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I've went 6 days without eating; I was playing Halo on my PC and was really into it. Lost eight pounds (much of it probably water weight).

Until that information is associated with you when you pass through the POS and pay for your goods.

I've never been diagnosed. In high school I had an uncharacterized organizational learning disability. Out of desperation I wanted to be medicated and have made the huge step, huge…

My IQ is 136. I can attest that it is not an indicator of anything. I am a lazy, average programmer. Whatever benefit I gain from having a higher IQ is offset by my inability to fo…

If research is done purely in the private sector, then how do the research findings make it into the wider scientific community? Especially if the processes become patented. There …

"... at the NSERC conference this week. It's crazy. They don't want to fund research unless it is run in collaboration with an industry partner. It's killing primary research and m…

Where did you get this information from? I was curious what algorithm is behind the MySQL PASSWORD() method. According to the MySQL reference manual, "you should not use it in your…

Thanks for explain the difference between hashing and encrypting. I neglected to make that explicit. However, I disagree with you when you say, "Encrypting a password could be ok,"…

Notice they said "encrypted" passwords not (salted password hashes) passwords. I don't trust "encrypted" password because my experience with Host Gator: I contacted Host Gator supp…

"Porno" sounds so much worse.

Uber respect if the file had gzip content-encoding.

Quoting Adria from a comment in her post: > I don't consider myself a feminist.

What evidence did you find in my comment that privileged women over men? Adria was offended and I disagreed with her assessment of sexism and exclusion. What your describing isn't …

I am feminist. As a visible minority, heterosexual, cisgendered, able-bodied man I try to be acutely of my own prejudices and cognitive biases. I sympathize with women who experien…

To truly be enterprise it needs a Maven build and JavaDocs.

Simple answer: The eagles refused to fly towards Mordor while it was emanating Sauron's unnatural aura.

Stephen Fry's discussion on language and grammar pedants ( https://youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY ).

You need to also factor in the cost of Homeland Security.

A contemporary "Who's on first?" scenario.

Anything that's a subdomain of http://ytmnd.com . Personal favourite: http://youmakemetouchyourhandsforstupidreasons.ytmnd.com/

Developers have been complaining about the 1366x768 screen resolution in the Ars comments. Shouldn't developers be designing for (and on) the resolution the user is most likely be …