Agreed. The cheap and cheerful Chinese cameras phone home a lot. My cameras are on their own VLAN and have no internet access. They can only stream to the recording device locally and that's it.

I do not think that was meant to be funny or silly. It was actually rather insightful. I think what's pretty incredible is that you completely fail to understand the fundamental truth in that post.

If a fishing breakdown product is emitting this much heat, it's clearly undergoing further fishing, which makes it a potentially usable source of energy. Provided the reactor setup is appropriate for the sequence, there's no reason to stop using an energy-generating mix, when it is not uranium.

I have to conclude that either you didn't understand, or you're just trolling against nuclear power.

This is a very important line of research. Unfortunate that it went wrong, but I strongly believe that immunogenically humanized pigs probably represent the best chance we have of developing adapted organs for transplantation instead of relying on deceased donors. Given that human CMV can cause myocarditis, I can see how this may have come about. I hope that tools will be developed to allow for rapid alteration of immunological antigens in the pig embryo, allowing to grow a donor heart that will avoid risk of rejection and thus negating the need for immunosuppressive drugs in the future, possibly extending the lifespan of transplant recipients significantly, and increasing organ availability.

They're just busy pushing everyone to do cannabis and proceed to abuse of prescription drugs.

Cigarettes are so 20th century, you have to soma harder, citizen!

I don't get your point. MFA can successfully defeat credential stuffing attacks like the one that reportedly caused security breaches here. It won't fix everything, but nothing does. I'm not sure how you go from "not a panacea" to "this is why I don't like MFA".

That being said, I think SMS MFA needs to die in a fire, although it's still probably better than nothing. I think TOTP or FIDO it's much better, and an open standard.

The study says that 22% of people with Ivermectin got severe problems, but only 17% of all those that got the standard medical "all the things" did. That's actually pretty interesting, because, it means that if you go to Tractor Supply and hook yourself up with the drops, then, you've got a 78% chance of not developing severe COVID for like, $20. By contrast, if you spend thousands of dollars on prescribed steroids and experimental drugs, then, your odds are only 5% better. That premium for that extra 5% is rather telling, because if you believe that ivermectin is junk, then, what this study really says is that all that extra money for the "good stuff" is basically wasted. That's actually the real complaint underlying this controversy. Exorbitantly expensive treatments actually only provide marginal value over stupid things. There is really nothing or little that medical science can do for you in some cases except charge you (or the public, for those on national health insurances), a titanic amount of money for things that basically provide false hope and don't actually work. The numbers don't lie - 17% of the people doing what the doctor said still got into trouble, versus the 22% who just went and got the same stuff they use to keep their livestock going. Yeah, you can rail on about how these people are stupid, but, if you look at the way they evaluate the odds, they are doing a damned better job than you are!

Nope, your bad planning. If everyone didn't do this or do that is a ridiculous plan. You have to have a plan that understands that many people are not going to do "the thing", and manage it. HIV and the war on drugs and all of that had ridiculed proponents that just said "just don't use needles, have gay sex, and don't start on addictive drugs". That totally did not work, because people used needles, had gay sex that was unprotected, and started on addictive drugs. What do you do? Knowing this, one would have thought a credible public health plan for COVID would have considered that as part of its model making, but no, it did not.

That's actually why the public health failure. Planners can never plan in a free society that "everyone" will do the thing. A good plan is one that manages a society where everyone doesn't.

I had to be in the top percentile to get in, then worked 80-100 hours a week for 16 years to get the education and training after college to get my current job, most of that time at 1-2x minimum wage. I currently often work 80+ hours a week, often with night calls on top of that. At the same time, I get to hear that I'm making too much money all the time here on Slashdot. I got to spend the last 2 years neck-deep in COVID. Simultaneously, the programmers on Slashdot continue to write about the plight of working 5 days a week 9-5 (a schedule I have never seen, much rather felt), and push universal basic income etc. I am getting a distinct sense that there's a deep disconnect with reality occurring here.

I see this as little more than realization that they can institute censorship by proxy, rather than have the bad publicity of formally announcing it. Congratulations - your speech will be essentially regulated by Google, Facebook, etc...

The irony is that the left wing has been a bunch of seditionist traitors for a hundred years, and, suddenly now they have a new found piety. It's just so hyprocritical its nauseating. It's not like liberals just spent the previous summer, I mean decades, burning down American cities and de-railing any public or private initiative for human benefit they see until they get communism.

Actually I think the better question is, how long until governments around the world seize this opportunity to declare Signal as a facilitator of illegal transactions (human trafficking is a good excuse) and shut it down. This was a terrible idea that opens the parent app and company to great legal peril. This is the wet dream of the nascent dictators around the world. While it was a facilitator of free speech it held a certain moral high ground. Now that it meddles in money, it's little more than a target.

That's silly. First off, most people pay to have sex, in some way, rather than expect to get paid for it. Europe has had cradle to the grave services for decades and the one constant there is the birth rate is the worst on the planet. By contrast Africa has a soaring birth rate and much of the continent is third world.

If you have to pay people to screw, you've already got much bigger problems on your hands, and social services isn't going to fix it.

Honestly, when it comes down to the brass tacks, is, any time you have a society that is sufficiently wealthy, women are going to want more out of life and raise their price for it, and men simply are not going to want to pay it, and so they don't. Seriously, if you are a guy, what would you rather do, run the risk of being the next me-too, go through a bunch of rejections, invest all this time into getting a halfway almost cool girlfriend, or even a wife, and then, when you do, run the 50-50 chance of having your life be destroyed in a divorce... or just fire up World of Warships and count your 401k earnings later on?

For younger men, the pursuit of women is just too much work and there's too much risk and no payoff. Remember, even in the days when women were basically property, you still had families paying the men to be married to them, and you expect, gosh, with less value and more bills, what is going to happen?

You can call it what you will, misogyny, whatever, but the numbers don't lie. Men are bailing on married society, if not society altogether. It's just too much of a pain for some people.

Flexibility is good. Having flex days to do chores is good. Working from home all the time is both cause and effect of a general deterioration in self discipline. Decreasing formality in dress, conversation, and now work location are all signs of a society that doesn't have the structure to keep itself stable. We need to go back to wearing business attire to business, polite conversation for discourse, and school uniforms. The alternative is the continued unwinding of our collective sanity, and the gradual destruction on productivity.

Toyota is just looking for a way to turn a thing you buy into a subscription so they can get additional money.