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Comment Re:Neat case report, probably cannot scale (Score 1) 10

Yes, but it could prove the genes that could eventually be targeted by a gene therapy. As a therapeutic it might work for eradication even if it's not integrated.

Then there was that Chinese guy who got arrested for creating engineered babies with the outside claim being he was introducing HIV resistance but everybody thinks he was trying to enhance intelligence. If both are true things could get interesting.

Comment Re:Cassesstts sounded way better most think (Score 1) 40

The metadata of later recordings show DAT as the source.

I guess technically they're audio and they're cassettes, but, yeah ... tech articles.

FWIW in the 80's I spent too much on audio gear and I would record a DDD CD onto an expensive metal cassette and my friends would gush at the clarity of CD. I would then push the power button on the CD changer.

Comment Re:Suggest people back up the archive (Score 1) 40

Perusing the top-viewed list there are very few bands most people have heard of. The local bands don't seem to do many covers.

As I a reference point I clicked through to an R.E.M. concert and listened to Orange Crush.

The guy doing the secondary vocals sounded tone deaf - way off on pitch, OK on tempo.

Not that RIAA has any sanity at all and they say Jack Vallenti was involves in killing JFK, but I wouldn't listen to that track again. The drummer was on-point, though. Sounded like Pearl heads from the 80's to me.

There should be about zero lost sales from this.

Comment Re:Wonder how much the kickback was (Score 1) 59

Just an agreement to only pass packets that are signed with a key issued by a biometric-identified account on a walled-garden closed-source platform with a key-escrow style TPM-like opaque crypto module.

When the time cones to flip that switch.

Google has been told to prevent people from installing their own software on Android. It's ramping up slowly but the control grid also requires that no open source phone platform can get transit.

Comment Percentage (Score 1) 121

Does Sony demand 100% of ticket sales for the first two weeks like LucasFilm was reported to do? Harry Potter via WB too IIRC and other big properties?

Without asking why these ads run and why a popcorn and soda is $11, nothing will change and more theaters will go under.

I just learned that my local theater now has free refills on both popcorn and soda . This is a good idea as the goal is to get the $11 and if materials cost is $0.50 or $2 that doesn't really matter vs. no sale.

FWIW that theater ran two trailers before Project Hail Mary and no other ads. One I forgot and Mortal Combat looks like the worst movie ever made.

Comment ONI (Score 2) 110

These projects are all run out of the Office of Naval Intelligence. Remember, they run the F-14 and F-18 program currently and just had a $250M stealth drone shot down over the Eastern Med.

Blue Book was the Air Force poking their node where it didn't belong.

Forming Space Force was an attempt to reconcile this spat.

But a lot of the research happens e.g. off the coast of Puerto Rico. That's where the biggest acknowledged Naval research station is located.

It's why they won't let Puerto Ricans become independent, but for goodness sake, repeal the Jones Act permanently to stop the economic suffering of these people. They're legally Americans and the DC regime has them under embargo and sanctions. It's infuriating.

Comment Re:Where is the evidence? (Score 2, Interesting) 110

Everybody who says this has never tried filming an aircraft at night with a cell phone. Try it!

NASA has some beautiful 40-inch lenses for filming rocket launches and aerospace tests.

And even those don't resolve much at night too far out. IIRC they weigh about 200 lbs (10 stone for the Europeans). So why doesn't NASA just use an iPhone?

And chemical rockets aren't even accused of using a plasma-envelope gravity drive like some experimental military craft. Even the B2 uses an electric field to minimize turbulent flow (Biefield-Brown -> BB -> B2) and that's 40 years old and public.

If any of these are correct a cell phone is the wrong tool for the job.

Comment False Accusations (Score 1) 33

I know a private practice doc who uses one after having some obviously bogus allegations made against him by a miscreant and her ambulance chaser.

The big hospital systems can afford to have a second person in the room.

I don't like anything about the current system but having a third party doing the recording removes allegations of editing by local recordings.

There are compromise cryptosystem that can handle both concerns ... gotta get one done soon if nobody else will do it (hashes of hashes of hashes).

Comment Secure Design (Score 2) 50

It's reasonable to assume that if you erase an app on a mobile OS that the system will delete the app's data.

That ought to include any data stored in OS databases that is tagged with the app. It's not at all unreasonable to expect this. I suspect it's an oversight though Apple got weird after their standoff with the FBI over the "San Jose bomber". The GPU backdoor to read arbitrary system memory that Kaspersky found is an example.

Apple should make the change and really secure-erase the flash blocks that were being used. This can be done in the background and collected into the free block map later.

The best some people can do is trust their vendor but having a secret-source platform to trust makes it harder.

And, yes, it would not be surprising to learn Qualcomm and Samsung have similar 'features'.

Comment Re:That just sounds like a dumb mistake (Score 2) 50

I just checked my Android.

I have it set to not show sensitive info when locked.

But Signal now also has an option to show nothing, name, or name and content in a notification.

It appears to have defaulted to the least secure option.

There's that inherent tension between convenience and security and the Tyranny of the Default.

Comment Re:Absolutely needless (Score 2) 93

It's not difficult - Iran must be balkanized if Israel is going to conquer the Middle East and expand its proper borders to "those promised by God". They will demand a regional empire beyond their borders as a "buffer zone".

The Eschatological Christian Zionists want them tp destroy the Al Aqsa Mosque and build the Third Temple so Jesus can come back. Much of the Senior Brass at DoD (or Department of War Crimes) believes in this.

Is it all absurd and crazy? Doesn't matter, it's what motivates the people with nukes.

That and Trump being blackmailed with Epstein Tapes. The news says it's specifically an audio tape of a phone call between those two.

This is what the people who want peace in the world are up against. We can't counter what we deny.

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