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  1. Re:Really? on Hackers Claim to Have 427 Million Myspace Passwords (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    My son he used to leave his myspace account logged in on the family computer because that was back when most families only had one computer... So one day I changed his myspace theme to my little pony.

  2. Re:Never misplaced a 747 around the house. Floatin on Why Are We Spending Billions and Tons of Fossil Fuel On Search of Lost Planes? · · Score: 1

    oh well, not THAT big of a deal

    Unless it is ejected onto your house from 10,000 ft...

    Weren't there facebook users on the flight Mark Zuckerberg should know where they are..

  3. Re:It's called a black box on Why Are We Spending Billions and Tons of Fossil Fuel On Search of Lost Planes? · · Score: 1

    GPS tags on 1000 snakes roaming free on every plane.

  4. Re:Sadly, I agree with her! on American Schools Teaching Kids To Code All Wrong (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I picked up the guitar when I was six and learned some chords from my older sister who was taking lessons. She also taught me some violin and my other sister taught me some flute. I was in choir and learned to read music. I bought an electric guitar when I was 16 and played in a few cover bands in the 80s it was for fun more than anything else.

    When my second son became interested in guitar he was around 16 years old we bought him his first guitar and I taught him everything I knew which he absorbed very quickly so he started taking guitar lessons offered by the college and I decided I wanted to go back part time for applied music. I really enjoyed music theory it was new and exciting to me though it was awkward at moments since I was older than most of my professors and sometimes new students or students outside the music department thought I was faculty.

    My oldest son played guitar also and played with us sometimes but his interests where in computers and I taught him everything I could about programming.

  5. Re:Sadly, I agree with her! on American Schools Teaching Kids To Code All Wrong (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I got a lot more than an hour of code in high school but even that wasn't enough to make me a programmer any more than my accounting class made me a CPA they just gave me the basics and enough to know if it was something I might want to pursue after high school.

  6. Re:Sadly, I agree with her! on American Schools Teaching Kids To Code All Wrong (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I have worked with enterprise applications coded in vb that performed much better than I would have thought although the low bar on creating an nice looking interface in the visual designer makes it easy for someone with no skill to code a nice looking piece of junk.

    C# .Net has the same problem but happens to be my current favorite rapid language it can be as simple or as complex as you need it.

  7. Re:Sadly, I agree with her! on American Schools Teaching Kids To Code All Wrong (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    No but I have met a few people who can play just about anything they hear a couple months after buying a guitar with no lessons outside of a basic beginner's book. They are currently playing in fairly good cover bands but have no original music.

  8. Re:Hold Ma Beer and Watch This! on Former McDonald's USA CEO: $35K Robots Cheaper Than Hiring at $15 Per Hour (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't remember a giant spike in unemployment any other time minimum wage went up although it has never doubled overnight but I think they are exaggerating as I have a teen ager who has worked at a couple fast food places they started him out at $8.50. I live in one of lower cost of living areas of the midwest I'm sure they start people higher in other places kind of self regulating minimum wage but instead of a fair minimum it's more like the lowest they can possibly pay and still expect to get someone.

  9. Re:robots will just push the manufacturing back to on Foxconn Cuts 60,000 Jobs, Replaces With Robots (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    If the floor jobs where reduced from 110,000 to 50,000 floor workers and each American has 8 bosses that's 450,000 jobs, Bob.

  10. Re:College Admission/Voting/Drinking Age should ma on Billionaire Technologist Accuses NASA Asteroid Mission of Bad Statistics (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    It's not just college you can join the armed services and die for your country prior to being drinking age.

    I started my first semester of college mid-year just before my 18th birthday and missed my high school prom and graduation. Much later I went back to school and was older and more experienced than many of my professors. Just wait until I retire and go back again.

  11. Re:Coat tail rider looking for fame again... on Billionaire Technologist Accuses NASA Asteroid Mission of Bad Statistics (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    College at 14 I didn't start until I was 17 personally I think 16 should be the earliest.

