The problem with your argument is the "2.5 million years". That somewhat arbitrary timeframe allows you to make the argument that high-fat meat-based diets are ideal. However, if you consider the "diet" of all of our ancestors back to the dawn of life on Earth, roughly 4 billion years ago, you'll find that most of our ancestors over that time were simple organisms that ingested simple sugars - a diet that would kill us today.

At the other extreme, our species has only existed for around 50k-200k years and if we've been eating grains for 10-20k of that, then we've had grains in our diet for around a quarter of the time of our existence.

Either way, its hard to infer what we should eat based off of what our ancestors ate. They weren't us and we're not them.

"Meesa thinks yousa tryin' to write'a letta."

Please explain something to me. The Apricorn drives use a ten digit keypad to enter a (maximum) 15-digit key. That gives a key space of approximately 50 bits (log(10^15)/log(2)). They why do they advertise the drive as using 256-bit security? Why not just implement a 64-bit algorithm? That is still a greater level of security considering the passkey.

This is normal in that generally, in the US tax code, you can defer paying taxes by paying employees more, by making investments, etc. Only if that dollar you collect becomes profit do you generally pay taxes on it.

It's not a rich vs poor thing either. Poor people get tax benefits in the form of the EIC and the personal deduction. Middle income earners get to deduct health care expenses and certain job expenses (uniforms, union dues, sometimes use of a vehicle).

The point is that everyone gets tax breaks and the reason why is that our tax code is crazy complicated. Facebook will pay their share eventually, but it's just not going to be on their 2012 return.

Everyone always says this when comparing other office suites to MS Office, but can you give an example of something you can do with MS Office that you just can't with LibreOffice?

That does not imply that their names are of infinite length, only that if the array you choose to store names in is of length N, there could be someone with a name of length N+1. No infinities, but you still can't store their name.

I loved Warp 4. I got a copy of it and Windows 95 at the same time and Warp was light years (pun intended) ahead of Microsoft. The built-in voice recognition worked and that was a decade and a half before Siri. If you moved a program, the links (shortcuts) would automatically adjust. There were so many other nice features that Windows was just missing. But Warp only supported 16-bit Windows (i.e., v3.1) apps and that made compatibility a nightmare, which is why I eventually deleted the Warp 4 partition and moved fully to 95.

Well, technically, Microsoft someday will shutoff the activation servers and you will have to move off XP then. 98 and 2000 are a different story since you don't have to phone home to use it. (Yes, hacked copies of XP can run forever, but I'm talking about using it without breaking the EULA.)

Have you seen Transformers 3? I guarantee you that at $4 it's roughly $6 over-priced.

/. editors were replaced years ago with the following shell script:

~> more slashdot_editor.sh

#!/bin/sh
echo 'Looks good!'

I kinda have a thing for the Byron's.

Some people juggle geese!

I have an Apple II+ that I program on at least once a week. It's a fun exercise to see what I can get the old machine to do. I don't have any disk drives, so I use the cassette interface. But I don't have a cassette deck either, so I use my brand new laptop as the storage by plugging the Apple into its audio ports. So I have 33 year old tech not just co-existing, but working in tandem with, brand new equipment.

But that analogy doesn't hold because you're comparing information to tangible, physical items.

A better analogy would be: "He left his manuscript visible on a table in public space (like a coffee shop), so I read what was visible."

The original question was how does a Tor-running geek prepare for a computer seizure by authorities. One answer is to backup your data to the cloud, so even after they have your computers, you can at least go buy a new beige box and keep working. That's what the GP was getting at.