Nowadays Type 2 diabetes is seen more frequently in younger people too, apparently due to HFCS consumption. It isn't really news, it's been known for awhile.
People's digestive system depends on more than their DNA, it is a symbiotic microbial colony with highly variable effects on the host depending on its composition. The colony balance depends on many things, including what you feed it. Most of the published scientific research into food safety and diet was blind to this prior to about 10 years ago.
Yes, absolutely correct. I really don't know why a community of supposedly scientifcally-minded people would rush to embrace the consumption of random chemicals, just based on "it's sweet but not sugar". Well, yes I do I guess, but it's disheartening to see how quickly "I want" displaces "let's look into this". Humans have refined sugar since at least the Middle Ages, right? We know it's a problem, and we know pretty well how much of a problem. Aspartame, we have a few years experience, with almost no well-funded studies beyond those paid for by the manufacturer, for a chemical which nature does not provide in our food supply in any significant quantity.
I would think that anyone who's serious about thinking critically would have to question that...
Thank you for your content-free reply. I actually don't tend to give a rat's patootie about slashdot karma or moderation, so if the idea was to somehow make me feel badly you have failed. Just thought I'd let you know...
The jury's still out on aspartame, however it does give me an enormous headache if I consume any at all. It's also a substance which does not exist in any significant quantity in food provided by nature, so your body may or may not be able to handle it. If yours does, that's "seems to work here", not "no problem". Let me know in 20 years how well it worked for you.
Finally, belittling the idea of "GMO++Frankenfood" is idiotic. There are plenty of good, logical reasons to be very cautious and do long term testing, which has never been done. Maybe you enjoy being used as a lab rat, but not everyone is willing to stake their future quality of life on "being a good consumer" for Monsanto.
This brings us to the salient question: Can sugar possibly be as bad as Lustig says it is?"
No. While refined carbohydrates like white sugar and white flour are things most people do use too much of, they're not half the problem HFCS, aspartame, and the potential organ damage from GMO corn. Priorities...
I know that words are mostly defined by popular usage, but it annoys me that people say "the cloud" when all they really mean is "online". "The cloud" was supposed to be about distributed computing or using online computing resources from your choice of locations/devices. We're not seeing much of that, but we sure are aiding and abetting the marketing tards who keep saying "cloud, cloud" until it actually means nothing at all.
While that's almost certainly true, it really doesn't matter at all. Everyone benefits from wider deployment of FOSS, whether or not they're using it "for the right reasons".
Thank you for explaining that. Couldn't for the life of me imagine what 7-11 had to do with paying electricity bills. I'm in the USA but never heard that one before. Ah well, it's always good to remember it's not just most murkins who are stoopidt.:P
Oh, come on. TFS bases its conclusions on the concept of "illegal under case law" ("there a legal precedent against it, therefore it's 'illegal'"). what do you think?:)
Oh, and I forgot to mention -- for the consumer market all they need to do is make IE10 the only browser that works with netflix and pay a few game developers to provide some exclusive win8 titles and practically overnight most people will upgrade.
A lot of the function of windows "legacy apps" have been migrated to online services -- Windows Live -- heard of it? There are fewer reasons every month for them to continue legacy support. The unspoken reason a lot of windows geeks will be upset is that XP is *much* easier to keep running cracked. There are lots of win7 cracks, but most of them are botnet schemes and microsoft does catch the unauthorized copies and then you need a different crack. So windows "pirates" will be very unhappy because the actual, practical end is in sight, and it will roughly sync with microsoft's EOL for XP. I'll bet microsoft even studied the Mac Classic to OS X transition and learned the lessons.
Instead of reinventing the wheel I wonder why they didn't create a pared-down, qt4-based desktop by whittling some bloat away from kde -- or they could have even made a deal with Rasterman for branded E17 development. Could have been really cool, and probably a lot less effort. Not the first time they choose do things the hard way though.
Ubuntu isn't popular because it's "ahead of the rest", it's popular because any mouth-breathing retard can install it in 5 clicks.
Exactly. The GPP is obnoxious fanboism, which usually means he probably won't know whether to shit or go blind the first time an update breaks xorg and/or wayland. Ubuntu is the distro that liberates grandmas and corporate office droids from Windows. Using it does not make you 1337.
No, you watch. Two years tops and win7 will be "legacy". That's obviously what they want, and who can blame them? They've long had the potential to make an OS competent enough to far surpass their commercial offerings thus far. The bugaboo holding them back has always been backward compatibility. Now that we're probably about to enter an era where most CPUs will have four or more cores the time is right for them to drop the legacy support, in spite of the inevitable kicking and screaming. This users won't be happy with machines old enough to run XP or Vista for much longer anyway.
