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Comment Re:U turn (Score 0) 472

Let's connect the dots shall we?
*kids eat junk they have no control over => grown adults who eat junk, can't cook for themselves and have no idea where food comes from
*the "child obesity epidemic" didn't invent itself these are kids who will be overweight adults in 18 +- years
Big wheel keep on turning...

Comment move along humanoids... (Score 2, Interesting) 277

by StinyDanish (#39137119) Attached to: Interrupted Sleep Might Be the Best Kind
nothing to see here. This article is nothing new. YES our bodies have evolved with natural processes tuned to respond to our natural surroundings. This was "common" knowledge to homo sapiens but sometime around the industrial revolution, we evolved into humanoid machine meta sapiens. Now, we spend more time indoors under artificial lighting and in manufactured vehicles than we do in natural surroundings. We read books and news articles to learn what to do with our bodies and learn how they work. We also forgot how to relate to other bodies and now need a presence online to communicate because we can not physically express ourselves. SO...move along this is just another science article. Now go back to "sleep".
The Internet

Journal Journal: BitTorrent goes Legit!

Journal by StinyDanish
I'm surprised /. didn't have this on the frontpage sooner, but I am pleased to announce that BitTorrent is going legit! The Canadian Broadcasting Company (Canada's public TV station) used the popular p2p program to distribute the finale of a popular Canadian program, Canada's Next Great Prime Minister.
And I had to get this from the BBC:
Movies

MPAA Botched Study On College Downloading 215

Posted by kdawson from the math-is-hard dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The Associated Press reports that in a 2005 study the MPAA conducted through an outfit called LEK, the movie trade association vastly overestimated how much college students engage in illegal movie downloading. Instead of '44 percent of the industry's domestic losses' owing to their piracy, it's 15 percent — and one expert is quoted as saying even that number is way too high. Dan 'Sammy' Glickman's gang admitted to the mishap, blaming 'human error,' and promised 'immediate action to both investigate the root cause of this problem as well as substantiate the accuracy of the latest report.'"
Government

ISP Filters & Copyright Extension Defeated In EU 211

Posted by kdawson from the spine-bat dept.
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Last November, EU regulators in the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education began looking at how culture affects the economy and recommended a 'balance between the opportunities for access to cultural events and content and intellectual property' saying that 'criminalizing consumers so as to combat digital piracy is not the right solution.' Industry lobbyists, of course, immediately sprang into action to try to turn that around, writing amendments that would set up mandatory ISP copyright filters and extend EU copyrights to match the USA's life-plus-70 term. Thankfully, the committee rejected all of those amendments: 'Clearly, they're not going to let the ITRE or the European recording industry push them around, which is great news for Europeans. Now if we could only get the US Congress to show as much spine as the French (ouch).'"
Privacy

The Doctor Will See Your Credit Score Now 464

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the what's-up-doc dept.
mytrip writes to mention that the same people who invented credit scores are working to create a similar system for hospitals and other health care providers. "The project, dubbed "MedFICO" in some early press reports, will aid hospitals in assessing a patient's ability to pay their medical bills. But privacy advocates are worried that the notorious errors that have caused frequent criticism of the credit system will also cause trouble with any attempt to create a health-related risk score. They also fear that a low score might impact the quality of the health care that patients receive."

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