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Comment Re:So its only ... (Score 1) 48

They could ask:
What happened to your first girlfriend:
Mine's in jail now

or:
What caused your last divorce:
Infidelity (Not mine).

That may be harder to look up, depending on how those answers changed.
Maybe:
What sex does your favorite pet have:
Male/Female, Neutered, Other

Or:
What car did you take your driver's test in.

What color did you paint your shack's bedroom in
  Or:
What was the first video game you beat

Or:
How many seconds was the longest belch you've ripped off:

Or:

How many friends did you have in highschool.

Almost none of these are easily verifiable, and technically are harder to source online. Plus some do change, so it means it may make info out of date.

Ideally, you want recovery questions which:
Require updating of 2 that do change
Require 4 that don't.

at least 3 that don't change, one that does that requires updating, and thirdly, a very specific one, to recover, should include some legal ID that has an expiration on upload of no more than 12 hours, with some kind of encryption with script that wipes it, and requires a password that changes to access (Key unlock) with no ability to do a snipping of any kind, that or live verification (Biometric) against a picture of your face with some barometric device. many phones have cameras, and can be compared. either that, or use that alongside the others with some human-based verification of just the picture (live mode in app or browser) for 3 sides of your face (Not to be kept) vs. a registered picture.
This should all be used with financial or some such protected data. Not the average website. and it would be good enough to allow security on those sites, followed by MFA for regular login.

Comment Re: The death row inmates are a victim of the sta (Score 1) 77

From what I understand, itâ(TM)s cheaper to lock them up and throw away the key compared to death row as there are automated appeal systems that keep bringing up before the courts on death row. So it costs more for death penalty due to the constant appeal process included in the sentences that are automatically triggered on behalf of the convicted. So the admin costs is higher than throwing away the key where they just forget they existed.

Comment Re:This was addressed (Score 1) 244

"In comparison, the US has epidemics of obesity, childhood diabetes, and autism."

"These three are the elephants in the room, ..."

these days"three epidemics" are not "epidemics" and have nothing to do with the anti vaxxers.

Thanks for stating that my autism is an epidemic to be compared with many selfishly and stupidly caused issues of over-indulgence. Not to mention, something to be cured. This isn't an epidemic. It's like that car effect where after you see a particular (maybe unique) car, catches your attention, you notice many more once you are aware of them, and find out they are out and about and more common than you think. First, the rise in autism is being blurred by high and low functioning being mixed together, and second, the criteria to diagnose and label has changed, which has included way more in the discovery ability, and more in smashing many different types together, that there used to be "Autism" and "Asperger's Syndrome" now smashed together and labeled outright as "Autism."

Instantly that almost more than double the amount of people under it, and from my perspective, by declaring it a disease, you act very genocidal in nature as it's many times a trait to be removed from society. I'm thinking this is more of a genetic alteration that has been an evolutionary change unfolding in front of our eyes, and some evolutionary changes have caused certain sections of species and development to die out, or to thrive. It's possible it's one of the next evolutionary changes in humanity going on, and sometimes the genetics don't match up. Like how humans evolved from previous genus of Piltdown Man, Java Man, Homopithecus, or Homoerectus. It's likely, as our physical structure has mostly stopped evolving, the next thing is in intellectualism.

And frankly, it's insulting to call what makes me "Me" a disease and something that has to be eradicated. Why not the other way around? I'm pretty sure my IQ is likely larger than a lot of voting citizens, yet somehow, stupidity is rewarded, nay exalted and looked on as a point of pride. But this isn't a disease, when a "Disease" usually has more adverse affects than anything positive to benefit from. My higher IQ isn't a downside, it let's me see the bullshit in this debate, and even more, bullshit in trying to eradicate what is essentially, how i see is a more evolutionary trait unfolding in real time. Pretty sure cavemen must've looked down on their smarter brethren, when the smarter brethren could plan for food issues like winter and stock up, rather than risk dying in elements to hunt when gatherers/farmers had the foresight to gather more than needed, in advance, and find a way to store it to avoid risking elements and death during periods of uncertainty and low yield food.

STOP calling me a problem to be dealt with! You chuckle heads don't realize have the time it's you idiots, that are stubborn as hell, refuse to admit being just that, stupid. Don't drag me down to your level with mud flinging. Next person to tell me I need to be cured is getting their job replaced with a small shell script...

