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Comment Re:America = snowball (Score 2) 126

I have lost 75 lbs by exercise and avoiding "diet" food.
Real butter and fatty food fills you up faster and stays longer. Diet foods keep you hungry and eating more.
Most people will start to diet when they notice that they are getting a little fat. But the diet with diet food makes them more hungry and they overeat and loose will power this you get fatter.
There is a good trend toward Diet Food and obesity.
McDonalds Coca-Cola have been around for generations. However diet foods started in the 80s

Comment Re:No (Score 2) 141

It depends on what every one considers ethical.
I mean Facebook itself is an advertising platform. You as a user really should know that. It sells advertising, you get a place to tell your friends how much you like your cat.
Knowing this you need to expect Facebook to try to get the best possible adds in front of your face so they can sell these adds for more money to the buyers.
Now Facebook isn't hurting people and the fact that the adds are labeled as such and not tricking you into thinking your friend endorced something that they didn't.

Facebook business model isn't a secret.

Comment Re:And yet IBM soldiers on... (Score 2) 156

IBM Did a lot of big screwups.
OS/2 their marketing was horrible, they had an opportunity with Windows 3.1 lagging for too long, but they made a stupid commercial that the public didn't even know what it was about. And they let Microsoft make Windows 95 seem like what Windows 7 is. (and cost hundreds of dollars less)

The PowerPC line, They were doing good until the Gigahertz range was common in Intel, Power PC was still in MHZ. Intel started to make much faster chips and PowerPC couldn't get caught up.

Lexmark Printers, I hated repairing those guys used by Banks and other IBM shops, they in general were hard to maintain.

DeskStar hard drives. They weret nicknamed DeathStar hard drives for a reason.

x86 Servers. Why go with IBM when everyone else had one as well.

The ThinkPad was good.

Comment Re:I would like to see a return... (Score 1) 120

Or companies will leave the US in droves, to other countries where they can get better tax rates.
Leaving the rest of the population without any work nor a tax base to pay for such services.

It is really a fine balancing act. There is a particular amount of Tax that a company is willing to pay, but not so much that it will just pack up and move.

Comment Re:anarchists cookbook? (Score 1) 410

How far can someone stretch public safety?
Freedom and Safety do not mix too well.

Granted we need a proper balance, but keep in mind every time you say someone can't do that, then you are getting rid of a freedom.

However if you grant people too much freedom they will use it to hinder someone elses.

Comment Re:"could be worse than Heartbleed" (Score 1) 318

Back in the day I had made some csh (not bash) scripts.
It took the posted data parsed it and printed a formatted report on paper.
So employees could then use it to process the order and ship it out.

It was a low volume thing, and we did it in csh just because it was quick and easy to do.
The web server wasn't ran as root and the script didn't run as root.

There could also be a Bash based Menu system for a public Telnet/SSH Site which could cause issues too.

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