In seriousness, this is the best thing they could do. The debacle that has been backwards compatibility of windows and ie in there various combinations has been horrible. Best thing to do is get all those grotty old windows/ie users upgraded. They are like people who drive around on modern rounds in clapped out unsafe jalopies. (oblig car analogy)
Yes, with their turn signal on!
I think it's encouraging news that they're finally going to let go of legacy stuff, that really is the root of so many issues. They really have to draw the line sometime.
Civilization requires cooperative effort on a massive scale, but technically you're right -- we don't have to have taxes to fund civilization, we could barter goods and services to get things done, or pool the fruits of our labor directly. But money does come in handy, and most people are more able to give that than time or expertise anyway in the modern world.
BTW, in case you actually haven't figured it out yet: I do not endorse iOS, nor Apple's policies, nor do I recommend them or their products to anyone except total, devoted, non-geeks (who really are better off essentially leasing a device someone else admins for them, and thus are Apple's natural market).
It's weird that because I say something unflattering about Android some people immediately start piling up the straw men -- like they have PTSD from Apple merely existing, and are on a perpetual witchhunt to "destroy the fanbois", meaning everyone who says anything they disagree with.
I prefer not to allow js for anything, second choice is at least restrict it to the actual domain the site I'm looking at is hosted on. Obviously banking, netflix, and amazon require exceptions, but there's not much else I care enough about to bother with. If they're too lazy to make the content work with HTML and they're so into advertising that eight different domains want to run scripts, I stop investigating right there. The web is huuuuge, you know.:)
FFS, I wasn't talking about iOS. I was (obviously) talking about multiple android app stores springing up like mushrooms with little to no accountability, security, etc. Installing untrusted software is not something any sane admin allows. Users of most Linux distros tend to know enough about what they're doing to be qualified to decide whether or not to add a given repository. The average smart phone owner is likely to be happy abut free dancing bunnies and install a trojan to see them, which means you end up with a very large problem windows has had from the beginning, i.e. no transparency and no accountability from third party software.
Well it is true a web coder can only be as secure as the DBA, server, and network admins allow, but assuming competence in those departments one can still make an awful lot of choices that affect security.
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Nowadays Type 2 diabetes is seen more frequently in younger people too, apparently due to HFCS consumption. It isn't really news, it's been known for awhile.
He doesn't know what HFCS is but we should all take nutritional advice from him. Well, alrighty then...
Yes, absolutely correct. I really don't know why a community of supposedly scientifcally-minded people would rush to embrace the consumption of random chemicals, just based on "it's sweet but not sugar". Well, yes I do I guess, but it's disheartening to see how quickly "I want" displaces "let's look into this". Humans have refined sugar since at least the Middle Ages, right? We know it's a problem, and we know pretty well how much of a problem. Aspartame, we have a few years experience, with almost no well-funded studies beyond those paid for by the manufacturer, for a chemical which nature does not provide in our food supply in any significant quantity.
I would think that anyone who's serious about thinking critically would have to question that...
Thank you for your content-free reply. I actually don't tend to give a rat's patootie about slashdot karma or moderation, so if the idea was to somehow make me feel badly you have failed. Just thought I'd let you know...
Dammit!
For the google-impaired:
GMO corn linked to organ damage.
The jury's still out on aspartame, however it does give me an enormous headache if I consume any at all. It's also a substance which does not exist in any significant quantity in food provided by nature, so your body may or may not be able to handle it. If yours does, that's "seems to work here", not "no problem". Let me know in 20 years how well it worked for you.
Finally, belittling the idea of "GMO++Frankenfood" is idiotic. There are plenty of good, logical reasons to be very cautious and do long term testing, which has never been done. Maybe you enjoy being used as a lab rat, but not everyone is willing to stake their future quality of life on "being a good consumer" for Monsanto.
No. While refined carbohydrates like white sugar and white flour are things most people do use too much of, they're not half the problem HFCS, aspartame, and the potential organ damage from GMO corn. Priorities...
Lots of geek write like that, it comes from being frustrated.
I know that words are mostly defined by popular usage, but it annoys me that people say "the cloud" when all they really mean is "online". "The cloud" was supposed to be about distributed computing or using online computing resources from your choice of locations/devices. We're not seeing much of that, but we sure are aiding and abetting the marketing tards who keep saying "cloud, cloud" until it actually means nothing at all.
