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Comment Re:Future proofing (Score 4, Funny) 557

This is genius (assuming people get to like the style). It is such a pain to try to work on anything around the house when you have to guess where the conduits go, or fiddle with a plumbing trap through a one foot opening that can't even fit a slip wrench. Walls covered with pulverized rocks made a lot of sense when they were just there for privacy but now that the lifeblood of a house is running through them architects should figure out how to make the whole system more accessible.

Thanks for allowing me to remember how I felt before I got married and had my design decisions told to me.

Comment Re:correct me if i'm wrong (Score 1) 194

There's been some recent studies that have suggested a link between the inability to detect sarcasm and dementia. Those with disorders that appear somewhere on the autism spectrum also can have difficulties detecting sarcasm, especially in written works or when there are no physical cues to imply sarcasm (a smile, wink, etc).

In Jack Warner's case, I don't think dementia or an ASD is the issue. I think it's just that he's corrupt as hell and grasping for anything at all. He just grabbed a concrete cinder block instead of a lifepreserver.

Comment Re:Awesome (Score 4, Insightful) 95

require regular testing to make sure she's not hyperthyroidic or hyothyroidic.

How regular is regular though? Taking a test once every 3 months and adjusting your medication up or down a fraction of a milligram is an inconvenience. But it's a lot better then having to test 4-8 times a day and making significant changes to the dosage level due to what was ate, activities planned, illness, and how the body reacts to all of that. As a diabetic myself, I'd trade in an instant having to deal with hyper/hypo-thyroidism over diabetes any day.

Comment Re:Lemme ask you this ... (Score 1) 500

From the article (emphasis added):

The Clinton bill is a mixture of: provisions eroding constitutional and
statutory due process protections, selective federalization â" on political grounds â" of state crimes (minus state due process rules), discredited ideas from the Reagan and Bush Administrations, and the extension of some of the worst elements of crime bills of the recent past.

So it's just a rehash of the powers that Reagan and Papa Bush wanted but couldn't get.

Those in power want more power...regardless of political affiliation. Shocking.

Comment Re:WTF? (Score 2) 144

It would depend a lot on how it's implemented and how it's to be used. Yeah, it would very much suck if they are just scraping all your contacts and then mass spamming them. But the privacy policy actually just says Contacts Information:

If you permit the Uber app to access the address book on your device through the permission system used by your mobile platform, we may access and store names and contact information from your address book to facilitate social interactions through our Services and for other purposes described in this Statement or at the time of consent or collection.

Notice the "If" at the beginning? And it's really no different than any other app that allows you to post/share/sent something to a friend or family member. What if one Uber app user could send a referral/promo code to a friend or family member. Uber servers may not be sending the information, it might come from your phone via SMS or email, but the app itself.

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