AsylumWarden

Or, just for the politics of it, almost 1/6 of the increase in the national debt up to now since President Obama took office. Just saying...

No, you are still wrong. I am morbidly obese and struggle with my weight daily. It will kill me in the end but I want to know what you would do when your metabolism is so low that your normal body temperature hangs at around 97.2F and resists being raised even by means of medications and heavy exercise. I'm sorry but when numerous doctors over 20 years all throw their hands up and say they can't help then there is nothing to be done. I admit, I could starve myself on something around 700 calories a day for the rest of my life but I would rather die; I think most would. I could hit the gym for 6 hours a day, likely with very little improvement, but I need to work to support myself and my family.

Finally, I get tired of arm chair nutritionists going off and telling people that it is all about eat less and exercise more. Obesity isn't a one solution fits all problem and it is only arrogance to think otherwise.

This article points out that there is yet another possibility to look into. Yet again, something that works against the old mantra eat less exercise more. We simply still don't know enough about the human body. There are going to be many more surprises for the obese population. In the mean time we have to combat our weight and jerks who think they know everything.

Ah, the memories...

Like most I started early with programming in assembly, C, pascal shudder and then discovering unix.

I remember starting off by hacking the computer lab computers in my school. The lab staff had to log you in so they would know who was using which machines. I learned the pattern through a little social engineering and it wasn't long before I never had to talk to the staff. I also bypassed many of the tools that locked those machines down and even locked the lab techs out of a few of my favorite machines that I used for long running processes. I even had my own primitive form of RDP using screen captures and email. Eventually I learned to crack the passwd file on my schools mainframe and then I had access to everyone's accounts including the teachers. I then discovered those passwords also worked on most home dialup accounts, outside email, irc accounts, etc. Fun! I used to dominate the east coast irc back in the day, at least in my little world, but I kept my head real low so I wouldn't be noticed.

You know the best way to pick up a girl from Scandinavia? Easy, hack her email and irc accounts, knock her boyfriend off of irc and impersonate him, erase her boyfriends incoming emails and, spoofing his email address, bully her a little and tell her to stop seeing guys like yourself. Somehow it worked like charm. Man was she hot! First hot girl I ever dated.

My downfall? I gave some "goobers" some irc scripts to perform netsplits and become admin of their favorite channels. The idiots got caught making life threats against an irc admin that banned them and, in a stroke of self-preservation, they turn me over as their "ring leader". No hacking your way out of that one! Real sweet, eh? My parents were not very happy having the local police, the FBI and the NSA knocking on their door. I lost computer privileges (still went to college and got my degrees though) and now I just hack my own private network of pcs, laptops and cellphones at home.

Ahhh, the memories....

Hmmm... maybe more of an "opinion" fighter? I guess the terrorist him/her-self might consider themselves freedom fighters fighting for the freedom to do things their way but the other side obviously doesn't share their "opinion". Just my two cents.

Were you in Paris? Seriously, we had no problems anywhere else we went. It was just Paris. We visited Nice, Lyons, and Toulouse on our trip and had lots more fun in those places.

Dell Precision 6500 i7 with 32 GB ram, 275GB SSD and accompanying 275GB HD. I'm running the latest VMWare Workstation.

No go with Firefox 14.0.1 and Chrome 20.0.1132.57

Sad.

You know, I've never had trouble with Google customer support. I've contacted them twice: once for a Google Maps issue and again because I couldn't access my account. No problems for me. I find these kinds of complaints strange. Most of the time I hear this complaint the person doing the complaining hadn't ever even tried to contact Google; they just read that it was a problem somewhere. Oh, I will admit they don't make finding the contact information easy but with the number of users barely able to order a happy meal without calling 911 when their fries aren't right who would want to make it easy?

So, it happens on average every 150 years and that isn't a cycle in your book. That's fine for someone like yourself but for me I feel that we then need to redefine things like solar cycles and seasons which only happen on average as well. All in all, what the article describes sounds like a cycle to me.

It seems to me that there really are very few people who actually deny the earth is warming. There may be a very vocal minority in your circles but I don't see it in my travels. The only real question is how much of the warming is caused by humans and how much is part of a natural cycle. You did read the article right? This is part of a cycle. Perhaps there is some human influence on this cycle but how would the researchers know? Maybe in another 150 years when the ice sheet has already reformed and then begun to melt again repeating the cycle? Level heads are needed; not panic and politics.

Holy smoke! That actually works! I can actually read WSJ from behind their paywall now?!? Awesome!

Seriously? What is the point of limiting yourself to one OS and then gripping about some app X not running on your flavor. Get a VM and buy a copy of Windows; problem solved. I have 4 OSes running on my laptop three of which are running under a VM. With the unity mode I don't normally even see the seams. I've got Snow Leopard, Windows 7, Ubuntu and Redhat. Actually I have 5 OSes but I don't use my Windows 8 pre-release which might have expired by now.

