Not sure what those researchers wrote - I don't see any problem here!

I'm not fundamentally opposed to paying a broadband tax, but what would I get for it? I would happily pay a 5% tax if it meant that my broadband received government-imposed price controls, minimum bandwidth guarantees, and net neutrality.

There are definitely biological factors in weight loss, but it's absolutely 100% true that weight loss is controlled by the food that you eat.

Consider it this way:
1) Moving and thinking require calories.
2) Calories are obtained from food and drink.
3) If you consume less calories than you use, you will lose weight.

If there are any biological differences at work at all, the only one would be "you're better at digesting food than other people". It's funny how we consider a "worse" metabolism to be the one that is better at extracting chemical energy from food.

Calories on a label are not the same thing as calories digested and used/stored. So keep in mind you might be extracting more chemical energy than somebody else from the same 150-calorie soda.

With all that said, however, it's still true that lowering your food intake to a point where you burn more calories than you absorb is the only way you'll ever lose weight. It takes several hours of jogging to burn off the calories of a single extra-"value" meal. When you put it into the context of three hours of daily jogging to make up for one bad meal per day, you can appreciate that diet matters much, much more than exercise.

It's bad enough that these businesses in the US exist to collect donations which go to pay for their land, buildings and the ridiculously high salaries of priests, preachers, pastors or whatever they want to me called and do it all tax-free because it's "religion." But they go on to insult the whole educational process in every way possible by asserting things without evidence or experiment or verification of any kind. Some people even get real PhD's in this crap.

Although I'm philosophically inclined to agree with you, you're misrepresenting some facts.

1) Most of the ministers and pastors I've ever met are paid about on-par with school teachers in the same area, which is to say "not much". There's the occasional mega-pastor of a mega-church who rakes in the dollars, but that's nowhere near the reality of most clergy members.

2) It's true that some clergy get a masters or even a PhD in theology, divinity, biblical studies, or something similar. However, I don't know that it's any more or less valuable than getting a PhD in something like History, English, Art, or any other kind of humanity. Even if you consider bible scholars to be a studying a fictional book, it doesn't make them any different than any other PhD that studies something fictional or mythological.

3) There are lots of Protestant ministers out there who don't believe in creationism. Many intellectuals in the religious community treat the bible as a collection of books written by people, some of which are more truthful than others. I've never met a well-educated pastor that believed every word in the bible came directly from God.

Elsewise known as the scariest 9 words in the english language.

I have to admit, I'm impressed with the judge's question. I'd agree that this is really what's at the heart of the matter, and I'm glad that the judge is asking it. It certainly seems like he's taken the time to do his homework into programming languages and computing.

Expect innovation to dwindle until such time as a garage-shop inventor doesn't need to worry about getting sued for patent infringement.

I can't speak for every state out there, but in the state of California 0.08 is the limit over which you are drunk, not the limit under which you aren't drunk.

You can get charged and convicted of a DUI with a BAC under .08, it's just that other evidence needs to be provided (field sobriety test, testimony given to police, etc). A BAC of .08 just means you're guilty without question or any need for other evidence.

Since I'm assuming somebody on the MINIX team posted this article:

Are there any plans to add real-time extensions to MINIX? I know that ARM support is in the works - with that and hard (or even soft) real-time extensions, it could sweep the embedded world in a big way.

That mentality is what let our country get to the state it's in right now. As a nation, we need to stop playing "lesser of two evils", and start voting for third party candidates. Any third-party candidates. It doesn't even matter which ones.

In a nation where (D) and (R) are both (F)'ing us in the (A), continuing to vote for whichever one will screw us _less_ is a sort of tragedy-of-the-commons kind of scenario. It makes sense as an individual choice, but when the entire country thinks like this we get the mess we're in now.

I guess Donald Normand's "The Design of Everyday Things" is on the border of "technical", but I'd say it's on the "non-technical" side of the border. It's a fascinating book that goes into detain on how we perceive information, store things in our memory, and interact with the world. I'm enjoying it a lot.

The actual study says that 25% of accidents are caused by distracted driving, not by gadgets per-se. Their list of distractions include (among other things):

1) Vehicle controls/displays.
2) Food.
3) Scenery / roadside features.
4) Daydreaming.

I must be a bit confused about how exactly a magnet link works. In order for me to access the magnet stream for a file I wanted to download, I would need a magnet link pointing to somebody who was serving the file, right?

What happens when the person who the magnet link references turns off their computer? If the magnet link needs to "check in" and update itself on a regular basis to prevent against this, what makes it functionally different than hosting a .torrent?