Well, that's because tobacco products cost society a huge amount of money in health care costs

If you're going to cite the costs of healthcare while they're still alive, you're going to have to net off the savings made by them dying earlier and not incurring the health costs of looking after long-lived dementia sufferers and government pensions not paid out.

People who live longer cost "the health system and taxpayer" more than those that die earlier of $SIN_DU_JOUR.

Well I guess the article clarifies that coffee in moderation has some positive effects...

So does drinking in moderation. Google 'alcohol j-graph'.

http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publ... for example. Graph at http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publ...

Moderate drinkers are less likely to suffer from an early death or various diseases, and it's not until you get to around 80g/ day of ethanol (8 UK alcohol units, 4.6 US alcohol units) that you are back to the same risk level of a tee-totaller.

5 transactions per second should be enough for anybody....

Which they're not doing. A recent case: http://www.freerangekids.com/m...

Homeschooling is legal in all 50 states...

Trouble is, this idiot and her daughter were in one of the 51st states - the UK. (Not that it's illegal in the UK, just addressing your presumption that this sort of ignorance is restricted to the US.)

As pointed out else-thread...

So October 2016 was ..

.. minus 11 months ago.

Professor of journalism at City University Heather Brook writes at the Gaurdian

Someone's misspelt Grauniad.

I always just "lock" my luggage with a basic zip tie.

Have you not seen the videos that show how trivial it is to get into most suitcases which have a zipper, bypassing any locks?

Zip *tie*, not zip. You probably call them cable ties.

the third party web-based service chosen by Mozilla (with some back slash )

...or just the usual standard of proofreading we've come to expect around here?

Once again a company decides to use something that should be equivalent to a user-id as a password and gets it wrong.

This is the same deal as it is with using fingerprints as 'passwords.': http://blog.dustinkirkland.com.....

But biometrics cannot, and absolutely must not, be used to authenticate an identity. For authentication, you need a password or passphrase. Something that can be independently chosen, changed, and rotated.

http://velvetgloveironfist.blo...

The [lack of health benefits] claim is based on the fact that most of the risk reductions in the latter two tables are not statistically significant, except for women aged 65 and over. But there is a simple reason for this which some cynical people would call a trick. A relatively small sample has been taken and then split into different age groups, sexes and consumption levels to create dozens of even smaller samples. This, combined with the fact that there are relatively few never-drinkers to use as a reference, makes it very difficult to generate statistically significant results from any individual group.

If you combined the age groups, the reduction in mortality would reach significance. If you combined the genders, it would reach significance. If you combined the various different drinking levels and simply compared those who drank moderately with those who never drank, it would reach significance.

Dislocker?

Sorta - if your favorite/memory-muscle way of searching for stuff on websites is specifying the website first, then I'm fairly certain that searching for (e.g.) site:slashdot.org firefox will not give you what you'd get in the search bar in 29 - I'm seem to recall getting bitten by it in 29 way back when I couldn't figure out how to get the search bar to be visible (reset the UI was the solution) - it's certainly still broken in 31.

Actually the taxpayers pay for the NHS - where do you think the government steals the money from (when they're not running the country in deficit that is)? Ostensibly the item marked "National Insurance" on our payslips pays for (among other things) this.

Not that it actually gets ring-fenced, and most people recognise it for what it is - another form of income tax.

I rather suspect that "data" includes stuff like the binaries that make up the operating system and programs that are being used, and simply isn't just documents, temp files etc. that those programs are working with.