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Comment Re:"known" for hacking the White House and DNC? (Score 2) 18

The White House memo stating it had happened and there was a risk of it happening again might be considered "real evidence" and it was available to the public. Now, I suspect that based on your stance, you might not trust the Obama administration to be honest about this, but you would trust the Trump administration. Fortunately, this memo was released by the Trump administration.

Here it is: https://www.documentcloud.org/...

Comment Re:Doing Data Capture for Catalina as I write this (Score 1) 72

I recently did the Catalina update.

As far as I can tell so far, the only changes are that the desktop image changed, and Safari got a little bit more broken.

Specifically, CNN often has everything on the right side flickering at about 10Hz, and mousover/tooltips somehow get stuck and stay on the screen as their own thing, durably and won't go away.

Of course, this is my fault, because I use an eGPU on my Macbook Pro. It's not even a good GPU because Apple won't let nVidia sign drivers for GPUs on MacOS. Which, I simply don't understand how that hasn't resulted in government intervention.

So, yeah, *shrug* at least I'm not using Windododododododows... I guess.

Comment They broke IFTTT (Score 1) 46

They broke IFTTT, so I am replacing my Nest thermostat with an Ecobee when it stops being remote operable based on real time electricity pricing. So they sold me on a device with great functionality, then removed the functionality. They did walk that back, but the cost of walking it back is that I can't add any future integration or improve my electricity price responsive system any more. So that's out.

I recently added a Nest doorbell, because the continuous recording feature is what I wanted. I just read *in this thread* that that is changing, and to simply maintain what service I have my prices will DOUBLE.

So I am in the market for a new door bell too.

Comment Re:The soil chemistry wrecked the experiment desig (Score 2) 69

Yes, and the releases would continue after the sterilization heat cycle, but they stopped, and perchlorates aren't destroyed at 160C.

The perchlorates were also equally exposed to samples helpt in the dark, and did not cause labeled releases...

Perchlorates sound like an explanation, but they don't match all the behaviors seen.

Comment Re:Perchlorates ? (Score 3, Insightful) 69

Except there was a control, and a heat cycle to stop the tagged releases, and they would have behaved a particular way if it was perchlorates, and it didn't. So, it most likely wasn't perchlorates and organic activity is still the likeliest option.

If it was something that simple, you'd think the Principal Investigator would have considered that?

Comment The obvious answer... (Score 5, Interesting) 151

The obvious answer is to show T-Mobile that forced arbitration is worse than a class action lawsuit. If hundreds of thousands of customers all file for arbitration in this dispute, T-Mobile will not be able to afford the arbitration costs. There also aren't enough arbitration firms to do the work in a timely fashion.

A few hundred thousand arbitration claims would bring the system to a crashing halt. The costs would far outweigh the few dollars a person in settling a class action lawsuit.

Comment Re:That display is actually more interesting (Score 5, Informative) 317

I regularly hit the limits with 250 tracks with video production audio. It's not at all an unrealistic boundary to hit. Say I have some CGI that has 4000 objects blowing up, and I provide subtle sound effects for just 2.5% of them, that's 100 tracks. Oh, there's a crowd? That's another 50. The main characters voice, sfx etc, that's another 25 or 50, maybe a bit of orchestration that's another 50....

Comment Re:You're On Squid! (Score 1) 60

The moment a bright individual realizes that you can laser cut make-up templates that make most people appear to be the same person to facial recognition systems... *grins*

Or that by simply changing something about your face every day tuned to the system's weakness.

If you can make the false positive/false negative ratio too high the system will be unworkable. And nothing is better at bucking the system than kids.

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