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  1. Re:How about a smart toilet? on Google Buys Home Automation Company Nest · · Score: 1
    I believe that industry has passed unto the hands of a government monopoly.

    I mean, they already own the sewer treatment plants.

  2. Re:Garnish = Good Times on Chefs Preview Surface Tension-Based Cocktail Garnishes · · Score: 1
    Jesus_H._Mary_and Joseph~It's an ability to reflect on the statistical likelihood of being born in an epoch of history where I wasn't rounded up by the Baron's men for swordplay against some neighboring Baron's men.

    The raw probability of arriving to raise a family in such a time and place of peace and plenty.

    You know, grateful.... not hateful.

  3. Re:Obligatory cult classic Remo Williams quote! on Google Buys Home Automation Company Nest · · Score: 1

    Hell we'll be calling tech support if it doesn't keep the ass temperature an even 308.15K.

  4. Garnish = Good Times on Chefs Preview Surface Tension-Based Cocktail Garnishes · · Score: 0
    When food is so readily available we can afford to set aside a small amount of it for trim and decoration, it's just not that tough out there.

    Think how many present countries and/or past civilizations would stand mouth agape at our excesses.

    Good times.

  5. "I WILL have a third cup!" on Experiment Shows Caffeine Boosts Long Term Memory · · Score: 4, Interesting
    It is always welcome news when something you already engage in is reported to have benefits.

    Like the health benefits of a couple of alcoholic drinks, there will undoubtedly follow a recommended modest dose, beyond which the diminishing returns corollary overtakes any health benefits.

  6. Sure on How Weather Influences Global Warming Opinions · · Score: 5, Insightful
    But only for people who confuse weather with climate.

    The very same logic is used to fashion correlation from coincidence the World over.

  7. Sadly, Not the Worst Patent Troll Ever on Building a Better Bike Helmet Out of Paper · · Score: 1

    "It is well documented our enterprise patented and manufactured paper made from bicycle helmets."_tm.

  8. Re:Where have we seen this before? on Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks the Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car · · Score: 1
    That the BoR doesn't protect our right to privacy from corporations

    (an oversight I regularly curse the Founders for)

    does not make it forfeit to the very organization the 1st ten amendments were designed to protect us against.

  9. Re:A field of Two on Orbital Becomes Second Private Firm To Send Cargo Craft To ISS · · Score: 1

    If you were suggesting Boeing or Lockheed-Martin was capable of competing.... that at least would be talking about companies who build rockets.

    I don't know how you people are so accurately able to read the minds of people like me, but I wish you'd quit because now everyone already knows the punchline to my jokes.

  10. Re:A field of Two on Orbital Becomes Second Private Firm To Send Cargo Craft To ISS · · Score: 1

    Other space entrepreneurs are coming out of the woodwork here

  11. Re:They foraged for 2-3 hours per day on Extinct Species of Early Human Survived On Grass Bulbs, Not Meat · · Score: 3, Funny
    Extinct, you say?

    Whew.

    If the prerequisite hurdle for reproduction includes a steady diet of tiger nuts, I, for one, an quite certainly glad those bad motherfskerers aren't around to compete with for mates.

  12. Re:Actually it starts at conception on Tech's Gender and Race Gap Starts In High School · · Score: 1
    That's why you're not given mod money, right there.

    The Forum is afraid you'd have less time to post these pearls of wisdom.

  13. Re:Time to overhaul the Credit Card system in the on Neiman Marcus and Other Retailers Breached, Credit Card Details Stolen · · Score: 1

    I remember Albert Gonzalez from the major TJ Maxx credit card theft incident. He was on the secret service payroll at the time, in a Frank Abagnale type prison-work release.

    As a founder of ShadowCrew (an early credit @ Atm numbers acquisition venture of his), his site moderators forced members to provide refunds if the stolen credit card was no good.

