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  1. Re: Other hackable things on Apple's TouchID Fingerprint Scanner: Still Hackable · · Score: 2

    If you don't know which finger, you'd have to bring all 10 of them and hope nobody in line behind you gets impatient while you keep trying different ones.

  2. Re:I'll just let my sig do the talking on US Strikes ISIL Targets In Syria · · Score: 0

    But Saddam is making weapons of mass destruction! And don't you want to punish him for 9/11?

  3. Re:Maybe on Do Specs Matter Anymore For the Average Smartphone User? · · Score: 1

    It seems that you forgot that when the retina display first came out, everything else was roughly 150 dpi. Those 300 dpi screens were a massive improvement. Now that all phones have good screens, it's not a big deal.

  4. Re:Bananas vs Grapes on 'Why Banana Skins Are Slippery' Wins IgNobel · · Score: 2

    You must be very proud. I like how you still think it's funny to steal someone's grapes and try to cause bodily harm to complete strangers. You must be a night owl :D

  5. Re:Just one question... on iOS 8 Review · · Score: 1

    I ran into that problem a couple of years ago. I ended up automating iTunes on my computer to play my wakeup music - as an added benefit, it also turns itself off when I should be leaving the house.

  6. Re:For the sake of perspective...... on FCC Chairman: Americans Shouldn't Subsidize Internet Service Under 10Mbps · · Score: 1

    Optimal income levels? You wouldn't believe how bad some of the neighborhoods are in Kansas City that Google Fiber is providing service to.

    For instance, I have friends in zip code 64128 with Google Fiber. Check out how the median price of homes for that area is $15,500 on Zillow.

  7. Re:So everything is protected by a 4 digit passcod on Apple Will No Longer Unlock Most iPhones, iPads For Police · · Score: 1

    The security question could merely be a second decryption key. That would maintain full security of the encryption (as long as the question's answer isn't simple).

  8. Re:Cartoon villians on ISIS Bans Math and Social Studies For Children · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When your choices are to either join them and get your own kidnapped sex slave, or don't join them and get shot, the choice is rather easy. Actually, after reading about the hundreds of people they have shot, there seem to be a lot of people in Iraq with a lot of integrity.

  9. Re:Conspiracy theory on iPhone 6 Sales Crush Means Late-Night Waits For Some Early Adopters · · Score: 1

    Interestingly, Sprint seems to be releasing a $50/mo unlimited iphone plan that doesn't include the phone subsidy. It looks like a step in the right direction.

  10. Re:one did ring back and shout abuse on Turning the Tables On "Phone Tech Support" Scammers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I never have these guys calling me, but several of the stories here mention these guys shouting profanity and abuse. I wonder if it is some sort of defense mechanism to keep themselves from realizing how low they are to be using these fraudulent tactics on innocent people.

  11. Re:raw speed of Win32 in Win2K and XP on Microsoft Killing Off Windows Phone Brand Name In Favor of Just Windows · · Score: 1

    Bah, that's not raw speed. Raw speed is the fraction of 1 second it took to boot up Windows 3.1 on a pentium 90. I refuse to use anything newer than my awesomely fast booting Win 3.1!

  12. Re:Rife in the UK on Turning the Tables On "Phone Tech Support" Scammers · · Score: 5, Funny

    If it's anything like how they pronounce lieutenant, then I don't know how British pronounce Brighton either.

  13. Re:will require less water on Laid Off From Job, Man Builds Tweeting Toilet · · Score: 1

    When deciding if fancier controllable flush volume toilets are better, you also need to factor in the additional cost of the mechanism and whether it needs more repairs or adjustments and the costs of those repairs and adjustments against the cost of the water wasted. It could be that old fashioned toilets are more efficient all things considered.

  14. Re:Welcome to 2009 on Laid Off From Job, Man Builds Tweeting Toilet · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's good to have a higher water to waste ratio in the sewer system. Having the sewers themselves back up would be a bad thing.

  15. Re: Who is buried on Who Is Buried In the Largest Tomb Ever Found In Northern Greece? · · Score: 1

    Only a closet homosexual would think of a response like that.
    Better?

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

    Yeah, my wood house is 110 years old. I'd say the biggest risk to these old houses are termites and the old mortar in the foundations crumbling. Note that you do have to maintain the roof and siding.

  17. Re:So what exactly is the market here. on Apple Announces Smartwatch, Bigger iPhones, Mobile Payments · · Score: 0

    As rude as this ac is, he actually has a valid point.

  18. Re:more excited about V2V on GM To Introduce Hands-Free Driving In Cadillac Model · · Score: 1

    Everyone maintaining proper following distance merely moves the traffic jams to the highway entrances and the streets feeding them as after a certain level of traffic, nobody would be able to get on.

  19. Re:Same reason blu-ray didn't take off on Dell Demos 5K Display · · Score: 1

    Maybe a year or two ago, but my $50 Samsung bluray player with built in wifi and Netflix and all works great.

  20. Re:... all in the name of "God" on Egypt's Oldest Pyramid Is Being Destroyed By Its Own Restoration Team · · Score: 1

    Christians did the same thing to various henges up in England. I'm surprised Stonehenge survived.

  21. Re:There is no russian invasion in Ukraine. on Kernel Developer Dmitry Monakhov Arrested For Protesting Ukraine Invasion · · Score: 1

    How did we go from our paranoia of the NSA having back doors into nearly everything, to suddenly believing digital pictures are irrefutable proof, in the span of just one year?

  22. Re:Which Invasion? on Kernel Developer Dmitry Monakhov Arrested For Protesting Ukraine Invasion · · Score: 1

    A good cyberwarfare department could easily post lots of fake satellite imagery to google from multiple sources. Kind of like how people game Yelp.

  23. Re:Which Invasion? on Kernel Developer Dmitry Monakhov Arrested For Protesting Ukraine Invasion · · Score: 2

    If you think that MSNBC, FOX News and CNN agree on something and it's still not true, well, you better have a helluva citation yourself.

    I'm pretty sure someone powerful enough to be putting on a global misinformation campaign has no problem feeding those three news outlets whatever press releases or "news" they want. Not saying that this is happening, but the WMD misinformation wasn't all that long ago.

  24. Re:I PC game, and have zero reason to upgrade on AMD Releases New Tonga GPU, Lowers 8-core CPU To $229 · · Score: 1

    Back in the day, my parents had a board game called "Lie, Cheat & Steal". A pretty fun game!

  25. Re: Posted from a 5.5" phone on Apple Reveals the Most Common Reasons That It Rejects Apps · · Score: 0

    Why stop at 5.5"? Wouldn't a 10, 20, or even 30" phone be more useful and impressive?