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I thought that this was an awesome idea when my co-worker told me about this article just today. Right off the back, I thought that this was a laughable idea. To request something like this just seems like an asinine proposal... logistically improbable, really. Breast milk is intended to be weaned by infants to help them develop... it is not a continuously-available source of food, which kind of hints that we as humans needed to grow up, so to speak, to find other sources of food by foraging, hunting, and walking our lazy butts down to the supermarket. The breast may be best, but to an extent.I'm glad to know that the vice president of PETA made a request as opposed to a demand, but for them to even think about asking Ben and Jerry's to do an entire turnaround of how they do things is rather bold. I am against unnecessary animal cruelty, and if it goes to benefit the quality of life of animals, I can see why they would make such claims to make sure that cows are treated as humanely as possible. However, if they really want to make a difference, I would attack the caregivers of the animals themselves and to revolutionize how we treat our livestock as opposed to trying to destroy the demand for the resource, since milk is going to be an omnipresent item in most lives, whether it comes from cows, goats, or what-have-you.SM is absolute in his argument with tainted breast milk. Of course there will be screenings, but has anyone actually done research on how breast milk may be linked to possible transmissions of diseases, genetic or hereditary issues, or anything of that sort? Nothing is safe anymore with our advents in science and research. Heck, when we can actually say that milk can be possibly BAD for you, not to mention that nutrition is becoming a refined science in itself down to the last milligram of iron or zinc that you need, you can't help but wonder if we should even worry about nutrition as far as the human race goes, since everything we put into our bodies has that trace of an idea that it could be bad for you.Health issues are attributed to a combination of things. I thought it was funny how the letter insisted that it would be beneficial that we abandoned the use of cow's milk to help fight current issues like heart disease and obesity. I'm guessing that people that make such arguments fail to realize that obesity is also caused by a lack of motivation to exercise, flawed medical practice, current medical issues like diabetes or a "faulty" thyroid gland, and/or genetics.This reminds me of how a lot of PETA supporters at one point actually left the organization and abandoned their support because the head of the operation seemed to make requests and conjure up ideas like this.It might be interesting if Ben and Jerry's - and any other vendors of diary products, rather - take up the idea as a side project to see if it makes any actual difference as far as nutritional benefit. In all reality, I don't think it makes a difference... and I think that we should look more towards the treatment of animals at the sites where they are housed as opposed to attacking business that kind of sort of thrive on these resources... Note: This is coming from the point-of-view of a person who loves his steak and his seafood. I also hate the idea of animal cruelty... and I'm all up for supporting the improvement of the quality of life for animals alike, but I, like most of the animal kingdom, can't just drop the meat and go vegan. (If you can sit down with a 200+ lb. Bengal tiger and convince him/her to eat just carrots for the rest of his/her life, please get back to me.)

Demonoid is overrated, in my opinion.I have an account but there is little if any torrents that I actually download from Demonoid servers. Maybe I've had a bad run, but transfer rates weren't exactly much better than what everyone hypes them up to be. I'm pretty good with leaving the comp on to seed for others, and I don't mind doing it, but I can't seed what I don't have... and I don't have much to seed.Not sure if it's just me, but I can't find anything I want that's on Demonoid. I use Torrent-Finder to find all my stuff, and most of it that's being seeded most frequently as well as available can be found on public domain.

Okay... so my quick-and-dirty suggestion was kind of... dirty. What I'm now primarily concerned with now though is the whole deal where ALL of your present credits are wiped out after signing up to be hosted. I shouldn't really have to worry about it, but 1800+ credits down the drain just because I missed the memo would not exactly make me happy when I do decide on hosting... Can that be a HUGE suggestion towards the new credit system?

FYI, it's *grammar, *probably, *sexual, and *syringes. It makes sense that virii cannot survive without a host and thus would perish under any other condition. However, what you may be thinking about as far as dormancy would include some kinds of bacteria, notably some from as old as the age of the dinosaurs (if I remember correctly). Those bacteria actually survived by being "preserved" in the sediment of some lakes... I have no source, but I do remember reading something about it. I don't think that the AIDS virus has developed itself to be that hardy. Then again, look at the damage it can do to the human body...

I know that Chrome wasn't exactly much to compare with when it came to being a memory hog, but unfortunately that seems to be the on-going trend with browsers and tabbing, not to mention that Chrome separates each tab as a separate process (to include dependencies for each) and adding new features to better the browsing experience. I hate how there really isn't a way to make things better without putting more strain on resources... but it is what it is. I'm sure developers aren't too worried about it considering that most everyone is going to be upgrading as time goes on. I don't know of many people that keep their older machines... much less anyone else (in person) that has a machine that has less than 512MB of RAM. I'm sure that in a few years, 2GB will be the new bare minimum.

