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Comment Or just maybe... (Score 1) 113

Or just maybe... those that eat lots of food with plastic around for storage or cooking with plastic (think microwaving cheap noodles, etc) just eat worse than those that don't. The problem with lots of statistics like this is that just because you see a trend in something, it doesn't mean that is the cause of something.

Comment Who would back this company to begin with? (Score 1) 122

I don't understand how someone could ever think this could work. Of course they can't keep this up where someone could go see 30 movies a month for $10. It almost makes me think there is some kind of shadiness going on. Someone create a big company that people love... knowing that it is not sustainable... get financial backing because of how popular it certainly would be... cash out before it tanks... go to Disney World.

Comment Spooky action but value was encoded before it left (Score 1) 278

Spooky action at a distance boils down to a simple thing really. Take a coin and slice it in half so that heads is on one piece and tails is on the other and don't look at it. Now put one piece in an envelope and send it to person A. Put the second piece in a second envelope and send it to the second person B. Now when person A opens the envelope and reads the value, They will also know the value that was sent to A. The information was encoded in the envelope before it left so it is not a mystery how they both get the values.

Comment Re:Dike move, but expected (Score 1) 161

The fingerprint information is only stored on your device and does not get sent to the website you are logging into. Someone cannot use your thumbprint to get access to the website from another device. They would have to login to your specific device and use your thumbprint on it to get access. Essentially the website login information is just stored inside a security container that gets unlocked with your fingerprint. Think of it kind of like a password manager but using your thumbprint to use it. The thumbprint is only used locally and not part of the login information for the website.

Comment Re:Authentication != identification (Score 1) 161

I think you are misunderstanding how this could be implemented. The fingerprint is not sent to the site you are authenticating too. The site would likely create a very long cookie or auth code once you log in normally. To access that auth code to send to the website you would use the biometric login which would then send that encrypted auth code to the website. This is similar to how thumbprint works on existing phones. The thumbprint isn't sent outside the security context of the phone. It only unlocks the real code that gets sent to the website.

Comment I joined because of Apple Music behavior in car (Score 1) 161

I always used either Spotify or Google Play as I could get them at cheaper pricing. I finally switched to Apple Music for one reason. Quite often when I got into my car, Apple Music would play the same song every time. It wasn't even a song that I liked. It was a song that was free that they offered at some point. It seems like if you have a third party music app and you get out of the car with that music playing, You later inside the house stop playing that third party app and launch other games and such, When you get back into the car, The car tries to continue playing music. Because that third party app was not the last thing to play audio, Apple Music gets chosen as the music player by default. Well... I only have those few songs that I got for free on that service so it picks the same one every single time to play when it can't determine that I was using Google Play or Spotify. I don't even like the music it is playing. I tried to disable music downloads over cellular and cleared my download cache so that Apple Music couldn't download the song but I was till in WiFi range when leaving so it still ended up playing that song. I finally gave up and just subscribed to Apple Music. Now it at least picks the correct music streaming app.

The solution to this seems obvious to me. Apple should allow setting a default music streaming app so that when you get into a car that tries to resume playing music and the phone can't determine what you used to stream music last, The phone will choose the music app that you actually use.

Comment Mortal Kombat X Mobile is way more expensive (Score 1) 203

Mortal Kombat X mobile is even more expensive.

You can buy 2000 souls for $99. Average cost of gold characters is about 390 souls. Each character can be fused to upgrade it 7 times (8 total purchases). There are almost 60 gold characters. So for $99 you can't even buy 1 character and upgrade him to max .

60 * 390 / 2000 * $100

$11,000 to buy every character and upgrade them to max level. That is if you could directly buy all characters which you can't.

Some characters can only be obtained through packs (lootboxes per say) and they are random when you get a rare carachter out of them. You don't get them very often at all. To get every character and upgrade the to max, I don't know how much it would take but if I were to guess I would bet it is probably over $80,000. This is not including silver characters some of which are also only obtainable in packs.

Comment And when the next big hurricane comes through... (Score 1) 203

and destroys all the solar panels... you get to buy them again. Any solutions put in place must be spec'd to survive cat 5 hurricanes or we are just wasting money. Build a solution now that will cost more but survive the future and the long term costs will be significantly reduced.

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