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Comment Re:In other news... (Score 2) 102

Dental insurance on the rise for those without smart toothbrushes. Or those unwilling to upload their data to the insurance companies...

or those who use smart toothbrushes, but not correctly, or those who use smart toothbrushes, but not often enough...or, oh heck, who are we kidding? Rates are going to rise for everybody regardless.

Comment Re:Why does Ford need this data? (Score 1) 599

While I don't condone their capturing of this data it's really easy to see what they would do with it. Think about it - you make and sell cars, you have a gigantic database that you can mine to see exactly how, when, and where individual people drive their cars; the design and marketing potential is staggering.

Comment Re:Can eruptions like the be averted? (Score 4, Informative) 325

You may not know this, but Yellowstone is largely in a state called Wyoming.

You may not know this, but the Yellowstone volcano complex has a history of massively explosive eruptions, not just pouring out lava. The Lava Creek ash bed from the explosion 630,000 years ago extends to the Gulf of Mexico and is as much as 4m thick in places like New Mexico and Kansas.

Comment Weight Gain (Score 5, Interesting) 247

planets can't gain weight over the holidays like the rest of us

Actually they do. It's estimated that the Earth gains at least 164,000 kg per day from meteoric accretion. (Barker, J.L. and Anders, E. "Accretion rate of cosmic matter from iridium and osmium contents of deep-sea sediments." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 32, 627-645 (1968))

Comment Re: I think there's an English word that describes (Score 1) 572

... illegal and un-Constitutional activity and I do think it is "criminal" and "un-American" respectively.

You forgot "treason". That's the other word for acts against the Constitution.
You know, I think I heard that one of these NSA/CIA guys had a suggestion about what should be done with people who commit treason - something about ropes and necks...

Comment Re:If you want to bend over ... (Score 1) 207

Snowden's job was to incite outrage, soon after which the public would grow tired of outrage, settle down, and learn to get used to business as usual.

If you want to bend over and getting the shaft, hey, please do it privately.

I'd wager that there won't be too many people like you, happy to be "shagged" by NSA (or any other spooks)

You'd lose that wager. There are definitely too many.
Spend 30 seconds on Facebook or Twitter to see how concerned people are about their privacy. As long as they can keep publicly posting their most intimate details they don't care what the NSA does.

Comment Re:"Bah humbug"? (Score 1) 199

Why is not celebrating any of the religious days in this period considered bug humbug? Do you decorate your dwelling for Muslim holidays? (Of which the Christian Christmas, and the Gregorian New Year are neither.)

Where I live, not only isn't there winter (or summer for that matter), there are a variety of religions, they all (or at least most of them) get official holidays. I'm irreligious myself, so I'll be doing nothing special this Christmas. But why does "bah humbug" apply? Because people are pushing their religion and/or point of view on others.

The poll could easily have said simply "not at all".

Thank you for providing such a carefully crafted example of a bah humbug attitude.

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