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Comment Re:It's not a tax, it's an improvement (Score 1) 842

Sugar does have thousands of years more testing than artificial sweeteners....

And there is no statistical evidence that 'diet soda' helps one loose or maintain weight.

Even if we had no studies that show that artificial sweetener is dangerous, why consume it?
Especially when it taste so bad...

What's wrong with water?

I view soda as a dessert (not a very good one...). I will have one occasionally, but never with a meal. I would never eat sugar free cake or ice cream, ... either. That would miss the point, unless you are consuming such things for another purpose than taste...

Comment no need. javascript has too much momemtum (Score 4, Insightful) 292

Google was the best bet in bringing Java back to life.

But Oracle is suing Google for making Java somewhat popular again ...

I imagine even Google will give up on Java at some point with some new platform that exposes binder services to javascript, deprecates Java, and merges with Chrome OS.

Comment Re:Incorrect. (Score 1) 566

"prohibit licenses which propagate themselves"

This is a common myth that companies and people have.

An open source license does not propagate itself more than a closed source license.

If a closed source license says do not distribute source, and you add your code to it, what is the restriction of the combined code?
You cannot distribute it. Oh no, it propagated. It's viral!

With any software license you have agreed to, you do assume you are free to do whatever you want with it?
You read the license, and follow them in order use the source legally.

Comment Re:google instant vs duckduckgo (Score 1) 693

> option right beside the search box to turn 'Google instant' off.

Really, every time I go to Google?

> You can also turn it off in settings ?

I don't stay logged in to Google.

> And, it also appears to default to off if you're not signed in.

I wish. That is not true. I wish it was, then perhaps I would still use Google.

Comment google instant vs duckduckgo (Score 5, Interesting) 693

People are not leaving Google because other search engines are getting better.

Rather, people are leaving because Google is getting worse and has lost focus of search simplicity.

Google instant drove me out.

If start typing and several pages fly by per second, this increases the garbage to information ratio, is inefficient, and disruptive. Often, the result is a blank page.

I switched to duckduckgo, as it simple, and the results are good.

Occasionally, I will use !g in the duckduckgo search to access google, but I try to avoid it.

Google should stop worrying about Bing, and look within.

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