Was the glibc boffin who said it looked unexpoitable just expressing a casual opinion, or was he actually trying to wriggle out of fixing it? If the former, then its not very interesting. If the latter, then yeah it's a problem.

I suppose, but if your data is only small, a good OS will probably put it all together at the beginning of the drive anyway.

Plus, OSes perform better when they have got a lot of space to work with. So not all usage scenarios would improve.

Perhaps, but its hard to see how linking it to a hardware ID is especially secure. A hardware ID is probably just a sequential number, whereas a proper security token would be an encryption key.

Anti-neutrality laws are marxist in the same way that anti-monopoly laws are marxist. But thinking people recognise that you have to restrain rampant capitalism sometimes in order to maintain correct competition and market relationships.

How would you hardwire it anyway? I highly doubt the iPod hardware is modified. So that means there is some kind of security token on the iPod. But the iTunes/iCloud backup should backup any application data. This should be secure AND allow recovery in the case of loss.

An interesting case of how one US state could change worldwide products.

How is the human race ever going to develop the genes needed to resist a modern diet unless we let fatty burgers, salty fries, and sugary drinks kill off the ones with weak wills?

" If you're paying that much attention to the food you're eating, you're probably not throwing garbage down your throat like most fat people do."

Yeah, but what is "garbage"?

One might argue that garbage is anything not natural, exactly like the Paleo's say.

The reality is italian bread and cold beer will tend to make you fat, if you don't carefully control quantities. We all know that many people don't control their input of beer and bread, and we see the results.

But you probably won't get obese just eating steak or pork chops. It's just not feasible to eat that much steak and pork chops, because they make you full quickly and they keep you full for a long time. And the mozzarella cheese is ok too. As an animal fat its digested slowly.

Most likely (or at least hopefully) the chemical makeup of Monsanto corn is the same as regular corn.

The points you miss is firstly, the bad health conditions of the modern diet probably won't kill you until you are least 40... past peak reproductive age, so its not likely to affect evolution of humanity any time soon. Secondly, medical technology like pills can to some extent compensate and keep you alive when you would otherwise be dead. That means we also won't evolve to the new conditions.

Hmmm. Mummies were likely to be aristocracy and kings, not common people. They would have had access to very rich diets like we do today. I didn't read the study but it sounds very suspect

The issue is not to get overly technical about exactly what fruit of veges they ate. The issue is whether our bodies can handle food with a similar makeup to "paleo times" compared to now. For example, our bodies simply are not built to withstand the amount of sugar and salt we put into them these days. That's a fact.

Yes they might have died young in old times. BUT... they lived as long as evolution would allow GIVEN the diet and circumstances they were in. Their bodies were evolved to make the best use of that diet, not sugar and salt and carbs like today.

Yes, sugar is treated by the brain a bit like cocaine. That's part of the issue, but its not the whole story. High GI foods give you the quick hit of cocaine which wears off quickly. Low GI foods give you a slow burn that keeps you satisfied longer.

I very much disagree that baked potatoes are a weight loss food. You can eat anything if in moderation, but any kind of potatoes is not a great choice in the weight loss stakes.

You can, but its extremely difficult. The point of low GI, and high protein meat diets is that its digested very slowly and you are not tempted as much. Think about it. How often does a cow eat? How often does a lion eat? Case closed.

It's not so much "the pinnacle of evolution" (whatever the heck that means), but rather the diet that we were evolved to eat. Many animals are evolved to eat all sorts of things that we are not. We would die quickly if we ate what they ate, and they would die quickly if they ate what we do. But the point is, we should eat what we're evolved to eat. That's probably not coca-cola and crisps.