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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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Oy vey...I give up. Links to scientific principia? Yeah, get back to me when you've found a credible resource.
ok - VALZONE#SCREWED
I think that the climate science deniers are all just playing one big skin game mashed up with Calvin Ball. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Yep, I've taken it as far as it can go. When people post crap as science and argue that I'm saying it's not reputable because it's not coming from one of my pro-climate change sources, there's just no way to move the conversation forward. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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What words or phrases am I not supposed to use here? (examples: totes, amazeballs, awesomesauce, etc.)
You're grown. Do as you will! - Stephen Mack
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Totes Amazeballs? http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-ima... - April Russo (FForever!)
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Wow, so much craziness and willful ignorance on Google+...I thought it was supposed to be where all the techies are. #climatechangetrolls
Perhaps it's a sign that google+ has gone mainstream. - imabonehead
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Orkut started out full of Googlers, and it soon became apparent that people one or two degrees away from Googlers could be very stupid. Also, Orkut itself had some abysmally stupid policies, so. - Andrew C (see frenf.it)
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It's not enough for scientists to say "I disagree" with published peer reviewed studies on a subject. They actually have to do studies/experiments on their own to back that up in order to have any relevance on a subject outside of Fox News.
http://www.slate.com/blogs... - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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In the Lindzen paper which I linked and was published in 1997 he said this "Indirect estimates, based on response to volcanos, suggest sensitivity may be as small as 0.3–0.5°C for a doubling of CO2" Since 1997 CO2 has increased a little over 10%. While temperature has increased by .05. .05 X 10 = .5. So far he's right the modelers are the clowns. - Eric Logan
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If laughter is the best medicine, Harold Ramis was one of the best pharmacists around. He helped create so many great comedic moments and more than a few dramatic ones as well in all of the movies that he was part of. He'll definitely be missed.
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This is such a sweet video http://www.reshareworthy.com/beagle-... These dogs are so gentle and cute. I hope they all found good homes. Pretty sad that they were cooped up in labs for so long.
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This is pretty awesome. http://www.youtube.com/watch... Disney ultimately released Frozen in 41 different languages (25 of them are covered here) and they had to find different singers and voice actors for the bulk of them.
You'd hardly know it listening to the video though, they did such a great job of casting singers for the multiple languages. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
I can't believe I haven't seen it yet. It's already out on DVD. Need to see it as I've heard such good things about it. - Spidra Webster
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In the past month or so on Facebook I've seen interesting ads for a men's clothing service that would send you a like an outfit a month and I also saw one for a food service that would send you ingredients and a recipe for a meal.
Both services were significantly flawed which is a shame because otherwise they would be getting my money on a recurring basis. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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Well the jeans I buy only come in one inseam which is much too long for me so I have to get them altered. - Jeff (Team マクダジ )
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The Death Of Expertise - http://thefederalist.com/2014...
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Some people may think that it's ironic that I'm posting this, but whatever, I'm posting it anyhow. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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I mean, even experts succumb to the bike shed trap. I just think that anything we can do to prevent people from falling for fallacious crap like the whole anti-vaccine thing is a good thing. I agree with you though, that he doesn't have an answer for that. Then again, neither do I. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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I take pride in not using umlauts, circumflexes and other non-English symbols in non-English words that should have them.
....why? - Soup in a TARDIS
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Sarcasm, Jimminy, sarcasm. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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Anyone got any good healthy dairy free casserole recipes that don't also contain fish of any kind?
Wish I could help you. - Spidra Webster
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Cassoulet - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
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Cassie and I were woken up at around 3:45 am this morning (Saturday morning) by a loud boom. Have no idea what it was.
Are you on a boat? - OCoG of FF, Jimminy
No, we were in bed in our house in Beaverton, OR. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
You have a boom on your house? ;) - OCoG of FF, Jimminy
This thread is apparently a comedy routine. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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Goodbye Sony and Microsoft, one of these is likely to be my next gaming console http://kotaku.com/from-al...
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I think I just realized that Microsoft isn't really going after the gaming market with the XBOne, but rather is going after the same market that Roku, Apple TV, Google ChromeCast and others are in.
For me as a gamer, this is pretty depressing. Between the PC, Xbox 360 and Apple TV, there's no room for yet another internet connected "TV" device in my house. I'm sure that a lot of people will love it as a device, I just won't be one of them. Microsoft really needed to have backwards compatibility between the XBOne and the 360 to even have a change at getting my money. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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I'm thinking it'll be longer this time around. There's so much content tied to Xbox Live. It's going to be a mess when Microsoft cancels Games for Windows Live this year, which is basically PC games on Xbox Live. Games like Fallout 3 are tied to it. - Rodfather
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I can't help but say "Sweet!" every time I see a Tesla sedan.
