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  1. Re:New study shows... on Study: Cutting Sugar From Diet Shows Immediate Health Benefits (wiley.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't the study exactly that it is not this simple? Isn't that why they replaced the sugar, not with "less calories" or "less carbs" but with equivalent amounts of carbs and calories, but NOT added sugar?

  2. Re:Note if we can stop.. on Study: Cutting Sugar From Diet Shows Immediate Health Benefits (wiley.com) · · Score: 1

    No, they said that some processed meats (including things like bacon) increase cancer risk slightly. Also note that Boar's Head, like most deli meats, doesn't just do red meat- you can get like, turkey. I sorta doubt the study even included stuff like deli beef.

  3. Re:Note if we can stop.. on Study: Cutting Sugar From Diet Shows Immediate Health Benefits (wiley.com) · · Score: 1

    The point of the study was that breads and other types of carbs don't hit you the same way sugar does.

    Not saying those things are great, but they are not identical to sugar.

  4. Re:They know damned well what they're doing on US Senate Passes the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act 74-21 (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Right? It's not like all the sane and normal groups opposing this just FORGOT to mention why it was a bad idea.

    Of course they knew what they were voting for.

  5. Re:How Each Critter Voted on US Senate Passes the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act 74-21 (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Paul had voted against some earlier thing. Instead of showing up to oppose, though, he didn't show at all for this vote. While I think the official story is that he's opposed, the lack of the Nay is meaningful, and shouldn't be overlooked in the future.

  6. Re:Important distinction: Obervable vs watching... on 'Zeno Effect' Verified: Atoms Won't Move While You Watch (cornell.edu) · · Score: 0

    You can control for a person watching it versus something else in many ways. It has nothing to do with a human consciousness, and everything to do with interactions.

  7. Re:So which one is it? on 'Zeno Effect' Verified: Atoms Won't Move While You Watch (cornell.edu) · · Score: 1

    Media will never explain this fact, because all their clicks come from pretending its some mental thing where if a PERSON observes it, that locks it down. The fact that its due to interacting with other particles is rarely gone into.

  8. Apple is already a plenty attractive target. Plenty of prestige to be gotten from something like this already.

  9. Re:Any use of this? on Self-Encrypting Western Digital Hard Drives Easy To Crack · · Score: 1

    On open piece of hardware that behaves in an owner-controlled way would be no different than your CPU. But repeatedly and endlessly, this is never what we see.

  10. Re:American brands on Self-Encrypting Western Digital Hard Drives Easy To Crack · · Score: 1

    Given that all brands are generally manufactured in similar facilities (down to the fact that when there was a tsunami in one specific area, ain't nobody shipping shit for months), why do you think this? Can you link to something?

  11. Re:Any use of this? on Self-Encrypting Western Digital Hard Drives Easy To Crack · · Score: 1

    Pls mod up. It gains the illusion of security at the expense of actual security. Every abstraction layer that can peek into owner-controlled space (such as a physical device that can read RAM without being gated by the CPU) hurts your actual real audited software encryption. Every layer that offers hidden encryption, (such as hardware, especially hardware that gets to vet or view the output of a user controlled CPU, or hardware that sits below the owner controlled opcodes, such as a soft-updateable CPU "firmware") is full of accidental or purposeful backdoors, and reduces the ability to actually run owner-controlled programs in the first place.

  12. Re:License Plates and registrations ... on The Problem With Mandatory Drone Registration (roboticstrends.com) · · Score: 1

    No, this is someone making a joke about "Crazy Hosts Guy". APK normally posts about the APK Hosts Engine about eleventy zillion times per ad blocker article. He's controversial because he's a crazy forum flooder who disrupts discussion, but is generally correct in his assessments and on the right side of things.

    The cow guy is a troll and not that amazing of one. Maybe if we get some clever iteration it'll catch on, but I doubt it. APK is kind of born to be a meme.

  13. Re: Depends on Maybe You Don't Need 8 Hours of Sleep After All (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    There's some theories that basically say, whatever is sexy in some local area is what wins out. You can make a case for more or less melanin based on sun exposure easily enough, but why would you have different facial structures across the world? Each race looks pretty damned different, and many of these differences are entirely cosmetic.

    It's reasonable to assume that some or a lot of our language and intelligence was intraspecies social competition, and we were well on that path before we were modern humans.

  14. Re: Depends on Maybe You Don't Need 8 Hours of Sleep After All (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 0

    If you could build a human at that scale, you would be able to train to do the same thing. More relevantly, if you were in a lesser gravitational field, most of the cat tricks would work with some training. Your reflexes would be fine, but you wouldn't have the instinct.

    There are things that animals are superior at- check out the muscles on other primates, for instance. But reflexes humans are just fine at- you have myelinated nerves just like a cat, and you have some decisions made in your spinal cord, and others go up to your brain.

  15. Re:Case signatures on New Plastic For Old Amigas and Commodores · · Score: 1

    You packed a lot of awesome into this comment, nice.

  16. Re:Good, but man the fonts on Browser Tests Show Edge Fastest, But Weak On Standards (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    It wasn't project Spartan because it faced off against the Persians. It's a comment about the featureset.

