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Comment Re:That's not what they said at all (Score 1) 154

I guess I missed that in the article. The summary says that they were asked to pick between "ad-supported" and "paid".

Were the respondents asked about "free" vs other options?

[For the record, I'm sure that everyone would love free stuff. That's hardly worth running a survey on. But in this case, the survey in question wasn't asking that.]

Comment Re:Black Hat Conference 2011 (Score 1) 124

There's not much to it, in terms of mechanical (high precision+reliable motor) or electronics (replaceable battery + four buttons + microchip). I think the biggest thing is testing and approval process.

They charge a lot for the devices, but a lot of that cost goes into patient training before they hand over a high-risk medical device.

Comment Black Hat Conference 2011 (Score 5, Interesting) 124

I really wish that Jay Radcliffe hadn't publicized the well-known security issues with my pump. I'm fairly convinced that that led to the lock-down on insulin pumps.

I've been looping for several years now, and the results are amazing. It's way more effective than any other therapy I've used (way better control, better A1C), but more importantly I now have a hardware solution that offloads about 100 decisions per day from my life. That part is truly life changing.

Unfortunately, my current device is held together with duct tape, and it's unlikely that any new hackable devices will be brought to market. I expect it will be 10+ years before the commercially supported devices provide the same control I've enjoyed from a home-built solution, since the manufacturers are understandably conservative/risk-averse.

Comment How do they evaluate "search quality"? (Score 1) 38

So I'm confused... the study is about "search quality", but I don't understand how they define that term. They were looking at search engines that changed their retention policy. They evaluated search quality before and after. That part sounds good.

It seems that they counted the number of users coming from search engine A and landing at site B before and after. Can anyone explain how that's an indicator of search quality? Perhaps they want to measure if the search engine lost or gained users?

Comment Re:Granular permissions (Score 1) 229

This:

Chrome should do similar for websites, where by default those things capable of causing problems are switched off. For sites that genuinely make good use of Bluetooth (and where the user is happy with this), it should be easy enough to grant permissions.

is already true. Bluetooth devices aren't visible to web apps without user permission. Source: https://webbluetoothcg.github....

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