What's surprising is that nobody here thinks this is an inherently sexist device. Don't men suffer from overeating as well? What about a jock strap that monitors them? Eating disorders are not strictly a female problem, and technology that is unisex has, at least in my experience, fared far better in the market place. How successful has Microsoft been at developing a computer "for women"? It hasn't been. It's a terrible and stupid idea; just like designing a car "for women" has been in that industry.

Attaching the device to a bra would be alright, but integrating it into it pretty much spells its doom on the market. About the only thing that's marketed to women I buy besides clothing is deodorant... because for some very strange reason, men seem to enjoy smelling like they swam through a high school chemistry lab's discarded waste.

From IE9 on it has seemed like the least broken to me.

Sincerely, the kids from the future.

Would you prefer to inherit an industrial civilization or a pristine planet? Because you can't have both.

Except that as a practical matter coal will never run out.

As a practical matter coal's already running out. US is past peak coal energy extraction. And since we're also hitting peak oil, judging by oil prices, demand for coal will only increase for making both electricity and synthethic fuels, causing it to run out even faster.

But this is good news. We can in fact teach the human immune cells to recognize the threats. In fact it already does, it's why a lot of cancers pop up later in life. But if we bolster the immune system we could see cancer eradicated.

Until that happens you company is doomed to failure.

It's not your company, but it's certainly doomed to failure if any part of your strategy takes in any way into account how much of a "pussy" a random Anonymous Coward thinks you are.

And then we are at exactly the problem people were already complaining about in the 1960: the militarization of the energy utilities, or the military-industrial complex.

Any energy source or storage method powerful enough to power an industrial society is powerful enough to wreak havoc, thus this problem is unsolvable. Energy isn't capable of distinguishing between benevolent and malevolent purposes, after all.

The reactor operators can't just leave this mindbogglingly-radioactive boiling-hot slurry in those tanks, they have to clean it up.

Why, exactly speaking, can't they leave the slurry in a tank? How do you think various substances are usually stored?

In any case, if they do want to move it to another container, the obvious solution is to simply pump it out.

Exactly, it's more the hundreds of billions of dollars of liability insurance that puts people of experimenting with nuclear.

Indeed, it's better to experiment with a form of power generation that's allowed to externalize its costs, which would be all the rest of them. Build a nuclear plant, and you actually have to pay for all potential problems; build a windmill, and someone else gets to pay for backup power. And choke on smog, for that matter, since "backup power" means coal, at least until it runs out, at which point it means rolling blackouts.

Oh well, the anti-nuclear lobby won, but at least none of us will be needing heating soon anymore. We'll be sitting in the dark, but won't freeze. So there's that.

If I eat chillis with everything I consume, I'll shit most of it out before my body can absorb it. I can eat 5000 calories and absorb 500, because the rest is being flushed down the toilet.

It's ok, I haven't disproven one of the fundamental laws of thermodynamics. Just demonstrated what a fuckwit you are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5:2_diet

Although I'd adopted that approach a couple of years earlier. It worked for me.

Swimming: The pressure of water against the knees causes additional pain. Breast stroke explicitly forces the knee joint to open.

Paddle a canoe: Sure. Kneel down in a canoe on your bad knees?

Before you suggest:
Cycling: A large factor in how shit my knees are now
Running: Impact damage

Sure, there's gym work - if you have the ability to bore yourself senseless for hours at a time.

I walk (but no more than a couple of kilometres at a time) and I dance. It shouldn't be possible, but get a smooth enough wooden floor and you're moving with minimal friction. Even then a couple of hours leads to knee pain, but it's sustainable.

But I'm lucky, I've found something I can enjoy doing. If someone's been into running their whole life I can understand that it's difficult to replace that.

I lost 70lb to get under 200lb, I have no children and I still think you're full of shit.

When I can gain weight while eating just 9 meals a week, no food between meals and while going out dancing (so cardio exercise for 2-4 hours) at least twice a week, it's not fucking denial.

Sorry, I took your two barrels and they bounced off. I can handle the truth, sounds like you're the one with the issue.

To get my data to Google I have to pay for the electricity used by the phone. All my other costs are fixed so additional incremental use causes no further expenditure.

Where I have an issue is in getting access to the cloud storage anywhere that I might need it. My mobile network coverage is excellent, but it's not perfect.

Huh? If he is in his 70's, it's very likely that he never used anything like a desktop/laptop personal computer at work.

        I work in a very high technology field and we didn't have anything resembling a personal computer until the early 90's - about when this guy would have been retiring.

      The answer is blindingly obvious, get an iPad.