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  1. Re:It's OK: lots of undiscovered country out there on Coca-Cola To Fund Research That Shifts Blame For Obesity Away From Bad Diets · · Score: 1

    These researchers will have a powerful $$$ motivation to shed light on these other factors, and I say more power to them.

    they are coming closer and closer to their goal: to brainwash idiots like you into thinking that carbonated sugar water is somehow good for you.

  2. Re:No compelling evidence? on Coca-Cola To Fund Research That Shifts Blame For Obesity Away From Bad Diets · · Score: 1

    You get fat when you occupy more volume that you did previously. It's basic physics here.

    So I get fat when I inhale? I get fat when I climb a tall mountain with lower air pressure around me?

  3. Re:Coke is not bad for you on Coca-Cola To Fund Research That Shifts Blame For Obesity Away From Bad Diets · · Score: 1

    Have a small coffee and an OJ and you'll get more sugar, caffeine, and acid than shotgunning a 12oz Coke.

    Comparing one bad thing to another bad thing makes the first bad thing good?

  4. Re:This is a good thing on Coca-Cola To Fund Research That Shifts Blame For Obesity Away From Bad Diets · · Score: 1

    It certainly helps Coca Cola's executives, shareholders, and the politicians that Coca Cola buys off.

    Let's not forget Elton John, who decided that life among wealthy Coca Cola heirs is more satisfying to his soul than his home in England.

  5. Re:This is a good thing on Coca-Cola To Fund Research That Shifts Blame For Obesity Away From Bad Diets · · Score: 1

    Research funded by a biased source is not necessarily bad research, and can uncover previously-unknown factors.

    the world desperately searches for a justification for carbonated sugar water, as if it will solve any of the world's problems

  6. Re:Can't hurt on Coca-Cola To Fund Research That Shifts Blame For Obesity Away From Bad Diets · · Score: 1

    If Coke figures out how to get fat people thin without going the diet route

    monkeys will fly out of your butt

  7. Re:It's not bad diets, it's inactivity. Grant mone on Coca-Cola To Fund Research That Shifts Blame For Obesity Away From Bad Diets · · Score: 2

    A diet isn't inherently bad

    Calories in / calories out. You want to eat trashy feel good diets, then exert that amount of energy in your day so it won't matter.

    Mister self proclaimed health expert says that you can drink sugar water all day with no bad effects, as long as it's accompanied by exercise!!!

    Who is paying you???

  8. Re:I'm torn.... on Coca-Cola To Fund Research That Shifts Blame For Obesity Away From Bad Diets · · Score: -1

    Marriage makes you fat.

    Just compare the waistlines of your single and married friends, and you will see what I mean.

    Marriage makes YOUR friends fat, that's a comment on YOU and YOUR choice of "friends".

    For many people marriage is an actual commitment to health and well being, for these people marriage means more good health and better sex

  9. Re:Application specific languages suck. on Buzz: a Novel Programming Language For Heterogeneous Robot Swarms · · Score: 1

    Put the features in libraries, not languages, you morons.

    Hand-code all library function calls in binary for best results. Who needs "languages" anyway, if your verbal output is cannot be directly executed by the computer, you should not be a developer.

  10. Re:I hope they succeed... on Israeli Security Company Builds "Unhackable" Version of Windows · · Score: 1

    it's the random buzzword blowhard spew machine on overdrive

  11. Re:Okay from a tech aspect... on Israeli Security Company Builds "Unhackable" Version of Windows · · Score: 1

    If you lock down the computer so the user can't install or change anything important then social engineering is much harder.

    For corporate/government use that is viable.

    maybe you can explain how software developers and testers are supposed to get their work done

  12. Re:I think you just described on Israeli Security Company Builds "Unhackable" Version of Windows · · Score: 2

    My Commodore 64.

    Dream on, idiot, Commodore 64 is the poster child for bad security:

    "It is commonly reported that the first known full stealth file-infecting virus was Frodo, in 1989. In fact, that is true only for the IBM PC world. The Commodore 64 world had been infected three years earlier by what was perhaps truly the first full stealth file-infecting virus: C64/BHP.A (not to be confused with the boot-sector virus for the Atari, also known as BHP)."

    http://pferrie.tripod.com/papers/bhp.pdf

  13. Re:This has been around forever on Israeli Security Company Builds "Unhackable" Version of Windows · · Score: 1

    It is literally already implemented in every version of Windows since Vista.

    how do you "literally" implement a feature? does this work in virtual machines?

