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Comment Re:One man's piss is another man's ... (Score 2) 245

by gmhowell on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @11:15AM (#48754313) Attached to: Bill Gates Endorses Water From Human Waste

Bill Gates studied the engineering behind it? I am so reassured...

Human waste contains heaps of harmful bacteria. If I am going to drink water recycled in this manner, I'd prefer to have the engineering studied by an independant water quality professional, say, an environmental engineer? And for the output water to be studied by health professionals and microbiologists. Some long term testing on how well the product holds up as the filters degrade would be nice too. That first glass may be clean and delicious, what about the the tenth, hundredth, or thousandth glass?

The recommendation of the former CEO of a software corporation (no matter how successful) doesn't really give me that high a level of confidence in the product.

Would you rather they tested it on some poor mouse?

How about Bennet Haselton?

Comment Re:IT security is not the DHS's mandate (Score 1) 68

by gmhowell on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @10:58AM (#48754177) Attached to: Report: DHS Failing On Cybersecurity

Wrong.

DoD: military
DHS: civilian

Comment Re:VERY INACCURATE (Score 1) 155

by gmhowell on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @10:12AM (#48753813) Attached to: The Fire Phone Debacle and What It Means For Amazon's Future

Rashomon is a really good movie, apropos nothing in particulal.

Or apropos of everything. I guess it depends on your point of view.

Comment Re:Bitstamp hack..... (Score 1) 114

by gmhowell on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @09:34AM (#48753633) Attached to: Hackers Steal $5M In Bitcoin During Bitstamp Exchange Attack

Now ask your grandparents the same questions.

Now ask yourself the same questions about a large amount of cash.

Insured by the FDIC (and FSLIC). And regulated. And we've known about this for a minimum of 80 years. Why is it so difficult for Bitcoin, supporters, and companies to learn lessons from the past and NOT repeat them?

It's the same as giving modern radical Muslims a pass because of atrocities commited by the Roman Catholics 500 years ago. Why are the lessons never learned? Why start from zero?

We are even talking about "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants," more like standing on the toes of little people.

Comment Re:NPA (Score 1) 34

by gmhowell on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @08:26AM (#48753367) Attached to: Okay Kiddies, put on your thinking caps. It's quiz time!

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/tag/non-prosecution-agreement/

Do I win an IPA?

I'd prefer a hefe, myself.

Comment Re:Epstein (Score 1) 34

by gmhowell on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @08:22AM (#48753355) Attached to: Okay Kiddies, put on your thinking caps. It's quiz time!

I didn't read enough of it to know whether it was 'purported' or not, and erred on the side of caution.

But with the Dershowitz angle, I'm gonna have to read into it.

Comment Re:Self-diagnosis (Score 1) 79

by gmhowell on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @04:40PM (#48749079) Attached to: The Downside of Connected Healthcare: Cyberchondria

"Ex-wife". So you helped her get back into life, and she rewarded you by bailing?

Comment Epstein (Score 1) 34

by gmhowell on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @04:30PM (#48748917) Attached to: Okay Kiddies, put on your thinking caps. It's quiz time!

This have to do with the purported pedo?

Journal Journal: In Passing: To the gym to all those 2015 resolutions

Journal by Chacham on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @12:41PM

Leaving the office yesterday, i got in at the 6th floor. First it stopped at the 5th and a man got on. At the 4th floor, another man and woman entered. From there we went straight down the other 4 floors unabated.

Mr. 4th floor recognized Mr. 5th floor and they chatted. Moments before the gates to freedom something like this transpired:

Comment Re:I see the same things Chill sees (Score 1) 6

by gmhowell on Monday January 05, 2015 @04:43PM (#48739853) Attached to: Good Bye, Google.

Page 4 for me.

Comment Re:I see the same things Chill sees (Score 1) 6

by gmhowell on Monday January 05, 2015 @04:42PM (#48739839) Attached to: Good Bye, Google.

It might also be the search terms you or McGrew have used in the past, your geolocation info, and all of the magic 'sauce' that Google uses.

Comment Re:Happy for you (Score 1) 8

by gmhowell on Monday January 05, 2015 @04:38PM (#48739805) Attached to: Hey, I was wrong! Isn't that great???

Yep, Google is getting a bit too dumbed down.

Comment Happy new year... (Score 1) 9

by jawtheshark on Friday January 02, 2015 @08:20AM (#48715871) Attached to: Out with the old, in with the new. Happy New Year!

Really, the subject says it all.

Comment One (Score 1) 2

by gmhowell on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @02:48PM (#48706405) Attached to: Mars, Ho! is now available

You've got at least one ebook sale. And shared the link on Facebook. FWIW.

Comment Re:Moo (Score 1) 4

by Chacham on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @12:49PM (#48705335) Attached to: Moving Streams in Kmix

I have issues using website with crude names. FF/abe takes me the rest of the way.

Netflix plays at 1x speed. For some things that's ok, but for anime especially, i don't think i could survive it. I usually watch subbed, between1.3x and 1.77x. I also want to watch interesting lectures (online universities) whilst riding on my bike, but they switch the format to multiple videos of a few minutes each, which doesn't work so well for these ends.

I don't really watch recent tv shows, unless they really catch my eye. Recently, saw once upon a time and arrow, both which had great first seasons (well, ouat was great, arrow was just good enough to watch) but bad second seasons. Flash was unwatchable even in the first season. At least bad movies are fun to watch to some extent (special effects, short story) and that's where netflix ought to come in.

I just need to take a break from playing games now and then. :)

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