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  1. Study evaluated sacharin vs glucose on Study Finds Link Between Artificial Sweeteners and Glucose Intolerance · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Saccharin isnt used in diet drinks anymore for the most part
    and who consumes pure gluecose in any quantity?

    They should have tested sugar vs hfcs vs Aspartame vs Sucralose

  2. Dont cancel by phone on Comcast Allegedly Asking Customers to Stop Using Tor · · Score: 5, Informative

    Turn in your equipment and cancel in person. Comcast has figured out if your willing to sit in their DMV like customer service center for 30-45 minutes they aint gonna keep you. Id rather sit quietly at a customer service center than try to argue with the phone guys who get paid to keep you.

  3. I dont think people understand whats going on on Chinese Man Sues State-Owned Cell Phone Company For Blocking Google · · Score: 2

    China of 2014 is not the same as China of 1974.

    Will his lawsuit win...uh probably not but hes following legal channels and not publicly protesting. In theory hes not suing the government
    hes suing his cell phone company.

  4. Asrock is the same on Ask Slashdot: Linux-Friendly Desktop x86 Motherboard Manufacturers? · · Score: 1

    I have 3 asrock based computers...two of them 970 extreme 3 mobos running Linux Mint debian. Bios upgrade from the bios menu is easy and quick.

  5. Actually... on IBM Creates Custom-Made Brain-Like Chip · · Score: 1

    A commodore 64 running NATO COMMANDER on a datasette could run the George W Bush thought process.

  6. Re:Mech fighters on Japan To Launch a Military Space Force In 2019 · · Score: 1

    Gundams are easy. Breeding Tsundere girls with naturally pink and blue hair...a bit harder.

  7. He did NOT admit he was lying on CIA Director Brennan Admits He Was Lying: CIA Really Did Spy On Congress · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is a difference between making a false statement to congress and lying to congress.
    The difference is intent. You can unknowingly make a false statement based on lack of information.

    There is nothing in any article about this about attempt to cover up or lie. It seems like he been misinformed by his own subordinates
    and after Brennan was briefed by the inspector general he went to congress and told them the truth.

    "“Recognizing the importance of this matter and the need to resolve it in a way that preserved the crucial equities of both branches,
      Director Brennan asked the CIA Office of Inspector General to examine the actions of CIA personnel,” Boyd said."

  8. If the merger happens CNN must be spunoff. on Rupert Murdoch's Quest To Buy Time Warner: Not Done Yet · · Score: 2

    Allowing the fox news owner to take over turner networks is unthinkable.

  9. Re:so one billionaire on Rupert Murdoch's Quest To Buy Time Warner: Not Done Yet · · Score: 1

    The Fountainhead on HBO would kick ass and I say that as a Democrat.

  10. If federal reserve cash ever disappeared on Predicting a Future Free of Dollar Bills · · Score: 2

    Some private company would invent something to replace it.
    There are just too many microtransactions on too many levels to totally replace cash.

  11. Its called "recycled water" on Texas Town Turns To Treated Sewage For Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    If its purified to normal drinking water standards its fine.

  12. Most humans couldn't pass that test on The Lovelace Test Is Better Than the Turing Test At Detecting AI · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When was the last time the average person created something original?

  13. I got my 24% discount from snapshot on Here Comes the Panopticon: Insurance Companies · · Score: 1

    That fob was on their for 6 months...the key thing here is it was my choice...and its not on there anymore and im still getting the discount.

  14. The difference with Sully and air france pilot on Airbus Patents Windowless Cockpit That Would Increase Pilots' Field of View · · Score: 1

    Sully had lots of training, had flown multiple types of planes, was a flight instructor and heres the kicker, had certification
    as a glider pilot so when the engines failed he knew what to do and his co pilot and him were on the same page.

  15. Im a union rep on The AI Boss That Deploys Hong Kong's Subway Engineers · · Score: 1

    If they started replacing management with expert systems that gave us
    a) Increased autonomy
    b) more pay (fewer managers and less dead weight at the top has to mean a few more dollars available for the rest of us)
    c) Fewer stupid irrational decisions made for political reasons

    Not only would you not hear a peep.
    The computer would probably get presents on boss'es day.

  16. We are probably quarantined on Aliens and the Fermi Paradox · · Score: 1

    If there is intelligent life close by to notice us they probably have monitored us pretty well and could detect use of atomic weapons in the 1940s, 50s and 60s(nuke tests).

    IIf I were a more advanced peaceful civilization id probably quarantine earth for a while and keep it under observation remotely.

  17. If this were really about pleasing the customer on Alienware Swaps SteamOS For Windows · · Score: 1

    They would have shipped it with windows 7 pro and win 8 pro COA.

  18. Re:White Moto X on Apple Says Many Users 'Bought an Android Phone By Mistake' · · Score: 1

    The fact that they were sold on a galaxy s3 does not mean they were deceived into thinking it was an iphone.

  19. Microsoft fanbois? on Apple Says Many Users 'Bought an Android Phone By Mistake' · · Score: 0

    The actually exist?

    I know people use windows but there are microsoft fanbois since Windows 8 came out???

  20. 8 month prison sentence in sweden? on Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Arrested In Sweden · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ive seen youth hostels and college dorms worse than swedish prison cells.

  21. You havent bought a chinese phone lately on ANTVR - China's Answer To Oculus Rift Is Raising Funds · · Score: 1

    You can still buy junk really cheap but you can also buy some scary good phones from china now. I own a Lenovo cell phone and its the best cell phone ive ever owned in terms of reliability and performance.

  22. Re:How is Burying Africa Under PCs Going to Help? on $7 USB Stick Aims To Bring Thousands of Poor People Online · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is Nairobi, Kenya. Its a multiparty Democracy. Yes they are poor but Kenya is a developing nation not a failed state.

  23. Not free speech on Russia Quietly Passes Anti-Blogger Law · · Score: 1

    Its not free speech to make videos on behalf of organizations that are at war with the United States calling for the murder of american citizens and actively recruiting enemy soldiers. He essentially put on the uniform of the enemy and was hanging out with his al queda buddies in area of active conflict. You dont have to charge a known enemy soldier with a crime to kill him on a battlefield even if hes "only working in the PR department".

  24. Anwar Al-Awlaki was not a blogger on Russia Quietly Passes Anti-Blogger Law · · Score: 2

    He was a senior recruiter for Al Queda and actively involved in terrorist plots against the US and actively making propaganda for an organization at war with the United States. Our only mistake is that we didn't strip of his citizenship when he was caught by Yemen participating in an Al Queda plot to kidnap the US military attache. He was at large for 4 years, if he felt he was wrongly accused why not get a lawyer and arrange to turn himself in. Its not like he couldnt call the FBI anytime he wanted an arranged to be picked up. The Yemeni government offered to not even turn him over to the US if he would turn himself in.

  25. This was not a false claim on RightsCorp To Bring Its Controversial Copyright Protection Tactics To Europe · · Score: 2

    This was an issue of Indmusic having a deal with Tunecore to monetize music published through its service. If you didnt publish your music
    through tunecore then its not an issue. Your brother needs to read the TOS and decide if Tunecores uses of your brothers rights is what he wants.