I am eagerly anticipating tools like this maturing to a level where really serious development can take place. I mean, I did a good bit of development in Flash and Flex but things really didn't take off for me until there were really powerful editing tools that went beyond dropping a few things on a canvas and tying them together with code. This tool but at a Unity 3D level of editing would super nice.

I believe the concept of majority rules has worked well for America. Some would disagree of course but then they are just the minority.

Vacant Sarlacc pit?

It took me like 30 seconds, maybe 40, to open the box. Seriously. The two sealing strips peeled off pretty easily. The inner box was a little difficult to slide out but it wasn't "stuck". Maybe the packaging has changed since that video was made. By the way, my Nexus blows my wife's iPad 2 away. Sweet!

I don't see in the article where the writer claimed there was a prescription involved. Just documentation that probably described things like what the purpose of the glasses was, how they were physically attached to his skull (that might require a note from a normal dr. perhaps?) At any rate, in a foreign country I would imagine it is a good idea to carry plenty of documentation for an augmentation like this just as with one's controlled medications. My two cents, I am sure he is on the level and definitely deserves some sort of acknowledgement and perhaps an apology from McD's.

Wow, sorry to hear about the assault and damage to your property. That is quite a way to wreck an otherwise pleasant vacation. I will say that I am glad to hear that I am not the only one to have been treated in a rather hostile manner at a McDonald's in Paris. My wife and I went there on vacation a few years back. My wife was filming my clumsy handling of the french language as she made me order (she is actually quite good at french) and an "employee" took her camera, shoved us out of the restaurant and then smashed our camera on the side walk. I'm not sure what they think they are hiding.

I'm curious how this would work. If I were to use this API to create, let's say, Bingo for money. How would I use the API without going to jail for running a gambling operation? I mean, I'm in the US so I guess I could always find an indian casino to back but that isn't likely without them taking a huge cut.

The pdf is nice and all but perhaps using an epub file format instead of an ibook format would have been nicer and more open.

Edit: Never mind. It was a stupid suggestion. The pdf is just fine. Can't believe I had a moment of iPad jealousy.

I suspect that just because there is a minority present doesn't mean that it is always tolerated; especially if an American is involved overseas. I believe tolerance changes with the winds (or whims) of time as it were.

My friend's conviction was down the lines of evangelizing and disturbing the peace. He was in Egypt for combination work and vacation and while preparing to leave was overheard commenting to someone he had meet on being a Christian and was reported to security. He got detained, questioned, beat up a little, and tossed in jail. He was later tried, found guilty and left in prison. The US government couldn't, or wouldn't, get him out. Sad story really.

Why does the article title say "Footage shows African 'ghost town'"?

OK. I'm just trying hard at making a joke here so be patient...

They could have a doctor ride along and examine the x-rays of the people they scan. The program could then be legal under an Health Care mandate! Easy solution!

OK. Not so funny... that's why I'm not a comedian.

I also wonder if a group of people could get together and purchase their own x-ray vans and position them at the homes and offices of the politicians who support these vehicles. The vans are safe, right? And it is OK to use them on citizens, right? It'll be a fun experiment!

If lazy people really do innovate then I am surely the god of innovation. One day I will actually make the effort to lift my hands and do something besides flip the channel with my TV remote.

Seriously though, I get what the writer is talking about though I would think it is more of a desire for efficiency. I don't want to keep writing the same code repeatedly but that isn't really laziness.

I remember the Palm Pilot didn't use files. I think I was using the Palm IIIxe may be. Developers, perhaps a little freaked out by the idea of no files, actually created an api to make it look like there were files. I thought it was pretty funny at the time.

I am by no means as smart as these people but I did recently made this observation myself while visiting Google+. I try to avoid political discussions but someone always finds a way to insert them. This time, as I glanced over one such discussion it made me realize... People don't think, they just repeat things that have been told to them, fact or not, as long as it sounds like a good fit. No one involved in these discussions is going to convince the other to change their mind. AIs should be this easy!

My wife and I were accosted and robbed at knife point in Italy because, as the mugger put it, we were American and deserved it. The cops thought it was funny. A friend of mine was arrested in Egypt back in 2009. He spent a year in prison simply because he was overheard casually mentioned to his associate that he was a Christian. I have a coworker who told me about how his laptop was confiscated on his way through the LAX airport because he used PGP encryption for his hard drive and was a foreign national working for an overseas UAV manufacturer. The list goes on and on.

Even better check out ChaCha CEO Scott Jones' simple little computer set up. It only has 8 monitors and an exercise bike: http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/fsb/0710/gallery.scott_j...

I haven't read the article yet, going there next, but I really like that last quote:

'“Find a happy person, and you will find a project.” - Sonja Lyubomirsky'

I think of people who often try to make an unhappy person their pet project. It would be an interesting twist to do the reverse. As a life-long pessimist I have made many happy people feel sad. Were these my projects?

I felt the same way. It is worse still in that I have never considered children as human beings -- I've always seen them as monster like. I then came back and re-read the post and had a realization. This is how I have learned to talk to my supervisor! I think I will now have to read this book in case it helps with other human beings.