NoScript is an awesome extension for Firefox... which makes me wonder what Chrome features to detect and combat malicious scripts...The sandboxing feature will keep things to just one process so that you can kill things safely, but what if you don't know to kill it? Not everyone will be able to recognize a worm threat...Anyone know of any sites that purposefully has malicious script to "attack" a client for the sole purpose of testing browser security?

Sorry... I simply just hotlink the images and slap "http://forums.xisto.com/ tags on it. (I don't actually make up the HTML to put up the image, and I'm not hosting the images on ImageShack to provide for a thumbnail.) Firefox and Chrome (or Xisto?) automatically shrinks it to size and displays the forum properly. I just shrunk my resolution back down to 1024x768 just to see how you were seeing it and it still shrinks the image automatically for me with the option to click to enlarge. If there's a way to do it on Xisto without too much trouble, do tell. Sorry for the frequent image-posting.

Innosia, I take it that your religion focuses more on the negative aspect of every living thing being a sinner unless there is repentance, confession, and acceptance of the set of beliefs that you participate in? How does this have to do with anything about being able to save for a financial future with kids as part of the equation? The only things that I can think of may include something along the lines of the seven sins, and of course, if you aren't a glutton, lust for material goods, or become lazy and refuse to work to earn for a living, you should be somewhat on the right path.

Just sharing more pictures... I found this one by Stumbling:

It's probably bad timing for me to say it now, but since I've taken on the responsibility of three kids in the household, I've been losing out.Christmas is around the corner so it's kind of a moot point whether my viewpoint is good or not, since we've already started and still are buying Christmas presents for the kidlings. Depending on how much you actually earn and what your living situation is, you could still manage to save a considerable bit of cash... but that's if you have the willpower in not spending it on the casual things we take for granted (especially when you were single and kid free, like being able to dine out, buy video games, fuel your hobbies, etc.).Anything's possible... but I would be a poor example at this point and time.

I hate talking about politics.I should be paying attention though, especially with the upcoming election of the next U.S. president. But if I go through and do my homework painstakingly on each candidate or each head figure, dig up the dirt, then choose the best person out of the crap pile I have to work with, then realize thousands of other people are going to vote for the other guy anyway because they're single-issue voters, I'm going to be mad. And since I know that will happen, I don't care for politics. I could possibly simply just educate myself on the whole realm of politics and know about our candidates for the sake of sharing my knowledge, but why should I do that if I believe that people should have their own, educated opinion? Everyone's voting for their own candidate based not only on what they know, but what they want regarding their perspectives on political issues and whatnot, and who am I to try to convince someone else to try to change their minds on a candidate based on what I "know" about a particular candidate? Who even knows these people? We can only get our information from what the media puts out and what the candidates themselves put out in public, and you know how both are great sources of true information. Anyone share my views? Anyone want to put out their perspective?

Wow SM. You sure know how to fish for the ladies. It's kind of strange how you got that in your inbox. Gmail is pretty darn good at filtering out spam... assuming you are using Gmail too, of course.I've been mostly spam-free since I've joined. Makes me want to advertise Gmail to everyone out there, but to each his/her own, right? Not to mention that for most computer-literate users, e-mails like that should automatically warrant a prompt response of clicking that Spam/Delete button...Apparently it still works because people are STILL doing it.

Awesome!I just threw these into Firefox and I love seeing no obvious differences other than the highlighting. Stealther is hidden as an option under Tools and has no obnoxious icons; Prism does the same; DownloadStatusBar kills that annoying Download window that pops up after EVERY download... pretty slick.Thanks for sharing SM. I really need to look at LifeHacker more often... seems like a pretty neat site.Note: For some reason, trying to install Prism doesn't work at all for me. Firefox notes that one add-on has been installed, but it's nowhere to be found. It doesn't come up under the list of extensions and it isn't present under Tools.

