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Comment: Re:You mean that cell phone store? (Score 1) 413

by IdahoEv (#36327050) Attached to: RadioShack Trying To Return To Its DIY Roots

Now, there's no choice but to go to DigiKey and Mouser, and figure out how I'm going to meet their minimum order requirements, when all I wanted was $5 worth of stuff

Um... what's DigiKey's minimum order again? I regularly buy small quantities of stuff from them. AFAIK, they have no minimum order. And they're fast and reliable.

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Apple deprecates Java 2

Submitted by IdahoEv
IdahoEv writes "According to the release notes of Apple's latest Java update, Java is now deprecated on the Mac. This announcement came on the same day as the new Mac App Store; it seems that Apple is trying to rid the Mac of Java the same way they worked to rid the iPhone of Flash. Apparently they'd like to lock down their general purpose computer as much as they lock down their mobile devices."

Comment: Atherosclerosis (Score 5, Interesting) 470

by IdahoEv (#33427454) Attached to: 3 Drinks a Day Keeps the Doctor Away

This country is so very freaked about mind-altering substances, vices, and "sins", that it doesn't get talked about much. But the truth is it's been known for over a century that drinkers have cleaner arteries. Thinner blood, and/or some chemistry with the alcohol seems to help keep the plaques from forming.

Very heavy and binge drinking does start to cause other problems - and these results are what people bandy about in order to bash alcohol as a deadly vice. But it's been clear for a long time that moderate drinking can avoid those problems while still resulting in cleaner arteries. And since heart disease is the single biggest killer in the first world, it should be no surprise at all that anything which can reduce atherosclerosis results in a noticeable decrease in the death rate.

Nothing about this study is news to anyone who's paid attention to the science, anytime in the last hundred years.

Comment: Yes, not the yearbook (Score 3, Informative) 483

by IdahoEv (#33382852) Attached to: Facebook Says It Owns 'Book'

It's not the yearbook, it's the book of incoming freshmen released at the start of school. It makes it easy to, for example, figure out the last name of the hottie you met yesterday by looking up all the girls named "Lisa" and seeing which one looks like the one you remember. It often even has a first name index to make finding people you've just met easier.

Common at small colleges / liberal arts schools across the US.

Comment: Re:This is not Conservative! (Score 1, Insightful) 895

by IdahoEv (#32308014) Attached to: Conservative Textbook Curriculum Passes Final Vote In Texas

Conservative means a limited government with limited power to interfere in the lives of individual citizens

Sorry, the meanings of words change with time. "Conservative" in the US hasn't meant that for twenty years, at least not in the minds of the vast majority of people.

Today, it is defined more than anything by its opposition to anything perceived as "liberal" - a word which itself has changed quite drastically in the last few decades.

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