The trans-fat lobby is the budget baked goods industry. Trans-fats make breads taste softer while massively extending shelf-life. Without them the price of budget nationally distributed snacks goes up by a few cents each, and those guys are on razor thin margins.

Um, no. Trans fats are man made products (almost non-existant in nature) which your body can't deal with and can barely remove once consumed. Sugar is an essential ingredient for all sorts of foods and even a preservative (it's hard to reduce water activity without it, unless you turn to other not so natural products), that is fine for you in moderation. This isn't about trans-fats making people fat. This isn't about legislating good diet. This is about stopping the addition of a very harmful laboratory product to our food.

They are, it's listed as 'partially hydrogenated _ oil' right there on the back. But seriously, who reads the label?

Wow, if your post hadn't sent me to wikipedia I wouldn't have known that trans-fats occur naturally at all. I was under the mistaken impression that they are entirely man made. Still, the levels that they occur at in nature are so minimal it's moot.

Our new surveillance laws already have a loophole for just this purpose, too. The NSA can't spy on Americans, but it can and does save any evidence of a crime being committed in it's database. The FBI and DOJ both have access to the database. Thus, any evidence of any crime being committed is automatically stored and passed on to the FBI and DOJ.

Sure you can. Start by elongating the r and then slowly moving your tongue into position to make the g. You just hold your tongue in place right as the sound starts to shift to g and there you go.

The summary seems to imply that Gibson made the Matrix. I know he's a popular guy in geek circles, but come on.

Which is why most of the advances in the next gen fighters have to do with communications rather then just pushing the envelope further. The planes already know where all the friendlies are.

For some time now unless you are buying a $30 three generation old CPU intel is as good or often better then AMD in performance per dollar. Doubly so if you're buying to overclock.

I've been assuming GCHQ has had their hands as dirty as they get in this ever since they detained Greenwald's partner a few months back. They were terribly concerned with seeing what exactly the Journalists had on them, so it's been reasonable to assume they've been figuring out whether they can cover this up or not. They've had months to prepare themselves for this revelation, I just hope they come up with a better plan then directing the attention to Snowden himself instead of what he's saying- that plan's getting old.

Well the link could have been to the previous slashdot article instead

Good luck separating the smarter genes from the nerd genes. There are some dumb nerds out there but statistically it may be easy for them to get skipped in the sampling.

But would he chuck wood?

I don't know if there's anyone else like me around to make this question worthwhile, but how feasible is it to make the switch to security without a degree in CS? I've been reversing games and writing (game) hacks for years and there is considerable crossover between my skill set and reversing malware. Does anyone have any advise on ways to pursue an income without resorting to selling hack subscriptions?

Go to a country that didn't sign the treaty to launch.