  14. Re:How? on Israeli Security Company Builds "Unhackable" Version of Windows · · Score: 1

    They only promised you a secure OS. Its on you to provide a secure hardware platform to run it on.

    in other words, they got nuthin, because you can't actually provide a "secure hardware platform"

  15. Re:no more BIOS, UEFI (secure boot) on Israeli Security Company Builds "Unhackable" Version of Windows · · Score: 1

    So your virtual machine pretty darn safe.

    google "virtual machine vulnerabilities" and you will realize that virtual machine drivers are excellent attack vectors.

  16. Re:Oh boy on Israeli Security Company Builds "Unhackable" Version of Windows · · Score: 1

    Windows 7+ is nearly unhackable with UAC provided you have a firewall in front and no access to change boot devices.

    huh? so microsoft has finished working on windows 7 and all of the security bugs are fixed? does that mean we can turn off windows update? after all there are no security bugs

  17. Re:Oh boy on Israeli Security Company Builds "Unhackable" Version of Windows · · Score: 2

    write the libraries to implement the entire Windows API

    What a joke!!!?!?!? How to do it with no memory leaks? Dream on?!? What even IS the Windows API? Is it even documented anywhere?

    With a good budget you could manage it in a year.

    Microsoft has been working on Windows for decades, what are you smoking???

  18. Re:It'll never happen on Will Robot Cabs Unjam the Streets? · · Score: 1

    Point taken, though I would argue that the driver is self interested to keep their vehicle clean

    Are you from this planet? You don't seem to have a good grasp of human nature. Next time you are in a parking lot, look in the windows at the cars. Just about every car will have cups, lids, napkins, candy wrappers, plastic spoons, scraps of grocery lists, dead leaves, etc. all over the place.

  19. Re:It'll never happen on Will Robot Cabs Unjam the Streets? · · Score: 3, Informative

    here's a counter counter example: It takes 1 hour for me to take the train into the city. It takes 2.5 hours to drive into the city. The cost of parking in the city for the day is double the price of the train ticket. But that is irrelevant, the time difference alone seals the deal for the train.

  20. Re:It'll never happen on Will Robot Cabs Unjam the Streets? · · Score: 1

    And here comes the elephant in the room for this article: all that it says can also be applied to taxi cabs, which already exist and still the expected results aren't happening.

    Taxi drivers are not very keen on waiting for hours between fares, driverless cabs could care less if they have to wait 3 hours between fares if it's a slow night. So you can have a driverless taxi show up quickly during off hours when it's not economical for a human taxi driver to be out looking for fares.

  21. Re:It'll never happen on Will Robot Cabs Unjam the Streets? · · Score: 1

    so now you are saying that circumstances create most traffic jams and earlier you were saying that individual actions cause most traffic jams

    are you smoking from both ends of that pipe or what?

  22. Re:This is also done in San Francisco. on Will Robot Cabs Unjam the Streets? · · Score: 1

    This is also done in San Francisco.

    Although, the reason is actually that they don't need the parking, because the building is going to remain mostly unoccupied.

    What a steaming load of bullshit:

    "As of the fourth quarter of 2014, the vacancy rate in San Francisco stood at just 3.6%"

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/erincarlyle/2015/04/16/san-francisco-tops-forbes-2015-list-of-worst-cities-for-renters/

  23. Re:Only possible with an integrated system on Will Robot Cabs Unjam the Streets? · · Score: 1

    My species doesn't do that.

    really? the actual evidence is that humans do urinate in public:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/16/nyregion/public-urination-in-new-york-becomes-test-case-for-policing.html

    "Last year, 28,609 people were cited for public urination, an offense that must be witnessed by an officer to be charged. "

    Guess what? On the east coast, the rich people take public transportation. If you want to see hundreds of millionaires gathered together in one spot, check out the commuter rail stations in Connecticut on a weekday morning. The cars in the parking lot are all lexus and mercedes benz, the suits are Armani, the jobs are on Madison Avenue. These people take public transportation, because it's really the only way to get there.

  24. Re:It'll never happen on Will Robot Cabs Unjam the Streets? · · Score: 1

    then why does the traffic back up the same way and the same time every day?

  25. Re:The High Cost of Free Parking on Will Robot Cabs Unjam the Streets? · · Score: 1

    The solution to that is for cities to require businesses (and apartments and condo complexes) to provide enough parking off-street.

    This is called "making things worse" unless you also account for the increased traffic flow from residential neighborhoods onto the freeways when you convert all the single family houses into multple unit condos.