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  1. Ah the good old days when they thought that they could send DVD sets with the discs mounted in the box instead of sending each disc in a paper sleeve.

  2. Re: The activists ate my homework! on Anti-GMO Activists Slow Scientists Breeding a CO2-Reducing Superplant (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    And btw regarding your "close to a million of studies" a simple search for "genetically modified food" on PubMed: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p... shows a total of 6115 studies. So out of these 6115 I will be able to find your millions of studies that show that GMO food is dangerous to humans?

  3. You don't think that you can alter the genes in breeding? How exactly do you think that evolution works? And if you have not heard of atomic gardening before do look it up and then come back and tell me how we don't have foods out there where we changed genes en masse.

  4. Re: The activists ate my homework! on Anti-GMO Activists Slow Scientists Breeding a CO2-Reducing Superplant (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    Btw it looks like with CRISPR, GMO:s will finally be legal in Europe (unless the quacks manages to organize against it too) since a GMO done via CRISPR does not match a GMO in the way the EU ban is written.

  5. Re: The activists ate my homework! on Anti-GMO Activists Slow Scientists Breeding a CO2-Reducing Superplant (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    Please point to a single sterile GMO seed. You can't because they do not exist. Also please show a single proper peer-reviewed study from a respectible journal that shows that GMO:s are dangerous to humans, a single one would suffice out of your millions.

    Yes GMO crops can lead to less use of pesticides: https://www.tandfonline.com/do...

    The evidence shows that use of the technology has resulted in a net reduction in both the amount of herbicide used and the associated environmental impact, as measured by the EIQ indicator when compared to what can reasonably be expected if the area planted to GM HT crops reverted to conventional production methods

  6. Re: The activists ate my homework! on Anti-GMO Activists Slow Scientists Breeding a CO2-Reducing Superplant (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    GMO'ed plants that are sterile? You do know that the so called terminator seeds only exists in the heads of activists right? And why are you afraid of GMO'ed foods? There does not exist a single study (except the faked Seralini one) that shows GMO food to be any different than non-GMO food when consumed. Big difference in farming though since GMO crops can lead to less use of pesticides, less water and land usage and less CO2 release (due to less tilling).

  7. Actually less harmful than normal breeding since with GMO we can make sure that only the specific genes that we want to be modified actually gets to be modifies as compared with normal breeding where we hit genes all over the place. So be your logic we should ban all breeding and only allow GMOs.

  8. Re:ESXi, busybox, emacs, or PGP? on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Sophisticated Piece of Software Ever Written? (quora.com) · · Score: 1

    Here is Margaret Hamilton standing besides a printout of the Apollo 11 guidance computer source code, not really something that you could fit in your head: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/def...

  9. It's less about "fond of multi-bazillionaire captains of industry" and more about understanding how businesses and demand curves work. It's not Amazon that needs protection from Trump here but the USPS which are about to be forced to loose major contracts if Trump will have his way.

  10. Exactly how insane are you? Amazon have a net profit margin of 3.19% that is far far from "the most profitable company on the earth". E.g Microsoft have 23.57%

  11. Or they where faking it and still that where the best one they could show :-)

  12. So saving those babies is our way of saying that we don't want God? Let's save more babies then!

  13. Re: flat earthers are dumb, but flouride is toxic on Reporter Shares Experience of Visiting a Flat Earth Convention (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you implying that AC comes from parts of Chine where the water is contaminated with orders of magnitude higher levels of fluoride than what is used when it's added to drinking water where there exists no natural source of it?

  14. Re:LOL on Will GDPR Kill WHOIS? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    And that is also not required by the GDPR, you have to make a reasonable effort in order to remove the details, not a herculean effort. This is e.g why backups are not covered by the GDPR.

  15. Re:ICANN had years to prepare on Will GDPR Kill WHOIS? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    And is it ICANN that provide these private listings today or is it the registrars who then are not following ICANNs rules?

  16. Re:Nobody wants a defective product in mass qty on Intel's 10nm Cannon Lake CPUs Won't Arrive in Mass Quantities Until 2019, Company Says (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    It was in March that they said that it would come in the second half of 2018 in the Cascade Lake architecture.

  17. Re:Nobody wants a defective product in mass qty on Intel's 10nm Cannon Lake CPUs Won't Arrive in Mass Quantities Until 2019, Company Says (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    But with a proper fix in the CPU the performance penalty will be significantly lower than the current software work-around. And Intel have said that they will introduce chips with proper fixes in late 2018 so apparently they are working on it.

  18. Re:Fabbing 10nm hasn't been easy on Intel's 10nm Cannon Lake CPUs Won't Arrive in Mass Quantities Until 2019, Company Says (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    Especially those with Meltdown patches ;)

  19. Re:F*ck em on Ubuntu 18.04 Focuses On Security and AI Improvements (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    That is because corporations for some strange reason decided that the Microsoft Azure cloud would be a good place to run Linux instances. So Canonical would be outright stupid not to provide Hyper-V optimized images there.

  20. Re:avoid this one on Ubuntu 18.04 Focuses On Security and AI Improvements (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you forgot to add Alcohol, try Beer next time.

  21. Re:requested Ubuntu fixes on Ubuntu 18.04 Focuses On Security and AI Improvements (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The screen lock problem is a problem with X11 and is one of the things that Wayland is supposed to be able to completely fix.

    Fixing the Alt key thing (e.g disabling the HUD completely) is to open ccsm (Compiz Config Settings Manager), click on "Desktop", then click on "Ubuntu Unity Plugin" and there you have a "Key to shot the HUD when tapped" and instead of changing it to a different key you can outright disable it there.

  22. Re:Please download it on Ubuntu 18.04 Focuses On Security and AI Improvements (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    no, that is just when they create a new install so new installs will contain all the patches sent up to that point. It goes LTS the moment it's released which is tomorrow.

  23. Re:Just because you can doesn't mean you should. on Doctors Tried To Lower $148K Cancer Drug Cost; Makers Tripled Its Price (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course I have never been sued, I live in a country where you don't solve every single dispute in court (and having losing side always have to pay both sides costs also reduces the number of frivolous lawsuits quite a bit). I'm not saying that a idiot share holder won't ever try to sue, it's just that they have no legal standing to do so, so the case would be thrown out of court asap. You as a shareholder have willingly bought a piece (i.e share) of the company which gives you one and only one right, the right to vote in a shareholders meeting.

  24. You dont't hear how ridiculous your idea is? There is not a single administration nor makeup of congress that would allow the US to bankroll Europe since that would be seen as being Socialists. A single senate hearing of a CEO from any Pharmaceutical company where he/she would say that the price in the US is high so that they can sell it for less in Europe would lead to immediate consequences by both the public at large and the sitting political administration.

    The reality is that the pharma industry (like any other industry) sells their products at the price on each market they they determine that the market is willing to pay, this is basic capitalism. The pharma companies also have a very high profit margin (among the highest among the various industries) so they are definitely not in need to subsidize the price in one market by increasing it in another.

  25. Because the US bankrolling Europe is something that would fly with any politician in the US regardless of side?