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  1. Security questions & other sucky policies on Your Passwords Don't Suck — It's Your Policies · · Score: 2
    Q: "What is your pet's name?"
    A: "What are stupid questions I don't want to answer truthfully, Alex?"
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    Also unwise is to have web sites save your info, especially credit card info. Someone cracks the db and you are p0wned.

    It is more than just passwords...Heh, don't click that link, Grandma!

  2. Re:Typos on Your Passwords Don't Suck — It's Your Policies · · Score: 1

    Type it somewhere else where you can see it, copy it to the clipboard, paste/use it, copy something else to the clipboard.

  3. Re:Wrong on Your Passwords Don't Suck — It's Your Policies · · Score: 1
    On one camping trip we met someone whose pet had the same name as ours, and it turned out they had a second pet (cat) at home that had the same name as one of ours, also as home.
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    Pet names are much more predictable than other categories of names, except maybe trees and such.

  4. Re:What's the advantage over diesel? on Diesel-Like Engine Could Boost Fuel Economy By 50% · · Score: 1

    Out of curiosity, where do the filtered particles go? Does the filter gradually plug up? And thus lose efficiency?

  5. Littering on Wil Wheaton: BitTorrent Isn't Only For Piracy · · Score: 1

    Illegal downloading is more like littering. Adds a bit of cost as the highway patrol (or inmates) have to go pick it up once a year but otherwise is a non-issue...unless people start tossing couches onto the Interstate. So the fine should be of the same order of magnitude as the one for littering, which is about $400 a pop where I live.

  6. Web TV on Wil Wheaton: BitTorrent Isn't Only For Piracy · · Score: 1
    People want information : give them good, accurate information and they will buy what they actually need, making it very satisfied customers.
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    This got me to dream...

    What if commercials were removed from TV shows, and in their spot your TV turned into a browser that either limited you to the sites of the sponsors, or started you at a home where the sponsors had icons but you could also just go surf the web (maybe with the browser sponsored by Microsoft or Google, for example, or with a home page of Bing or DDG). After 5 minutes of browsing, or checking your email, the browser closes (with a countdown in the upper right corner) and you return to the show. Maybe Apple could see you were on a Windows computer and say "Would you like to see how much easier this would be on an Apple?" Or a monitor provider convinces you that you should buy a bigger monitor by showing you what you are missing, etc.

    I am sure there would be much to fine tune with this, but at least it would be a 21st century approach to a 21st century problem.

  7. Re:All that's great but on CPU Competition Heating Up In 2012? · · Score: 1
    That is a good start but there is a bit more to it than that.
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    Fe2O3 + 2Al --> 2Fe + Al2O3 is an "extremely intense exothermic reaction"

    Also, aluminum has quite a number of useful properties that enhance the reaction -- "at least 25% oxygen, have high density, low heat of formation, and produce metal with low melting and high boiling point", etc.

    FWIW I am not sure how "fairly low specific heat capacity" helps (or even if Fe2O3 & Al have it).

  8. Re:Junk food is the problem on The Mathematics of Obesity · · Score: 0
    The comment you were replying to do not list all the chemicals in processed food.
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    A big one omitted is emulsifiers: things that suspend one thing in another. Oil and vinegar dressing used to be clearly two fluids that you shook vigorously before using. Today, "thanks" to emulsifiers, you open and pour.

    Once consumed, emulsifiers are not fussy about what they emulsify. Your body uses the oil & the vinegar, and what is left is happy to get into your lymphatic system where it will suspend all manner of crap, keeping it there until you exercise enough or eat enough spice to "melt" it away.

    We first heard that the sugar in cola was bad. Then we heard that the nail-dissolving nitric acid was bad. Then we heard that the caffeine in cola was bad. It is high time we start rejecting cola for its dissolve-the-oil-based-flavor-in-the-water emulsifier.

  9. Re:Additive manufacturing? on An 8,000 Ton Giant Made the Jet Age Possible · · Score: 1

    I was hoping to jump all over you for making a typo. Curse you, benificiation!

  10. Re:The future will be printed, not forged. on An 8,000 Ton Giant Made the Jet Age Possible · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Even a rudimentary knowledge of material science would help you understand how you're wrong.
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    According to Chemistry, a forged and a non-forged part are identical.

    -- a chem. eng.

  11. Re:But I like MIcrosoft more now on Forbes Names Microsoft's Steve Ballmer Worst CEO · · Score: 2
    Fun fact: most of us can't read Finnish.
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    Google Translate thought the page said the following:
    Ball pools is for children's playground, the floor covered with thick layers of plastic beads. [1] ball sea is generally within a few square meters the sides and the mesh or transparent wall separated from the space, which space on the floor of up to about six mils in diameter of about ten cm and having a hollow, light-weight plastic material of different colors beads . Often the ball into the sea leads to a small slide and a ladder or stair.

    MÃyrivÃt are spherical and the jump in the sea and occasionally agitates the beads although it is generally prohibited. The ball is often the oceans, the upper age limit. The ball is a Marine, for example in restaurants, ferries and shopping centers.

    Ball Marine is widely regarded as unhygienic places to play, in which infectious diseases are easily spread to another child, if the balls do not be washed or disinfected with sufficient frequency.

