:Internet essentials requires a child in the hou (Score 1) 114

Do they come to your house to see the child? What are they, pedophiles?

Do they come to your house to see the child? What are they, pedophiles?

No, they would likely do it a much easier way, with tax records.

Kids may be home-schooled, so the school records may not find them, but chances are you're not going to find too many parents hiding them when the taxman comes around.

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