I never really understood it either, personally.I've gotten drunk twice. I didn't like either, considering one night I ended up pretty depressed and feeling like crap and the other night wasn't much fun either. I get my hangovers during that night and the next morning too, so it's a double-whammy... not fun.I can understand how people would like the buzz, as I like being a little looser and being able to talk to people without being the way I am now: hesitant and quiet. Judgment flies out the window too... which can be a good and bad thing. (Good for finally getting your butt out to the dance floor and making a fool of yourself for others to laugh at, bad for when you say things you shouldn't say.) I was never a partier, and never will be.Today I simply share moments with my friends with just a beer, or wine, or cocktails. I don't like the taste of alcohol and I'm a lightweight, so those really help me in not wanting to get drunk. Not to mention that alcohol acculmatively tastes worst to me (as opposed to "tasting like water") over time...Now, getting OTHER people drunk can be a funny time, depending on how the person is while intoxicated. There are some people I hate seeing drunk, and then there are people who can be a different kind of fun (because no one NEEDS alcohol to be fun, right?). No matter what though, it's still not that great to get others drunk as you're going to have to be that person who's going to end up taking care of that person, listen to them babble on and on about nothing, argue over nothing, cleaning that person's vomit out of your car, and ultimately, making sure they make it home safely. That's ASKING for responsibility on a night out right there...

Just noticed something funny... figured I'd share.

Ah, and all the companies are following suit to create budget UMPCs... Looks cute. That's about it. I would think this would be as great as the eeePC... there's only so much you can smash into a little laptop like that. They'll start releasing crap specs for the first ones, then slowly introduce better variants as people shell out cash for the first releases, making the consumer kick him/herself for jumping so soon. It's nice, but I would rather see more of the more durable laptops coming out as a company trend, like HP's EliteBook series.

So far the browser is pretty good in my opinion. I haven't had to download any plugins, I haven't had any real hassles, and I like some of the features that even Firefox lacks (like the ability to control tabs and memory management, changing a tab into a window, etc.) What I'm not liking is the look of the browser... it looks like a Fisher Price deal. Even the logo is kind of kid-like, but maybe that was the look that they were going for. I like how the address bar only highlights the domain and for the most part, only goes to the domain when you begin typing in the address of a website. (Firefox remembers names of websites so that's not all that new.) Sites show up fine and not garbled (so far) or out of place. I feel like I'm running this fullscreen all the time... Chrome is invisible as a browser by default, maximizing viewing space. The options are rather limiting though... which is a good and bad thing, considering there's less to tweak and consequently, less to mess up.Basically, it reminds me of Firefox (since it kind of is like Firefox) but with some better features. Not bad for beta at this point in time.Can't wait for skins, at the very least. So far, I'm still using Chrome at work, so I guess that says something in itself. Won't use it at home until RC, though.

I'm not sure if anyone noticed the horrid mistakes that OP made with who made what and the whole chronological mess that the original post contained...Microsoft came before Google. Google started its whole stint from being a simple search engine. Microsoft started as an operating system company.Hotmail was out before GMail. I believe Live search has been out, even before Google Search. GChat came after MSN Live Messenger. Norton Antivirus is by Symantec, not by Google. Same with Skype; it is its own gig.If you're going to look for support in rallying up the troops, Google has us by the hand, coaxing us with its open-source movement, free software, a fresh new look on things, and "wanting" to better the Internet. Microsoft will have the backing of companies and naive consumers with its own hand in just about every corporate application possible as well as being rather omnipresent on most machines in the world nowadays. It's not so much of a "war," but moreso an existence of giants.

I think that both should be AVAILABLE to be taught, and the real question would really be when as opposed to if. Education is education... we all should be exposed to the possibilities and theories of how we've come to be, how things are, and whatnot. Let students choose for themselves what they believe, if they even believe either. Children may be confused by having two separate paths to understand, so I wouldn't recommend that younger students be exposed too early. It's something that shouldn't even be introduced until later during a student's school career. At the same time, the whole thing isn't even a feasible argument due to the heavy bias that most parents will have on what they want their children to learn. Understandably, a God-fearing family may and most likely will want to impose the idea of God or the concept of deities into its progeny. Very few parents are open-minded enough to actually allow for their children to believe whatever they want. There will always be arguments for and against this. We're all innately-biased... but it's natural and hard not to be because of the way that we've all been raised. I don't think there will be a common ground that everyone will accept, just because it's realistically impossible with how things are today.

Whoa... what? That's something that I can hopefully see changing... since I do plan on being hosted myself, but I never actually applied for hosting because I actually never figured out what I would want to do with a website yet, hence my plan to just save up credits for the time being. If this was outlined in the rules, apparently it wasn't obvious or I missed that very, very important statement. I'd like to keep my credit count when I decide to host and cough up 30 credits... not 1700+ credits for default hosting.