So when are you buying one? :P - imabonehead
Maybe in 5 years hehe...it will take me that many years if I do as well in the market as I did this year to be able to afford one. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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http://deadspin.com/i-was-a... This is just one side of the story, but if it is even mostly true, it's just shameful on the part of the Vikings. Absolutely shameful.
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Facebook ad seen for an "Internet Bonding Device", you know, so that you too can become one with the internet.
Resistance is futile. - Stephan Planken
Sounds like bots are now directly turning patent applications into commercials. I can see some patent with a description of how Facebook is a machine for bonding advertising entities together over a communication network. - Todd Hoff
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It's kind of funny that you can't tell people not to tell people how to use language without telling people how to use language.
A punch in the throat works. - Johnny
That's how the apocalypse starts, Johnny. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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Happy Holidays to one and all!
Merry Crustmas! - Big Joe Silenced
Merry Christmas, Alex! - Soup in a TARDIS
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South Bay finally gets revenge against SF for all of the jokes by taking their football team away. Who's "The City" now? LOL
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Apparently marketers think that I'm not supposed to be watching Scandal on Hulu Plus. All the commercials are marketing to women.
Weird. When I watch the shows more likely to be marketed towards men, I still get the commercials aimed at women (and the stuff that's more local.) - Jennifer Dittrich
You go...oh never mind. - Todd Hoff
Heh, Jennifer, Cassie pointed out that she watches Hulu more than me, so that might explain it. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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http://www.forbes.com/sites... Seems like a good list to me.
Is that a list defining a sociopath? - Todd Hoff
I don't think so, Todd. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
I partly agree with Todd here. - walt crawford
I don't see anything in there that has much to do with sociopathic tendencies. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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Looks like I'm going to let my CISSP lapse as I failed to get 20 CPEs in 2011. Just as well as it no longer aligns with my career goals of focusing on devops, automation and enterprise Linux administration
That's basically what I'm doing currently at work. - imabonehead
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Who out there is getting a Coin Card? Sounds really interesting. All your credit cards in one card.
I'm pretty tempted but I'd rather wait until a few get out in the real world and tested. I'm wondering how stores and restaurants are going to handle not being able to flip a card over for a signature? - CAJ was here
Brett King's answer to: ★ Coin (startup): What are the risks associated with Coin as a product? http://www.quora.com/Coin-st... - Eric Logan
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git commit statements in present tense or past tense? #religiouswarsforthewin
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For anyone who does a lot of git commits this is so true http://xkcd.com/1296/
Mine get better. *shrug* I have a really hard time explaining what I'm doing from a blank slate. Productivity increases as well. - OCoG of FF, Jimminy
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We can never work together. Your syntax is wrong. :P I don't care that much, but personally I do stick to it, and have immediately run --amend -m to fix the message to be imperative. - OCoG of FF, Jimminy
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I swear that thermodynamics must work differently in my kitchen than anyone else's. It's supposed to take 4 to 5 hours to cook a 19.5 pound turkey and in my kitchen it takes about 3. This is is doing 450 for half hour and 350 for the rest. Guess I need to start doing 325 for the bulk. I think next year we're going to tell people to arrive at time...
There are so many factors that effect cooking times. The temperature of the bird when you put it in, the volume of the oven, the air patterns, shelf position. I know that if I cook a lamb roast in our oven, if I put the roast with the leg shank bone facing out it will cook faster that shank bone facing in. That's why chef's are so nurotic about their ovens. - Johnny
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http://qz.com/113597... This is pretty interesting. I wish that more restaurants would try this as I think that far too many people stiff wait staff by paying a mediocre tip.
Link to Jay Porter's actual blog, where he's got 6 posts on the issue. http://jayporter.com/dispatc... - OCoG of FF, Jimminy
^And just clicked on it, and noticed his site has become a usability nightmare, do to low-contrast background and text. - OCoG of FF, Jimminy
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Google's Thanksgiving doodle is pretty cute https://www.google.com/
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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone out there! Hope you have a good Turkey day.
Happy Thanksgiving, Alex! - Anne Bouey
Enjoy your holiday Alex! - Starmama
Happy Thanksgiving! - Mary B: #TeamMonique
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It's odd that many, if not most, Thanksgiving Turkey recipes still recommend washing the bird even though researchers have found that to be a very bad idea that won't do anything to kill the bacteria that may be on the bird. Plus with modern processing methods it's absolutely unnecessary.
Cause everything has to be right? - Johnny
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Forsooth! From yonder hilltop, Cristo leaves a comment - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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This is complete BS http://www.buzzfeed.com/stevefr... Companies that contract with the US government should not be able to give money to politicians in any way shape or form. Period. End of story.
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