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  1. Just from their market alone on Database Leak Exposes 3.3 Million Hello Kitty Fans (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    can you imagine the kind of money you can raise tapping a market that 1 Cute 2 has poor impulse control 3 tends to have access to large sums of money? (oh thats right you can just look at the Sanrio tax filings [just remember to account for all the divs])

  2. Re: HOAs (was Re:First Build Safeguards into the F on FBI: Just Don't Call Them Backdoors (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    the problem is a HOA very quickly goes National Socialist

    Grass must be green and no longer than 1.752 inches at all times
    All Houses must use paints from this list of suppliers (purchase list for 19.95 from Betty)

    ect

  3. Re:Think of the children cuts both ways on Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    a floating passcode would solve that (and there could be a duress code where the kid runs to the school office to report that a bad man has my parents if that is used)

  4. Re:How odd. Can only imagine? Why only imagine? on UK's National Crime Agency Publishes Crazy Cyber-Crime Warning Signs (oomlout.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    "That something, unseen by you, is in fact working?"

    yeah its called the Juvenile Justice System (or lack of access to kids in that "few years older" bracket)

  5. all you really have to do is either con the key out of your target or BEAT IT OUT

  6. bird has gone timmey whimmey?? on Twitter Testing Non-Chronological Timelines (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    perhaps they are using this as a theme song??

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  7. how far do those electronic air cleaners scale up? on Paris Climate Change Talks Yield First Draft (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    back a few years ago they sold these things with a Negative? Charged Plate (better ones also had a Reversed Charged plate to zero the charge out after the air was cleaned) that did a decent job of getting the Gack out of the air in a room.

    Could somebody build a few of these in City Size?? (of course being the poor fool that had to scrub the grids off every month would be nasty but...)

  8. Re: Which side am I supposed to be on?!? on City Sued Over Smart Meter-Related Patent (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    the problem is when SOMEBODY ELSE decides that

    1 your fridge is using to much power (shut off the freezer part and raise the temp to "bacteria PARTTEH!!! levels in the fridge)

    2 Your ac/heater is using to much power ( the outdoor temp is 50 degrees plus minus comfort levels FOAD no relief for you)

    3 you now can use your washer between 1 am and 2:15 am your drier is usable between 7 am and 9:30 am

    or a DAESH hacker decides to ramp your heater up to runaway levels in the middle of the night (because of course they are going to be able to fiddle with the settings also)

  9. This might be a BEST case senario on Harvard Prof. Says Cure For Aging Could Emerge Within 5 Years (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    and whats to say that the 0.001 club won't slip some tweaks to the rest of our therapy to make better servants out of US??

  10. Secret Code snipit on Wikipedia Creates AI System To Filter Out Bad Edits (thestack.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... IF POSTER = DONOR MORE THAN US$15E5 THEN GOTO POST EDIT ...
    rest of filter code goes here

  11. so do they round up the homeless in LA?? on Los Angeles Flirts With Pre-Crime (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    what about folks running a ministry to benefit girls trapped in that lifestyle (or just making sure that they get FED/HOUSED)?

    this of course makes it a crime to drive down certain streets and increases the BlackMail potential.

  12. method to test your dice on Experimental Study of 29 Polyhedral Dice Using Rolling Machine, OpenCV Analysis (markfickett.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    unless you somehow find a source for casino grade dice (and do they make casino dice in !D6??)

    here is a trick
    1 get a bucket and fill it with water (optional step have your local rabbi/priest bless the water)
    2 drop a die in and roll it around for a bit keeping track of which number shows on top and then repeat as needed
    3 Dice that roll a bunch of high end rolls are "blessed" and of course low end rolls are "cursed" dice
    4 Sort as required
    5 Profit!

  13. Would you hire John Valjean [24601]?? on Rikers Inmates Learn How To Code Without Internet Access (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    you could be able to CURE CANCER | CREATE COLD FUSION | understand the US TAX CODE but if somebody will not hire you because you have a "Ticket Of Leave" then you are cooked.