I'm too young to speak from experience but I can tell you what I hear and more about how things are, I think. I was looking at health insurance from EHealthInsurance.com and they have a pretty handy tool that filters out plans by what you require. There are a ton of considerations that you have to think of when applying for insurance, not to mention figure out what you actually need and should have as opposed to what sounds good. Preventative care coverage is great and is often overlooked. Regular examinations can start to add up without insurance, so a plan that covers preventative care can help soften the blow to your wallet by a bit. Comprehensive coverage is exactly what it means... just review the things that you and whoever will be on your plan will need specifically and add things as the situation mandates as well as future scenarios, especially if you plan on having kids or are looking into possible future medical dilemmas. There is also disability coverage, which can be extremely important as it will help cover the loss of wages due to a disability that occurs during the plan duration that prevents you from being able to work. (Think of it as worker's compensation.) Look at brand names and also take a close look at peer reviews. (Then again, that's why you're here, right?) Pay attention to the single-issue opinions and weed them out, unless there's a lot of common complaints towards a particular issue. People have bad stories about insurance, and every insurance company will have its fair share of bad cases and possible dirt. It's going to be hard to settle with a company and wonder if it's possibly evil or not... Deductibles are a large thing to look at too. What will you be comfortable with paying up front before the plan starts to kick in to cover the rest of your costs? Think of it like automobile insurance. Can you really afford to pay the $5000 deductible right off the back if you break some bones? Plans with large deductibles are cheap by the month for a reason. If you can afford it, try for at least $1000, or if you can, $500 deductibles. Look at co-pays too. They may seem like small deals now, but when those small figures add up, you can learn the hard way that a smaller co-pay on your part can be beneficial. Also, you may have heard of Health Savings Accounts (HSA). Look towards your employer to see what they offer for health insurance, and really, if you can score health insurance through them, it may be cheaper or better. Most employers with HSAs will help contribute or match your contributions to the HSA, so consider that as an option. (An HSA is basically a savings account that's specifically for medical expenses and has certain tax benefits and such applied to it, as well as restrictions as to how the funds are used.) Some health insurance companies have additional incentives and "rewards" programs for their HSAs, so keep an eye out for those too. Anyone that's more knowledgeable about this field can feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on any of this, as usual.

I would like to ask the opinions of Xisto to see where we think the market is going.The reason why I ask is because I'm sick of how the market is STILL on a downturn. Stocks are dropping and so are my mutual funds. I've been optimistic in having invested a bit more a couple of months ago, but recently I had to snag back those funds at a loss for emergency cash. The rest I've left invested, and as of today, I'm looking at over $1000 in losses. I'm wondering if anyone can advise me as to why I should keep my funds invested now or pull out and wait until early to mid-2009, where I think the market will maybe turn up better numbers.Reading up on some predictions from 2007 and early 2008, the market globally will be slowed down with the furthered weakening of the dollar and less global spending, and it looks like China will remain balanced even with the negative effects around the world.When will we break out of what looks like a recession?

I am replying from Chrome right now.So far, I'm not even realizing that I'm using a different browser until I actually go out and do something with the browser... which seems limited and yet I know there's much more than meets the eye under the hood. The largest difference I'm seeing right now is more space. As in much, much more viewing and browsing. Chrome gets rid of the humongous toolbars that eat up viewing space... and you can access everything via several buttons on the right side of the address bar. Tabbed browsing and spell-check is of course here. Our familiar Mozilla shortcuts are here. It's actually pretty darn nice so far.I played around with some of the things you can fool around with, and there's even a developer's tool kit built into Chrome. Viewing the source of a page yields what looks to be Google's own text editor. I love how it replicates Task Manager with being able to see and actually manage each individual tab as a process, just as it describes within the comic. You can visually see how much memory each tab takes up. I'm already liking it.Just saved a picture to see the download toolbar, which is nicely placed at the bottom of the browser and easily closed. A nice big arrow comes up to let you know your download is finished, which fades away. You can search your downloads just as you can with FireFox 3.The typing of keywords works too as it explains in the comic. Granted that I only went to MySpace so far, but typing in MySpace will yield MySpace. I typed in Xisto and it comes up as a Google search for your search term... not sure how to get it to go straight to what I viewed last at Xisto or even to go straight to Xisto, but I'm still learning. Chrome has its own titlebar and skin to it... it won't come up as another normal application window. A nice touch... that awaits skinning. So far, I'm not disappointed, and I'm actually feeling like I have the best of viewing the Internet at full screen without sacrificing my beloved toolbars. It feels nice... I'll post more as I play around with it.