  14. Re:These cretins are learning security is not free on Neiman Marcus and Other Retailers Breached, Credit Card Details Stolen · · Score: 1

    It is not so difficult keeping hackers out. Sound security implementations, regularly independently and competently reviewed

    Yes. A system can be designed that is virtually impregnable when followed to the letter, but in systems involving implementation by humans, some genius will invariably skip a step that saves him 13 seconds of personal time.

    Foolproof is impossible, because just as soon as that level of assurance is reached, they make a little bit better fool.

  15. Sorry I got here so late... on Neiman Marcus and Other Retailers Breached, Credit Card Details Stolen · · Score: 1

    I was purchasing stock in a couple of smart card manufacturers.

  16. Re:We'll see on Small Satellite Dish Systems 'Ripe For Hacking' · · Score: 2
    Heh heh. Nice.

    Perhaps this is a model we've seen before.

    As each exploit breaches a security vulnerability, the patch makes the security a little better, rinse, repeat... and then before you know it, some headless bureaucrat insists on security considerations as an important development consideration.

    It has been described as an arms race by folks smarter than me, and that means it's a scenario that doesn't suck for future IT employment,

  17. Re:Cause and effect may be backwards on Daily Pot Use Tied To Age of First Psychotic Episode · · Score: 2

    Dick.

  18. Re:Cause and effect may be backwards on Daily Pot Use Tied To Age of First Psychotic Episode · · Score: 1
    Yes. Unsurprising.

    I suspect there is another, much more insidious link, and it's along the lines of the withdrawal (period of increased likelihood of suicide) associated with the cold turkey withdrawal from multiple other prescription mood amplifiers.

    Likely because it's supply is principally illegal, there are times when the days medication is unavailable.

  19. Re:Quality? on Tesla Sending New Wall-Charger Adapters After Garage Fire · · Score: 1

    Steel will conduct electricity fine; that's how your voltage returns in most cars - they use the frame.

    Steel is occasionally used in wire for electrical transmission instead of copper (despite it's inferior conductivity) because it is less expensive and available in higher tensile strength(s).

    Plus folks don't steal it near as often.

  20. Re:thru lymphatic system on New Treatment Kills Metastatic Cancer Cells · · Score: 3, Insightful
    FTA: Cancers of the bone, blood, and lymph nodes spend a lot of time in the bloodstream.

    What would set this research apart is it's ability to kill metastasizing cancer.

    It is not a useless advancement, but it apparently needs to also kill cancer present in distant organs to be of significant impact.

  21. Re:Not news for nerds on How Chris Christie Could Use the NSA Playbook · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I look forward to the posting of mainstream stories on the green line site (my son's colloquialism).

    Often they arrive after being picked apart by the news media, but there are still moments of insight in this forum that I can't find anywhere else.

    All that,AND they talk about computers here.

  22. Re:Does anybody believe Aereo? on Supreme Court To Hear Aereo Case · · Score: 1
    Nice!

    Cable and satellite are fairly tired of annual negotiations with all the local network broadcasts they need to renew contracts with... it's a hassle for them.

    In my heart I believe they would slumber comfortably without this routine.

  23. Re:That's the whole country on Target Admits Data Breach May Have Up To 110 Million Victims · · Score: 2

    Well, there were significant breeches in the Canadian Targets, IIRC, so I suspect we're talking about multiple nationalities credit data.

  24. JFC on Target Admits Data Breach May Have Up To 110 Million Victims · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding me.?.?. it's like a five-year-old lying about something he did, letting the truth slip out a little bit at a time.

  25. Re:Modus Operandi on Tesla Sending New Wall-Charger Adapters After Garage Fire · · Score: 1

    The real issue is whether an electrician follows the building code or not. The building code specs out basic things like gauge of wire for circuit breaker size, number of outlets, types of connections, etc. If an electrician follows the code, they will never have to really do any calculations to ensure proper wiring is done.

    Sure. But. Calculations are still required for amp draw per circuit (which determines wire size and breaker ampacity), particularly when a specialty appliance has the unique demands of an electric car charger.

    With regard to new construction, codes are followed religiously precisely because city inspections are required.

    Remodels are a horse of another color.