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  1. Sugar: The bitter truth on High Fructose Corn Syrup To Get a Makeover · · Score: 2, Informative

    According to this video, HFCS causes a similar amount of harm to the liver per unit as Ethanol, without the fun of being drunk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM Can anyone rebuke this gentleman's claims? Because at the moment I'm simply taking anything i see with HFCS in the ingredients list out of my shopping cart.

  2. Re:Not the only one in the uk on 24 Mb Consumer Broadband Launched · · Score: 1

    Not quite the biggest coverage wise, I hasten to correct.
    http://www.samknows.com/broadband/images/custommap s/blueyonder_300504.png compared to http://www.samknows.com/broadband/images/custommap s/enabled-exch-290804.png
    I'd love cable, but will be restricted to a maximum of 2048/256 until BT / LLUing companies pull their thumbs out, or I move into a city.

  3. General Security on On The Current State of WiFi Security · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Standard setup for the average home network user seems to be

    Take box home
    Plug in box
    let windows xp do it's thing
    Use.

    Clearly for these advances to be of any use, customers must be informed of their necessity and setup must be kept as simple as possible (helped, i suprisedly add, by XPSP2's wireless configuration app)
    The technology is all well and good, as long as it's being used.

  4. Re:Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics on A Portrait of the UK Game Pirate · · Score: 1

    84% of 217 people. I'm no statistician, but this seems like rather a meager field from which to draw conclusions.
    Where was this crossection taken, I wonder? A LAN party?

    There are those who'd never have bought the game in the first place, simply because they acquired a copy illegally, does that directly correlate to a loss to the games industry? Of course it doesn't, the games are being played illegally, not given to a potential customer, directly subtracting from their potential sales.

  5. Re:I've often wondered just why on Sony Agrees to Stop Payola · · Score: 1

    DJs in the UK are actually often required to follow their playlist with occaisionally little, but mostly no deviation (I know this to be the case for a large number of commercial stations) The biggest problem I feel is that most radio stations are in the hands of about 3 or 4 large networks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Radio and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWR_Group, merged, form a media collosus which networks it's tracklists, news, and many DJs for chart shows. Choice is increasingly becoming a thing of the past, advertising their 'real music choice' is a rather blunt irony. The music industry are equally to blame, producing rubish which stations keep playing, and people keep listening to.

  6. Cost on HIV Vaccine · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I sincerely hope this is it.
    If it is, my only apprehension is that countries who need it most will not be able to afford it.

  7. Re:60mpg? 90mph? Old news I'm afraid on ZAP Smart Car Approved for Sale in the US · · Score: 1

    Seconded: My 998cc polo (2000) will do 100 (despite the engines extremely verbose protests) and averages around 58mpg (though not when doing 100, shockingly..)

  8. Re:Editor .. on Gentoo Linux Releases 2004.3 · · Score: 1

    When i last installed with the previous livecd (few months ago), vim was included.