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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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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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I think that it's pretty safe to say at this point that Bill Gates doesn't know jack about education and that his foundation is doing more harm than good in the space. But hey, thanks for ramming the Common Core down teachers' throats without using their input to craft it.
He doesn't know much about agriculture either. Or the internet. - Todd Hoff
Or a science book, nor the french he took. :) - Ken Gidley
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This dude puts a serious spotlight on the new Common Core education standards, why they won't improve education in this country and is a very targeted argument against just about everything that the so-called education reform movement stands for. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
If you really want to know what's wrong with education today, watch this five minute video. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
I agree with his comments but I don't hear any suggestions on what to teach and how in this presentation. He just says we need change. Great what's the change? - Steve C, Team Marina
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http://neowin.net/news... Yep, I'm not going with either the PS4 or the XBOne.
Neither is nearly the leap forward that we should be getting and both are completely mismanaging their respective ecosystems. No 1080p for BF4 on XBOne and now this for PS4? No thanks. Just when you thought that PC gaming was dead, both of these companies are making so many mistakes that they are leaving us no choice but to go back to the more open PC gaming space. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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Well those of us who don't rent or resell games are still perfectly happy with our PS4 preorders (said the PC gamer who never thought PC gaming was dead because the world cannot exist solely on consoles). - Hookuh Tinypants
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Heh, for everyone who watched Gravity and wanted to know how realistic it is, here's a great review from a former NASA astronaut http://www.forbes.com/sites... (Contains spoilers for those who haven't seen the movie)
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Remember when being a Boston Red Sox fan was about the same as being a masochist guaranteed to be disappointed yearly? Yeah, me neither. (For the record, I am not a Red Sox fan, but know people who are and who wore that yearly badge of disappointment and shame with honor, but happily took it off when the Red Sox won the world series)
I do, and I still feel no pain for them. - Eric @ CS Techcast
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after you've put up with this, you can put up with everything: http://youtu.be/_SEXJeSLblI - Ivan Crema
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That teachers get 2 months of paid time off a year has to be one of the more sinister myths spread about the profession. They are only paid for the days they teach plus the 10 or so holidays they get. If they actually got paid for those two months off, I don't think that we'd be having any conversations about how poorly teachers get paid.
One punch to the groin to whoever says that they get paid enough as it is. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Thank you so much for posting this. - Jed
Even worse when fewer hours count as "full time." - Julian
If they got paid for those 2 months off, I wouldn't be seeing so many of them working as cashiers for minimum wage during the summer. - April Russo (FForever!)
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http://darryl-cunningham.blogspot.co.nz/2011... This is a great primer on how evolution works and why it's the best (and only scientifically valid) explanation of how life on earth got where it is today.
that's pretty neat - Steve C, Team Marina
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http://www.theatlantic.com/educati... 1. Because they aren't respected 2. They aren't paid a wage that is requisite with their level of responsibility, education, skills and dedication 3. These days they have very little say in how to actually do their jobs 4...feel free to add your reasons
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Our dog, Leela's leg has been bothering her for a few weeks now. She hadn't really been able to walk fully on it for about two weeks now...and of course she starts to get better right before her vet visit to get it checked out, LOL.
I don't think this dog feels any pain though...as much as she was hopping around, she was still able to jump up using both hind legs. How did we end up with such an odd dog? - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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That's a cool dog, best wishes to her whatever path is taken - Steve C, Team Marina
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Dollar Shave Club? Sounds like a good premise, but I have one even better. Stop shaving altogether and just trim. A decent trimmer costs $30-$50 and I guarantee you'll have it for far longer than it would take to save money by not buying blades and shaving gel. Not to mention that your face will be far happier. No ingrown hairs, no razor burn, etc.
Do men need a shaving club in the first place? - Steven Smith
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My first real github repo https://github.com/ITBlogg... Still a work in progress, but it's already managing splunk on CentOS quite nicely I also contributed to my first github repo https://github.com/wcooley... (and yeah, you'll need that to get my splunkmgr class working)
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http://www.slate.com/article... Teach for America is doing serious harm to the students that can least afford it.
