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Comment Anomalies (Score 1) 24

This is interesting so it raises the question of whether other hurricanes strengthened last time this layering happened and one passed over.

That this storm strengthened /exactly/ when a solar storm hit Earth seemed like a more promising anomaly but a strong dataset would support their hypothesis and rule out a massive coincidence.

Comment Re:Too much tech. (Score 2) 44

Yeah and those people would have thrown a bricked bike through the front window of their corporate headquarters.

Amazon tried real hard to upsell me a wifi sprinkler timer yesterday.

Ha, no, the $18 microcontroller-based timer will do just fine. They could have temped me with a Matter/Threads unit but no, they don't try that hard. Doesn't "Work with Alexa".

Imagine my garden dying because a tree fell on the Comcast line and it took a few days to rebuild. Such weird expectations! I wonder how many "smart" households went bonkers during the 4hr Starlink outage?

Comment Re:Or maybe (Score 1) 53

It binds more strongly than O2 or CO2, but not permanently. Just time removed from the source will clear it. Providing supplemental O2 will speed that up while supporting life functions if they got a larger dose.
Basically, CO will win most fights with O2 for hemoglobin, but when it is experiencing a few hundred per trip through the lungs...

Comment Re:Is this really a 'breach'? (Score 1) 79

In the GSR (Gossip, Shame, Rallying) Model this is a biological imperative.

So you would expect high costs to be easily paid if the model is accurate and the service fills the need.

Some might say the theory fits the data.

I'm that weirdo who won't save fifty cents on a can of Spaghetti O's by signing up for a "loyalty" surveillance card but most people aren't in the slim minorities.

Comment DANE (Score 1) 59

A subset of people are really against DANE which lets you self-attest your TLS cert without a parallel PKI. DNSSEC was the PKI in that model.

There are pros and cons but a big con was people not paying for certs.

Now with LetsEncrypt we have DV certs almost everywhere, few people pay for certs, and two PKI's with little protection for anything else that uses DNS.

Oh, and LetsEncrypt would be marginally better off with DNSSEC. Their new observation standard at least helps mitigate BGP shenanigans.

Comment Re:Go ahead, shut it down (Score 3, Interesting) 98

Gislaine Maxwell will say that Trump is the messiah and that she never saw him with Epstein, and in 3 years a pardon or commutation will mysteriously drop on her lap.

Or she'll have info incriminating Trump and she'll "die by suicide". In any case, can't see a pardon/commutation going over well with his base - they love him, but hate pedophiles, and letting her off makes no sense (yes, I know... Trump) - but if he waits until he's almost out of office, I can't imagine him giving two fucks about political consequences. He'll be off somewhere retired. If that happens Republicans will have a tough time running away from the fallout.

Comment Hate to side with China, but ... (Score 3, Insightful) 98

Lutnick told CNBC that TikTok would stop operating in the US if China and TikTok owner ByteDance won't sell the app to buyers that Trump lined up, along with control over TikTok's algorithm. ... "China can have a little piece or ByteDance, the current owner, can keep a little piece,"

Trump sees everything as a zero-sum game and only makes deals that benefit him, or tries to anyway. This benefits China/ByteDance how? They can operate in the entire rest of the World. Of course, if Trump doesn't get his way I can see him trying to enact secondary tariffs (what else /s) on countries that allow TikTok, but can't really see that working - cutting off our nose, etc.... In the end, China just has to wait 3.5 years ...

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