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Comment Re:Killing myself! (Score 1) 511

by concernedadmin (#26167117) Attached to: If I must catch a disease, I'd rather catch it via ...

I would quit smoking if you'd find out how to cure Social Anxiety Disorder...

I don't mean to appear condescending, but have you tried exercise, specifically aerobic exercise? By try, I mean more than for a few weeks off-and-on. I'm certainly no doctor, but from my own experience, exercise releases endorphins which result in the so-called "runner's high." Not only will you be in better shape, but your fitness will boost your self-confidence and help you interact with other people more easily.

I like to stay away from modern medicine as much as possible because I've been burned by crummy doctors in the past. That's not to say I go with unproven homeopathic treatments either. I stick with what worked for our ancestors -- a good diet and plenty of exercise. Really, the geeky audience on Slashdot should make the connection between a biochemical machine like the human body and a electromechanical system like a computer. If you want optimal performance, it takes hard work. Drugs are an easy way out.
Space

Ultra-Sensitive Camera To Measure Exoplanet Sizes 62

Posted by timothy from the ignoring-global-poverty dept.
Roland Piquepaille writes "US astronomers and engineers have built a new camera to precisely measure the size of planets moving around distant stars. This camera has been dubbed OPTIC — short for 'Orthogonal Parallel Transfer Imaging Camera.' According to the research team, it is 'so sensitive that it could detect the passage of a moth in front of a lit window from a distance of 1,000 miles.' I'm not sure if this analogy is right, but the team said it was able to precisely define the size of a planet called WASP-10b which is orbiting around the star WASP-10, about 300 light-years from Earth."
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - The largest power grab in the history of the USA (denninger.net) 1

Submitted by Nurf
Nurf writes: The Treasury is set to execute a de-facto nationalization of the entire banking, insurance, and related financial system. Companies in those sectors don't have the right to choose not to be nationalized, and they have no recourse to the courts (nor do you if you lose money because of this). The cost to US citizens will be at least 2 Trillion dollars; there are no effective limit on losses. Also, all foreign bad debt can be funnelled through this system to be paid for by US citizens. All of this is happening to protect a few well-connected bankers who knew what risks they took. We'd be better off letting the system crash and using a few trillion dollars of new debt to make those on the street whole, rather than some investment bankers. Democrat and Republican politicians are falling over themselves to support the Treasury. Welcome to Fascist America.
Democrats

Obama Campaign Seeks LAMP Developers 488

Posted by kdawson from the choosing-sides dept.
kgamiel writes "The Obama campaign's CTO is hiring LAMP-biased geeks for the Boston office to help elect the Senator in the fall. This got me to wondering, what if he instead announced a SourceForge project toward the same end? What would such a project look like? Tools that both sides could use 'equally' would not achieve the desired end. And philosophically, could the Open Source community support one side in a competition such as this? What other issues does this raise?" Another reader notes that the Obama campaign is also searching for a security expert to plug the holes that allowed a hacker to redirect Obama's site (Linux/Apache hosted by GoDaddy) to Hillary Clinton's (Windows/IIS hosted by Rackspace).
It's funny. Laugh.

Pringles Can Designer Dies, Buried In a Pringles Can 261

Posted by kdawson from the can-you-hear-me-now dept.
n3hat sends along an item from the Cincinnati Enquirer: "Dr. Fredric J. Baur was so proud of having designed the container for Pringles... that he asked his family to bury him in one. His children honored his request. Part of his remains was buried in a Pringles can — along with a regular urn containing the rest... Dr. Baur, a retired organic chemist and food storage technician who specialized in research and development and quality control for Procter & Gamble, died May 4 at 89... He developed many products, including frying oils and a freeze-dried ice cream, for P&G... But the Pringles can was his proudest accomplishment, his daughter said. He received a patent for the package as well as the method of packaging Pringles in 1970."
Earth

