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Comment Re:Emperor Norton (Score 1) 162

For example, the Euro is not legal tender within the United States. It remains legal tender in the EU.

Just in some EU member states. Some lucky country managed to remain out of this trap, and experience shows economy works much better without it.

Comment open APIs (Score 1) 70

The source confirmed previous rumors that the device is cross-platform compatible, and added there would be open APIs as well

At least, on the beginning. It would be surprising that Microsoft do not act as being Microsoft. Perhaps they start open becausethere is no existing standard to embrace and (proprietary) extend?

Comment Certificate renewal (Score 1) 74

Certificate Authorities (CA) could help here: if a secured server was mandatory to get certificate renewal, things would be cleaned up.

Problem is: each CA has no interest into doing this extra work, and no central authority can force them to do so. Major browsers could push them, though, by telling users that some CA are more trustable than others.

Comment addicted the most ubiquitous carcinogen in the wor (Score 3, Insightful) 51

Summary says

It sounds like a cruel joke to be addicted the most ubiquitous carcinogen in the world

But UV exposure let the body produce vitamin D, which enables the immune system to fight cancer more efficiently, hence things are not that simple

In fact, avoiding UV probably means swapping skin cancers with other cancers. The nice point with skin cancers is that you have a chance to spot them early, so personally, I would choose UV exposure.

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