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  1. Re:Sharing channel == worse picture quality on L.A. TV Stations Free Up Some Spectrum For Wireless Broadband · · Score: 1

    Continuous weather is low-motion, low-bandwidth- and usually SD. The main subchannel still has plenty of bandwidth left in that case.

    Are stations really still airing SD on a subchannel?

  2. Re:Sharing channel == worse picture quality on L.A. TV Stations Free Up Some Spectrum For Wireless Broadband · · Score: 1

    Of course its' worse. The cable companies get their feed from an antenna. So they recompress that rather than the original source.

  3. Re:Water Retention? on Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated' · · Score: 1

    I can guarantee you not everyone has that option. I can buy a whole chicken at the store for $0.69/lb. now and then, but if I tried to go somewhere else, the price starts at $5/lb. I don't know how that's slightly higher.

  4. Re:Eat real foods, mostly veg, not too much on Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated' · · Score: 1

    Could you conceive that conception has more than one meaning? What they said was an Eggcorn, but a logically correct one.

  5. Re:Water Retention? on Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated' · · Score: 1

    Fresh meat, veggies, fruits, and grains have zero added salt

    Not true. Have you ever tried to buy poultry that wasn't injected with salt solution? Only the premium, expensive stuff comes in that option. Salt makes the meat take on more water, so it weighs more (and costs more).

  6. Re:CDC guilty of correlation == causation on Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated' · · Score: 1

    Which does not mean that salt *causes* blood pressure to increase.

    Technically, salt increases osmotic pressure and definitely causes blood pressure to increase. The only thing in question is whether dietary sodium directly affects blood salt levels and to what extent. Not the same thing

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  7. Re:CDC guilty of correlation == causation on Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated' · · Score: 1

    Yep - the myelin sheath that protects neurons is primarily made of cholesterol.

  8. Re:Scotch tape on Microsoft Paid NFL $400 Million To Use Surface, But Announcers Call Them iPads · · Score: 1

    It's their own fault for lowercasing the first letter.

  9. Re:Sounds familiar on Researchers Working On Crystallizing Light · · Score: 2

    How do photons restrained by force fields make it to someone's eye?

  10. It's more like the system was likely so badly put together that the data wasn't relational or optimized in almost any way. Not to say that NoSQL isn't a mess for this situation, but I can hardly imagine it was much less of a mess before.

  11. Re:The Unix philosophy on Is It Time To Split Linux Distros In Two? · · Score: 1

    By the extension of that first thought, it means you can turn a distro into either desktop or server versions by removing the pieces that do one thing well and adding others.

  12. Re: Or so they say... on Feds Say NSA "Bogeyman" Did Not Find Silk Road's Servers · · Score: 2

    I posted this reply to the wrong place the first time. So here I go again:

    No - anyone who knows anything about subject matter involved in a trial (computers, forensics, medicine, etc.) will be excluded from the jury during the selection process with the attorney's. You're supposed to have people who will only listen to the "expert witness" and not use your own knowledge. It's a certain guarantee that this skews the jury pool toward people a little dumber than you'd want.

  13. Re: Or so they say... on Feds Say NSA "Bogeyman" Did Not Find Silk Road's Servers · · Score: 1

    No - anyone who knows anything about subject matter involved in a trial (computers, forensics, medicine, etc.) will be excluded from the jury during the selection process with the attorney's. You're supposed to have people who will only listen to the "expert witness" and not use your own knowledge. It's a certain guarantee that this skews the jury pool toward people a little dumber than you'd want.

  14. Re: Or so they say... on Feds Say NSA "Bogeyman" Did Not Find Silk Road's Servers · · Score: 1

    That would only make sense if the criminal didn't deserve to be prosecuted. You can't fix the problem post-hoc.

  15. Re:Or so they say... on Feds Say NSA "Bogeyman" Did Not Find Silk Road's Servers · · Score: 1

    I'm making an assumption that you're talking about illegal NSA surveilance

    And you think that's the only way to gather intelligence illegally? I still might guess parallel construction, but my mind didn't jump to the NSA. There are plenty of other options out there.

  16. Re:cnn is worse on Facebook's Auto-Play Videos Chew Up Expensive Data Plans · · Score: 1

    Go ahead, build a browser that doesn't support the video tag. Let the ad networks fall back to Flash. Wait, do any ad networks actually use the video tag yet?

  17. Re:Autoplay is EVIL on Facebook's Auto-Play Videos Chew Up Expensive Data Plans · · Score: 1

    It's animation at 15fps (cartoon). The video might nominally be 30fps, but the lack of actual motion between frames would be compressed away. They also said full motion. They didn't say it wasn't the size of a postage stamp.

  18. Re:Burn All GIFs on Facebook's Auto-Play Videos Chew Up Expensive Data Plans · · Score: 1

    Almost nobody uses still GIF anymore.

    Habit is a strong force. And programs still list it higher on the default outputs list. The space savings isn't always that great without using a tool like pngcrush, which is just a lot of extra work that nobody really bothers with.

  19. Re:New branch of life? on Mushroom-Like Deep Sea Organism May Be New Branch of Life · · Score: 1

    ...in 1986. I suppose it could have gone almost 30 years without being discovered after being collected. The question is why.

  20. Re:centuries to break down? on Dirty Diapers Used To Grow Mushrooms · · Score: 1

    Things buried in landfills break down slower. Kind of makes the whole idea of having landfills seem silly, but it's true.

  21. Re:The numbers don't add up.... on Dirty Diapers Used To Grow Mushrooms · · Score: 2

    You're assuming they're only counting the 3 years at the beginning of life. What about the 10 years at the end of their life?

  22. Re:Might want to rewrite that summary on Dirty Diapers Used To Grow Mushrooms · · Score: 1

    through 8,000 of them before they end up in landfill

    So are all 8,000 diapers used before any end up in a landfill? That is one crazy hoarder.

    It's only as ambiguous as terrible writing.

  23. Re:English usage on Dirty Diapers Used To Grow Mushrooms · · Score: 1

    Actually, no. Why wouldn't any diapers end up in the landfill until all 8,000 are used? Everything about the sentence structure is awkward and confusing.

  24. Re:English usage on Dirty Diapers Used To Grow Mushrooms · · Score: 1

    More concerning is that the baby takes centuries to break down.

  25. Re:The biggest risk to the pyramids is Islam on Egypt's Oldest Pyramid Is Being Destroyed By Its Own Restoration Team · · Score: 1

    all we can do is get as much of history as we can out of their hands and document all that we can't.

    Preserve History

    I've said it before and I'll say it again, the best thing anybody could ever do for humanity is take every single religious text and destroy them, the evil they cause far outweighs the good.

    Destroy History

    You are a confused person.