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  1. We don't use personal protective equipment unless we see immediate cause so that use is not likely to start until after it's had a chance to do a little damage.

  2. Re:A better question to ask would be... on Marketers Hunger For Data From Wearables (readwrite.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't live somewhere with a lot of stores otherwise I probably wouldn't be as annoyed because the list of things I can't find locally but will buy many times would probably be shorter.

  3. Re:A better question to ask would be... on Marketers Hunger For Data From Wearables (readwrite.com) · · Score: 1

    What does that even mean? How would a store win me over with advertising if they didn't have a product I actually wanted?

    A store or even a manufacture would get farther by having products I want, and in the end the majority of advertising I see are for things I wouldn't buy. It's almost as if they are dumping large amounts of money into advertising for products that don't sell in order to move things people neither need nor want. Which is an entirely other story since I frequently can't find products I want, v-neck tees are a great example they are more comfortable around the neck line than a crew neck tee and I can get away with wearing them to work with khakis the local store has them but the selection is all under shirts so I end up ordering them online.

  4. Well that's not airborne so imagine trying to stop a deadly flu that had a mortality rate around 75%. It would no longer be hover around the bottom on the CDCs top 50 killers next to gun violence it would be up there in the top 10.

  5. Re:pretty poor science on Global Catastrophe, Even Human Extinction, Isn't All That Unlikely (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    If there was a large rise in sea level over night it would probably devastate a lot more than that but we are talking over thousands of years...

  6. Re:Too many close calls on Global Catastrophe, Even Human Extinction, Isn't All That Unlikely (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    I might point out that places like Nebraska are not far from becoming desert

    As apposed to what, how close they were in the dirty 30s?

    I think a plague could be much worse than those in the past, as we travel much farther, faster, and more frequently than during the last couple plagues. Regardless of the technology we have or improved skill in medicine it wouldn't take long to spread.

  7. Re:A better question to ask would be... on Marketers Hunger For Data From Wearables (readwrite.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The real question is how do they continue to make money this way? If I need a new pair of jeans or shoes I go somewhere try on a few pairs and buy the ones I like the best. I go to the store look at what they have and buy groceries. I have never seen and ad and thought I have to have one of those unless it was a brand new never before product and I'm not talking about just the next revision of a smart phone or new model car those are not new products.

  8. Re:Global Warming season on One US Oil Field a Key Culprit In Global Ethane Gas Increase · · Score: 1

    Climate didn't even come to mind my thought was why would they let 250,000 tons of ethane waste how much is it going for? even at $0.10 a gallon that's around $18 million.

  9. Re:Stop the criminal (DMCA) cover-up on FBI Bought $1M iPhone 5C Hack, But Doesn't Know How It Works (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    There are over 3000 counties in the US even at $10k each they could make a lot of money off of sheriff departments and state police then rinse and repeat a year from now when an apple update makes it not work anymore.

  10. Re:Or they could be lying on Weasel Apparently Shuts Down World's Most Powerful Particle Collider (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I would imagine fairly charred but then how much power was running through those cables...

    Don't know where is TFA?

  11. Re:Or, you know, privacy that really means somethi on US Calls Switzerland An Internet Piracy Haven (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Could you imagine having a job going through everyones internet traffic mostly ads peppered with lolcats, facebook, and candy crush.

  12. I will give you that the way they attempt to decide the optimum weight is flawed as the guy everyone thinks is really skinny but somehow the scale says I weigh just at the upper edge of healthy or a couple lbs over. When I was in my teens I worked a lot of physical jobs in a metals shop, a marina, some farm jobs I've lost weight since then and gained a couple inches on my waist but it would still be difficult to loose very much weight without loosing muscle.

  13. Re:A towel and the Sun on Dyson Launches New 'Supersonic' Hair Dryer To Revolutionize Hair Care (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    My wife frequently describes me as nerdy, etc... When people actually meet me I'm never what they expect because I work with computers but I'm not just interested in computers. I'm interested in just about any technology used in my day to day life so I can talk about hair dryers, electric razors, vacuums, blenders, coffee makers, microwaves, etc... however if I had short or no hair I probably wouldn't have taken the time to rtfa.

  14. Re:HP Keyboards.. fuck that noise on HP Announces All-Metal Chromebook 13: Thinner Than MacBook Pro, Costs $800 Less · · Score: 1

    I have a working thinkpad t43 sitting on my desk covered in dust... it runs like a champ unfortunately upgrading from xp pro to win 7 would be a pain and it would probably barely run afterwards.

  15. Re:A towel and the Sun on Dyson Launches New 'Supersonic' Hair Dryer To Revolutionize Hair Care (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm a long hair guy...

    I rarely use the hair dryer because heat and if you put it on high wind damage... if I do use a hair dryer I also use a heat protecting leaving in conditioner like Matrix Biolage blue agave which is kind of expensive but most of the time I use a turbie twist which is just a towel designed to make it easy to wrap your hair.

  16. Re:Your phone is the next PC. on Intel Declares Independence From PC, Prioritizes Cloud, IoT and 5G Efforts · · Score: 1

    Except the mobile phone market hasn't been replaced yet so the race to the end of that particular technology isn't at an end, and no one has finished. If they think they are done and are relaxing eating chips in front of the tube then someone else does have an opportunity.

  17. Re: "Poor State"...??? on Smartphone Shipments Flat For the First Time, Says IDC · · Score: 1

    They are going to have to start increasing the population if they want to keep increasing the unit sales of smart phones

  18. Re:Really? on Wikipedia Is Basically a Corporate Bureaucracy, Says Study (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Teachers have the same complaint about 50 year old encyclopedias they are often out of date or have incomplete information.

  19. Re:There are reasons bureaucracies exist on Wikipedia Is Basically a Corporate Bureaucracy, Says Study (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Mandi immediately began work on her major label debut album, Alice In No Man’s Lan

    She had one album on a major label...

  20. Re:There are reasons bureaucracies exist on Wikipedia Is Basically a Corporate Bureaucracy, Says Study (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not to impressed with wikipedia one of the things they do is make sure that biographies/discographies of indie label artists are not published even if they top the cmj charts, are on many the ordinary digital music services, have CDs in distribution to music specialty stores, and have played for crowds of over 50K.

  21. They want the McDonald's of tech industry so they can pay everyone minimum wage.

  22. Re:Of course they do - future cheap labor on Top Silicon Valley Execs and Others Urge Congress To Fund K-12 Computer Science Education (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I was thinking the same thing if computer science was taught in k-12 they could be hiring in tech grubs at a dollar or two above minimum wage since every high school graduate would probably have better education than our current tech colleges provides in a 2 year degree.

  23. Re:As long as the weather gets more pleasant in mo on Rise In CO2 Has 'Greened Planet Earth' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Why does everyone forget that regardless of man made global warming we are still exiting a glacial period, the the earth will warm up on it's own, and we will eventually have to deal with that change even if we reduce our emissions to 0.

    Now on the other hand cheaper, cleaner, renewable resources should be our goal anyway.

  24. Re:More "pleasant" weather on Rise In CO2 Has 'Greened Planet Earth' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    In Kansas if we don't like the weather we just wait ten minutes it'll change.

  25. Re:Distraction on New Heating Technology Uses Seawater and Carbon Dioxide (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    Well I'm sure it doesn't make anymore noise than the 9ft tall windmill lawn art that does squat but spin, there are half a dozen in my neighborhood and with an average wind speed of 14.5 mph they spin a lot. I would need to remove a bunch of trees and spend about 8 times as much to get the same out of solar so much that I would make back my investment a couple years after I had to replace them.