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  1. Re:I don't think so... on The World's Leading Cause of Death? A Bad Diet (nbc12.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm saying that everyone is going to die some day. It doesn't matter what you eat, how you exercise, etc. You could be the healthiest eater in the world and you're still going to die at some point. You might last a few more years than others but you're not going to stop it by changing your diet.

    Articles like this try and give you the idea that if you do this or that, you're going to prevent your death. This one actually says a better diet will prevent 1 in 5 deaths globally. I'm pretty sure all 5 out of 5 are going to die at some point. It's just a matter of time.

    Maybe if the article gave a chart of life expectencies of people based on diets or lifestyles it might be more accurate. But claiming that your death will be prevented is just wrong.

  2. I don't think so... on The World's Leading Cause of Death? A Bad Diet (nbc12.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The correct answer is time. Doesn't matter what you eat, you're not going to escape it...

  3. Will they rename the company? on YouTube TV Opens To the Whole US (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Won't they have to rename YouTube after this? The point of YouTube is that it's "You" making videos. Now it's "Them". Welcome to ThemTube.

  4. Confused by these companies on GM and DoorDash Announce Self-Driving Cars Delivering Food In San Francisco (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Why are all these companies so obsessed with unemploying all their drivers? Self driving cars, drones, trucking, AI, etc. Governments are working hard to get people jobs and the corporations are trying harder to fire them all.

    They're also forgetting that some people that use food delivery services now could have some disability that prevents them from leaving their home in the first place. How are they supposed to get to this vehicle to get their stuff?

  5. Re: Will she get paid by YT? on YouTube Apologizes For Tweeting Somebody Else's Video (inc.com) · · Score: 2

    They can't claim it was a mistake if they purposely edited out her credit domino sequence from the front of the video.

  6. Did we just time warp to April 1st?

  7. Re:Loving the quiet again. on Ask Slashdot: What Kind of Keyboard Do You Use With Your Computer and Why? · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile, the performance of my Logitech K800 has been absolutely fantastic over the last decade.

    I absolutely love my K800. I have never had another keyboard that I could type on so easily, quietly, accurately, and quickly. And it has a nice back-light so it's easy to use at night. I have never understood why some people want loud keyboards and harder to press keys that probably lead to early arthritis.

  8. What else are they removing? on Cheaper, Disc-Free Xbox One Coming Next Year, Report Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    There is no way that removing a $10 bluray player would reduce the cost of the machine by $100.

  9. Other way around on Microsoft Working on Porting Sysinternals To Linux (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I wish they'd go the other way and port fuser to Windows! I am so tired of Windows telling me I cannot unplug my USB drives because something is using them. But finding that something is almost impossible since process explorer either doesn't see it or just returns svchost. There's about 30 svchost processes running and no one knows what they're being used for.

  10. Now, the iPad stands alone, rockin' 4x3, like it's 1999

    The Samsung Galaxy Tab S2, S3, and S4 are all 4x3 as well. It really is the best aspect for reading web pages and doing work. 16x9 was only good for video and nothing else.

  11. This is funny coming from Google on Google Warns Apple: Missing Bugs in Your Security Bulletins Are 'Disincentive To Patch' (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Google didn't mention to anyone the issues they had with Google Plus. That said, Apple's devices have always been better updated than any Android device. Apple provides OS updates and patches for about 5 years on their phones whereas Android updates are very hit or miss except for Google's own phones. You're lucky if you get 2 years on major phones and less on cheap ones.

    And when Apple does put out an update, every phone and tablet will nag you death to get it installed. Every day it will ask you to install it or remind you later. So, they never have to tell you what they're patching, or what they're changing - you update just to get rid of the daily annoying popup.

  12. What about when you destroy the parent?

    Well, normally the parent is expected to destroy all their children first, then die themselves. Can't have orphan processes running around your system... So we probably shouldn't use parent/child either for the analogy. Maybe manager/worker? Then we can think layoffs. :^)

  13. This never made sense to me anyway on Plex To Shut Down Its Cloud Service (variety.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    They wanted us to waste bandwidth and cloud storage to copy the files we already have somewhere locally to the cloud just so we could download them back again to play. Once again, wasting bandwidth caps that we might have.

