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  1. Re:YT will also remove videos that don't play ball on "YouTube Red" Offers Premium YouTube For $9.99 a Month, $12.99 For iOS Users (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    A better headline (and interestingly missing from ./ summary) comes from techcrunch: YouTube Will Completely Remove Videos Of Creators Who Don't Sign Its Red Subscription Deal

    Did this "offer" go out to just the YT partners that make a LOT of money? I have a monetized channel but never received this notice...nor anyone else so far that I know that has monetized their YouTube channel.....

  2. Re:no wonder on Mythbusters Ending After Next Season (ew.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    That's what they get after firing Kari and company.

    Wow, I've not seen a recent episode in a little while, but I didn't realize they had canned Kari and presumable her other two male cohorts....

    Hell, SHE was one of the primary reasons I watched the show in the first place...she had a "geek" hot thing going on.....even after being preggers.

  3. Re: Apple is leaving money on the table here on Nearly One-third of Consumers Would Give Up Their Car Before Their Smartphone (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Lobby for good public transit, like what Europe has.

    It wouldn't really work here in the US...at least for most cities. Our cities were built with private cars in mind....we'd have to rip up cities like Houston and others to make them more friendly to public/mass transit.

    That and personal, I'd NOT want to have to depend on public transport for my daily life. I like being able to choose my own travel times and arrive right at the door of where i"m going...unlike riding a bus or something where you have to wait in the weather for bus to come..and usually have to walk a considerable distance to/from your destinations to the bus stop...

    And I can't figure how I'd grocery shop on a bus....I usually shop on one day or so of the week...I hit 2-4 different stores to get the best sale items...and stock up for the week on food.

    Hell, one good BBQ would puzzle me how I"d move all that on a bus....how would I carry around a 16lb brisket, 20+ lbs bag of charcoal and 40-50lbs of wood....and all the other fixings for a day of smoking?

    Unless you live in a small city, very urban where you have stores right across the street from you and your cooking style lends itself to shopping nearly every day (hard to save money shopping this way)...public transport for normal life in the US just doesn't work really.

  4. Re:Remove casing from a Wallmart clock - get invit on 'Clock Kid' Ahmed Mohamed and His Family To Leave US, Move To Qatar · · Score: 2

    Not saying you're right, not saying you're wrong but can you please cite some references? I did a (quick) Google and didn't find anything untoward.

    I just grabbed the first link of many I found when googling "Clock Boy Sister".

  5. Re: I didn't think of it means... on Criminals Hacked Chip-and-PIN System By Perfecting Point-of-Sale Attack (net-security.org) · · Score: 1

    or if they are stolen. Any of the registered serial numbers could be used to create a watchlist for pawn/gun shops to check against and to alert authorities if the perp tries to sell them.

    Well, if they are stolen THEN I can give the authorities the serial numbers myself. They don't need to know about them beforehand.

  6. Re: I didn't think of it means... on Criminals Hacked Chip-and-PIN System By Perfecting Point-of-Sale Attack (net-security.org) · · Score: 1

    Countries with actual gun regulations have this little-known feature - ballistic fingerprinting. Every registered gun is required to get analyzed periodically, so its bullets are traceable. It's not foolproof, but it's fairly reliable if done correctly. Also, microstamping should be mandated for all guns.

    Its pretty trivial to swap out barrels on a gun (hand guns at least which is what I think we're mostly talking about here).

  7. Re:Remove casing from a Wallmart clock - get invit on 'Clock Kid' Ahmed Mohamed and His Family To Leave US, Move To Qatar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Unfortunately true. He is not a particularly bright kid and is being unduly celebrated. He took apart a clock. While we should celebrate kids taking apart clocks, we shouldn't call it an invention.

    Good Riddance.

    It appears this family has tried this grab for attention more than once, with the daughter at least once....

    So, they finally got their 15min of fame, and now let's just be happy to have them out of the country and back where they want to be in the first place.

  8. Re: Apple is leaving money on the table here on Nearly One-third of Consumers Would Give Up Their Car Before Their Smartphone (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1
    Hey, as long as we're getting rid of the 1/3 of drivers that are constantly yammering ON their cell phones and even trying to text while driving,

    I'm all for them giving up their damned cars, and getting out of my way while i"m trying to concentrate on the road and get where I want to in a timely manner.

  9. f you've never tasted tea infused at the proper temperature, you don't know what you're missing.

    I'd always heard you were NOT supposed to make your tea with boiling water...just under boiling was the correct way to do it...?

    I mean, one of my favorite ways to have tea is Sun Tea where you put the bags in a glass jar/container and set out all morning in the hot summer sun and let it make that way.

    Wonderful iced tea taste, doesn't get cloudy...and it was never boiled....

  10. Re:The Gypsy life on The Google Employee Who Opted For a Truck Over Bay Area Rents (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmm....I"m assuming getting laid is not very high on his priority list.

  11. Re: I didn't think of it means... on Criminals Hacked Chip-and-PIN System By Perfecting Point-of-Sale Attack (net-security.org) · · Score: 1

    To easily trace you once you turn into a mass-murderer.

    Hmm....but doesn't do anything to prevent them.

  12. Re: I didn't think of it means... on Criminals Hacked Chip-and-PIN System By Perfecting Point-of-Sale Attack (net-security.org) · · Score: 0

    You not wanting us to know is precisely why we need to know it. Just think of how many guns are bought untraceably with untraceable cash.

