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  1. Calorific value? on Low-Carb Diet Trumps Low-Fat Diet In Major New Study · · Score: 1

    More important than either of these is the calorific value of the relative diets. Both of them (low carb / low fat) ultimately work by restricting the types of food, and therefore the calories, that are consumed - just via different methods. Claiming that fat is bad is simply false.

  2. Akamai != AWS... on Reason To Hope Carriers Won't Win the War On Netflix · · Score: 1

    If only people knew how content delivery worked. Netflix don't deliver you the video from AWS, so worrying about the 'throttling' of AWS connections is slightly ridiculous.

  3. Re:Set for a crash anyway due to difficulty of min on Bitcoin Plunges After Mt. Gox Exchange Halts Trades · · Score: 1

    So wouldn't the increased scarcity cause a rise in the value... i.e. the exact opposite of a crash?

  4. MIPS CNT... on Warning At SC13 That Supercomputing Will Plateau Without a Disruptive Technology · · Score: 5, Funny

    MIPS CNT... how do you pronounce that?

  5. Re:Think of the Canadians on Users Flock To Firewall-Busting Thesis Project · · Score: 1

    Overplay.net SmartDNS handles this for $5/month, letting you easily switch between all the different Netflix locales at will. I don't think many people use traditional proxies/VPN for netflix anymore.

  6. Re:The summary is wrong on New iOS App Sends Users' Web Traffic Through Its Proxy Servers · · Score: 1

    Wrong. This IS an app - the app quits and opens the connection profile in Mobile Safari when the user taps a button in the app to 'Enable'.

  7. Twitter on Twitter Can't Keep Protestor's Data From Cops · · Score: 1

    It does appear, on the surface, that Twitter does at least go above and beyond at times in trying to protect what it sees a it's users rights. I suspect at time at considerable expense to themselves too.

  8. Sensationalism on Jaguar and Land Rover Angle For Production In China · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The linked blog article reports roughly 20% of the full story. In actual fact, the UK factories are maxed out and employing more and more people, and only production destined for the Chinese market is being moved to China as part of this joint venture.

  9. Re:script kiddie on 15-Year-Old Arrested For Hacking 259 Companies · · Score: 1

    Almost all the kiddie sweeps we're seeing these days are from acunetix.

  10. I doubt she's complaining any more... on Baker Has to Make 102,000 Cupcakes For Grouponers · · Score: 1

    I suspect that with the loss came publicity that's going to prove to be worth FAR more than £20,000. The fact that you and me are talking about her small bakery in the UK is testament to that.

  11. Re:BT and Fibre rollout on BT Fiber Infrastructure Plans 'Fatal' To Competition · · Score: 1

    That update basically says that there's no update though. Since there's no room in the BT cabs for third party DSLAMs, the only remaining choice would be for Be* to provide FTTP. Can only hope, but I don't see it happening inside the next 24-36months. This whole saga is going to cost them thousands upon thousands of customers.

  12. Re:Microsoft Virtual PC on VMware, a Falling Giant? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Chalk / Cheese? Virtual PC is positioned no where near VMWare - try HyperVM/Xen/KVM

  13. Re:How secure... on Wine HQ Password Database Compromised · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't, it indicates that they sent you the password during the hashing process.

  14. Re:Fear on Tunneling Under the Great Firewall? · · Score: 1

    http://www.overplay.net/ -- either use the free server in the US or subscribe...