  14. Re:smart tvs are not smart on Even the Dumbest Ransomware Is Almost Unremovable On Smart TVs (symantec.com) · · Score: 1

    Admiral Grace Hopper would use a microsecond to strangle most of todays programmers

    Of course she might be able to do the job with 3-5 nanoseconds

  15. Re:Forbid Medicare and Medicaid payments on With $160 Billion Merger, Pfizer Moves To Ireland and Dodges Taxes (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    be sneakier about it

    REQUIRE X percent of the production in each category to be earmarked for Medicare/Medicaid/VA use but give a credit at say 80% for tax paid.

  16. 1 blueprint streaming service: you point the machine at an URL and it sends the instructions as needed.

    2 break the plans into a number of sections: start with section 1 and then erase 1 when you have 3 done

    3 hide the parts needed in a number of other plans

    4 edit the plans so that if you follow the plans as written the finished product will not work

    any others??

  17. Re:I know why he did this... on Randall Munroe Interviewed: Answers In Comic Form (time.com) · · Score: 1

    you mean this??

    http://instantrimshot.com/inde...

    Thankyou i will be here all week

    TRY THE SALMON

  18. if you go through the whole process of fathering children you have a bunch of reasons to do a Good Job

    1 Automaitc Minions
    2 Kids are great for hidden vectors (and Females get a +15 on Social Engineering)
    3 Make sure they are on YOUR SIDE
    4 Enabling Backup/longer term planning

    im sure there are more geek reasons if one thinks

  19. Who wants to do a hotspot with a rolling password? on Comcast Xfinity Wi-Fi Discloses Customer Names and Addresses (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    the problem is that the one deciding that the password is to be shared is THE PERSONS CONNECTING NOT THE HOTSPOT OWNER.

    exactly how many services will require you to add something to your SSID to optout??

    and what do you want to bet that one or more of these services will require the string to be LAST to "count"

    i could see SSIDs landing up as

    a_optout_dice_fred_barney_sbucks_foo ... _shootmenow

  20. Re:Circuits? on Researchers Create Plant-Circuit Hybrid (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Doctor who episode "Flesh and Stone" the ship had a forest of "Tree Borgs"

    i think that semiconductors will be the real trick since

    Resistors= chunks of plant that have silicon or carbon
    Capacitors= Berry type nodules
    Inductors= Coils of wire

  21. Religon not the problem on Donald Trump Obliquely Backs a Federal Database To Track Muslims · · Score: 1

    its the wackadoodles that are the problem

    when you get past CORE DOCTRINE and start treating Matters Of Faith as Doctrine you run into the problems

    Christians in the Group need to remember
    1 Corinthians 13:13 (deal with DBR after you prove you are not an Idiotic Jerk)

    On the Muslim side
    Would you mind NOT blowing things up and disturbing our potluck??

    The Roast Beef and Lamb is from our Pastors Farm and was prayed over and everything before slaughter.

  22. Re:Data data everywhere and not a drop to think on 737 'Tailstrike' Caused By Typo On a Tablet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    it depends on the sensor and what said sensor is made of

  23. Re:Data data everywhere and not a drop to think on 737 'Tailstrike' Caused By Typo On a Tablet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    yeah i kind of glossed over than bit since a lot of folks even here would not know a wheatstone bridge if somebody smashed them in the head with it.

  24. Re:Protein from plants, not animals on Grow Your Daily Protein At Home With an Edible Insect Desktop Hive · · Score: 1

    the problem is that going veg requires you to be SMART and have access to certain plants

    (you have fat B12 and 8 different amino acids to balance that eating a chunk of critter does for you without thinking)

    heck as far as the moral thing goes eating critters that have not been abused covers most everything (and not eating the whole hog yourself covers more).

  25. Re:Data data everywhere and not a drop to think on 737 'Tailstrike' Caused By Typo On a Tablet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    the big problem is building and certifying a weight sensor that

    1 will not need to be calibrated (unless you are taking the wheel/struts OFF)
    2 will have a small enough error range to be useful
    3 can get a decent number (hint i don't think its a simple add plus how do you handle skew (not going straight DOWN) in the numbers )
    4 oh and btw you have to comp for temps from ALASKA to HAWAII