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  1. Re:I, for one, will be happy... on DHS Investigates 24 Potentially Lethal IoT Medical Devices · · Score: 1

    ...when referring to connected/connectable devices as IoT dies.

    What's wrong with Internet of Toilets? I like mine to tweet the weight and offensiveness of every poop.

  2. Re:Please drop the other shoe on NASA's HI-SEAS Project Results Suggests a Women-Only Mars Crew · · Score: 1

    Restricting to females isn't going nearly far enough. It should be restricted to skinny little oriental anorexic females.

    FTFY

  3. Re:Food is not the limiting factor on NASA's HI-SEAS Project Results Suggests a Women-Only Mars Crew · · Score: 1

    That is, of course, for a given radiation dose, which is independent of body cross section - which is relevant in real-world scenarios. If we assume an isotropic radiation exposure profile, an average male height of 174cm, an average female height of 161 cm, and asssume an equivalent profile, then a man presents a 17% higher profile to radiation.

    Just stand sideways so you have less cross section.

  4. Re:Because people advertise things no one wants on Why Do Contextual Ads Fail? · · Score: 1

    If you are selling cat toys, it's not that hard to select people that own/are interested in cats.

    Side note: anybody who buys cat toys has never heard of pen tops, paper clips, twist-ties, string, or rubber bands.

  5. Re:yep, timing and related products on Why Do Contextual Ads Fail? · · Score: 1

    The difference between Facebook and Amazon, with Facebook, you are the product, not the customer; with Amazon, you are the customer, not the product being sold.

    Interestingly, I have viewed products on Amazon and have promptly seen an advertisement on Facebook for the exact item the same day. They are not predicting behavior, they are tracking.

  6. Creepy to the Max on Why Do Contextual Ads Fail? · · Score: 1

    Facebook stalks you constantly. I have searched for items on Amazon and Googled items that promptly are advertised to me on Facebook - the exact item, from the exact vendor. They are tracking what goes on in other tabs.

  7. Pay-per-View on FCC Rejects Blackout Rules · · Score: 0

    They might not move the stench-bowl games to pay-per-view, but they could easily do that with the "big match-up" of the week. Not that I give a shit.

  8. Re:Underspecced? on Dremel Releases 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    What's underwhelming about it? That it can only print with PLA? The build volume? What do you mean by "more capable"?

    No heated build platform.

  9. Unless you've used the same password for gmail as for whichever site has been hacked, it shouldn't matter. I found my gmail address, but the password had never been used at Google. The problem is if you've reused the password on a bunch of sites where your email address can be used as login.

    Same here. My email address, but a password I use for throwaway sites that I don't care about accessing.

  10. Not Alex the Great on Who Is Buried In the Largest Tomb Ever Found In Northern Greece? · · Score: 1

    The tomb is for his Chief Eunich.

  11. Re:Structural Fatigue on Architecture That Changes Shape In Response To Heat · · Score: 1

    Many of them are made of wood, which makes it cheap compared to a "real" house.

    What a dumbass. Don't you realize the majority of house in the US are made of wood? Even the ones that look like brick are wood house with a brick facade.

  12. Re:Where are these photos? on Reported iCloud Hack Leaks Hundreds of Private Celebrity Photos · · Score: 1

    Well, white for a power cord is an incredibly stupid color. Black at least never gets dirty.

    Way to prove his point.

  13. Re:still on Web Trolls Winning As Incivility Increases · · Score: 1

    A troll is still a person, and you can beat a person with a sack full of oranges.

    If only we could find them IRL.

  14. Re:fast forward 5 years.... on NASA's Greenhouse Gas Observatory Captures 'First Light' · · Score: 1

    just like the fact that they cant explain why there has been no warming for the past 17 years??

    Still pushing that same old bullshit canard?

    Keep modding me troll, deniers. Keep on suppressing discussion. Whatever; you're helping destroy the world.

  15. Re:fast forward 5 years.... on NASA's Greenhouse Gas Observatory Captures 'First Light' · · Score: 1, Troll

    just like the fact that they cant explain why there has been no warming for the past 17 years??

    Still pushing that same old bullshit canard?

  16. Re:What about Oregon and Washington? on Comcast Drops Spurious Fees When Customer Reveals Recording · · Score: 1

    Just say you notified them during their notification. "Oh, you weren't listening while playing your recorded notice? Well neither did I."

  17. Re:Punishes fans? on NFL Fights To Save TV Blackout Rule Despite $9 Billion Revenue · · Score: 1

    Also the horses become much more pleasant to be around when they are breeding.

    Funny, I'm the same way.

    What? You like to watch horses breeding?

  18. Re:I believe solar thermal does benefit from scale on Brookings Study Calls Solar, Wind Power the Most Expensive Fossil Alternatives · · Score: 1

    It is easy to turn electricity into heat (just run it through a resistor) but difficult to go the other way.

    Pshaw! Just get yourself a resistor with a negative value.

  19. Re:And yet here I am on For Fast Internet in the US, Virginia Tops the Charts · · Score: 1

    Here I am, in downtown Richmond... ...3Mbps DSL.

    You do know that they are talking about the average speed for the state..?

    The way it breaks down in Virginia is:

    You (and everybody else) = 3 Mbps The CIA in Langley = 2000 Tbps

    State average = 13.7 Mbps

    Though your post was likely meant to be humorous, there is some truth to it. The infrastructure here in NoVa is definitely influenced by the heavy presence of intelligence work.

  20. Re:And yet here I am on For Fast Internet in the US, Virginia Tops the Charts · · Score: 1

    I sure don't.

    Who are you with?

    Your momma.

  21. Re:Oh good lord. on Do Dark Matter and Dark Energy Cast Doubt On the Big Bang? · · Score: 1

    Dark matter is probably just civilizations that have built (advanced forms of) Dyson spheres around their stars.

    Are the Dyson spheres so they can suck up all the cosmic dust?

  22. Re:Translated into English on Floridian (and Southern) Governmental Regulations Are Unfriendly To Solar Power · · Score: 1

    I am left wondering how it could be $35K / cottage in Florida. Maybe it's to go off-grid altogether, thus requiring storage?

    I'm not sure what a "cottage" is in Florida, but if I look at local prices (Central Europe), I see offers for off-grid PV installations (with storage) for cottages starting around $7k.

    Florida likely needs a lot more A/C than Central Europe.

  23. Re:Translated into English on Floridian (and Southern) Governmental Regulations Are Unfriendly To Solar Power · · Score: 1

    Heat, humidity, bugs, snakes, rabies. Also invasive species; the Nile Monitor Lizard looks like a real sweetie.

    There's lots more (potential for) mosquito-borne disease -- yellow fever epidemics in the past, dengue showing up in Key West lately, and encephalitis is more common there than elsewhere. Termites are much more destructive down there, too. Sinkholes are common enough that you see billboard advertisements for lawyers to help sue for damage to your home.

    Plus you're not the only person who had the bright idea of retiring there.

    You forgot - Rick Scott, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio,

  24. Re:not really that hard, theoretically on Algorithm Predicts US Supreme Court Decisions 70% of Time · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Of course, I believe phrases like "the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" are indisputably clear, and I'm astonished that people can find convoluted ways to try to tear it apart syntactically.and semantically.

    I agree - as long as the bears don't mind you taking their arms.

  25. Re:NIMBY at its finest on US Army To Transport American Ebola Victim To Atlanta Hospital From Liberia · · Score: 1

    Ever read or see "The Stand?"