  17. Re:Fast but weak on standards eh? on Browser Tests Show Edge Fastest, But Weak On Standards (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Real programmers send HTTP requests over postcards.

  18. Re:Smaller than Planck on An Experiment Could Determine Whether Gravity Is Quantized (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I would want to see something faster than it. Something slower than it, but non-integral, could be explained as a summation of multiple processes that average out that way (or whatever).

    But do you have an example of something that is 23 quadrillion + 1/3 Planck units, or whatever?

  19. Re: Cut to the chase on An Experiment Could Determine Whether Gravity Is Quantized (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    So, no example is forthcoming?

  20. Re: Cut to the chase on An Experiment Could Determine Whether Gravity Is Quantized (forbes.com) · · Score: 0

    What is an example of something that takes less than a Planck time to transpire? Can you point to an example where Planck time isn't the frame rate of reality?

  21. Re:Or put another way... on In Battle With Ad Blockers, Ad Industry Fesses Up To Alienating Users (iab.com) · · Score: 1

    Who are you talking to?

  22. Re:Wii U's capabilities were notably lower on Nintendo's New System Likely a Console/Portable Hybrid (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Wii U doesn't really support Cube, but you know that.

  23. Re:We accept your apology on In Battle With Ad Blockers, Ad Industry Fesses Up To Alienating Users (iab.com) · · Score: 1

    > Courts around the world have ruled that ad blocking and ad skipping is not illegal.

    Courts around the world have ruled that drinking water you have paid for is not illegal.
    Courts around the world have ruled that inhaling air is not illegal.
    Courts around the world have ruled that pooping is not illegal.

    Of course, the courts never ruled any of those things. Nor are there any laws against them that courts had to deal with. The difference is, while there's ALSO no laws saying you can't skip ads... IT STILL WENT TO THE COURTS, OVER AND OVER

  24. Re:Say what?! on Windows 10 Upgrades Are Being Forced On Some Users (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Lol, no way. It's not unified. It's just kinda whatever.

    "Graphics drivers for 2nd Generation Intel® Core Processors with Intel® HD Graphics 3000/2000, are not supported for Windows10*"
    https://communities.intel.com/...

    It's arbitrary what they support where. Nothing is ever compatible, or they would have one file labelled "driver", not a million ones for each different iteration in the first place.

  25. Re:Or put another way... on In Battle With Ad Blockers, Ad Industry Fesses Up To Alienating Users (iab.com) · · Score: 2

    > People give churches billions of dollars a year, too. That doesn't mean prayer works.

    Lets go over how wrong you are.

    Level 1 - "The False Equivalence" - A church is an organization that may or may not be headed by people. We'll assume it is. The people in charge of the church would be the equivalent of the people in charge of a company that purchases ads. The people in charge of a church aren't buying anything, but the people in charge of Hoozle Brand Mooshledooshles sure are. This is a false equivalence. The church members are the ones who support the church, and the consumers of Hoozle Brand Mooshledooshles support Hoozle. You cannot compare people with expert knowledge (the board of Hoozle, or those running the church) with people who do not have that, and are seeking a result (the purchasers of Hoozle, or the church goers).

    Level 2 - "Another one" - In the first case, we are discussing advertisements, a product of one company (the ad agency) purchased by another (Hoozle!). In the second case, you are discussing prayer- not the only "product" of a church by any means. In order for this to make sense (and forgetting entirely that top level error), you would have to show that CHURCHES don't work. Not just the prayer part. But churches DO work- they provide a sense of comfort to many church members, the church often helps members who fall into trouble, etc. I'm certain that these things aren't true in all places, but overall these are absolutely things that churches do to help their members. And this is entirely outside of churches that help non-members (thereby helping members who want to help others). Even if you don't like churches for whatever fedora babble reason, the point is that *churches are not just prayer*. You can't correlate the two- they are different things.

    Level 3 - "Just incorrect" - Prayer absolutely works. It may not make some sky fairy grant your wishes, but if you take away the supernatural claim and look at people who pray, you find a great deal in common with those who meditate. If the prayer brings comfort to the one praying, or really benefits them in any way, then it "works"- it is worth that person's time. It may not get godbro to hook your team up with the superbowl, but is that explicitly the claim of prayer anyway?

    At every level your thing falls apart.

    In fact, the fact that people give churches billions of dollars a year means that the people map to the CONSUMERS who are paying for a PRODUCT (in this case, not much of one) based on ADVERTISING (in this case, word of mouth). Advertisers looked at the religious scam model and were like "Hrm, how can we get in on this?"

    The mapping go much deeper in western society. Advertisers try to create insecurities. You aren't interested in a whiter smile unless I tell you that somehow the whiter teeth are better, and that your teeth aren't white enough. So I have to find someone with really white teeth who is attractive, or just fucking paint their teeth, or just repaint whatever images I have of them, and then show that's part of a thing. You'd never know you were incomplete, made imperfect, in need of forgiveness, for your original sin of having vaguely yellow teeth.... You can aspire to have perfectly white teeth, but without this simple product, you will never be saved...