While that's almost certainly true, it really doesn't matter at all. Everyone benefits from wider deployment of FOSS, whether or not they're using it "for the right reasons".
I think the recent escapades of "Anonymous" has fired up the imaginations of a lot of wannabes. So yes, faking it is the new 1337 -- for some people.
Congrats, you've set the bar super low -- not only did you not bother to RTFA OR TFS, you actually failed at parsing TFH(eadline). Go, moron!
Thank you for explaining that. Couldn't for the life of me imagine what 7-11 had to do with paying electricity bills. I'm in the USA but never heard that one before. Ah well, it's always good to remember it's not just most murkins who are stoopidt. :P
Oh, come on. TFS bases its conclusions on the concept of "illegal under case law" ("there a legal precedent against it, therefore it's 'illegal'"). what do you think? :)
Oh, and I forgot to mention -- for the consumer market all they need to do is make IE10 the only browser that works with netflix and pay a few game developers to provide some exclusive win8 titles and practically overnight most people will upgrade.
A lot of the function of windows "legacy apps" have been migrated to online services -- Windows Live -- heard of it? There are fewer reasons every month for them to continue legacy support. The unspoken reason a lot of windows geeks will be upset is that XP is *much* easier to keep running cracked. There are lots of win7 cracks, but most of them are botnet schemes and microsoft does catch the unauthorized copies and then you need a different crack. So windows "pirates" will be very unhappy because the actual, practical end is in sight, and it will roughly sync with microsoft's EOL for XP. I'll bet microsoft even studied the Mac Classic to OS X transition and learned the lessons.
Instead of reinventing the wheel I wonder why they didn't create a pared-down, qt4-based desktop by whittling some bloat away from kde -- or they could have even made a deal with Rasterman for branded E17 development. Could have been really cool, and probably a lot less effort. Not the first time they choose do things the hard way though.
Exactly. The GPP is obnoxious fanboism, which usually means he probably won't know whether to shit or go blind the first time an update breaks xorg and/or wayland. Ubuntu is the distro that liberates grandmas and corporate office droids from Windows. Using it does not make you 1337.
No, you watch. Two years tops and win7 will be "legacy". That's obviously what they want, and who can blame them? They've long had the potential to make an OS competent enough to far surpass their commercial offerings thus far. The bugaboo holding them back has always been backward compatibility. Now that we're probably about to enter an era where most CPUs will have four or more cores the time is right for them to drop the legacy support, in spite of the inevitable kicking and screaming. This users won't be happy with machines old enough to run XP or Vista for much longer anyway.
Yes, with their turn signal on!
I think it's encouraging news that they're finally going to let go of legacy stuff, that really is the root of so many issues. They really have to draw the line sometime.
Civilization requires cooperative effort on a massive scale, but technically you're right -- we don't have to have taxes to fund civilization, we could barter goods and services to get things done, or pool the fruits of our labor directly. But money does come in handy, and most people are more able to give that than time or expertise anyway in the modern world.
BTW, in case you actually haven't figured it out yet: I do not endorse iOS, nor Apple's policies, nor do I recommend them or their products to anyone except total, devoted, non-geeks (who really are better off essentially leasing a device someone else admins for them, and thus are Apple's natural market). It's weird that because I say something unflattering about Android some people immediately start piling up the straw men -- like they have PTSD from Apple merely existing, and are on a perpetual witchhunt to "destroy the fanbois", meaning everyone who says anything they disagree with.
Really, WTF?
I prefer not to allow js for anything, second choice is at least restrict it to the actual domain the site I'm looking at is hosted on. Obviously banking, netflix, and amazon require exceptions, but there's not much else I care enough about to bother with. If they're too lazy to make the content work with HTML and they're so into advertising that eight different domains want to run scripts, I stop investigating right there. The web is huuuuge, you know. :)
FFS, I wasn't talking about iOS. I was (obviously) talking about multiple android app stores springing up like mushrooms with little to no accountability, security, etc. Installing untrusted software is not something any sane admin allows. Users of most Linux distros tend to know enough about what they're doing to be qualified to decide whether or not to add a given repository. The average smart phone owner is likely to be happy abut free dancing bunnies and install a trojan to see them, which means you end up with a very large problem windows has had from the beginning, i.e. no transparency and no accountability from third party software.
Man, you people are dense!!!
Well it is true a web coder can only be as secure as the DBA, server, and network admins allow, but assuming competence in those departments one can still make an awful lot of choices that affect security.