Why not use something like Truecrypt's 'plausible deniability' mode?

You have two passwords: one that displays files you don't care to show em' and one that shows the actual sensitive data.

You can't tell which password you gave em' nor can you tell there actually is more then one layer of data.

What does it mean to be human?

Meat, around bones on a bipedal frame descended from monkeys through the most hilariously elaborate game of trial and error we've done theorized. there's also the body odors/excretions and sex thing.

What we should be asking is "What does it mean to be aware of one's self and one's environment in the traditional homo sapien sense?"

We stress too much emphasis on "being human" when it's our awareness that is really the intriguing part. It's also the part that's not likely to change(grow, maybe) no matter how many fancy toys we weld onto our calcium and organic goop frames.

@JDUBSMONTREAL:

Agreed.

I have to go to the crummy comedy network website(broadband.thecomedynetwork.ca)

It's a horrible and bloated site using the very very buggy Silverlight software to stream the clips.
(note: it works like crap on nforce mobos and tends to lock up the computer for a few secs...I found that lowering the browser's process priority in Task Mangler helps...not sure how well this works on Linux)

Wow...I'm torn between my like for do-it-yourselfers and my hate for Greenpeace.

Get the Amazing Randy on the case.

Gnomes

I just sent my 2 cents to Prentice(again).

This is getting tiresome.

I hafta side with Cory on this one. Seriously, how many DMCA takedown notices were sent to unowned or free works just to get it offline or as part of some badly programmed legal spambot's rounds?

That frikkin' weasel....

What do you mean "Now"?

I can't help but think of the blueberry girl from Willy Wonka.

What...a...dick.

I know it doesn't sound very policital nor very intelligent, but it's the most descriptive I can come up with at this point.

Very cool:) Makes me happy I was able to contribute just a lil' bit with a voicemail(I never dreamed the voice mailbox would have been filled by end of day, that's awesome!).

And my sincerest thanks to Kempton:) I'll remotely hip-hip hooray you and drink a fine ale to your name.

I got voicemail when I called the Calgary number. Left a message, though.

Definitely phoning this one in(walking from Halifax to Calgary ain't likely).

As an artist, I think it's my duty to as he's apparently doing this "on our behalf"(*cough*).

@Alys,

I believe he links to this:

http://www.onlinerights.ca/

They have a stock letter you can modify that emails all of the above and sends you a copy to print and post out.

Osinoche, you sir, are very effective at bringing bile to my mouth. Quite the troll thy be.

I would seriously like to know where you get this idea of "If we keep it under a million people, it's cool."

Yeah, I'll go kill my neighbor and eat his flesh now. I ain't doing it to lots of people, so it's okay, right?

And why tha hell would we leave it to our children? We should make an example for our children and stop this foolishness now. They can't fix it after we've farked it all up, can they?

You are either trolling for the sake of trolling or you are the biggest and worse kind of fool.

Forget not what this "war" is supposedly fought against. "Terror"(though I fail to see how one wages war against an abstract noun).

These terrorists get their motivations from propaganda artists who are finding it exceedingly easier day by day to villainize the west. If we do these kinds of things to them, what chance to we have of convincing their brothers and offspring(if they are too far gone into fanaticism) that we aren't these baby eating asshats that we're portrayed as being(well...most of us...you seem to be walking the line, however).

The problem, Osinoche, is what constitutes a "correct" answer. The techniques involved have been used to secure confessions. I hardly know how you can apply the scientific method to something like that.

Equally, again, if the information involved was "correct", you would let the prisoner go? Sure. They have a "bona-fide" terro-rist. They won't release them at that point. And if the information is along the lines of "The important guys meet here." and the important guys left by the time he said so, should they continue torturing him to find out more things?

What you fail to realize is that by performing these atrocities, you not only get questionable info, you validate the hatred these people have for you in the first place. You breed more hatred and, as such, more terrorists who wish to see you dead.

This heavy handedness is making those involved no better then those they torture. As such, it's a shorter psychological trip to push someone into fanatical support of "those who oppress us".

Donating to Amnesty gets more and more important each day. That was one powerful movie and hopefully it'll help at least raise some eyebrows.

Though I agree more text should be displayed indicating why he's on the box and dares not leave it as well as the timeframe involved.

Mad props to the poor volunteer on the box, though.

The thought that this is used on anybody is sick. And seriously, wouldn't someone just say any damn thing to get away? What possible assurances are there to indicate this facilitates a real answer as opposed to a contrived one made under duress?

#13:

Cory, I've lost 40lbs in 4 months. No Atkins. My friend lost 30lbs in 2.5 months. His was more drastic, but he hasn't advanced since and he's still, according to that popular BMI scale, obese.

Not only that, he gains weight far quicker now. After a holiday, he tells me he balloons yet again, though admittedly less then the initial 30.

As for cholesterols and heart disease...meh, that one is sketchier seeing as much of heart disease remains mysterious as is. But given the fact that high cholesterol even has a slight correlation to heart disease, one would do well to be cautious. And correlations between low-carb diet and heart disease seem sketchy at best(some articles showing benefits, others showing massive risks and increased plaque formation in the arteries).

#11:
Funny you should say that, that was the original idea behind the "y" in the name(that and it's a pun on my real name).

However, while I grant I jumped into a realm of near-mysticism, it was mainly as a way to type fast and get the point across. Granted it had the subtlety and credibility of a late-night infomercial. Probably bad judgment on my part.

In actual fact, fat cell count mostly stays static within the body but the cells are generally expanded by additional being broken down and reassembled within their membranes. However, people who have gained significant weight do have a higher fat cell count then those who have always been of smaller frame(unless they got liposuction).

Glucose is the trigger to fat storage. Without it, nothing would be stored as it triggers the release of insulin which starts the metabolizing process which will invariably break down the various amino and fatty acids in order to store them in the aforementioned fat cells.

Now here is where my point kicks in. The long term storage of fat is only brought on if you take in more calories then you expel. So if you take in a surplus, you store it. Makes sense, right?(though, as an interesting side note, it of course takes energy to actually store the fat in the first place)

Now here's where the carb thing comes in and that sugar+fat point:

Most low carb diets instead rely on fattier protein rich foods. The body actually prefers fat for storage then glucose itself. So by eating that big steak, your body now has a large supply of easily stored fat that requires less energy to metabolize. Now, again, like I had stated before, there's a vital ingredient: glucose(sugar). The more sugar you consume, the more insulin is released(as any diabetic or child after a Halloween binge can attest to), which means more of that pesky breakdown of fatty acids into smaller amino acids absorbable into your body's existing fat cells.

That explanation better for you?

If you eat less calories then you use up, and avoid too much fat and sugar(which are the building blocks of fat cells, I don't care what this guy tells you), you will lose weight.

Period.

Now, in terms of diet, that means, if you exercise enough to expel the energy(calories) that you consumed, your body will eat it's own fat to compensate. If you avoid fat and sugar, your body will have less with which to create fat cells and most of that which you consumed will go down the porcelain portal never to bother you again.

Low carb diets allow you to lose weight only in the immediate. Once your body mass that was previously occupied by healthy cells is lessened, you stop losing weight. On top of that, eating carbs again(which contain sugar...is sugar mostly) will cause your body to gobble them up immediately and bind them to any fatty matter imediately to compensate: you effectively balloon back.