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  1. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration seems to have soured
    putting the squeeze on product makers
    time to get abreast of the labeling language
    to help skim the fat from the market
    will soon tap the public for comments
    and hopes to wring out a new policy within a year

    Burma Shave

  2. Re:Milk comes from a mammal - Juice from a plant on Should the Word 'Milk' Be Used To Describe Nondairy Milk-Alternative Products? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Put ground up teeth in it instead of silica gel. Keep the same name.

  3. Re:Coconut juice is not milk and never was on Should the Word 'Milk' Be Used To Describe Nondairy Milk-Alternative Products? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So why don't we call margarine juice?

    There are plenty of names that don't correspond to correct phylogeny or botany. We call a tomato a vegetable when it comes to nutrition because the botanical facts aren't relevant.

  4. should only be consumed by women

    You sure about this? Phytoestrogens can easily cause issues with the menstrual cycle unless you are menopausal: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

  5. Re:Hubble optical flaw origin on ESO's Very Large Telescope Now Delivers Images Sharper Than Hubble (eso.org) · · Score: 1

    Also, you could test for the effects of gravity by turning it upside-down. If the mirror was still the right shape, then gravity is not an issue.

  6. Re:Someone missed a decimal point on Russian Shipwreck Allegedly Carrying $130 Billion In Gold Has Been Rediscovered (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, it was a Korean firm that released the 200 ton number, so it was likely 200 metric tons.
    http://www.ajudaily.com/view/2...

  7. Using the word tonne also denotes metric ton. And if anyone doesn't recognize that the source is British, they would assume that it's 2,000 lbs.

  8. Re:I'm not believing. on Hackers Account For 90 Percent of Login Attempts At Online Retailers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    The big stores are far more likely to be bolting ecommerce onto an older homegrown system rather than being able to use an out-of-box solution on its own. Toys R Us / Babies R Us forced your contact information into all-caps (even up to the end), for one example.

  9. Regardless, this doesn't seem to happen in any other retail site. There's clearly some mitigation option better than letting every account get locked. Also, the IPv4 address space is relatively small compared to potential passwords - they probably don't even handle IPv6.

  10. The Kohl's web site is utterly broken. Every time they have a sale, your account gets locked due to too many password attempts. You literally have to reset your password almost every time you use it. Why you would lock an account entirely instead of rate limiting it blocking the overseas IP addresses involved, I have no idea.

  11. Re:removing preinstalled apps? on Google Warns Android Might Not Remain Free Because of EU Decision (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a lot easier than removing IE from Windows 98. Unless you're telling about one of the much later releases of Windows 95.

  12. is not mixed with stuff from third party sellers, but that's different from "fulfilled by Amazon"

    Fulfilled by Amazon is still a third-party sale. Amazon is not selling the item. I was referring to FBA third-party sellers.

  13. The problem is that since Amazon mixes same-ASIN stock in its warehouse, you can buy directly from Amazon.com and still end up getting a counterfeit from a 3rd-party seller. There is no separation whatsoever. This is why a lot of legitimate sellers of eclipse-viewing eyewear unfairly lost a lot of money last year.

  14. Re:According to Apple, they are not at fault on Video Raises Concerns About Excessive Thermal Throttling On 2018 MacBook Pro With Intel Core i9 (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, there's honestly no reason to put an i9 in a laptop form factor. But even their desktop computers have roughly the same airflow and use laptop parts.

  15. Not surprising. And have you seen how much they charge for extra soldered-in RAM? They have a captive audience.

  16. My last Macbook Pro was 2006. And it had a Core Duo CPU and was obsoleted only a few years later due to not having 64-bit EFI support.

  17. Sounds hot.

  18. Re:2018 MacBook Pro - Alaska Edition on Video Raises Concerns About Excessive Thermal Throttling On 2018 MacBook Pro With Intel Core i9 (macrumors.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    On the bright side, that might make the windows visible at the new Apple campus. Whether by condensation or frost.

  19. You have to split up the cost of the $1.5 - 3.0 million machine across everyone who uses it. Not to mention the cost of keeping the liquid helium cold or replacing it if the machine has to be shut down. $800 is probably still too high, but I wouldn't imagine it being cheap either.

  20. Re:Charcoal and Pollen on Traces of Lost Society Found in 'Pristine' Cloud Forest (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    Or they burned the remains of the crop (stalks, leaves) to fertilize the next harvest. Not that I actually know if that was practiced by anyone.

  21. Re:Why would you try to game on a Mac? on Apple Partnered With Blackmagic On An External GPU For MacBooks (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, sure - Avid was entrenched long before Apple released anything. I'm an FCP 7 user myself, but I haven't touched it often enough to ever want to upgrade. Keeping a Hackintosh around on Sierra because it's broken in later OS releases.

  22. Re:Why would you try to game on a Mac? on Apple Partnered With Blackmagic On An External GPU For MacBooks (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    you take your laptop around to the shoots, and then dock it at home to the eGPU and do your editing there

    Hollywood still uses FCP - not talking about hobbyists. And they have Fibre Channel RAID arrays for storage. Huge control surfaces for editing. You don't pick up and move around that workstation.

  23. Re:Why would you try to game on a Mac? on Apple Partnered With Blackmagic On An External GPU For MacBooks (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Blackmagic makes hardware for video editing. I guess Apple is trying to keep FCP X relevant even while they hobble their actual hardware. This seems to be proof that the Mac Pro really is going to get killed off in favor of a laptop/all-in-one with an eGPU.

  24. Re:insight into the new tests on The FCC Is Changing Up the Country's Emergency Alert System (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    The worst part is that the presidential alert is real and can't be disabled (except on a rooted phone).

  25. Re:It's all just theater on FCC Promises to Fix Comment System Hijacked During Net Neutrality Repeal (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    They're also trying to misdirect everyone around the fact that the majority of the public was against what they did and they did it anyway. And somehow they do all this while still taking about how many fake comments there were.