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There are people that are able to live on benzodiazepines long term without significant health impact. There are a lot of medications that are suitable for a lifetime of use in the SSRI and anti anxiolytic family that do not have the potential for habit forming either (and that's habit in the sense of your body becoming accustomed to it).

It's great that you're concerning yourself with the well-being of other people, but please allow concern over the use of medications to be between people with significant mental health issues who are taking those medications and their doctors.

There's no audio as per the article no one has played it yet. Just reading the sheet music, though, I don't know that it's actually playable or that if it's all within the human range of hearing.

I think this is a great move for both Xamarin and Microsoft. The company I work for is currently using Xamarin to help create cross platform apps with a consistent backend architecture. Sure, we have to develop different front ends for each platform, but we can leverage C# for everything and we don't super stars on any one platform to allow us to generate things quickly and well.

I was waiting for something like this to happen, ever since I watched this video from Hanselman at the Xamarin Evolve conference last year: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/XamarinEvolve2013TalkVideoHowC...

Moving beyond all the security concerns and potential technology shifts in this space, I'd be concerned with durability. By the time my credit cards expire, I typically have had to replace them at least once due to wear.

I'm not charged an additional fee to get those cards, but this would cost me.

I'm glad that people are cycling and that this article pleads with everyone to follow the rules of the road, but beyond that, it's still pretty sensational.

Even with the best of intentions, discipline and strict follow-through, accidents still happen. I'm aware of more than a handful of people that have been involved in an accident where they or another person have died and no criminal charges followed.

I would think that in most cases where a vehicle and a bicycle are involved, the risk of death to the cyclist is more likely due to the size difference between the two (the author hints to the same thing). This is something that motorcyclists have been aware of and dealing with for some time.

In places like Minneapolis, there exist tons of specially created bike paths that allow for bicyclists to travel throughout the city without risk of colliding with motor vehicles. The road is a dangerous place, regardless of transportation method and I'd much rather avoid it if not surrounded by technology designed to survive in it.

Though the article isn't pointedly about ticks and Lyme disease, I want to share some advice on them, as the disease can be truly debilitating and have long term consequences.

If you find yourself frequently outside where ticks are prevalent, invest in a permethrin based repellent that can be applied to your clothing. Ensure that you wear pants and long sleeve shirts whenever possible. I've been using a permethrin based clothing spray for years and have not found a single tick on me in that time. I can personally recommend this brand: http://www.sawyer.com/permFAQ.html

I'm in favor of reasonable gun control laws that aren't a reaction to circumstance as well.

Side note: I have a friend who grew up in Northern Finland and was hunting small game since a very early age (I think he said six or seven). He's introduced me to a lot of great Finnish things, like Paleface, salted black licorice and gravlax. I hope to visit there someday.

I remember watching it on some encyclopedia product that came loaded on my HP back sometime around '95. They also had presidential speeches and the Hindenburg crash among other events. I thought I was the coolest kid ever to have access to such historical information at my home; that so much data could be stored on a simple CD.

I really appreciate your response to this article. I've made this argument with a lot of people that just simply refuse to believe it.

I've dug into a lot of the statistical data around gun fatilities in as many nations as possible including the United States. The biggest obstacle is that none of it is standardized. Violent crimes and gun violence is reported differently through municipalities and nations, association of criminal and non-criminal behavior is not effectively broken down. To be honest, it really makes me unsure as to how a lot of the media and political decisions are made.

For instance, nearly two thirds of all gun related deaths in the United States are suicides and gun statistics seem to typically be reported on an overall number versus a per capita basis.

Per capita, Finland has about the same number of guns as the US, approximately the same laws regarding guns and yet, their per capita homicide rate is substantially lower.

Seems pretty straight forward, but I have no way of knowing if this service actually works till market close. It would be nice to have a way of verifying the service works and authenticating the user with their phone.

My concern would be that people could sign others up for this service and they'd have no way of keeping messages from being sent to them.

You could handle this with a simple exchange of sending an SMS and having them enter that code on their site to verify. Have a 12-24 hour window that would turn the account off so as not to spam that number.

I looked into the tool and realized I'd seen my Information Assurance roommate use it 5+ years ago. It was a great application then, but has become even better since. I played around with it for a couple hours yesterday, lots of fun.

I tried finding more about the Twitter scraper, but didn't find anything. Could you provide a link? I think I'd get a good chuckle from it.

Ah, you are correct, I can see that tteam posted comments and made it clear that they are not associated with the plug team.

I think you're right on the money: http://www.tonidoplug.com/

Looks like you can just download the client software for free and do the home PC/Router approach without having to use a plug: http://www.tonido.com/tonidodesktop_pricing/

I would just point out that from what I understand, automation isn't exactly what people outside of manufacturing/engineering believe it to be. There are still a lot of jobs that are not and will never be automated in the manufacturing industry. The cost of labor still ends up being cheaper than the design and maintenance of a machine smart enough to do fabrication and assembly.

I wish I could find a percentage of manufacturing down with automation, but I would guess that a fair number of things are still built by hand. I've taken a fair number of factory tours outside of the automotive industry and am always amazed to see skilled laborers at work.

I recommend trying out Mintty for Cygwin if you haven't already. I love it.

Reddit is leaking again.

Thanks.

Level 3 Intro - Create a branch, checkout, commit, checkout master, commit, merge. It says it can be done in five commands and I'm doing it in six (following the above steps very closely). What am I missing?

I agree that some folks might need physical therapy for their backs and don't want to diminish that point you're making.

When I see someone who lives a sedentary lifestyle complain about joint pain or muscular pain I really hope that they try to incorporate some sort of fitness plan into their life and not just look into a medical expenditures.

Just to re-iterate, if you're feeling some sort of debilitating pain, by all means go see a doctor. Just don't dismiss the importance of fitness in your life.

Or be like me and do both.

Deadlifts, both regular and Romanian, will do wonders for your lower back.

Archery gets you out and moving.

That seems like a really cool game. Now where's the link to check it out myself?

If something so simple is deemed optional, how many merchants do you think are going to be willing to pay to have the equipment to view your picture when they try to charge your phone.

Speaking of pictures associated with your phone. Where is this picture going to be stored? On the phone? Where, if someone steals it, they could replace it? Should we have a national database then that relates your phone number to an image of you?

Ha. Funny.

It's not a credit card company control, it's a merchant control to limit liability.

Having worked in loss prevention in the past, I know that the intent is to make sure these controls are checked an maintained. The issue you run into with cashiers is that the turn over rate is usually so high, or those checks aren't done frequently enough that the controls become lax.

Why would merchants be so concerned with these controls, you might ask? Because if it can be proven that the charges were made fraudulently, the merchant becomes responsible for them. If someone buys $300 of stuff from a store using your credit card, the store loses that cash.

So, the training I got when I worked as a cashier way back when must have been a fluke, even though it was with one of the largest retail companies in the country.

Spelling error, second paragraph. Irony.

This title is misleading. It should say Entertainment Weekly bound 1,000 issues with smartphones.

There are supposed to be checks in place to stop things like credit card theft from having an immediate affect though. Cashiers should be asking for ID and checking your signature. It's actually a control that is supposed to occur in stores.

Someone grabs your phone and gets free meals? What controls are there on that interface?

I don't even have a dongle on my keys to unlock my car remotely. Doesn't bother me in the slightest.