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    CDC just says no to opioid prescriptions for chronic pain

    Great, once again hyperventilating media and officious bureaucrats combine to create a "crisis" that can only be solved by more controls. These people who are dying are unfortunate, but they're the victims of their own stupidity or recklessness. They're lying to doctors to get more drugs than...
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    High Dynamic Range, explained: There’s a reason to finally get a new TV

    Aaaand it's grammar nazi time: "impactful" is not a word...or it should not be. Been writing a lot of ad copy? In other words, most people aren't going to care much about this new technology. Only those with too much money to spend will be watching HDR for a long time yet. When they get to the...
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    Forgotten audio formats: Wire recording

    That's silly. The reason "squirt" transmissions were used was to make them more difficult to intercept and record by the enemy, and to prevent triangulation of the sender. The latter was particularly important if the sender was a field agent in an occupied country. If the transmission was...