Comment Re:Try and try again. (Score 2) 26

I honestly never even know about this fact. Took me looking up thinking what POGO was, thinking it was an acronym. For those that don't know (or never heard of it), it's vibrations going through the structure of a rocket, back and forth like the bouncing of a pogo stick, which can cause instability in combustable components like fuel, and the longitudinal vibrations bounce up and down. similar to shaking a can of soda real hard back and forth, shake-weight style until it explodes. I imagine a lot of components would need dampeners in the mounts, as this could shear bolts and whatnot from the G-Forces of vibrations amplified by super high frequencies in shifts. I'm guessing not just the rumble of the parts of the rocket, but the aerodynamics and wind physics going across the body of the rocket causing pockets of turbulance would be the likely cause of this affect, but never even thought that. Almost like reflections in signal or RADAR bounces. But until this, I didn't even think about this problem on rockets. Kinda cool to learn that this existed. Granted, I'm not an engineer, but I imagine this would also be applicable in failures of things like chassis on cars from potholes/etc.. including car part failures from road noise.

Comment Might as well get this out of the way. (Score 2) 99

Screw dolan. Hope he gets taken out by a "Fan" that gets banned. I'm going throw my hat into this, as I never would want to attend, nor have a ticket to anyone in his venues, so might as well get banned right now, since I don't go to concerts. Fuck Madison Square Garden CEO James. He deserves an early grave. Now with said, feel free to ban me. Giving you money would be my second worst mistake of my life (my first getting married to my first wife, Sarah. Fuck her too, including when she then took my last name again, and changed her name to match the initials "FML" screw her...

Comment Re: Just think about it. (Score 1) 235

I prefer the term "Butthurt". The PC-ification of terms doesn't do anything but soften the language. And soft language doesn't carry the weight of something that is meant to invoke emotions. If you have to soften the language, you aren't doing the act justice when describing it. Going from "Shell-Shocked" to "Military fatigue" to "PTSD", it drastically changes the weight. I'm sure "Discriminitory political party with favor of genetic-based homicide" sounds a lot different from "Nazis endoursing genocide". One will invoke an emotion, most people with a soul and actual ethics will cringe at, the other will make you go "Oh, that's not nice...".

Comment Re:guess nothing can be done then (Score 2) 130

We are about an hour from sterilizing the planet.

Good. The way I see it, nothing of value to this planet will have been lost. Humanity had a good run, but hey, even the dinosaurs didn't go on existing forever. To be fair, humans are, if anything, the only entity to consider the rammifications of, and continue to still, cause war for individual gain without respect for their own survival, and it's not like humanity is going to die out from asteroid. So we might as well kill ourselves off with the largest stupid single action, and let the planet recover quicker. Maybe I'm the only one not delusional enough to think we don't really have a right to hang onto this planet, when we clearly are so deadset on destroying everything on it, including massive groups of our own species. The universe gains nothing preventing us from, and everything to gain to, us wiping ourselves off the face of it. Many species have disappeared from this ball of dirt. We will be no different...

Comment Re:I think older people should have access to drug (Score 3, Interesting) 40

Not true. My grandmother was dying of lung cancer (my grandfather smoked, she didnd't) which they literally turned off the morphine in the last 10 days of her life claiming "Laws restrict what we can give so she doesn't get addicted to it".) So I call B.S. They don't give you the "good shit" in hospice because jacked up laws prevent how and what they can legally give people, even ones days away from dying, as it treats them as potential "Addicts to be" and end up letting them writhe in agony from pain until they take their last breath.

Comment Re:here at /. the experts know better (Score 2) 53

seconded, When I lost weight, my health improved. When I gained it back, my health went to shit. I'm now much older, with arthritis and infammatory response issues (since aged 16, still hits me and has already scarred my kidneys) and once I found I changed my diet and started losing weight. My health, and my thinking ability (without adderall) increased and I feel better, feel happier (even with depression), found motivation, and my bones and joints (with a healing broken foot) hurt less, my joints are doing better, arthritis wise, and in general, it makes a huge difference. The biggest thing I did? Cut sugar wayyyyyyy back. Seriously. It's worked 4x for losing weight. It's almost impossible to remove/eschew all sugar, but that seems to cause issues in my gut, it causes issue with my joints, keeps me feeling completely out of it like I've had a blow to the head, and it causes my joints to ache. Like Luigi the assassin, I've suffered prolonged back pain issues. Complete with several surgeries (RF Ablation, Lumbar Discectomy/Laminectomy) and there is a huge difference in the pain my back produces post-operation when I change the way I eat. So yes, changing what you eat, followed by eating healthier alternatives will make a huge difference to the overall function of the body. Or as you know, the old saying: Garbage In/Garbage out. It's a huge eye opener.

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