    Setting up the Plex server software on an old computer, laptop, etc takes 10 minutes and you don't waste any bandwidth or cloud storage. Using their cloud service on the other hand is a lot harder to setup and manage because you had to setup the cloud account, give them access to it, send up your files, etc.

  14. Canada tried this too with Netflix on EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure if this law actually got passed here or not, but I had a simple suggestion for Netflix. Just allow locals to post their own videos in a YouTube like section on the site. It won't take long to get thousands of videos that fill the quotas that the government wants. If you want local culture, then local people should produce it.

  15. Wasn't this... on DHS Forms New Cyber Hub To Protect Critical US Infrastructure (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    The plot to a Die Hard movie? One center with a copy of all the important data for the bad guys to break into?

  16. Quick way to take control now on Windows 10 To Use Machine Learning in Latest Attempt To Make Reboots Less Annoying (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's actually quite easy (for us at least) to control the updates for Windows 10 computers. Run gpedit.msc and set "Configure Automatic Updates" to level 2. This forces the Windows update to always ask before downloading an update. This let me delay the 1803 feature update download until I was ready and could do a pre-reboot first. The downside is you have to allow defender updates each day but that only takes a few seconds to hit the download button.

    Find it under Computer Configuration, Administrator Templates, Windows Components, Windows Update.

  17. Microsoft has had SQL Server running on Linux for over a year now. Here's the install instructions. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...

    And their product page: https://www.microsoft.com/en-c...

  18. Did they buy JPSoft? on Microsoft Is Making the Windows Command Line a Lot Better (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The best way to make CMD livable is to install Take Command. I've been using it since it was called 4DOS back in the pre-Windows days. It has always provided tab filename completion, history, etc (all those nice things in bash) and a much larger command set.

  19. Does this matter in Uber's case? on Uber Driver Was Streaming Hulu Just Before Fatal Self-Driving Car Crash, Says Police (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In this case she may have saved a life by doing her job and paying attention, but the final solution assumes that nobody is sitting behind that wheel. This is still a major fail for Uber's software.

  20. There are no non-photoshopped images on the net on Adobe Is Using AI To Catch Photoshopped Images (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think any photographer takes a photo from their camera and just puts it on the Internet anymore. Every photo goes through some editing process even it it's just to fix lighting levels, crop, or add crappy Instagram filters. Hopefully the AI can ignore all that stuff to actually find the photos with people added or removed from scenes.

    For video, artists have gotten so good with CGI in movies and TV that it's almost impossible to tell that a scene was manufactured. Will the AI be able to detect that?

  21. Re:apple missed it with too few ports when 1 is ne on It's 2018 and USB Type-C Is Still a Mess (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 2

    And you think FOUR USB-C/TB 3 Ports is too few?!?

    Apple's first MacBook with USB-C/TB had only one port. The Pro's that came out a couple years later had 4.

  22. Re:What about real ones for safety needs? on Emirates Planes Could Be Going Windowless (abc.net.au) · · Score: 0

    I've always wondered why planes today don't have positioned cameras for the pilots to use to look at their plane to make sure engines are still attached to wings and such.

  23. This could be about American jobs on US Reaches Deal To Keep Chinese Telecom ZTE in Business (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ZTE was getting a lot of its components from American suppliers and the ban could have hurt those suppliers financially. Some may even have reduced their work forces if demand dropped. This probably also plays into Trump's plans to get China to buy more American products to reduce the trade deficit.

    There's also the remote chance that Trump has money invested in those American suppliers. We'll probably never know.

  24. Unless they're committing to include Office or at least part of it, this will just be another Microsoft device with no good tablet apps. The reason their phone's went nowhere is because they were years late to the app stores and still are so far behind Apple and Google, they will not get much developer interest.

    With the limited storage space, and probably an under-powered CPU for real work, it's probably targeted for media consumption mostly and for that an iPad or Samsung Galaxy S3 or S2 tablet will work much better for people.

  25. Re:Lies on YouTube Might Finally Get An Incognito Mode (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 2

    call them what they are

    You're probably right. The easiest way to find the people that law enforcement wants to know about is to let you turn on a "don't watch me, I'm not doing anything sketchy" option.