    Err..that is a PLUS in my book.

    All of my guns have been purchased with cash, used...so yes untraceable.

    Why would the govt need to know what guns I have or how many I have? They have no need to know what arms I own unless I were to use them to break the law, which I have not done and do not intend to do....

    The only reason the govt needs to know who has what would be to confiscate them....like what happened in Australia...an example our "esteemed" president Obama and candidate Clinton have recently held up as examples of how the US should follow other civilized countries....

  13. Ok..after post found out is it something that boils water remotely.

    Seriously, is this a need?

    Do you need it that much faster than maybe throwing a cup of water in the microwave on high for a couple minutes, or heating stovetop?

    Do you need to fire it up remotely? I just don't even see the need or market for such an item....and I love gadgets for the kitchen.

  14. Ok first... on Tattling Kettles Help Researchers Crack WiFi Networks In London (pentestpartners.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...I gotta go google what the fuck an iKettle is? Is this like a crockpot wired to the internet for some reason?

  15. Re:Chip cards would not have prevented Target Brea on Criminals Hacked Chip-and-PIN System By Perfecting Point-of-Sale Attack (net-security.org) · · Score: 1

    The CC number would have been compromised. But the PIN would be secret. The whole point of the PIN is that the CC# alone is not enough to complete a transaction.

    But kind of a moot point, since in the US there is no "PIN" to go along with the Chip. Just is chip and sign, you don't have to come up with nor remember a pin for each credit card you have and use with the new system here.

  16. Re:I didn't think of it means... on Criminals Hacked Chip-and-PIN System By Perfecting Point-of-Sale Attack (net-security.org) · · Score: 1

    I think I'll stick primarily with good old fashioned cash. It isn't as readily hacked, and is virtually untraceable to any company or govt wanting to know what I"m spending my $$ on.

  17. Re:They don't understand what it means on Americans Show 'Surprising Willingness' To Accept Internet Surveillance (dailydot.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Well, this has been working a long time now. It started years back with the then "controversial" types of things like cameras in the elementary school rooms, and then more and more.

    They have gotten kids used to be monitored.

    And now we see the results. It goes well with the old saying:

    "What one generation accepts....the following generations embrace."

  18. I dunno.

    I may not have money to buy xmas presents for anyone else but me....right now, I'm trying to stock up on guns, ammo and now drones!!

    :)

  19. I guess I might wanna go out and buy at least ONE drone before they require registration of them....

  20. You implied that BBQ requires smoke.

    Nope, it does.

    But the main difference is...grilling is over high direct heat for short period of time.

    BBQ is low and slow....with wood smoke from the fuel used.

    I dare you to go to a real BBQ contest and see anyone grilling things quickly over propane and having the nerve to call it Barbecue.

    ;)

  21. Re: Of course it's lawful! on UK High Court: Uber Is Lawful (bbc.com) · · Score: 1
    Yup.

    Man, if we had all these entrenched interests, and over-burdensome govt regulations years back, we'd not have the nice things we have in society today.

    It is just so hard for an entrepreneur to be able to innovate and challenge the old school status quo these days.

  22. Re:One Man....ALONE on US Identifies ISIL Hacker Linked To Military Breaches (justice.gov) · · Score: 1

    So you think Hillary! should be shot for using a private email server, administered by people without security clearances, on the open internet to hold and pass unencrypted classified data (NB - that fact that it may not have been marked is UTTERLY irrelevant - classified is classified whether it's marked or not)

    Shot?

    No....

    But I think the FBI and the Atty General should likely bring her up on charges akin to what Gen. Petrayus (sp?) and others that have mishandled classified Federal information.

    If you or I had done what "H" has been shown to have done, we'd already be negotiating for guilty plea and hoping for some mercy from the legal system.

  23. I know the difference very well. BBQ is as your say low and slow and it routinely ALSO involves utilizing smoke. BBQ pork and one of the hallmarks can be the pink smoke ring that permeates the meat. There is little better to eat in this world than some BBQ with a nice smokey crust. Not sure why you went off on that tangent since nothing I said had anything to do with calling grilling BBQ or vice-versa.

    OH, I agree with you.

    My post wasn't targeted at YOU...it was more to clarify to other readers out there, that too often today confuse the two terms.

    :)

    No, from you posts and all, I think we're totally in agreement on food subjects here.

    :D

  24. Re:Making food taste good on The Most Disruptive Technology of the Last 100 Years Isn't What You Think · · Score: 1

    If you enjoy BBQ

    Also, maybe many don't know the distiction between BBQ and grilling.

    When you grill things like burgers, steaks, etc...over hot, high quick heat, that is grilling...it is NOT Barbecue.

    BBQ is done by long, slow heat, with natural wood is the only or primary usually fuel and flavoring agent. You don't get anything BBQ in less than 4+ hours (for say a chicken)....putting "bbq sauce" on something, is NOT barbecue.

  25. Re:Disruptive? on The Most Disruptive Technology of the Last 100 Years Isn't What You Think · · Score: 1

    Given that we no longer cook everything we eat over an open fire so that everything was barbequed, they probably did eat more smoked food.

    I dunno. Between my stick burner smoker and my latest toy, a Big Green Egg XL....i'm eating plenty of grilled and smoked foods (meats, seafood AND veggies).

    I like to cook out a lot....and no gas grills for me, I like real wood and charcoal for my foods cooked outside.