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  1. Re:Good! Those laws just misinform consumers anywa on US House Committee Approves Anti-GMO Labeling Law · · Score: 2

    Labeling laws like this convey no real information to the consumer.

    Yes it does. It informs the consumer whether the food contains GMO or not. And some consumers care about this and wish to be informed.

    They just add a word to the food item that many people interpret as frightening, a word that has literally zero impact on the safety or sustainability of the food item.

    So if the consumers are put off by GMO then the solution is to hide the fact? People of Asian and Jewish religion are put off by products containing pork. Maybe you could argue that pork is perfectly safe and they are over reacting. So should we just hide the fact that some food contains pork because we know better than they do that pork is safe?

    This is definitely a win for people everywhere in the US.

    How is hiding information that people may care about a "win" for people?

  2. Fingerprints? That's nothing. on Cocaine Use Can Now Be Tested In Fingerprints Using Ambient Mass Spectrometry · · Score: 1

    I can listen to JJ Cale and detect cocaine use just from the lyrics of the song! How cool is that?

  3. Re:Xylitol to the rescue? on Pepsi To Stop Using Aspartame · · Score: 1

    1g of Xylitol is enough to kill 3 dogs in half an hour. It's the kind of stuff most people can't keep in their house. If you spill your soda, your dog runs over, laps at it, and then is dead in half an hour.

    If you drop your chocolate bar and the dog eats it. Same story.

  4. source? on Russia Says Drivers Must Not Have "Sex Disorders" To Get License · · Score: 1

    Obligitory: "I soviet Russia, the government readily believes anything about YOU".

  5. Re:JPEG2000 replaced JPEG on Bellard Creates New Image Format To Replace JPEG · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But JPEG2000 was absolutely crawling with patents like maggots and worms writhing through the very core of its being. If that didn't put everyone off then I don't know what would? Certainly ruined my lunch.

    DJVU was another contender but it just happened to be tagged on to a PDF-like docuemnt format and not widely known as just an image format.

    Finally, anything that was not (properly) supported by Internet Explorer ten years ago was a dead duck. And Microsoft and Apple actively snub any open format if they can get away with (like Vorbis, WebM etc).

  6. Just the beginning on Silk Road 2.0 Seized By FBI, Alleged Founder Arrested In San Francisco · · Score: 1

    And the next one will probably be a distributed system that can't be shut down.

  7. Re:This is rich! on We Are Running Out of Sand · · Score: 1

    With scary headlines like this there is certainly a fantastic opportunity to sell insurance there. I can imagine the sales pitch now, "This time you were lucky, it was the wrong type of sand, but..."

  8. Re:Linus Torvalds won on Microsoft Makes Office Mobile Editing Free As in Freemium · · Score: 1

    More like if Norton, McAffee and other bloatware manufaturers also make applications for Linux that PC World aggressively ram down the throat of anyone trying to buy a PC, then Linux has taken over. Because its only that additional bloatware that actually gives places like PC World any profit at all and an insentive to sell PCs. I wouldn't be surprised if the PC itself was sold at a loss.

    MS Office is definitely one of the apps places like PC World try to push at the checkout.

  9. Let mid day MEAN mid day on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Stand on Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 2

    Why even mess with it? A clock is an instrument to indicate the time of day. Do I want a ruler where everything is offset by 1cm or a speedo that is offset by 10mph? Of course not. Instruments should do their best to tell things the way it is.

  10. I'm looking forward to Windows 11 on OEM Windows 7 License Sales End This Friday · · Score: 0

    Chapter 11, that is, for Microsoft.

  11. What about all those .cfm pages I've been seeing? on The Physics of Why Cold Fusion Isn't Real · · Score: 2

    What's that all about then? Are you telling me that their IS no ColdFusion? That Adobe is the name of a garden gnome? That CFML is just a crazy rant?

  12. Re:At home too on Why Munich Will Stick With Linux · · Score: 1

    Especially home computers. I remember at least two conversations I had in the last week were people were telling me how their machines are gummed up with adware and viruses that their AV software missed and that after they clean their computer with Malwarebytes or did a complete reinstall the whole virus party came back. So I aksed, "Are you sure you want to continue with Windows?"

