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  1. Re:heartburn medication is retarded on Studies Link Some Stomach Drugs To Alzheimer's Disease and Kidney Problems (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Some people's bodies work right, some people's don't. For the latter category, no amount of diet modification is going to solve everything 100%.

  2. They did tests on cultured cells in a lab. There were no people involved in those experiments.

  3. Not Doctors. They'd fucking make you mainline heroin just to shut you up.

    They went back to morphine long ago in most countries.

  4. Re:Recommended dose is two weeks for OTC on Studies Link Some Stomach Drugs To Alzheimer's Disease and Kidney Problems (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Because that's only one problem.

    The PPIs also slow down acid production in the lining of blood vessels, meaning they can't clear out damaged proteins. This is the cause for the kidney problems, as mentioned in the article.

  5. Re:Do humans count as malware? on Which US Cities Have The Worst Malware Infection Rates? (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, so he spends a ton of money on advertising, preying on the weak-minded with trumped up threats, and doing little if anything to solve real problems?

  6. Re:Older people less astute with technology? on Which US Cities Have The Worst Malware Infection Rates? (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    And you cleaned it up instead of wiping/reinstalling Windows? Even though there was nothing important on it anymore? That seems like an awful lot of work with no reward.

  7. No, they acknowledged the issue and didn't blame users. They still have a lot to learn.

  8. And so will Pepperidge Farm

  9. Re:Don't blame all employees on Ransomware Completely Shuts Down Ohio Town Government (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Your sample size sucks.

    My research included the wider Internet - it's a lot more common than you think. If it's hitting an entire server, and not just network shares, and the computer isn't used for web browsing - you're not going to get it from a drive-by download.

    believe it or not we have clients with legacy software that requires it. Only solution is to reduce attack surface.

    Yeah, like with a VPN. Is there really any software that requires a remote RDP server but couldn't handle it through a VPN connection?

  10. Re:William -- Shatner on Snapchat Files For a $3 Billion IPO (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm genuinely surprised that any of that worked. Well then...

    The company—originally named Snapchat—has declared its intentions to become “a camera company” rather than just an app developer.

  11. Re:William -- Shatner on Snapchat Files For a $3 Billion IPO (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    No UTF-8 support, and I highly doubt – or — are going to do any good. "A camera company" was supposed to be in quotes, but /. mangled the curly double quotes, too - and I guess the submitter forgot what the original text said by that point.

    An experiment: – — “ ”

  12. Re:so i guess that means.. on Snapchat Files For a $3 Billion IPO (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    They may have created a similar use case to today's QR codes, but the Cuecat was a 1D scanner and couldn't dream of reading QR codes. Also, QR codes already existed by then. Created by Denso Wave, not NTT - they just created some plain text encoding formats that lots of people adopted.

  13. Re:Exploiting idiots not Barix. on Hackers Take Over Unsecured Radio Transmitters, Play Anti-Trump Song (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's like selling doors and then making the buyer go find their own lock...except that doors come without locks.

  14. Don't blame all employees on Ransomware Completely Shuts Down Ohio Town Government (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    If it's hitting central servers and shutting everything down, it's probably a weak RDP password with port 3389 wide open. That's what the last ransomware I saw involved.

  15. A thing can have two names. They aren't mutually exclusive.

  16. Re:Reddit = a bunch of cowardly idiots. on Reddit Bans Far-Right Groups Altright and Alternativeright (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Their goal was to clean up their web site, not stop a "movement." They couldn't care less.

  17. How is it not? Regardless of how public the event was or how much you thought they deserve it, that still fits the definition.

  18. Re:Hyland's teething tablets on FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses To Recall (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The most recent attempt at finding such evidence used improper temperature measuring equipment. I would suspect it's a very mild fever. Most tissue injuries cause enough inflammation for a mild temperature rise - I've had it from sunburn.

  19. Re:Language continues to die ("router") on LG's UltraFine 5K Display Becomes Useless When It's Within Two Meters of a Router (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    The summary (and therefore the title) was quoting The Verge. Who is their audience?

  20. Re:Worlds Fastest Computer on Researchers Unveil First Ever Blueprint To Construct a Large Scale Quantum Computer (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    .should we call it QUANTIAC?

    Well it does use a "sophisticated vacuum apparatus" - it all checks out.

  21. Re:speeds "up to".... on New York Sues Charter Over Slow Internet Speeds (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Does Charter force users to use their crappy leased modems?

    They tried (by making the lease $0), but they abandoned that. It was the only way they could get the old DOCSIS 1 & 2 modems off the network.

  22. Re:Better Summary for Nerds on New York Sues Charter Over Slow Internet Speeds (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    If you're talking Frontier that was former Verizon FiOS territory, avoid it like the plague. The constant outages that I've heard about there since the switchover has been worse than anything Charter is doing.

  23. Re:Language continues to die ("router") on LG's UltraFine 5K Display Becomes Useless When It's Within Two Meters of a Router (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Common language says that a wireless router is the general case for a "router". While that's not technically accurate, it also follows the rules you just gave.

  24. Re:Hyland's teething tablets on FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses To Recall (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, it would be, if teething caused a fever, which I don't believe that it does.

    You don't "believe" that it does. Nevermind hundreds of years of scientific evidence to the contrary. Well...that's a good enough reason to stop you right there. I'm out.

  25. This result of "I want to live" reeks of someone that's trying to prevent euthanasia

    I wasn't sure if it was that or something with a high likelihood of a strong emotional response. Though I don't think the test method depends on the emotional response, but something more deliberate.