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Comment: Re:just do strength training (Score 1) 106

by godel_56 (#48673321) Attached to: Scientists Say the Future Looks Bleak For Our Bones

Use multi-joint barbell exercises like squats and deadlifts. They build bone density and stave off the effects of osteoporosis.

Or just drink some milk for the calcium and go for long walks when you're in your teenage years (especially for females), and of course later as well.
You could add some wrist and ankle weights to enhance the effect, oh, and get some sun for the vitamin D.

Our bones don't have to be as strong as our ancestors were, they just have to be strong enough to get us through our lifetimes without breaking down.

Comment: Re:America! (Score 4, Insightful) 230

by godel_56 (#48629891) Attached to: "Team America" Gets Post-Hack Yanking At Alamo Drafthouse, Too

In all seriousness, though, I think Sony ought to release the movie and I think everyone who believes in free speech ought to buy a ticket, whether they see it or not. Let's turn this movie into a blockbuster! That's the American thing to do! Well, at least back when Americans acted like Americans.

You've got to be joking! Everyone buys a ticket and gives a huge profit to Sony and Fox?

Fuck that, I don't think so.

Comment: Re:I love contextually useful ads. (Score 1) 69

by godel_56 (#48577567) Attached to: How Your In-Store Shopping Affects the Ads You See On Facebook

Bring it on Google and Facebook. Consolidate all of my data. Have at it. I sure as hell wasn't doing anything with it.

...just keep giving me predictive traffic, weather and restaurant options.

Hell, I may even let you read my mail :)

Heh. What makes you think you have the choice? They probably already are.

Comment: (Most) nuclear waste isn't waste. (Score 3, Interesting) 138

by godel_56 (#48481413) Attached to: Shale: Good For Gas, Oil...and Nuclear Waste Disposal?

Most of the "waste" from pressurized water reactors still has about 97% of its extractable energy left in it. It could fairly easily be reprocessed and reused in a PWR again, or used almost as-is in the future generation IV design fast neutron reactors.

The reason most used fuel is not reprocessed now, apart from the NIMBY complaints about the processing plants, is that "virgin" fuel is so cheap and abundant that the small extra cost is not deemed to be worth it.

Comment: Re:What about long-term data integrity? (Score 2) 438

by godel_56 (#48462689) Attached to: How Intel and Micron May Finally Kill the Hard Disk Drive

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't SSD's have a point where they put on too many write's per bit?

Tech Reportchecked a bunch of SSDs for write durability and virtually all of them made it to 600 terabytes of data writes or better.

For an ordinary desktop user, write durability is not a problem. Now what about storage durability? With 3 bits per cell, how long before the data fades?

Comment: Re:Americans are known to be ignorant an shallow.. (Score 1, Insightful) 376

by godel_56 (#48445451) Attached to: Blame America For Everything You Hate About "Internet Culture"

Only because most of the world lives under socialist regimes disguised as democracy, whether it's the dirty boot heels of dear leader kim, or the 'soft', stagnant, and effeminate, culture that's been grafted onto scandinavia.

As opposed to America where you're living under fascist regimes, state and federal, disguised as democracy.

Comment: Artificial Clicker/ (Score 2) 136

by godel_56 (#48373555) Attached to: Study Shows How Humans Can Echolocate

I wonder if some sort of artificial pulse generator would be an improvement, rather than producing the clicks yourself.

You'd be guaranteed repeatability and might be able to shape the pulses in order to get a better result. Would differently formed clicks work better at different ranges or with different surfaces?

Comment: Re:I do this with water temp. (Score 1) 136

by godel_56 (#48373457) Attached to: Study Shows How Humans Can Echolocate

I do something like this when I'm in the bathroom at work.

I can literally turn on a faucet here without touching the temperature of the water and the instant the water starts coming out warm I can hear the sound difference.

It's like the sound gets more "noisy" and less "linear" when it's hot water coming out. I can even tell as it's warming up since the pitch changes as well then holds steady at full-hot.

Anyone else do this? I'm starting to wonder if I'm alone here.

It's more likely a change in the physical dimensions of the pipe with temperature, rather than anything to do with the density of water. The pipe expands and its resonant frequency decreases.

Comment: Re:People are the problem (Score 1) 82




Comment: Re:On the other hand... (Score 0) 700



>We've discovered some counterfeit parts in your car.
>You have 15 seconds to move your cube.


Comment: Re:Making stuff to make stuff (Score 2) 69





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Comment: Prementrual Dysphoria (Score 5, Interesting) 138



