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Jan_jwon Intel platforms from 2008 onwards have a remotely exploitable security hole

Yes. There is A better source: http://invisiblethingslab.com/resources/bh09dc/Attacking%20I...

I don't know if it's just me or is everyone these days talking about dumping their iMac and switching to Linux?

Jan_jwon How the food lobby fights sugar regulation in the EU [pdf]

It's "interesting" to see the same methods that the tabacco lobby used are used again. We as a society haven't spent the past time in defending ourselves or our institutions any better then back in those days. Sad Indeed...

Jan_jwon Hospital patients who refuse transfusion actually do better than other patients

The report cites Clinical Professor James Isbister from the Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney. “Professor Isbister said Jehovah’s Witnesses were given better treatment by doctors trying to preserve their [the Witness patients’] blood. As a result they had better survival rates, and shorter hospital and intensive care stays than people who received blood transfusions during surgery,” reports the paper.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/surgeons-urged-to-avoi...

Jan_jwon The simple things I want in a text editor

So Notepad++ isn't good enough for you?

Jan_jwon Publish Open Access or don't get a research grant says government organization

This text is in Dutch. It explains that new grants from 1 December 2015 onwards will only be given to researchers you promise to publish in Open Access journals. If they're found not to follow these new rules they'll have to pay back the research grant.