MageWyn - Slashdot User

Submission + - If Current Habits Continue, Half of U.S. Adults Will Be Obese by 2030 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @02:49PM

An anonymous reader writes: Experts predict that unless Americans change their eating and exercise habits, half of U.S. adults will be obese by 2030. Using a model of population and other trends based on data released by the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, the report "F as in Fat," from the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, estimates at least a 44 percent obesity rate in every state and over 60 percent obesity rate in 30 states.

Submission + - Get Your 3D Printed Leather Jackets (txchnologist.com)

Submitted by

MatthewVD

on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @01:12PM

MatthewVD writes: "Bioprinting startup Modern Meadows is coming forward with its plans to master in vitro leather production in the next five years. The news follows the August announcement that Peter Thiel's Breakout Labs revolving fund had given the startup a grant. Modern Meadows' plans for 3D printed meat will probably have to wait for a few years, notably because a majority of people wouldn't want to eat cultured meat. Printed leather, on the other hand, would be welcomed by animal activists and skin is structurally simpler than meat."

Comment Re:does AVN have the same rules? (Score 1) 285

by MageWyn on Monday January 11, 2010 @05:23PM (#30728972) Attached to: CES Vendors Kicked Out of Hotels For Showcasing Wares in Room

Firmware might as well be software...

Comment Who needs a TV? Just use Glasses! (Score 1) 419

by MageWyn on Friday January 08, 2010 @05:40PM (#30700472) Attached to: Hot Or Not — 3D TV

Screw the TV, lets go Denno Coil style!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denn%C5%8D_Coil

Nintendo Upset Over Nokia Game Emulation Video 189

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @02:45AM from the super-mario-takedown dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Nintendo is investigating potential copyright infringement by Nokia during some video demos of their N900 phone, which can be seen emulating Nintendo games. Nintendo spokesman Robert Saunders says: 'We take rigorous steps to protect our IP and our legal team will examine this to determine if any infringement has taken place.' In the video, Nokia says, 'Most publishers allow individual title usage, provided that the user is in possession of the original title.'"

How 136 People Became 7 Million Illegal File-Sharers 313

Posted by Soulskill on Friday September 04, 2009 @07:10PM from the lots-of-fertility-drugs dept.

Barence writes "The British government's official figures on the level of illegal file sharing in the UK come from questionable research commissioned by the music industry. The Radio 4 show named More or Less examined the government's claim that 7m people in Britain are engaged in illegal file sharing. The 7m figure actually came from a report written about music industry losses for Forrester subsidiary Jupiter Research. The report was privately commissioned by none other than the UK's music trade body, the BPI. The 7m figure had been rounded up from an actual figure of 6.7m, gleaned from a 2008 survey of 1,176 net-connected households, 11.6% of which admitted to having used file-sharing software — in other words, only 136 people. That 11.6% was adjusted upwards to 16.3% 'to reflect the assumption that fewer people admit to file sharing than actually do it.' The 6.7m figure was then calculated based on an estimated number of internet users that disagreed with the government's own estimate. The wholly unsubstantiated 7m figure was then released as an official statistic."

Comment Re:Why do people make things hard for themselves? (Score 1) 528

by MageWyn on Tuesday May 26, 2009 @04:18PM (#28100141) Attached to: Documenting a Network?

Thank you for posting this incredibly useful tool!

For anyone else looking for a quick and easy documentation tool, check this out!

Submission + - 386 Million Firefox Downloads. 96 Million Users. (zdnet.com)

Submitted by

NewbieV

on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @02:12PM

NewbieV writes: "Three out of every four people who download Firefox don't use it actively. According to the Spreadfirefox website, Firefox has been downloaded over 386 million times. According to an article in the Ziff Davis blog roll, Firefox has about a 25% retention rate: half the people who download it, try it. Half of those people end up actively using it.

How to improve that retention rate? The Mozilla Foundation has a plan (which is also discussed here). What would Slashdotters recommend?"

Submission + - Wii Update Kills off Freeloader/SD Media Launcher

Submitted by

Croakyvoice

on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @01:26PM

Croakyvoice writes: "The latest firmware update for the Nintendo Wii has dealt users a double blow, Gamesindustry report that Freeloader which enables you to play import Gamecube titles on the Nintendo Wii is now unusable, Wii-News have also revealed that the SD Media Launcher which is a way of legally playing Gamecube homebrew on the Wii has also suffered the same fate. Nintendo have responded by saying that because it isn't an official product approved by Nintendo, there was nothing it could do."

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