  12. Re:How nice of Facebook to take time out of... on Too Fat For Facebook: Photo Banned For Depicting Body In 'Undesirable Manner' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    She is short and weighs less a lot less than you think and yeah I could although I'm sure her husband who looks like he wouldn't have much trouble either might not like it.

  13. Re:*sigh* Lucy Lawless *sigh* on Too Fat For Facebook: Photo Banned For Depicting Body In 'Undesirable Manner' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm 5' 11" she might be able to carry me off but I'm certain I could bench press her with out breaking a sweat. I some how always end with women my height or taller.

  14. Re:*sigh* Lucy Lawless *sigh* on Too Fat For Facebook: Photo Banned For Depicting Body In 'Undesirable Manner' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    My friend got his picture taken with some UFC fighters when he went to see them fight and they were so tiny compared to him. Lucy is only like 5' 10".

  15. Re:How nice of Facebook to take time out of... on Too Fat For Facebook: Photo Banned For Depicting Body In 'Undesirable Manner' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    She's only 5ft 4in I could toss her over my shoulder.

  16. Re:How nice of Facebook to take time out of... on Too Fat For Facebook: Photo Banned For Depicting Body In 'Undesirable Manner' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If you can toss her over your shoulder and carry her away she's not to big. Just saying...

    Although I'm not really into tattooed girls no matter how skinny they are.

  17. Re:In Seattle... on AT&T Begins Capping Broadband Users (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    They are selling a service on monthly account and then capping it but I don't even get to keep my unused data... so if I use 400 this month I don't get to keep my 200 and next month when I use 700 they charge me an extra $20. All those people that never go over and always have a couple hundred GB left over aren't getting a $10/50GB discount either.

  18. Re:In Seattle... on AT&T Begins Capping Broadband Users (dslreports.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    They are basically saying I'm going to give you a monthly account but at 75mbps you can only use it for about 18 out of 720 or so hours in month.

    Alright I know that even with me being a cord cutter and all my TVs running on streaming services and kids playing games on xbox live I only use about 400-450GB a month because those services don't actually serve up video at 75mbps but if you're selling 75mbps on a monthly account the cap needs to be 75 * number of seconds in a month.

  19. They should donate .001% of that to my beer fund.

  20. Re:of course it will burn.... on Burning All Fossil Fuels Would Scorch Earth, Says Study (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    I don't know about solar being cheaper maybe as a solar farm but after considerable research I found that a solar grid tie system could supplement or even power my house but it would have to run without occurring additional costs for 12-15 years before it would have produced enough kwh for them to cost the same as I'm currently paying. Wind would be a better choice for me thanks to a good location unfortunately local regulations prohibit it.

    Central heat and air account for a large amount of my homes energy use, upgrading the windows and insulation would be a much better investment.

    I believe the future is also the past and batteries will eventually replace gas in our vehicles.
     

  21. As long as you don't have large amounts of unpaid debts or recent long periods of unemployment... generally if you have had rent and household bills in your name for the past five year that you have paid on time, haven't been unemployed, don't have large outstanding debts, and can actually afford the mortgage payment on the size loan your applying for your are probably going to get it. Just be careful not go for more than you can handle your taxes will likely be going up over time especially if your a handy guy and intend to put up a fence, build a new deck, patio, shed, any visible improvement will increase the value and your taxes.

  22. Re:Hydogen is just a way to store energy on Tesla Co-Founder Says Hydrogen Fuel Cells Are a 'Scam' (electrek.co) · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Hydogen is just a way to store energy on Tesla Co-Founder Says Hydrogen Fuel Cells Are a 'Scam' (electrek.co) · · Score: 2

    Apparently pushing a train to the top of a hill...

  24. Re: When I was a kid... on Nevada Startup Stores Energy With Trains (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Shunt air from inside through an array of tubing that goes under ground well below the frost line where the average temperature is much lower than your average high on a summer day.

  25. They're not he's comparing a 900sq ft apartment in a complex with a gym and a swimming pool to a 2000sq ft home with a 2 car garage and a swimming pool. Which in that case yes he would be right the apartment is way cheaper.