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Comment Re:Sample Texts (Score 1) 225

by timdingo on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @09:14AM (#46161361) Attached to: UK Council To Send Obese People 'Motivational' Texts Telling Them To Use Stairs

I know google is a tough one to use, but searching around will yield stuff like this: http://articles.mercola.com/si...

I know it's difficult to actually take the time to think about what you're replying to, but I'd like to see some _objective_ _research_ backing this theory, please. See? Two things you didn't consider: objective & research. mercola.com hardly qualifies as an objective research organization, in fact, I'm pretty sure they're only interested in selling stuff.

Comment Re:Sample Texts (Score 1) 225

by timdingo on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @06:03AM (#46160517) Attached to: UK Council To Send Obese People 'Motivational' Texts Telling Them To Use Stairs

I'd like to see some objective research backing this theory, please.

Comment Re:Winner! (Score 1) 41

by timdingo on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @08:43AM (#46023397) Attached to: Data Analysts Attempt To Predict World's Largest Music Vote, Again

Given the kind of music Triple-J plays (and the kind of people who are likely listen to it instead of the mainstream commercial stations) I highly doubt any of the Top 100 winners are going to be manufactured mass-marked over-hyped pop crap.

'any of the Top 100 winners' seriously? from the 2012 list: 1 Thrift Shop - Macklemore and Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz After that I didn't even bother to further inspect the list. If that isn't manufactured mass-marked over-hyped pop crap, I don't exactly know what is.

Comment QA (Score 5, Insightful) 1038

by timdingo on Friday January 17, 2014 @05:49PM (#45991547) Attached to: Controversial Execution In Ohio Uses New Lethal Drug Combination

I guess I should be appalled, but.. the dude slaughtered a pregnant girl; I don't care how he died exactly at all. In fact, I'm going to consider this a successful QA test and move on.

Comment Re:Rap "Genius"? (Score 1) 115

by timdingo on Saturday January 04, 2014 @04:12PM (#45866661) Attached to: Rap Genius Returns To Google Search Rankings

/agreed Sometimes, when reading on or hearing of people I don't approve of, I'll drop a pejorative 'who?' even though I've got a pretty good idea who said person is. Not this time. This time I haven't got a clue as to who this 'Rap Genius' is. Not sure I want to know either.

Comment percentages (Score 0) 227

by timdingo on Thursday December 19, 2013 @04:41AM (#45734107) Attached to: UK ISP Adult Filters Block Sex Education Websites Allows Access To Porn

"but it failed to block 7% of the 68 pornographic websites tested" that's 4.76 websites it failed to block (?)

Submission + - Hollywood recipe making all movies the same?

Submitted by Bruce66423 on Monday July 22, 2013 @07:55AM

Bruce66423 writes: This Slate story http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2013/07/hollywood_and_blake_snyder_s_screenwriting_book_save_the_cat.single.html
explains how a 2005 book has led to all Hollywood movies following the same structure — to a depressing extent. I've always known we could be manipulated — but this provides a segment by segment, almost minute by minute, guide how to do it.

Submission + - British Prime Minister Promises Default On Porn Blocking (techweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by judgecorp on Monday July 22, 2013 @07:12AM

judgecorp writes: David Cameron, the British Prime Minister has promised that the UK's ISPs will be required to provide connections with "porn blocking " filters switched on by default.. The public promise comes despite opposition from ISPs, and the near-universal acknowledgement that the system wouldn't work. Last week also saw the leak of a letter from the Department for Education which effectively told ISPs to lie — to implement their preferred "active choice" system, and simply CALL it "default-on".

Submission + - EU wants enshrine network neutrality in law (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by Bismillah on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @08:44PM

Bismillah writes: Following the example of the Dutch who enacted laws supporting network neutrality, EU is now looking at doing the same. No throttling or blocking over the top providers such as Skype and Whatsapp in the EU and there will be a service transparency requirement for ISPs so that people know what they're buying — like minimum speed. Be interesting to see how this pans out.

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