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  1. Re:" It keeps are food safe ..." on Dr. Frances Kelsey, Who Saved American Babies From Thalidomide, Dies At 101 · · Score: 2

    I don't know. Are food safe?

  2. Re:Good luck on World of Warcraft's Next Expansion: Legion · · Score: 2

    The EQ1 servers are still up. WoW's will be up for at least a decade after it's relevant.

  3. Re:The Microsoft key!!!! I've never used it...ever on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Caps Lock Key Still So Prominent On Keyboards? · · Score: 1

    It's called "command" and the key predates both OS X and even the Windows key.

  4. Re:This wouldn't be a scientology issue... on Scientology Group Urged Veto of Mental Health Bill · · Score: 1

    Actually, L. Ron's crusade against psychiatry is largely personal. His work is somewhat similar to Freud's in that it operates largely on a set of presumptions he just came up with, only L. Ron's is a lot more fantastical, appears to be a lot less accurate, and came around half a century later when we already understood much more about the mind. So, Hubbard thought he had uncovered breakthroughs and excitedly shared these with the psychiatric community who outright rejected them, at which point Hubbard sincerely believed the entire psychiatric movement must be a conspiracy.

  5. Re:Agreed on Scientology Group Urged Veto of Mental Health Bill · · Score: -1, Troll

    Psychiatrists and psychologists are not medical doctors.

  6. Hmm, do you believe that Pluto could potentially be imaged? That is, that it is visible at all? If so, do you doubt that we had the technology around a decade ago to launch a camera at it accurately enough to snap a few pics? If you do, when do you think this technology might exist? Don't you think it will be terribly embarrassing for NASA whenever that time comes (surely can't be far off ;) and ESA, China or India show us all that Pluto actually looks completely different?

    Skepticism is good, but this is just stupid.

  7. Re: Taking a good point and stretching it. on Cell Phone Radiation Emission Tests Assume Use of Belt Clip · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just use nature's pocket!

  8. Re:On the EDGE of legality, you say? on Ask Slashdot: Measuring (and Constraining) Mobile Data Use? · · Score: 2

    Two-line ISDN setups were offered here in the US as well, and later DSL would pump even more data over the same lines, but when Americans say "dial-up," they're generally referring to 14-56k connections.

  9. Re:Just use a sane carrier on Ask Slashdot: Measuring (and Constraining) Mobile Data Use? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Throttles you after "unlimited?" Luckily, the courts are finally putting the kibosh on terms like these, which appear to have successfully confused consumers.

  10. Re:IE? on HP Researchers Disclose Details of Internet Explorer Zero Day · · Score: 1

    Exactly what I was thinking. They're right, the vulnerability doesn't effect enough users: it's in Internet Explorer.

  11. Re:What are natural flavors, really? on General Mills To Drop Artificial Ingredients In Cereal · · Score: 1

    Sure, if your goal is to isolate the same exact chemical. However, the goal of artificial flavoring is merely to taste similar, not achieve chemical parity with natural flavorings.

  12. Re:Slashdot layout on Is Microsoft's .NET Ecosystem On the Decline? · · Score: 1

    But how, oh how will I ever direct people to this article without the use of a button??

  13. Re:I do not consent on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    Right, and we should let tobacco companies sell cigarettes to kids. After all, if they didn't want them, they wouldn't buy them, right?

  14. Re:Congratulations... on Privacy Advocates Leave In Protest Over U.S. Facial Recognition Code of Conduct · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think their point is that they would have had zero say in the outcome anyway, and this way the public can be aware of that.

  15. Re:I do not consent on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    Except that it is still used by vast swathes of the industry as a cheaper alternative with a longer shelf life that very few people know about. Heart disease kills more people in the US than any other single cause, and the continued use of trans-fats by the industry (again, just to cut costs) significantly contributes to this.

  16. Re:Wasn't trans fat the thing that was safer than on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    Okay, the word "was" was in there pretty subtly. Regardless, the facts are pretty clear on trans-fat now, they are more harmful than and as equally tasty as saturated fats, and the only benefit of allowing their sale goes to cost-cutting food producers who'd prefer their customers remain unaware they use them. But, I suppose I see your point.

  17. Re:Wasn't trans fat the thing that was safer than on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 2

    Uh, the article you linked to explains all about the ill effects of trans fats, including quotes such as "Most scientific research shows that even trace amounts can be harmful to health." Maybe you should read what you link to first next time. Also I suggest you read up on trans-fats!

  18. Re:I do not consent on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is no reason to want to consume trans-fat. It holds roughly the same taste and texture as saturated fats, but cannot be broken down easily by the body, remaining in the blood stream for quite a long time.

    If you want healthier but less tasty and more runny fats, eat unsaturated fats (vegetable oils) - if you want less healthy but more tasty, thick fats, eat saturated fats (animal fats). If you want to try and save money by trying to morph unsaturated fats into saturated fats and wind up with something that will kill you, eat trans-fats.

  19. FYI on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Trans fats are an unwanted biproduct of hydrogenation, and are a fat which humans do not have an enzyme to easily break down. This should directly reduce this incidence of heart disease, and is good news for everyone except cost-cutting food producers.

  20. Wow on North Korea Blocks Data Access For Foreigners · · Score: 3, Funny

    North Korea provided internet access for foreigners?

  21. Re:so trade bills on Trade Bill Fails In the House · · Score: 5, Informative

    Right, this isn't a treaty, it's the president's authority to "fast-track" trade bills (like the TPP, TTIP and newly-revealed TiSA) past congress that was shot down.

  22. Re:What is a republic? on Fake Mobile Phone Towers Found To Be "Actively Listening In" On Calls In UK · · Score: 1

    Adultery is not a crime because the supreme court has long held that activities undertaken entirely within one's private home cannot be suitably regulated, as a violation of privacy would be necessary to enforce them. This is the reason given by the court for legalizing sodomy as well.

  23. Sure on German Parliament May Need To Replace All Hardware and Software To Stop Malware · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They'll replace everything, then one person will plug in their phone over USB to put some emails on their new workstation and it'll begin all over again.

  24. Re:In CS, there is a thing known as ... on Computer Modeling Failed During the Ebola Outbreak · · Score: 1

    So, you're saying that both of these (different) models were accurate (curious how you'd know) but that the data they were operating on was faulty. A good reminder to ignore ACs!

  25. Re:Never attribute to maliciousness etc etc ... on Anti-TPP Website Being Blacklisted · · Score: 2

    It's interesting to see current reactions to what is essentially the new SOPA/PIPA/CISPA (plus a boatload of other "free trade" inequities). It seems like the low profile TPP negotiations have succeeded in keeping down the public uproar.

    This is the same organization that ran the 2012 internet blackout to protest SOPA, yet somehow it seems that if people had been unable to post about the internet blackout in the very days leading up to it, there might have been a bit more indignation than we have today.