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Comment Re:Is ignorance bliss? (Score 1) 239

I suggest looking at the data sheet, but paying close attention to the % of people experiencing the side effects. I'm pretty sure they have to report even very low incidence rates of side effects. If only a handful of test subjects got a particular side effect, then I'm pretty sure you can convince yourself that you're not *that* unlucky. Compare it to some other event with similar odds. Make sure the event you compare it to is a positive one though, like winning the lottery, lest you start a chain reaction of psychosomatic pitfalls.

Comment Re:He's right, but missing the point (Score 1) 147

or wasting time and grandmas

I can have no sympathy for people who are wasting grandmas. A grandma is not a thing to waste.

To be fair, the full quote was "or wasting time and grandmas or whatever." The OP knows there is a broad spectrum of things to waste so he gave two extreme examples and let us fill in the rest with whatever.

Comment Re:This is not news (Score 1) 340

When my account got hacked, it was the final straw that led me to quit WoW. All signs pointed to it being an inside job. I had a dedicated (hard) password for the site, I had not visited any questionable websites, and I hadn't installed any addons in months.

Whoever hacked it had a seriously weird sense of priorities too. They had sold the starting gear off my level 1 bank alt types and mailed off the money (at a loss!) but hadn't bothered to strip my midrange characters. They used my level 85 main character with bot-aided speedruns through Karazhan. Ironically, when I regained control of my character, I had a ton of gold from their most recent run. I donated it all to my guild and quit the next day. Since I was an officer, they'd looted that too - but since it was a casual guild the gold they got me easily replaced any items in there we'd cared about.

Comment Re:Quality and quantity (Score 4, Interesting) 285

If children are involved, you can stream as low as 300 kbit/s (like I do) and they won't care. That's about equal to VHS or youtube-360p in quality.

I watch about 2 hours a day... 8 on weekends. So that's 16+2*5 == 26 per week or 111 for the month. 250GB/111 hours == 5 Mbit/s. Most streams don't come anywhere near that amount so I'd not worry about going over the limit. And just to be sure I'd watch everything in SD (which is what comcast cable serves anyway).

All you'd do with your internet connection is watch TV?

Comment Re:Labelled = Banned (Score 3, Insightful) 334

As far as the food industry is concerned, labelling is equivalent to banning genetically modified food.

As far as I am concerned, if they can't sell it for what it is, then they shouldn't be selling it.

That's not entirely true. Look at High Fructose Corn Syrup. It has been labelled as such (vs. real sugar) for a while, and there are technically alternatives, but all of the big name sodas (and a whole slew of other products) still use it. Even with its richly deserved bad publicity, it is still out there and being sold a lot.

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