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Comment Re:Impossible Milk (Score 1) 181

That definition doesn't even account for Goat Milk and Sheep Milk.

Thankfully, that particular code does not try to regulate how the public can use the word. Right now, you can walk into any supermarket and find Goat Milk, Sheep Milk, Coconut Milk, etc.

The dairy industry would love to convince the FDA to regulate the word "milk." But so far, they have not been successful. If the FDA were to adopt such a regulation, it would face a challenge on first amendment grounds, which would need to be resolved in court.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/n...

Comment Re:It's not a laptop! It's a tablet! (Score 1) 60

The former is for making something.
The latter is only and exclusively for consuming it.

By that standard, you are misjudging this computer.

It may not be well-designed for the creation of text, but it looks VERY well-designed for the creation of visual art.

It seems like a great portable sketchbook for photoshop or zbrush. The thing weighs 1.7 pounds and has a built-in wacom drawing tablet!

Comment Re:Hearing Aid Batteries (Score 1) 253

Every time I ask Apple users about the non-replaceable batteries, their reply is **always** -- (ie. without fail) "you just don't get it", without **ever** being able to articulate exactly what I don't "get".

For the most part, it's an aesthetic choice. For example, a battery door would interrupt the smooth surface of an iPod. The device wouldn't feel quite as nice to hold in the hand. The cost of that aesthetic is a more difficult process to replace the battery every three years or so. Is the exterior aesthetic worth the triennial inconvenience? I dunno. Maybe? It seems like a pretty subjective question.

Comment Re:Easy detection (Score 1) 224

There can't be any 'paleo vegans', ever, though; they'd starve to death.

How do you figure?

The caloric content of fruits and nuts is quite high. No reason a person can't survive indefinitely on that.

Plenty of large mammals survive on vegan or nearly-vegan diets. Gorillas, for example, eat a diet that's about 97% plant-based. And those guys need a lot more calories than we do.

Comment Re:Is that (Score 1) 389

You can show that actual harmful data is being sent and not just the telemetry that MS claims, right?

How about this:

When you encrypt a disk using Windows Home, Microsoft silently transmits the key to themselves, in case they ever need to decrypt your disk in the future. http://www.securityweek.com/mi...

Does that count as harmful? The data is not anonymous. Its transmitted silently, and it can be used to compromise the user's privacy. That at least lands in the "potentially harmful" category, right?

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