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Comment Re:Meditation......... (Score 1) 529

Indeed meditation is a good way to reduce stress, and have the brain generate serotonin. Opposing religion and stress to argue about brain capacity is ludicrous. To put it simply, strong believers in a religion accept things as they're told and, thus, have less to think and wonder about life, death, present, future and the universe... and that reduces stress. But a regular practice of some sports, a well balanced diet, friends... are some of many ways to reduce stress - while keeping one feet in true and sometimes harsh reality.

Submission + - Bill Gates: Snowden is No Hero!

hcs_$reboot writes: In a lengthy interview from Rolling Stone, Bill Gates, among many other subjects, is asked: "Do you consider [Snowden] a hero or a traitor?". The Microsoft founder answers: "I certainly wouldn't characterize him as a hero (...) You won't find much admiration from me".
What about Government Surveillance? "The government has such ability to do these things. (...) But the specific techniques they use become unavailable if they're discussed in detail"
Rolling Stone retorts that Privacy can be an issue, "We want safety, but we also want privacy" says the journalist. Bill Gates's tells his main priority focuses on stopping the bad guys: "let's say you knew nothing was going on. How would you feel? I mean, seriously. I would be very worried. Technology arms the bad guys with orders of magnitude more [power]. Not just bad guys. Crazy guys."

Submission + - How Steve Jobs Got the iPhone Into Japan

hcs_$reboot writes: Masatoshi Son, SoftBank CEO, remembers the early days when he tried to cut a deal with Steve Jobs in order to be the first to offer the -not even named iPhone yet- "new phone" from Apple, back in 2005. At the time, Son didn't even own a mobile carrier. He then purchased Vodafone, and was indeed the first to sell the iPhone in 2008 (then Au-Kddi in 2011, and DoCoMo in 2013). Today, 75% of smartphones sold in Japan are iPhones.

Submission + - Six important facts you're not being told about lost Malaysia Airlines Flight 37 (techiedigital.com) 2

An anonymous reader writes: The mystery of the flight’s sudden and complete disappearance has even the world’s top air safety authorities baffled. “Air-safety and antiterror authorities on two continents appeared equally stumped about what direction the probe should take,” reports the Wall Street Journal.

Submission + - Microsoft offers Windows Phone OS free to Indian Players (indiatimes.com)

cvenky writes: Microsoft announced that more phone makers, including two from India, Lava and Karbonn, will produce Windows Phone devices in the coming months. Microsoft has waived off license fees for the phones manufactured by these players. Both companies already make Android devices using Google's mobile OS which is free to use. Their Windows Phone devices are likely to hit the market in the next few months

Comment Re:snark (Score 1) 461

Why, would that somehow bring [the passengers] back to life?

For the time being, no crash has been reported, and nobody offically died. Satellites past footage indicate no explosion in the area. Since the plane cannot be found anywhere around its last known position, where sea is 100 meters deep at most, some scenarii suggest that the pilot(s) went mad and drove the plane away from its planned route. Who knows where it actually is now?

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