I love that. It applies to every single thing though... I'm sure Windows and Linux users love to offer their OS's and point out their superior points over the Mac OS. (Cue in the Mac-head response of: "What superior points?" ) From what I understand, Apple aimed for user friendliness. This spun off a ton of spoofs where people made fun of Mac users, portraying them as retarded and/or kiddish. I'm guilty of looking at the white Mac-books as Fisher-Price-looking machines... but then again, I say that about the Asus eeePC too. But 12 hours on an XP machine? You must be an IT guy and having to install EVERYTHING... I complete my XP reinstalls within an hour, but then again, I install Windows XP Professional SP1, then install SP2, and then install all my drivers for my hardware... not to mention I do it locally on my personal machine. (I can see how 12 hours can be realistic installing from a server and having to use Windows Update.) Never had experience with Leopard... but I'm sure installing a Mac OS is probably about as hard as installing Linux, which isn't bad at all considering the power you have over the installation. Then again, that's just in my opinion. I was wondering what the heck happened to Silverlight. Since its inception back when I posted about it, I never heard anything about it until now. So much for widespread compatibility and usability... I understand that M$ has to railroad people into using their technologies... why wouldn't any company NOT do it? There's two approaches to the whole scheme of things: rope people into using your stuff and reap in those rewards, or offer it as an "option" and garner a fanbase "voluntarily" to increase your good-guy status (*coughGooglecough*) and gain popularity for your other, more subtle money-making plans (like advertisement). Keep in mind that Apple creates their own form factors. Apples are sold as wholes and no one else provides the custom potential that being able to build your own PC offers. Then again, I don't see why you can't just build a PC and install Leopard onto it, considering the fact that a computer is a computer, now with the whole fair share of Intel processors between the two. (Am I missing something here?) However, it is a very nice deal that Apple actually works in creating sleek-looking machines, and although I've never owned one, I can safely say that I don't miss the tangle of cords when playing with the higher-end Macs at my local Best Buy. In all reality, you could get away with hiding as many cords as possible by going wireless with every peripheral as Apple has worked tirelessly on improving the looks of their machines, but unfortunately, I don't know of anyone outside of custom work that actually features a case that's designed to tuck away cords or exclusively depend on hiding USB dongles and wireless receivers. Then again, anything's possible, and I aim to create the best solution in lessening the tangle that has plagued PC owners for the longest time when I build my next desktop. - I used to be a wicked Mac basher. Nowadays, to me a computer is a computer. I don't care for all the arguments for and against PCs or Macs. They say that Macs are better for media applications... but really, it's the software. Has anyone compared iMovie or whatever Macs have to Adobe's suite of video-editing software (like Premiere, After Effects, and GreenRoom)? What about Vegas? I don't know much about the field, so I'm probably being ignorant, but last time I checked, the superiority of a machine being able to process media data lies within an Intel chip, which both PCs and Macs have access to. (I don't know why; I just know that they are better with multimedia as opposed to AMD's superiority with gaming processes with their on-die buffers.) Any computer people can explain why a Macintosh is better than a PC hardware-wise? (And no, we're off the aesthetics discussion. ) I'm convinced otherwise that the guts of both computers are pretty much identical.

The pop-ups will be controlled in the likeliness that Internet Explorer and Firefox blocks popups. You would figure that unwarranted popups would occur when loading a page, but if it is user-induced, the pop-up will still come up (because the browser will "know" you clicked on a link to bring up the pop-up as opposed to blocking pop-ups that come up as a result of an onLoad JavaScript function). As for V8, yes, from what I understand the new engine will be faster as it will take less time in performing tasks because of the method in which it tackles tasks. As it mentioned, JavaScript is classless; therefore, anyone can make up a script to create an object and assign properties to it. If it's a common object like a sound or an array and V8 detects it as such, instead of loading up default attributes for each new object it will assign common attributes to that object relative to what the object actually is. This will cut load times, if I'm understanding it correctly. Also, when JavaScript is looking for items, it looks down a tree, going from the root to the element to the object to the property to the attribute (which is an object-oriented hierarchy). From what I'm understanding, instead of scanning through an entire tree of objects to find something that it needs, with V8 a unique identifier will be assigned to each object, so that searching for items will be significantly faster when viewed as a whole. The whole thing is still in beta. They'll be working this whole thing out so that hopefully on public release, everything works faster seamlessly. I wouldn't expect any miracles overnight.