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  1. Re:HD 4000 on Intel Officially Lifts the Veil On Ivy Bridge · · Score: 1

    That's why we'll see a lot more tablets, netbooks and ultrathingies with AMD APUs. The rumor mill says that Trinity scored a lot of design wins.

  2. Re:Vegan mums today. on Eating Meat Helped Early Humans Reproduce · · Score: 1

    Cholesterol isn't the problem. Cholesterol is a small molecule and the buffer between blobs of fat and their surface covered with proteins. Hence lipoproteins. The problem is the size and structure of the fat blobs. We should not use the term "cholesterol" for lipoproteins, it is outdated and wrong.

  3. Re:Nutrition is imporant on Eating Meat Helped Early Humans Reproduce · · Score: 1

    And the foods with the highest fraction of essential amino acids are eggs and dairy, not meat.

  4. Re:Has anyone else read Gary Taubes books? on Eating Meat Helped Early Humans Reproduce · · Score: 1

    Conflating all carbs into one bucket is stupid.
    Simple carbs are bad for you, complex carbs are good for you. That's been mainstream science for decades.

  5. Re:No. on Did Microsoft Simply Run Out of Time On Windows RT? · · Score: 1

    Writing portable C code is not rocket science. Writing something as arch independent as network protocol code in an arch dependent way is incompetent. I don't think MS coders are. Their management sometimes is, so I assume it was a deliberate decision to leave these features out, maybe to keep ARM out of the enterprise in favor of the heavier(more profitable?) x86 products.

  6. Re:Sad state of modern technology ... on 30 Years of the TRS-80 Model 100 · · Score: 1

    Didn't Jerry Pournelle use one and write a lot about it?

  7. Re:what planet are you living on? on Studies Suggest Massive Increase In Scientific Fraud · · Score: 2

    In Germany, where I went to university, the prof is tenured or is at least employed by the uni like the postdocs and sets the direction of research. Unless the project breaks the budget they're free to do what they want research wise. It's called Freedom of Research and is very highly valued.

  8. Re:what planet are you living on? on Studies Suggest Massive Increase In Scientific Fraud · · Score: 2

    In more civilized countries scientists like profs and postdocs are employed by universities and research organizations and don't have to search for funding all the time. That way they can focus on research, not begging, and don't have to be profit minded. That should also avoid the fake research.

  9. Re:Change what you eat? on Technology Makes It Harder To Save Money · · Score: 1
  10. Re:hope it was worth the megan's law list on Man Protests TSA With Nudity · · Score: 1

    The only sane place is San Francisco, where being nude in public is not illegal.
    OTOH, here in ultraconservative SoCal, people on a traditional nude beach are harassed and cited by park rangers.

  11. Re:Unintended consequences... on Losing the Public Debate On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    0% growth is incompatible with our current financial/economic system. That's why it will fail.
    As for that economist's viewpoint, read http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist/.

  12. Re:Germany on Scientists Say Spread of Schmallenberg Virus Is 'Warning To Europe' · · Score: 1

    Secret underground Nazi weapons labs?
    Occasional travel from the far side of the moon?
    Resisting autobahn travel on a car bumper makes for additional selection pressure?
    Lots of possibilities.

  13. Re:Hyphen! on Feds Shut Down Tor-Using Narcotics Store · · Score: 1

    OMG, you say that proper punctuation is required to convey language correctly?
    You must be new to the interwebs.
    What's next? You'll ask for capitalization? Grammar? What has the world come to?

  14. Re:And after they scrape all that data on Google Drive Launching Next Week With 5GB Free Space · · Score: 2

    The only questions here are
    - Can you easily create an anonymous account and
    - Can you make your files accessible to others?

  15. Re:5TB on tape? on 30 Blu-ray Discs In a 1.5TB MiniDisc-Like Cassette · · Score: 1

    If you amortize the cost of the drive across a couple 10 tapes that's cost effective.
    That's why practically nobody runs standalone tape drives any more and most go into a changer or a library.

  16. Re:Zip discs on 30 Blu-ray Discs In a 1.5TB MiniDisc-Like Cassette · · Score: 2

    All the marketing folks used them to store their humongous PPT files. And nothing of value was lost.

  17. Re:The FBI has guns on Sergey Brin Says Facebook, Apple and Gov't Biggest Threats To Internet Freedom · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In this case, guns would be better described as patents and lawsuits. Like apple's current round of lawsuits trying to claim patent on the rectangular screened device.

    I have feeling that Kim Dotcom would see that differently.

  18. Re:Here is my idea: on NASA Looking For Ideas To Explore Mars · · Score: 1

    As long as your district gets enough pork you can cut as much as you want.

  19. Re:Unintended consequences... on Losing the Public Debate On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    That's true; that's why the worldwide worldwide economy will run smack into resource limits.
    But even at 0% growth the consumption of the western world isn't sustainable.

  20. Re:About the movie "The Great Global Warming Swind on Losing the Public Debate On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    None of these claims any effect of solar variability on recent climate change.

  21. Re:About the movie "The Great Global Warming Swind on Losing the Public Debate On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    What's your point? If the sun's output had any effect on the recent warming we'd know it. It doesn't.

  22. Re:Unintended consequences... on Losing the Public Debate On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Worldwide fossil fuel consumption dropped for a short time, made up for the 2008 dip in 2010 and had a huge growth rate last year.

  23. Re:Stop exaggerating on Losing the Public Debate On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    That's why people with no scientific training perceive climate science as bogus - because they're incapable of distinguishing the signal from the noise.
    Corollary: People who don't get climate change don't have enough scientific knowledge.

  24. Re:Public concern on Losing the Public Debate On Global Warming · · Score: 1, Interesting
  25. Re:How does this make a difference? on Losing the Public Debate On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Eggs and milk products are far better protein than meat.
    - The Biological Value (the amount of protein you can actually use to build tissue) of egg and milk proteins is in the mid to high 90s while meat is only in the 70s. Meat is deficient in some essential amino acids which reduces its BV.
    - Red meat is high in fat which is known to promote some cancers
    - Processed meat is some of the worst food you can find in just about any category (fat, sodium, carcinogens, even sugar content)