Comment Re:Unicode? (Score 2, Funny) 410
And we want to keep it that way, now get off my lawn.
Comment Re:The battle now begins. (Score 2) 407
You just set it to require you approve anything tagging you. Bug has been gone for a long time now.
Comment Re:Swings and Roundabouts (Score 0) 270
You're not forced into these contracts. No one is forcing you to buy their product.
Comment Re:Nah, Georgia Power Scam! (Score 1) 596
Glad I live on a hill
Comment Re:Why is this a big deal? (Score 1) 294
Maybe we don't explicitly support them spying on us from aircraft, but they do. So now they can do it via remote control. I'm not saying I support it, I just don't see a difference. What we need is a law that requires a warrant for any surveillance activity.
Part of the problem is that this is saying the are authorizing surveillance drones, but in actuality it is the FAA catching up with unmanned drone technology in general.
Comment Why is this a big deal? (Score 1) 294
They can spy on you from helicopters or high altitude manned aircraft, so why is it that everyone is up in arms about unmanned aircraft? I would love to see anti-spying without a warrant legislation, but this just doesn't seem to be any worse than what is already happening.
Comment Re:...the dock. (Score 1) 862
Pointy Haired Boss - Dilbert reference
Comment Sounds great (Score 1) 216
Can't even afford to keep the firetruck running, how is this going to get deployed?
Seems like a great way for consultants make a fortune doing feasibility studies to me.
Comment Might not be so bad (Score 1) 619
Maybe this will start a push for us to not have to pay for incoming calls.
Submission + - Coffee wards off cancer (oxfordjournals.org) 1
Thorfinn.au writes: a new study indicates that heavy coffee drinking staves off deadly prostate cancer in men.
Some 47,911 US men were surveyed over the period 1986 to 2008 for the research. During this time some 5,035 of them developed prostate cancer with 642 dying of it.
According to analysis by investigating scientists, men who drank the most coffee (a fairly normal six-plus cups per day) had a 20 per cent lower risk of developing any kind of prostate cancer. If they did get prostate cancer, the java-swillers were much less likely to die from it than others: their risk of deadly prostate cancer was no less than 60 per cent lower than normal.
Even less thirsty coffee drinkers who only put away one to three cups daily saw their chance of deadly prostate cancer fall by a useful 30 per cent. With the original report here
Some 47,911 US men were surveyed over the period 1986 to 2008 for the research. During this time some 5,035 of them developed prostate cancer with 642 dying of it.
According to analysis by investigating scientists, men who drank the most coffee (a fairly normal six-plus cups per day) had a 20 per cent lower risk of developing any kind of prostate cancer. If they did get prostate cancer, the java-swillers were much less likely to die from it than others: their risk of deadly prostate cancer was no less than 60 per cent lower than normal.
Even less thirsty coffee drinkers who only put away one to three cups daily saw their chance of deadly prostate cancer fall by a useful 30 per cent. With the original report here
Submission + - Comcast-NBC merger approved by FCC 1
AndyAndyAndyAndy writes: "It seems that the FCC has approved the proposed merger between Comcast and NBC, effectively kicking apart hopes for protection against "pipes and their water" frameworks. Pres. Obama's 2008 goal also goes ignored: "I strongly favor diversity of ownership of outlets and protection against the excessive concentration of power in the hands of any one corporation, interest or small group." The Dept. of Justice is also onboard, leaving little hope that this will be stopped."
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