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  1. Re:Missing "Life" SkillsSo add them? on Crowd-Sourced Experiment To Map All Human Skills · · Score: 1

    Some of those are in here. Shaving and gardening I don't see, but there is Technical-->Kitchen. And there is Technical-->Wheel vehicule[sic] handling-->Land vehicles-->Car driving. Which is then helpfully subclassified into Volvo, Ford, Chrysler, General Motors and Subaru, because of course you have to retrain before you change car brands. And the world's largest car manufacturer (Toyota) doesn't rate a mention.

  2. Re:Missing "Life" Skills on Crowd-Sourced Experiment To Map All Human Skills · · Score: 1

    I think those would go into the "Technicals" category, which seems to be their catchall "Other" category.

  3. Re:Hope it's better than the movies on HBO Developing Asimov's Foundation Series As TV Show · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I Robot had nothing to do with the book. It was in fact written on another title first and then they bought the name to slap on it because people would recognize it, and, hey, it's about robots, right? A bit of script touch-up to change a few names (gotta have Susan Calvin, although of course she won't be plain) and put in a few references to Asimov's concepts, and we're done!

  4. Re:The right to offend ... on How To End Online Harassment · · Score: 1

    Which works really well when the poster is hiding behind an pseudonym. Also when he's in another country where your country's police can't get at him.

    Dumber shit.

  5. Can you tell the difference between an IP assigned to a public park web cam vs someone's living room?

    If I have to guess a password (even if it's a default one), it's somewhere I probably shouldn't be.

  6. Re:I told you so. Leprechauns exist on Why Scientists Think Completely Unclassifiable and Undiscovered Life Forms Exist · · Score: 1

    Is undead the same as alive?

    Well, mostly dead is the same as slightly alive...

  7. If something is displayed publicly, it's *very* reasonable to assume it's intended to be public

    Or that the owner wants to access a private device remotely. Since that's the safer assumption, and not at all unlikely, it is the more reasonable assumption.

  8. Re:What is the actual risk? on Website Peeps Into 73,000 Unsecured Security Cameras Via Default Passwords · · Score: 1

    A more likely scenario would be for a criminal to drive past at night, see the car gone, and then check the internal cameras of the house for any activity to determine if it's easy to rob.

    And the criminal knows the IP address of the unsecured camera for that particular house how...?

  9. In the case of cameras you don't know what it is until you enter, until then it's reasonable to assume it's a public/commercial camera

    On the contrary, if you don't know what it is, it is *not* reasonable to assume it's a public/commercial camera. If you assume it is you could do something wrong. If you assume it is not, you can't do something wrong (as not accessing is never wrong).

  10. Re:brick and mortar stores on Home Depot Says Hackers Grabbed 53 Million Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    Yeah, show me a 4 foot by 8 foot sheet of wallboard, or a 50-gallon water heater on Amazon.

    Didn't think so.

    The wallboard is indeed nowhere to found, but you can get the water heater: http://www.amazon.com/Rheem-PR...

  11. Re:The war on drugs on Silk Road 2.0 Seized By FBI, Alleged Founder Arrested In San Francisco · · Score: 3, Funny

    Perhaps we should nuke SF and finally win the WoD.

    You can't win the WoD--the Jyhad is eternal.

  12. Re:Hey, MS, give them to people who will use them! on CNN Anchors Caught On Camera Using Microsoft Surface As an iPad Stand · · Score: 1

    It comes with a keyboard/touchpad.

    I thought the keyboard was $120 more.

  13. Re:HA! on Using Naval Logbooks To Reconstruct Past Weather and Predict Future Climate · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, he only needed to get to Timor in the rowboat, but that was impressive enough (it was a 47-day voyage. Of the 19 men, only one was lost, to hostile natives when they made a landfall at Tofua). Bligh was an excellent seaman. And not a bad guy, his reputation notwithstanding.

  14. Re:Assumptions? on The Other Side of Diversity In Tech · · Score: 1

    In a homogeneous environment anyone who is different stands out like a sore thumb. If here is moire diversity then differences become less noticeable.

    That establishes why it's good for the people who are different. It does nothing to show why it's good for technology and innovation.

  15. Re:Musical scales based on math, not on culture on Birds Found Using Human Musical Scales For the First Time · · Score: 1

    Bach used "Well Temperament,"

    Hence, "The Well-Tempered Clavier".

  16. Re:My two cents on UN Climate Change Panel: It's Happening, and It's Almost Entirely Man's Fault · · Score: 1

    A western lifestyle is neither necessary nor the best option for much of the world.

    Absolutely. We should all live the lifestyle of the average African. You first.

  17. So... on Microsoft Enters the Wearables Market With 'Band' · · Score: 2

    ...will the ad theme song be "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"?

  18. Re:Aussie Aussie Aussie... USA!! on Australian Gov't Tries To Force Telcos To Store User Metadata For 2 Years · · Score: 1

    Honestly world, personally we all hate him.

    So how did he get elected?

  19. Re:Hmmm ... on Researchers At Brown University Shattered a Quantum Wave Function · · Score: 1

    Actually, they're an integral part of Star Trek's transporters. When someone asked Mike Okudo how they worked, he replied, "They work just fine, thank you."

  20. Re:That's the part that "counts" (groan) on Antares Rocket Explodes On Launch · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do you know WHY they use 40+ year old Russian engines? Because they are better than anything West has to offer.

    Yeah, western engines don't blow up on launch half as well as these do!

  21. Re:Ballmer investment portfolio on Ballmer Says Amazon Isn't a "Real Business" · · Score: 2

    I don't think he expects to make his money back on the Clippers. He wanted a basketball team, he had enough money to buy a basketball team for a price nobody would match without making a outsized hole in his bank account, so he bought a basketball team. If you say, according to his definition, that's not a business, he would probably cheerfully agree with you.

  22. Re:I don't get it... on Warner Brothers Announces 10 New DC Comics Movies · · Score: 1

    So take this chance to educate yourself.

    Actually, this is a good chance for you to educate yourself. I'd recommend "Understanding Comics", by Scott McCloud.

    Due to the format of comics (generally 30 pages, once a month, emphasis on illustration over dialog), there are certain characteristics specific to that genre.

    So you think comics have to be small periodicals to be comics? You believe that Will Eisner's Contract With God is not a comic? You believe that Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis is not a comic? You believe that Raymond Brigg's When The Wind Blows is not a comic? You are letting how comics are usually publish blind you to the fact that that is not how they have to be published. And it still wouldn't make comics a genre. Yes, there are certain characteristics to publishing installments periodically, that constrain comics as a medium. All mediums have such constraints--they are better at some things, worse at others. Everything in that medium will have things in common. That doesn't make them genres. They are still mediums.

  23. Re:Disability Act on High-Tech Walkers Could Help Japan's Elderly Stay Independent · · Score: 1

    Japan is probably about the same, perhaps somewhat worse. China is much, much worse. I read an article a while back about someone in a wheelchair attempting to tour China. Fortunately, they enjoyed a challenge, because it certainly was one.

  24. Mir de-orbited in 2001... on Lead Mir Developer: 'Mir More Relevant Than Wayland In Two Years' · · Score: 1

    ...why would it still be relevant now?

  25. Re:I saw this movie on High-Tech Walkers Could Help Japan's Elderly Stay Independent · · Score: 1

    Came for the Rojin-Z reference. Left satisfied.