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You know, when long time supporters of charter schools like Ravich wake up and realize the damage these schools are doing, that something stinks about the corporatization of our education system. I hope that all of those like Michelle Rhee and her supporters soon come to understand how much damage they are doing. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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https://www.facebook.com/RobertS... My brother is absolutely right on this one. The Tea Party extremists are seriously hurting this country and for what?
Random comment to that post: "Obama, being a community organizer, did not run the federal budget process according to law, like a chief executive would, but instead purposely took us to the brink to ram his gross overspending through. His punitive shutdown is insubordination all too familiar to people who have ever tried to control expenses." FFS, really? Really? - Stephen Mack
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I'm sorry, Eric, but when your political stance makes a federal default ok, you are an extremist. Period. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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What is up with getting hiccups twice in a night?
Didiaphragm - Johnny
Johnny, say what? - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Hiccups are from the diaphragm. Di (2) diaphragm. - Johnny
I hate you. (sarcasm) - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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I can only imagine what goes through your head when you think about the fact that dubstep has gone pop (or that pop has gone dubstep).
Doesn't bother me. Same thing happened with big beat in the mid 90s. Hell, even The Fall have had their music in car commercials. - Akiva
Yeah, I think it's funny that the stuff I was listening to 9 months ago on Slacker is on the top 40 station that Cassie listens to... - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Zedd's Clarity is all over the place right now. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
It was all over the place a year ago, too. Spectrum was a hit of the summer last year. - OCoG of FF, Jimminy
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https://plus.google.com/1148737... The rebuild of our front porch/deck is finally done. It's not perfect, but good enough for government work.
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Happy birthday, dude!
Happy Birthday! - OCoG of FF, Jimminy
Happy Birthday! - Stephen Mack
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I think that the Discovery Channel "reality" TV show "Gold Rush" is a great example of white privilege all around.
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I'm so glad that Microsoft finally got rid of their hokey points system for their Xbox Live store and went to real dollar amounts instead.
As a person who doesn't have $USD, I'll wait to pass judgement. We tend to get screwed on deals like this. - Johnny
Actually, a points system is usually designed to attempt to disguise the screwing you are getting by making it more difficult to know exactly how much you are really paying for things. - April Russo (FForever!)
Johnny, the amount you are charged is in your native currency. Should be no getting screwed. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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A large problem with economics is that most economic systems assume that players are generally rational. Anyone with half a brain, working eyes and the ability to observe the goings on of the corporate world will recognize that most of the players are definitely not rational.
http://www.theverge.com/2013... - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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BBC News - Q&A: Fukushima leak problems - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news...
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LogicMonitor's mantra is, "if it is not defined in Puppet code and stored in our Git repository, it should not exist in our infrastructure." That is such an awesome mission statement.
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One great thing about git is that it allows you to see who made a mistake. One bad thing about git is that it allows people to see when you made a mistake.
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http://www.newrepublic.com/article... The dirty little secret that conservatives hate to admit to. That much of what we think of as the modern economy was born out of government funded research and development.
The government can only spend money and not make it you say? I guess people who say that have conveniently ignored just about everything that's happened in high tech over the last 50 years. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Yeah, the two major industries of the Bay Area would probably not have taken off if not for state and federal funding. - Victor Ganata
I'd say the top three that shaped Silicon Valley...biotech, IT and defense would not have happened if not for government spending. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Not to mention all of the ancillary industries like VC and legal services. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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This is big news for Puppet in their bid to offer better support for Windows http://geekswithblogs.net/robz... (they hired the creator of Chocolatey Nuget)
Will you be at PuppetConf later this week? - Brian Johns
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Jonathan: We're changing things VERY slowly. Let's see - How can I emphasize how slowly we're changing things... - Brian Johns
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I just gotta say that Danny Trejo is a total and complete badass. #machete
I prefer Beecher's oh wait shit sorry - Akiva
ROFLMAO! - Scoble, Alex Scoble
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