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Comment this is not new ... (Score 2) 428

by geraint-nz on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @09:36PM (#50814547) Attached to: Study: Cutting Sugar From Diet Shows Immediate Health Benefits

Prof. John Yudkin published research implicating sugar as long ago as the late 1950s and published a book "Pure White and Deadly" in 1972. Of course, the sugar industry went all out to destroy him. Now we should treat the sugar industry like we treated the tobacco industry, prosecute, regulate and class action.

Comment Babel-17 (Score 1) 626

by geraint-nz on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @05:15PM (#49432761) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Would a Constructed Language Have To Be To Replace English?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Microsoft Security Essentials Loses AV-Test Certificate 185

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday November 29, 2012 @08:40PM from the is-there-extra-credit? dept.

helix2301 writes "Every two months, AV-Test takes a look at popular antivirus software and security suites and tests them in several ways. In their latest test which was performed on Windows 7 during September and October, Microsoft Security Essentials didn't pass the test to achieve certification. Although that may not sound that impressive, Microsoft's program was the only one which didn't receive AV-Test's certificate. For comparison, the other free antivirus software, including Avast, AVG and Panda Cloud did."

Comment BBC Survivors (Score 1) 257

by geraint-nz on Friday October 26, 2007 @04:51PM (#21134063) Attached to: Running the Numbers on a US Pandemic

Back in 75-77 the BBC produced 3 excellent series called Survivors, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivors, about a pandemic which eventually killed about 90% of the population. Series 1 looked at what might happen as a pandemic started to remove the people who run the infrastructure of modern civilisation.

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