  13. What trolls? on Ask Slashdot: Would You Pay For Websites Without Trolls? · · Score: 1

    If you ask me all Slashdotters are morons who just haven't figurued yet out just how right I am.

  14. And the physical limit of resolution is???? on Google's Satellites Could Soon See Your Face From Space · · Score: 1

    Just wondering. If the resolution limit is imposed by a restriction, then what would a satellite be able to do if the only limitation was technological?

    I remember seeing a documentary about leaked details of satellites that could read the headlines off a newspaper in the early 1970s, but they would have had very low orbits and didn't stay up long, mainly because they would run out of film.

  15. Re:Why is on Netflix Now Works On Linux With HTML5 DRM Video Support In Chrome · · Score: 1

    More likely the Netfix website code just assumes that any desktop Linux build is incompatible because that has historically always been the case. Now it isn't anymore perhaps it will version check Chrome on Linux and decide whenever the Netflix devs get around to it, though I can't see it being much of a priority to them however much I would like it to be.

  16. IE at 60%? on Windows XP Falls Below 25% Market Share, Windows 8 Drops Slightly · · Score: 1

    Why are the stats so different from different sources? StatCounter puts Chrome at 46% for desktop browser share and IE at 20%.

  17. Re:More inconvienient than the average filter. on UK Users Overwhelmingly Spurn Broadband Filters · · Score: 1

    Just filter the results for images where the author has given permission for free commercial use and, if requrired, modification. It would be great to teach kids to find, support and create free licensed material than to teach them to make their future boss have to pay for licenses and then insist that their boss pays for them to use only Photoshop to edit it.

  18. The problem with "democracy" in the UK on UK Gov't Plans To Push "Emergency" Surveillance Laws · · Score: 1

    Is basically this: "...will receive cross-party support..." Everything that erodes privacy or impinges on liberties such as overbearing police powers, mass spying, rampant drug prohbition etc. It all gets unquestioned and unchallenged "cross party support".

  19. No Problem on Wikipedia Editors Hit With $10 Million Defamation Suit · · Score: 1

    If someone sued me for defamation as a Wikipedia editor I'd just distort the article about the court case to make them and the judge look like ogres. That would fix them!

  20. 3D TV is also a gimmick? on Curved TVs Nothing But a Gimmick · · Score: 1

    Excuse me while I just poke one of my useless eyes out. It was a gimmick, apparently. Am I the only one who actually enjoys watching 3D movies? It's just the glasses that are a pain. They dim the picture and flicker against other light sources, especially cheap LED bulbs.

  21. Wrong OS on Emory University SCCM Server Accidentally Reformats All Computers Campus-wide · · Score: 5, Funny

    It reformatted the drives and put Windows on them. Eeewww! That's gross!

  22. No one showed up on Open Source Program To Give Voters More Active Role In Government · · Score: 1

    German newspaper Der Spiegel once called the movement 'a grassroots democracy where no one is showing up to participate.'"

    They were obviously astroturfing by not showing up to participate.

  23. Re:Make sure it has s-video output on Ask Slashdot: Which VHS Player To Buy? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Also, on top of S-Video output, make sure it has all the latest VHS quality enhancements such as S-VHS (probaby has if it has a S-VIDEO output -duh!) and FM sound. Although it won't help with tapes that were never recorded in these formats, it will certainly bring out the best of the tapes that were.

    For old analogue audio recordings, being able to tweak the audio head azimuth will help bring out the best of the recording. I also consider this essential for archiving cassette and open reel recordings. You have to hear how much difference being able to tweak aziumuth makes to believe it. It is a critical adjustment and the playback azimuth has to match that of the recorder otherwise all your top end goes down the plug-hole and it sounds washed out.

  24. Linux EOL is not so hot either on Linux May Succeed Windows XP As OS of Choice For ATMs · · Score: 1

    For example, Redhat/CentOS is 10 years. However there is always the option to pay someone to roll-back updates into whatever version the ATM has, which is onet thing you can't do with a closed source OS. As far as security is concerned, I would have thought something like QNX would be a better choice than either Windows or Linux. Anyone know what EOL time QNX offer? I couldn't see just be glancing at their website.

  25. "...he was angry over a poor performance review." on Ex-Microsoft Employee Arrested For Leaking Windows 8 · · Score: 5, Funny

    They told him he performed like Windows 8?