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Comment Re:Say what? (Score 2, Insightful) 555

I actually think a cap is a good thing FOR PHONES because radio spectrum is a finite resource.

it's fine if you don't advertise as unlimited. That's fraud. Why it is protected when cellphone companies do it, I don't know.

I believe it - I had a CDMA phone years ago, and I recall it being nearly as clear and stable a connection as a land-line.

It has nothing to do with ATT vs. Verizon or GSM vs. CDMA, it's all about your phone. My RAZR V3i gave better call quality than my V500 upg. to V600 (or wtfever it was exactly, I lent my backup phone to someone who destroyed it.)

Comment What about the slowing metabolism? (Score 1, Interesting) 978

You are correct on paper but not in practice. If a person never exercises at all their metabolism will slow to a crawl and they'll stop losing weight after they reach a certain weight. Usually that certain weight is either slightly overweight, or within the healthy range. The problem with this is they'll look like a smaller fat person rather than a fit person.

Weight loss is not as important as fat loss. It's better to be ripped and obese, than to be small and chubby. The only way to lose fat is to combine weight lifting and exercise with a low calorie diet.

Comment Re:Take it from the horses mouth (Score 1) 978

I feel that I am eating more calories now

I had the same feeling... actually ran the numbers, and I was eating considerably fewer calories. Like a thousand a day less.

Analyze your feelings a bit more... I found out I was feeling MUCH less hungry. Like every day was a thanksgiving pig out, even when I ate very little. Under a low carb diet, feeling less hungry no longer equals eating more calories.

Comment The Why of the Screw... (Score 1) 490

With the screw, and a stationary set of teeth, I can get a precision measuring instrument. I can use that to make more precise tools that I can use to make precision versions of all of the other options on the list.

Probably even the (curiously nonexistant) Cowboy Neal option, with a little tinkering.

Security

Zero-Day Excel Exploit In the Wild 117

snydeq writes "Microsoft Excel has a zero-day vulnerability that attackers are exploiting on the Internet, according to security vendor Symantec. The problem affects Excel 2007 both without and with Service Pack 1, according to an advisory on SecurityFocus, and other versions going back to Excel 2000. The program's vulnerability can be exploited if a user opens a maliciously crafted Excel file, allowing a hacker to leave a Trojan horse on the infected system."
Hardware Hacking

$100 Linux Wall-Wart Now Available 464

nerdyH sends us to LinuxDevices for a description of a tiny Linux device called the Marvell SheevaPlug. "A $100 Linux wall wart could do to servers what netbooks did to notebooks. With the Marvell SheevaPlug, you get a completely open (hardware and software) Linux server resembling a typical wall-wart power adapter, but running Linux on a 1.2GHz CPU, with 512MB of RAM, and 512MB of Flash. I/O includes USB 2.0, gigabit Ethernet, while expansion is provided via an SDIO slot. The power draw is a nightlight-like 5 Watts. Marvell says it plans to give Linux developers everything they need to deliver 'disruptive' services on the device." The article links four products built on the SheevaPlug, none of them shipping quite yet. The development kit is available from Marvell.

Comment Re:Motorcycle (Score 1) 887

Harley Davidson is for some fucked up reason allowed to sell bikes with engine designs that should've been shitcanned a hundred years ago.

Over the years, I've come to realize that, in fact, blissful stupidity is the American Dream.

Security

Network Computing Editor Wins RSA Hacking Contest 65

richkarpi writes "Network Computing's security editor won the recent RSA Interactive Testing Challenge. He has up a blow-by-blow description of the events at their site: 'The most important factor in the contest besides basic web exploitation skills (cross site scripting (XSS), SQL injection, cross site request forgeries (CSRF), etc.) was speed ... I squeaked out a win in the tie-breaking challenge the first day with only a few seconds to spare as my opponent was right behind in the hunt to combine three injectable fields into one long javascript function.'"
Biotech

Submission + - How A "Superbaby" Is Leading To New Medic

An anonymous reader writes: A baby boy with unusually big muscles — caused by a gene mutation — is leading to new muscular dystrophy drugs. Forbes has the story, from the gene's discovery in mice, then in cattle (lots of beefy breeds have a mutated copy) to the current quest for new medicines, which pits a tiny biotech against drug giant Wyeth.

http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2007/0226/074.ht ml?partner=yahoomag

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