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Scoble, Alex Scoble

Gamer, home theater enthusiast, IT Security professional ex-CISSP, lover of cats, married to the always wonderful and compassionate (and passionate) Cassie.
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Watching Wasabi. Jean Reno is the bomb. When he speaks French you feel like he could be making love and beating up a bad guy at the same time.
Uh. - Akiva
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You guys... - WoH: Professor MOTHRA
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135,000,000 to 1 against is a lot closer to 0 than it is to one. #statisticswins #dontpaythemathtax
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What exactly am I arguing today? That a type of technology might leave people who don't get the benefits of it behind? Ooh, yeah, so hard to argue that hey wait, maybe the people who don't use the technology will have better lives, you know, because I didn't frame the conversation as an absolute, on or off kind of thing in the first place.
Pon farr not going well, Alex? - Soup in a TARDIS
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That would explain all of the cuts in my jeans and why my wallet is no longer there. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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That someone can choose to ignore the benefits of a technology or product does not invalidate the benefits of the technology or product.
it's not useful to me - how could it be useful to anyone else?!?!?! #allaboutme - holly #ravingfangirl
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That some people find a technology or product beneficial does not inherently make it beneficial for everybody. - walt crawford
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As we approach the notion of an always connected life, the likely benefits are increased earnings, better health outcomes and higher productivity. You'll notice that increased happiness is not a likely benefit, at least not in my opinion. When I talked about getting "left behind", it needs to be understood in this context.
This is, I think, a big reason why many will willingly choose the other path. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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In the not too distant, you will measure friendship even power by peoples willingness to unplug and meet you face to face... #gibsonprobablydaiditbetter - WarLord
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If you ask me, and I know that you didn't, technology doesn't have to be widely used to be successful, it just has to lead to something else.
As you've said before, a lot of that hinges on how you define success, which you just did for yourself. I feel much the same way about research - if it leads somewhere, teaches you something, inspires someone, or enriches someone, it was worth it. It is only a failure if it is empty, or poorly executed enough that it detracts from the subject. - Jennifer Dittrich
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I usually don't believe everything I read about "reviews", be it movies, technology, food, cars, etc. I make my own opinions based on what I see and experience and understand about stuff. Technology is anything that makes life easier, safer, more manageable, and more fun. Kind of a leveled up machine with new features or an idea that became reality on so many angles. - SophiaAnne88
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How to make more money. Label your product "For Migraines". Excedrin charges $2 more per bottle of their Migraine pain relief pills vs their "Extra Strength" pills even though they are the EXACT SAME active ingredients and strength.
My understanding was that the large difference was in the dosing directions - Excedrine MIgraine says explicitly that you're not supposed to take more than one dose in a 24 hour period of time (mostly so people see a physician if they need to.) Not that people often read the directions. - Jennifer Dittrich
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I vote for Fentanyl lollipops - Jeff (Team マクダジ )
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http://www.npr.org/blogs... Google fights Glass backlash before product is even released.
I think that this could possibly be one of those products that a large number of people don't get and are thusly left behind. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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If your point is that this tech has been in the works for a very long time, yep, no doubt. Just like how digital hearing aids physically filled a large room when first built in the 80s. Technology is much more often evolutionary than revolutionary. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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I'm not sure what it says about the people in the state of South Carolina that they elected Mark Sanford to the US Congress, but I doubt it says much that is good.
Sorry, what it says about the people from his Congressional district. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
It says that far better than Democrats, they understand splitting tickets is moronic and party with majority member count rules in House, no matter what you might think of individual member - WarLord
It also probably a barometer of their distaste for our current president and his party - WarLord
It's a historically conservative district, Alex. It would have been more surprising if a Democrat won, let alone one new to politics who appeared at so few events. I agree that Sanford is repellant of course, but that doesn't seem to be enough to stop candidates from being elected anywhere. - Soup in a TARDIS
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At this current moment in time we are viewing the cinematic experience that is titled Silver Linings Playbook
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Really? People seriously need to ask if Cool Whip is good? Yes, I'd like an awesome slice of banana creme pie with an ass fart topping, please. Does that answer your question?
Your queue of people who like Cool Whip is now loading... - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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Holy artificial everything Batman! I'm agreeing with Alex! This can't be happening! - Jim #teamFFrank
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Trend Micro: Having malware titles like TROJ_Generic is the opposite of helpful. The false positive rate of OfficeScan is far too high, particularly since that's all we are seeing now...false positives.
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What exactly is the point of a Doctorate of Education 4 year program that costs $140k? There's just no way that 90% of the people who would get such a degree would ever get a return on that investment.
