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  1. Re:Makes no sense on Angry Birds Is the Most-Banned Mobile App By Businesses (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Dropbox is forbidden at the hospital where I work with a few exceptions. Anything that requires a local change to the workstation gets vetted carefully and unless you can make a good case for it, you don't get it.

    The original excuse was 'but we have Sharepoint .... '

    Of course, the CEO wants to use some idiot feature of Facebook to 'help' the admin team. Glad I'm not part of IS.

  2. Re:And what IS "Magic Leap"? on Magic Leap CEO Defends His AR Company After Leaked Photo (mashable.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Basically, they read William Gibson's Bridge Trilogy and decided to make something.

    They forgot that fiction is easier to script than reality.

  3. Re:And when that gets hacked? on Mission Possible: Self-Destructing Phones Are Now a Reality (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    You're on the phone, and someone blows up your phone to seven times its original size and 80 degrees Celsius when it's right next to your ear... Doesn't seem like the wisest idea.

    Oh, it has its uses.

  4. Re: Giaa to the rescue! on Four of Iceland's Main Volcanoes Are All Preparing For Eruption (icelandmonitor.mbl.is) · · Score: 1

    Eyjafjallajökull, and further away Vatnajökull

    Do you put all those diacritical marks on words just to confuse us?

    What happens in a Scrabble game?

  5. Giaa to the rescue! on Four of Iceland's Main Volcanoes Are All Preparing For Eruption (icelandmonitor.mbl.is) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Mother Earth stands ready to combat global warming with some nice ash clouds. Thus saving civilization as we know it.

    Or wiping it out entirely .....

    (Just depends on your point of view.)

  6. Re:Meanwhile, at Trump Tower... on Senators Push Trump Administration For Clarity On Privacy Act Exclusions (onthewire.io) · · Score: 2

    So, the Constitution isn't something Federal judges are supposed to cite.

    Interesting outlook on the state of the country there.

  7. Re:Still much more secure on Senators Push Trump Administration For Clarity On Privacy Act Exclusions (onthewire.io) · · Score: 2

    How can you possibly say that.? In Europe, you can't carry your 14 round Glock pistol or your M-16 derived 'hunting rifle' into the grocery store. You never know what lurks behind the shelves.

    You're never safe over there.

    Never.

    USA! USA!

  8. Re: And there won't be any accountability on Lockheed Martin Screwup Delays Delivery of Air Force GPS Satellites (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Donald Trump will fix it. He will tweet something mean and cow them into submission.

    He'll moo at them? I've seen some cows who appear, at first blush, smarter than our current president ,but I don't think you can tweet with hooves.

  9. Re:Compressed Download Available on 16 Years of GPS Space Weather Data Made Publicly Available (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Sure you did.

    How much do you want to wager that it now is ten thousand copies of Goats.exe?

  10. Re:Well... on Peter Thiel Thinks There's Not Enough Sex In Silicon Valley (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's pretty low.

  11. Re:Warrant issued upon probable cause on Police Use Pacemaker Data To Charge Homeowner With Arson, Insurance Fraud (networkworld.com) · · Score: 2

    My heart rate would be elevated too if I saw/smelled smoke.

    That wasn't the point of the information gathering. If they were focusing on just his heart rate and blood pressure responses to the fire then yes, it would be a stretch to prove causality. What they did is get an outside cardiologist to:

    1 - asses his level of probable cardiovascular fitness given his pre existing conditions
    2 - asses the level of cardiovascular response needed to move all of the stuff out of the house in the presumed short time between discovering the fire and being forced out of the house
    3 - look at the heart rate and rhythm and 'pacer demand' and tell the jury that there was no way that data fits with what he was describing.

    By itself that information is kinda squishy and a good trial lawyer and opposing experts could chop it up, but it seemed to fit with all of the rest of the story.

  12. They weren't talking to his doctor. They got records from a third party (the pacemaker manufacturer).

    Now, the interesting bit that you can't discern from TFA is whether the pacemaker data was specifically downloaded for purposes of the investigation or if the information came out on routine interrogation. I'm guessing the former since you only check the pacer if you think there is a problem or perhaps twice a year. If the downloading of the data was compulsory, that opens some entertaining legal questions.