Stonehenge As a Royal Family's Burial Site 124

Posted by kdawson from the my-stone-is-bigger-than-your-stone dept.
mikesd81 sends in a report from Newsday about radiocarbon dating of cremated bones excavated from Britain's Stonehenge that, an archeologist said, has solved part of the ancient mystery surrounding the 5,000-year-old site: It was a burial ground for what may have been the country's first royal dynasty. No word on how this work relates to the "Neolithic Lourdes" theory we discussed earlier. "The new dates indicate burials began at least 500 years before the first massive stones were erected at the site and continued after it was completed... The pattern and relatively small number of the graves suggest all were members of a single family. The findings provide the first substantive evidence that a line of kings ruled at least a portion of southern England during this early period. They exerted enough power to mobilize manpower necessary to move the massive stones from as far as 150 miles away and [maintained] that power for at least five centuries, said archaeologist Mike Parker Pearson of the University of Sheffield, leader of current excavations at the site... His findings will also appear in the June issue of National Geographic and in the television special "Stonehenge Decoded," to be shown Sunday."
Security

China's Cyber-Militia 196

Posted by kdawson from the less-power-to-you dept.
D. J. Keenan notes that the cover story of the current issue of National Journal reports in depth on China's cyber-aggression against US targets in the government, military, and business. We have discussed China's actions on numerous occasions over the years. The news in this report is the suggestion that Chinese cyber-attackers may have been involved in major power outages in the US. "Computer hackers in China, including those working on behalf of the Chinese government and military, have penetrated deeply into the information systems of US companies and government agencies, stolen proprietary information from American executives in advance of their business meetings in China, and, in a few cases, gained access to electric power plants in the United States, possibly triggering two recent and widespread blackouts in Florida and the Northeast, according to US government officials and computer-security experts..."
Mozilla

Mozilla Dev Team On Firefox's Success 184

Posted by kdawson from the include-and-reveal dept.
Titus Germanicus writes "If you're thinking about open sourcing a project in the near future, Mozilla might be the perfect blueprint to follow. At last week's Mesh 2008 conference in Canada, Mike Shaver, chief technology evangelist and founding member at Mozilla, and John Resig, a JavaScript evangelist at Mozilla — two of the key figures behind the success of Mozilla's Firefox Web browser — listed inclusivity and transparency as two of the top cornerstones of any community-built project. Shaver said in this interview that because the Web is intended for everybody, the level same openness should be shared with Firefox's open source contributors."
Programming

Picking the Right Eclipse Distribution 78

Posted by kdawson from the dark-side-of-the-moon dept.
Someone over at IBM Developerworks who prefers anonymity writes "Depending on what you want to do, there is probably a commercial or free distro built on the Eclipse platform waiting for you. From C/C++, Ruby, PHP, Groovy, Java, and Web development, you can use an IDE built on Eclipse to help you. The big question is: Which Eclipse distribution is right for you?"
NES (Games)

Submission + - Shigeru Miyamoto, The Walt Disney Of Our Time (bangamovie.com) 1

Submitted by
circletimessquare
circletimessquare writes: "The New York Times has a gushing portrait of Shigeru Miyamoto, a man whose creative successes have spanned almost 30 years. From Donkey Kong, to Mario (as well known as Mickey Mouse around the world the story notes), to Zelda, to the Wii, and now to Wii Fit, which according to some initial rumors is selling out across the globe in its debut. The article has some gems of insight into the man's thinking, including that his iconic characters are an afterthought. Gameplay comes first, and the characters are designed around that. Additionally, his fame and finances and ego are refreshingly modest for someone of his high regard and creative stature: 'despite being royalty at Nintendo and a cult figure, he almost comes across as just another salaryman (though a particularly creative and happy one) with a wife and two school-age children at home near Kyoto. He is not tabloid fodder, and he seems to maintain a relatively nondescript lifestyle.'"

Feed Science Daily: Most Internet Sex Offenders Aim At Teens, Not Young Children, Study Shows (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed
Contrary to stereotype, most Internet sex offenders are not adults who target young children by posing as another youth, luring children to meetings, and then abducting or forcibly raping them, according to researchers who have studied the nature of Internet-initiated sex crimes. Instead, Internet offenders target teens, not young children and rarely use force, abduction or deception.


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