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  1. Re:The sugar lobby is worse than oil company lobbi on Is Sugar Toxic? · · Score: 1

    HFCS is used everywhere because the sugar lobby has successfully received a low sugar import quota, causing sugar prices to be high, making HFCS look cheap.

  2. Practice your Recovery Method on Long-Term Storage of Moderately Large Datasets? · · Score: 1

    If you go RAID5, have a known method for recovering if a drive fails. Actually perform a recovery before pushing it into service. I say this because some RAID5 cards use nonstandard methods making recovery very difficult and expensive. I'd also consider a process to transfer your datasets to new drives periodically so as not to lose your data.

  3. Are you sure ? on Navigating a Geek Marriage? · · Score: 1

    First, I ask why do you want to get married? Make sure you have solid, concrete answers for that question. Many people get married because "its the thing to do". Terrible. One of you will end up owing the other half of everything, this includes your RAID NAS. Second, do your 5/10/20 year plans align? Is she your dream killer? Are you ready to have your dreams killed? Are you sure you want your dreams killed? Do you both want the same out of life? Finally, if you don't have common interests, it will put a strain on the relationship. What happens if some of those common interests dwindle? Do you still have a concrete relationship?

  4. one word on Worst Working Conditions You Had To Write Code In? · · Score: 1

    cubicle

  5. A better question is on Broadband Access Without the Pork? · · Score: 1

    what ISPs require a phone line? I have never heard of that being a requirement. The only reason I could think of is a DSL ISP, but even then I think Qwest will sell you internet without the phone line.

  6. Re:Google Much? on Environmental Cost of Hybrids' Battery Recycling? · · Score: 1

    Can you pm me? I am interested in your battery packs for a robot I am building.

  7. Re:Buy a bicycle on Environmental Cost of Hybrids' Battery Recycling? · · Score: 1

    what about hybrid-based public transit? I'd say stick with the bike.

  8. Re:Google Much? on Environmental Cost of Hybrids' Battery Recycling? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, the life of your rechargeable batteries relies mostly on your charger. Cheap trickle chargers dump energy into your batteries even after they are full, cutting their life expectancies. Expensive battery chargers detect when the batteries are full and stop placing more energy on the cells. If your batteries are ever warm from charging, you just lost battery life. NiMH can be recharged more often then NiCd, but have less capacity too.

  9. Re:Well good for them on Psystar "Definitely Still Shipping" Mac Clones · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nothing Ford does is good business.

  10. tweaked connectors on Intel Releases USB 3.0 Controller Interface Spec · · Score: 1

    Who's brilliant idea was it to go to production with "tweaked" connectors?

  11. Re:Maybe the silliest consequence? on NSA Releases Historical Documents on TEMPEST · · Score: 1

    Not really. Light is also EM radiation. It is just a higher frequency.

  12. Re:Democracy is Evil on Internet Censorship's First Death Sentence? · · Score: 1

    Interesting question. have you read the constitution?
    http://www.servat.unibe.ch/icl/af00000_.html
    Constitutions are only useful if the government uses it as more than a wall decoration. (yes, I know we are also on that slippery slope).
    Claiming to be a constitutional republic and acting like a constitutional republic are two different things.
    When your constitution claims liberty, but follows it with "no law can be contrary to the beliefs and provisions of the sacred religion of Islam", true liberty can not be achieved.

  13. Democracy is Evil on Internet Censorship's First Death Sentence? · · Score: 1

    This is exactly why democracy is evil and why we need to realize we have a constitutional republic, and that is what we need to spread.
    Additionally, we (United States citizens) have a fantastic country where we can criticize our leaders, and vote new ones in as replacements. Its this type of story that I thank god (and I'm an atheist) that I live in the United States!

  14. Re:$/Watt on Solar Power Headed For 45% Annual Growth · · Score: 0

    You don't buy power per watt. You buy it per watt-hour.

  15. Where are PV cells from? on Solar Power Headed For 45% Annual Growth · · Score: 2, Informative

    Oh, that's right. one of the worst factories ever with regard to the environment; an Integrated Circuit Fab. I like it when hippies talk about how perfect solar is. Let's not forget that we need nasty chemicals like Arsenic to make solar cells.

  16. Waste of Resources on It's "1984" in Europe, What About Your Country? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It has been shown that slick monitoring of information does not protect citizens from terrorism. Monitoring the general public is such a large undertaking that funds spent doing that have far better places to be spent. If given the chance, the general public would not elect to do such a wasteful activity. It is ineffective, just as the current rules regarding airline screenings do not work. Knives and "weapons" still make it on the airline, etc. By monitoring the general airwaves, terrorists will use encryption. What then? Force all communications over non encrypted channels? What about bank transactions, etc? You can not protect the public from its self. Safety is relative, and its been proven that consumers do not want that level of "safety" for that price.