  13. Re:Trump Administration Survival List on Jury Orders Oculus To Pay $500 Million In ZeniMax Lawsuit (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    You're all messed up and wrong:

    10 kilograms zip ties
    25 kilogram duct tape (various colors)
    100 kg Doritos
    500 kg coffee beans
    Redundant coffee bean grinders / brewers (avoid K-cups)
    Enough solar cells to run a laptop
    Spare laptop
    Porn as desired
    Reruns of Firefly, Red Dwarf, Alien

    Am I missing something?

  14. Re:The point on 'Australia Is Stubbing Out Smoking' (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Dunno, this is going to be interesting. Lots of his supporters want to smoke pot. The world is different now. It's not just some marginalized lower economic unfortunates that do drugs. It's everybody.

    Worse, states now make money off of marijuana. Try to wean them off that....

    Grab the popcorn. But leave the funny smelling green butter alone.

  15. Re:The point on 'Australia Is Stubbing Out Smoking' (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Oh, he can avoid taxes quite easily. A plane trip to Somalia or similar hell hole. Even a nice bushwhack a couple hundred miles up an Alaskan river.

    Just don't expect a Costco down the street.

  16. Re:The point on 'Australia Is Stubbing Out Smoking' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Might even be easier. One stamp to counterfeit.

    One of the reasons that it was relatively easy to smuggle cigarettes is that the tax stamp was placed in country. At large warehouses where a couple of containers could be lost or damaged. No smuggler craft needed.

    Running tax exempted drugs into a country is an old, old profession.

  17. Re:Very true on It's Time To Admit Apple Watch Is a Success (imore.com) · · Score: 2

    and charge fast enough you can wear them while you sleep and just charge them while you are in the shower to get a full charge.

    So, your life can revolve around charging the thing? Seems more like those little egg gizmos that tweeners used to try to hatch a couple of years ago. Who the hell is in charge here? (So to speak.)

  18. Re:What are they mostly used for? on It's Time To Admit Apple Watch Is a Success (imore.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    and I realized I hadn't touched my phone in three hours.

    And you went from bad to worse?

    No wonder why Trump got elected.

  19. Re:Slight pet peeve of mine-- on NASA's Cassini Captures Photos of Saturn's Rings In Unprecedented Detail (voanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes and adding tremendously to the vehicle weight (and complexity and cost) is exactly what drives rocket scientists to vote Democratic. These probes are all about compromise. I'm sure this argument is played out in a bunch of archived memos somewhere.

    The fact that this thing has been operating since 1997 and pushing the boundaries of planetary science says they made most of the right decisions.

  20. They couldn't get the politicians to shut up for a long enough time period.

  21. Re:But they use lithium-ion on Tesla's Battery Revolution Just Reached Critical Mass (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Why? We like to watch earth shattering kabooms.

  22. Re:Labor shortage in engineering? on Indian IT Sector Warns Against US Visa Bill (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If EE is dying, then maybe I should tell my nephew and all his EE friends who have been scooped up right after graduation from U of Washington. My nephew is in British Columbia doing a Masters (all paid for), several of his friends have $100K+ jobs in the Pacific NW. Yes, they were at the top of the class in a relatively good department, but there are jobs out there. Perhaps not for everyone with a pulse but that has pretty much always been the case.

  23. Re:Compatibility on Dropbox Finally Brings Its Google Docs Competitor Out of Beta (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    It will probably support ANSI characters.

  24. Re:Oh for goodness sake on Vinyl Record Production Gets a Much-Needed Tech Upgrade (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't laugh you guys - it's a wonderful business model. Sell two turntables a year, a couple of cables and some wooden knobs and you are literally golden.

    Makes even Apple look like flea market barrel scrapers.

  25. Re: Considering how often it is down... on Microsoft Reports New Subscribers For Office 365 Plunged 62% (itworld.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    As someone in Seattle that has suffered at least two-thousand days of downltime with our Internet access, you are wrong.

    If you would just lay off the expresso a bit then two hours won't seem quite that long a period of time.