This is just absolute trash. It has to be an observational study based on food questionnaires. Something along the lines of for 10 years we asked 500,000 brits what they ate in the last year. No one was tracked closely, it was not a double blind study. Plus there are many confounders. Like people who avoid salt do so because they believe it will improve their health. People like that tend to have money, see a doctor regular, do not smoke or drink. It is almost impossible for them not to have better health outcomes than someone who is poor, broke, stressed, eats what they can afford and only sees a doctor when something is very very wrong. Which means we end up with statements like this:

The study, which involved more than 500,000 Brits, calculated that one extra person in every 100 who add salt to their food MAY die young.

At best maybe there is a 1% increase in dying earlier if you add table salt to your food. Never mind double blind studies that show what happen to people who do not get enough sodium.

The big problem with Active X security is if you ever downloaded a control and checked off "Trust Microsoft".

At that point any website could force a different version of an Microsoft signed active-x control to download.

So if there was a serious exploit was found in version 1.2 of a control, does not matter it is 5 years later and the user has version 1.8. When they visit your site you can force the download of version 1.2 and then execute your exploit.

There was just no way round this. If you had to do business with a trusted site that had active-x controls, if they ever got hacked AND you had ever clicked "Trust Microsoft" there was no way to defend against that.

Please note I am putting no value-judgement on any of what is to follow:

I am so sorry I have to bring you the bad news. The behind the scenes news for season two of Discovery is just as tumultuous as season one was.

The first 5 episodes of season two were finished and shown to test audiences. 80% hated it. So the spent 5 weeks re-shooting things to retool those episodes. This used up the majority of season two budget. The show runners were fired and new show runners have been brought in and have to produce 5 more episodes with the budget to only film 2 of them the same way the first 5 were filmed.

If test audiences hate the 2nd half of the season, there is no budget left for reshoots.

That qualifies as tumultuous.

Whereas I work in a Windows Shop and am the only system admin and only Linux user. Using the same fluxbox setup for the last 15 year. I can RDP, VNC, or SSH into any system in the building. I am more productive in Linux and have been for more than a decade.

We do work with government bids and have to have absolute 100% fidelity with Excel. With that said 95% of the time my users are in Outlook, Excel, File Manager, and Google Chrome. Most of them would notice less of a difference in their workflow moving from WIndows 7 to Linux than when they move to Windows 10.

Try adding autofs to the mix. I have had both MPD at home having issues with NFS and a Nextcloud server at work accessing SMB shares. I use autofs to mount SMB, NFS, and SFTP shares. No problems. No more funky timeouts. Graceful degradation when a share is really offline. It is really the best way to deal with file sharing on a network.

Agreed. I don't care that the movie is darker and more brooding and implies Deckard is replicant without the overdubbing. I don't care that Harrison Ford thought it was stupid to do the voice over and did it in the most passive aggressive monotone voice he could manage. Since the movie is shot in the film noir style, the monotone hardened detective voice over is perfect.

It could be good. If they fire 80 people and redirect remaining staff to work on upstream projects like Gnome and Wayland then we are better off.

Canonical has wasted lots of money on Unity and Mir.

Totally agree with this.

Back in the day on my VIC-20 and then Commodore-64 I had the handbook that mapped every memory location. You could make what would amount to BIOS calls to system routines. Also things were conceptually simpler. The 6502 CPU had 6 items to track. Accumulator, X, Y, stack-pointer, address-counter, and status. WIth status have 7 bits worth looking at. That is 12 items max you had to track.

It was possible to mentally track all the registers and what the code was doing as well as understanding any system calls a programmer used.

Good time.

Anonymous Coward that is the best post of the day.

Then the liberal protesting students joined in. They may not have thrown the first punch. But after Anifta virtual signaled by hitting people and damaging property, they joined right in.

Well I can god damm tell you that Obama ordering the FBI not to ever use the term "radical Muslim" didn't help make terrorism go away.

Or modded up by some troll for the lulz

Yes there is, They are maintaining extra code to do this. It costs developers, time, money, it complicates the app store, etc.

I have no problem with vanity projects. If MicroSoft wants to spend $100 million a year to keep windows mobile around, that is there business.

They are not doing it for their user base which is essentially a rounding error.

First of all, no one said anything about free. Talk is cheap. These people are taking action.

This is not the audience demanding content for free. These editors realize that the actual articles are being paid for by tax dollar and should allow open access. They tried to reason with Elesevier but Elesevier would not budge on the point. They then took action, they all resigned and have started their own open access journal. At this point they can operate a a non-profit and do all the editing as willing donations of their time or they can charge for accepting articles.

The people who would be reading this Journals wold not be Freetards. Those articles are paid for by the tax dollars of the readership. The articles that are not paid for by tax dollars have authors that made a decision. They had a choice of publishing in the gated and expensive Elesevier Journal or in the Open Journal. Even though publishing in either journal would have a cost to them. The authors chose to publish in the Open Journal.

That is how the free market works

The Warburg Effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Cancer loves sugar. Cancer cells consume sugar at 8 times the rate of normal cells. Warburg won the Nobel prize for this discovery.

Yes both sugar and flour are bad for you. There is thing called "Diseases of Western Civilization" and they come along when sugar and flour start showing up in your diet.