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  1. Re:One day, someone will explain it to me. on Logitech Aims To Control the Smart Home · · Score: 1

    I've never understood why people change their indoor temperature settings based on outside temperature. Sure it's nice to come into a cool house in the summer but after a few minutes it's just cold. The indoor temperature should be constant year round.

  2. Re:One ring to rule them all? on Logitech Aims To Control the Smart Home · · Score: 1

    They don't care about one air conditioner, but when they can write a script that screws with thousands of them at once then it's fun.

  3. Sounds like technobabble on Researchers Working On Crystallizing Light · · Score: 2

    It sounds like one of those articles scientists put in journals to discredit their peer review process. They make up a bunch of crap that sounds all sciency and then laugh when it gets published.

  4. Re:I dont know why this is a bad thing on The Documents From Google's First DMV Test In Nevada · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Somehow people think that if there's one flaw then the whole project should be scrapped. They also think that it should be at an insanely advanced stage before it's ready for use. They want to skip the decades of development that happen from real world experience and go straight to some futuristic magical car-pod.

  5. Re:Traditional crimes on Accused Ottawa Cyberbully Facing 181 Charges Apologizes · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Except for Quebec. They get their own backward legal system because French.

  6. Re:Map of a box of chocolates on California Tells Businesses: Stop Trying To Ban Consumer Reviews · · Score: 2

    You're not over-analyzing, you're completely missing the point. It's not his line, it's his momma's. She's the one who says the line in the movie and he attributes it to her every time he repeats it. In her day the chocolates didn't have a little guide. It was hit or miss.

  7. Re:Am I the only one? on 5 Million Gmail Passwords Leaked, Google Says No Evidence Of Compromise · · Score: 2

    Most likely the two symbols that were shown on the isleaked website were also in a different password of mine and they never really had the proper Gmail password. I have no way of verifying this. However, I can say for certain that I've never used my Gmail password anywhere but Gmail. I have unique passwords for every single account I have on all websites. I use UPM as a password manager on my Android phone with a ridiculously long master password. I doubt it got hacked.

  8. Am I the only one? on 5 Million Gmail Passwords Leaked, Google Says No Evidence Of Compromise · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A total surprise to me that my email address was on the list, and they had the current password. I changed that immediately and activated 2-factor authentication. So the next question is how did they get it? It's a unique string of random crap so it had to be intercepted rather than brute forced either with a malicious android app or, more likely, I signed in on a compromized computer. Anyone have any ideas?

  9. Re:Incredibly bad live stream on Apple Announces Smartwatch, Bigger iPhones, Mobile Payments · · Score: 5, Funny

    The number of streaming viewers doesn't cause these kinds of errors. That's like saying "You exceeded the maximum capacity of your garden hose. That's why blood came out instead of water."

  10. Re:Simple change. What about round abouts on Surprising Result of NYC Bike Lanes: Faster Traffic for Cars · · Score: 2

    Roundabouts completely fail if there's lots of traffic. If one entrance has lots of traffic entering then it's likely that the entrance after it will be unable to flow into the circle at all. I've seen this in action, or should I say inaction.

  11. Lucrative isn't all it's cracked up to be on Unpopular Programming Languages That Are Still Lucrative · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Many jobs are lucrative, but so what? Try to do work you enjoy. If you go off trying to learn something just because it's lucrative you'll probably end up in a job where you're maintaining some obsolete system that's held together with duct tape. Not fun. Probably not worth the money for the amount of anguish it'll cost you.

  12. Re:Glaring Mistakes on Ask David Saltzberg About Being The Big Bang Theory's Science Advisor · · Score: 1

    If they're just going to screw it up why have a science advisor at all?

  13. Re:Glaring Mistakes on Ask David Saltzberg About Being The Big Bang Theory's Science Advisor · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Most of the real science they show is wrong. It might be 90% right, but that 10% wrong trumps the bits that are right. It must be agonizing to see them get so close, and then fail. And then people blame the advisor.

  14. The majority of drivers ARE above average. It's a statistical fact.

  15. Re:Agree 100% on Why Phone Stores Should Stockpile Replacements · · Score: 1

    Fixing a thermopile is very very very easy.

  16. Re:But how do the hackers get the email addresses? on Apple Denies Systems Breach In Photo Leak · · Score: 1

    That would be the easy part. If they use their email address for anything presumably it's to receive and send email so they CAN'T keep it a secret.

  17. Re:Chip and PIN on Banks Report Credit Card Breach At Home Depot · · Score: 2

    FOAD. I'd prefer the banks implemented security so I wouldn't have to go through a bureaucratic mess to get back my property.

    And what property of yours is missing? I'm thinking it's your sanity.

  18. Re:Chip and PIN on Banks Report Credit Card Breach At Home Depot · · Score: 2

    Big deal. You're not on the hook for the fraudulent charges. You just have to check your bill and maybe your CC issuer will give you another card.

  19. It's everywhere on Drought Inspires a Boom In Pseudoscience, From Rain Machines To 'Water Witches' · · Score: 1

    I called the local call-before-you-dig number because I was having foundation work done and you have to have an underground lines located before you can so much as plant bedding plants around here. A lady showed up and followed procedure for the gas and electrical lines then she pulled out her water witching wands to locate the rest of the stuff. Crazy. I called and left a complaint but they never got back to me. One day she's going to have some equipment malfunction and she's going to use her wands to locate an electrical line and it'll kill someone.

  20. Re:Could have fooled me on Canada Tops List of Most Science-Literate Countries · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Suzuki is a tree hugging hippie. He jumped the shark a LONG time ago.

  21. Re:Walled garbage approach on Microsoft Dumps 1,500 Apps From Its Windows Store · · Score: 1

    Didn't say it was perfect, but it's an idea worth implementing.

  22. Re:Walled garbage approach on Microsoft Dumps 1,500 Apps From Its Windows Store · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They should crowdsource this. Simply mark new apps as being in a probationary period and give downloaders the option of tagging the app as misleading, malware, abuse of permissions, etc. It would greatly help their human staff find the bad apples quickly. Of course the same goes for Google and Apple.

  23. Re:FYI: Video is not viewable in Canada on Death Valley's Sailing Stones Caught In the Act · · Score: 2

    I'm in Canada and it worked fine for me, even with the IE 8 I have access to at work.

  24. Re:timothy = fail on Death Valley's Sailing Stones Caught In the Act · · Score: 1

    Didn't know National Geographic had a time machine.

  25. Re:I think he's talking about calibration data on $75K Prosthetic Arm Is Bricked When Paired iPod Is Stolen · · Score: 1

    I know people that have far more than $75k worth of data sitting on their home PCs with no backup.