  12. Re:Define "charges" on Auto Makers Announce Electric Car Charging Standard · · Score: 1

    The longest distance between interstate exits is almost 50 miles.

  13. Re:It also KILLS the battery faster on Auto Makers Announce Electric Car Charging Standard · · Score: 1

    Come on. This would be much quicker.

  14. Re:Short summary on Scientific Jigsaw Puzzle: Fitting the Pieces of the Low-Level Radiation Debate · · Score: 1
    the principal reason to move away from rem was that it was too large a unit.

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    So they created a unit that is 100 times larger??? How did this get up-modded?

  15. Re:Of course it exists on Survey Finds No Hint of Dark Matter Near Solar System · · Score: 1
    Thanks.

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    I took your first post to mean that dark matter and neutrons are very similar, except for the decay part so what if dark matter are neutrons that don't decay, outside of galaxies, the way they do on Earth?

  16. Re:you can save a ton of $ on Technology Makes It Harder To Save Money · · Score: 2
    There are too many odd remarks in this post to ignore.

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    (1) Posting in chat forums is just soap opera for men. Sports is more like reality TV, or documentary movies -- both of which I like as well.

    (2) Pretty pointless except for how it makes us feel. When we watch something inspiring, we get inspired. Inspired is good. You should try it some time.

    (3) ...and worth the $20*12 differential between straight Internet and triple play packaging for those of us that watch more first run sports than rerun movies/TV series.

    (4) There are some sports on the broadcast channels but plenty more on non-broadcast channels. Next you will be saying that all we really need to watch is Fox & Disney.

    (5) You can also download many of the games off bittorent if you live under a rock. Otherwise you will already know the result of the game, reducing the enjoyment in watching it. How many movies are almost completely unwatchable once you know the outcome? Keyser Soze, I'm looking at you.

  17. One word on Berners-Lee: You've Got Our Data, Show Restraint · · Score: 1
    Kids.

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    I know none of us have them. But, hypothetically, if we did then when we find a good cheap MP3 player it is possible we might want to buy a few more pairs of them that the kids will go through in the next few weeks or at most months.

    Hypothetically.

  18. Re:anyone surprised? on Whistleblower: NSA Has All of Your Email · · Score: 1

    And the flaw with getting rid of The Fed, i.e. a private company that prints paper that it then loans to the government, putting the govt tens of trillions of dollars in debt and devaluing the dollar to one cent in the past 100 years is?

  19. Re:Only restrict, never grant. on New CISPA Cybersecurity Bill Even Worse Than SOPA · · Score: 1
    Things like clean water
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    65% is fluoridated, so NO.

    , hospitals and a high standard of medical care including those expensive machines that go 'bing'

    Unaffordable for most of us, so NO.

    , a communications network

    Hmmm, Big Brother-like system, bandwith caps, fired if you use it, sued if you use it, so NO.

    , a system for collecting garbage more elaborate than people just burning it in their yard

    We lack such a system, unless you are talking about the private companies that haul away crap if we pay them (just as they would do in any other country), so NO.

    , schools and universities that actually teach non-trivial subjects

    Definite NO.

    , and average wages more than, say, $50 a month.

    Well, given that Internet + TV + telephone costs $150 a month, perhaps we should be making a NET income comparison, in which case we lose due to no one being able to save any money and all of us having record amounts of debt, so NO again.

    Looks like the U.S. qualifies as a third world country now.

  20. Re:Well that and if your lucky like I am on Millions of Subscribers Leaving Cable TV for Streaming Services · · Score: 1
    Replying to myself, the only reason I can think of is that he wants to keep some other parts of doubleclick.net open. Ok, fine, then why does he embed comments throughout the file like "# May interfere with yada"?
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    It seems to me that all potential problems should be in one area that is labelled accordingly. Then each time you download the updated hosts file you go right to that section and REM the lines you know cause problems.

    Basically, the SWC file is (1) nicely commented, (b) informatively organized and (iii) a committee-ized mess.

  21. Re:Well that and if your lucky like I am on Millions of Subscribers Leaving Cable TV for Streaming Services · · Score: 1

    A question about the SWC hosts file. Why does he list, for example, everySubdomain.doubleclick.net? Why not just doubleclick.net?

  22. Re:Worst thing that ever happened to music. on RIP, Electric Amplifier Inventor Jim Marshall, 'Father of Loud' · · Score: 1

    One thing is for sure, calling it a "compression" war is dead wrong. More like an "expansion" or "removal of headroom" war.

  23. Re:Not Java. Please not Java. on Minecraft Creator's New Game Called 0x10c · · Score: 1
    When sitting at the opening Minecraft menu, all cpu cores are running at close to 100%. Doing nothing. At a static menu.
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    Thanks, Java. Thanks for nothing.

  24. Cost vs Saving on Why Onagawa Nuclear Power Station Survived the Tsunami · · Score: 1

    Has anyone figured out what a big wall around fukushima would have cost, and compared that to the loss (many incalculable) from not having said wall? I'm thinking a 1,000 to 1 payback...

  25. Re:I want cards with those scanner codes embedded on Business Cards the Latest Internet Casualty · · Score: 1

    Another use for the lowly business card -- giving the card of the salesman who sold you a car to your friend so that your friend can present that card to the salesman and save money...and give you a $100 commission.