NationStates Jolt Archive

I had a suspicion there was something dodgy about the government's campaign against salt as soon they posted adverts reccomending no more than 6g of salt per day FOR EVERYONE, when in reality the maximum for the "average" (whatever that is) female adult is lower than the maximum amount for the "average" male adult.

http://www.saltsense.co.uk/salt-faq01.htm
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http://www.saltsense.co.uk/

And why do websites use PICTURE confirmation codes? I can read and see well enough, but too often they are messed up in a way that makes it difficult to understand what a particular letter or number is meant to be, sometimes it's not specified whether case (lowercase and uppercase) matters, and tonight I tried to enter a confirmation code to sign up for something and got each one wrong so many times that my signup was disallowed. I know it's to prevent spam robots, but then why not just have a written word, or a clear pictorial word that is the same every time? Sometimes it seems like websites don't want members (in which case they should get the heck out of google and let someone else get a higher ranking)

I don't have a clue what you're talking about, but rest assured, the large font of your signature was more than enough to convert me to Christianity. Thanks to you, I've found Jesus. Hallelujah!

Yeah, what? :p

What??? :confused:

What, indeed?

Dude, no one's saying we don't need salt, but too much of any essectial minneral is bad for you.

And why do websites use PICTURE confirmation codes? I can read and see well enough, but too often they are messed up in a way that makes it difficult to understand what a particular letter or number is meant to be, sometimes it's not specified whether case (lowercase and uppercase) matters, and tonight I tried to enter a confirmation code to sign up for something and got each one wrong so many times that my signup was disallowed. I know it's to prevent spam robots, but then why not just have a written word, or a clear pictorial word that is the same every time? Sometimes it seems like websites don't want members (in which case they should get the heck out of google and let someone else get a higher ranking)

Competently coded spambots would easily be able to read a plain-text code, and a picture that was the same every time could just be counter-acted by the programmer writing that answer into the 'bot.