Well, most of the people I know who have one went into much higher pay-rate administrative positions. Some later returned to teaching, but most didn't. I think they were more or less able to justify the cost for the higher pay. - Jennifer Dittrich
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90% of the people who bother to do the degree are either in administration or planning to go into it (usually in it if they're doing DocEd Admin, which is usually the "better" choice of the two degrees). It's pretty uncommon for a superintendent to not hold a PhD (usually in Ed, but not always) and is increasingly common for other admins on the director level and up (and, often, high school principals, although this is left common for middle and elementary school principles). Given even starting teachers are expected to have at least one Masters in major markets, however, I suspect the type of people in education with a PhD will begin to change over the next few decades, particularly in places like CA, NY, MA, and TX. - Soup in a TARDIS
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New blog post on the difficulties of setting up VLANs for testing OpenStack and Mirantis Fuel Web http://itmanager.blogs.com/notes...
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Privatization of air traffic control in the US? Yeah, nothing wrong can happen there.
I see dynamic pricing on landing slots in our future. Then maybe a little line rage. - Todd Hoff
Flying is free. It's the landing that's gonna cost you. - Victor Ganata
Shock Doctrine. - Andrew C (✔)
http://airportlaw.wordpress.com/2012... Notice the costs of privatizing ATC in countries like Canada and Britain. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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What is it with Libertarians always going on about bad government this, bad government that, yet they almost never admit that corporations can be just as bad, if not worse, particularly when corporations control the government. Even then, it's the government's fault and not the corporations. Oy vey.
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I am currently building an 8 node cloud with HA using Mirantis Fuel Web and OpenStack. This is the future, today.
You have a strange kink - Johnny
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8 HP DL385 G7s each with 2 x 12 core CPUs, 16GB of RAM and 600GB of disk space - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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I might be nerdy, but this thread http://friendfeed.com/amitp... makes me look like an amateur.
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When it comes to TVs, consumers have shown that they care more about pretty much everything over picture quality.
This, of course, completely screws the few of us who do put picture quality at the top of our requirements. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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Alex: We're just not going to agree here (and most reviewing sources say properly-calibrated plasma offers better pictures than properly-calibrated LCD, so I'm not just going to accept your assertion). As to Sony: Until fairly recently, Sony made the best TVs. But "made" is crucial here: Sony no longer produces screens of any sort, they're just a packager. (We had an XBR Trinitron for many, many years...) - walt crawford
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Michael McKean would have had a birthday today. Fuck you, cancer!
Makes me sad when I see the notifier on Facebook every April 28th. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
I get a similar reminder every year ... cancer sucks. - Shannon - GlassMistress
:( - Mo Kargas
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I'm beginning to think that Ilkeryoldas has a point.
I'm not subscribed to him, so maybe you can relay it to me? - Eivind
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Holly got it in one. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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Pressure Washers: Yet another reason why current American life isn't sustainable. In other news, my sidewalk is now clean!
You guys obviously need some caffeine or something. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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"Karate? The Dane Cook of martial arts? No..." Brilliant!
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Checking out the show Archer for the first time...pretty funny stuff.
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Mediocrity as a reason for circumstances trumps concerted conspiracies just about every time. Just like when you drop a pile of rope on the floor and it becomes tangled, that's not the universe out to get you, that's your own fault for not winding it up properly beforehand.
I like this, but it doesn't sound like something Alex would say. So confused. - OCoG of FF, Jimminy
incompetence and stupidity are sufficiently pervasive it could qualify as a conspiracy ;) - WarLord
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When I bicycle regularly I get crazy hungry. Kind of ridiculous.
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If you only watch one OpenStack related video this year, this should be it https://www.openstack.org/summit... These guys get what IT operations automation and cloud deployment should be...for goats.
This is one of the few live demos that actually worked well at Openstack Summit. Kudos to Boris and Roman and the Mirantis crew. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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When a site says something like "don't lose this information because support staff can't retrieve it for you" is probably not the best time to accidentally close the page before grabbing the info.
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If I found a log in our yard infested with termites, should I call an exterminator to check the house?
How close to the house? - Jennifer Dittrich
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Yeah, follow Cristo's advice and then move in with him :) - imabonehead
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Happy birthday, Stephen!
happy bday - imabonehead
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Happy birthday, Stephen! - Anika
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I made it through over 41 years of life without ever watching My Little Pony...Sadly, my streak of good luck has come to an end.
I feel your pain, Alex. :-D - Steven Perez
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Jem is awesome! http://io9.com/5989528... - Eric - Final Countdown
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Who else out there wants some champagen?
PURPLE! - Big Joe Silenced
That's a might fine velour suit, Alex. - WoH: Professor MOTHRA
"What has become your own worst enema?" "Auto Correct" - OCoG of FF, Jimminy
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