I have a CAT phone. They advertise you can go scuba diving with it. I haven't gone that far with it but mine's been in a lake. All the ports have rubber seals. The latch that lets you access the SIM card and SD card has a seal around it. The speaker and mic have internal covers that slide over them to make them water proof. Sure it distorts the sound, but when you're under water the sound is distorted anyway. Though even if the speakers do get wet, they include a special app to play specific sounds to help dry the speakers faster.

They're awesome phones except their software support is horrible, so sadly I won't be buying another. It's the only phone I haven't bought a case for and it hasn't needed one.

Voting for "We're Not Trump" didn't go so well last time. I think more people vote for something rather than against something.

5. The screen in the seat in front of you runs Windows. Thus it's a windows seat.

Going forward, all seats along the body of the aircraft will be bought from the newly created Window company thus they will all be Window(R) Seats. There are some other companies who did something similar and got away with it. I think one of them was one of the fake meat companies?

It's not 100% fine to just test the air for what you're trying to filter. That's the whole point of the article. There's new filtering tech being used which may be producing toxic by-products. If you only test the air for dust you won't know if your product is giving off toxic fumes. And probably that's the point of not testing for it.

We're talking about burning anything in the air with plasma or forcing air through nanoparticle frameworks. We're not talking about basic 'cloth' filters.

There are lots of machines that can use HEPA filters but aren't airtight themselves. If you truly want HEPA filtering then you need a machine which has all it's seams sealed. The real ones are expensive.

Or Microsoft paid them to push more people towards Windows 11. Or they're using some new AI feature. There's a few reasons to abandon your customer base, as stupid as that is.

Those online tax documents are generated by request when you request them after logging in through a system which uses higher than basic id checks. They aren't PDFs sitting in some random unsecured cloud VM. They also don't stick around. Ask for the same document again and you'll get a newly generated one. These sites are attacked constantly and there's never been a major breach.

Not all of us lets companies rape and pillage all our data so our information isn't already accessible by everyone.

Doing your taxes manually isn't difficult. The hardest part is collecting all the information which you have to do anyway for any tax software. You simply start at the top and skim through the documentation as you go through each question. A couple tell you to jump forward then backtrack which is annoying, but it's not difficult. The first time you go through everything it'll probably be pretty confusing since you won't know any of the terms, so maybe hire someone to go through it with you (cheaper than paying for software for the rest of your life). After that you just skim the 'whats new' section then effectively repeat what you did the prior year. There's no hidden tax breaks you're missing out on, it's all right there in the docs.

It's kind of the opposite process for SEOing AI. Instead of creating a site that Google sees is better than everything else, Google tells you what's the best url/phone and then you go register that.

But this isn't new. Phone numbers from online search, review sites, and index sites were already suspect. There's tons of old stories of how scammers (including gig companies) find companies which haven't registered on those sites then registers themselves and their contact info, pretending to be that company. When you call, they either steal your info or charge a higher price and forward your order to the real company.

Have you looked into the metabolic theory of cancer? If not then I'd suggest giving that a look. The tl;dr for that would be to do the Carnivore Diet which likely slows down the cancer. Then you get a prescription for a shot that helps your body kill the now starving cancer cells (forget the name, a search on the theory should find it). Basically most cancers love and run off glucose. Your body can run off glucose or ketones (technically you use both but one will be significantly higher than the other). You'll be on ketones on that diet thus starving the cancer of the energy it needs.

The theory/treatments are too new for a lot of studies on them, but there are individual reports of people recovering from cancer that should have killed them.

The other thing to toss in there is The Iodine Protocol, especially if you're in the USA and eat carb heavy meals (bromine in the bread). It isn't an anti-cancer treatment but it would give your body a boost in fighting it. Iodine helps your body kill off misbehaving cells and basically everyone in the USA is iodine deficient unless you're specifically going out of your way to eat move of it (adding salt isn't good enough). You need to eat enough iodine to out compete the bromine you're coming in contact with (it's in bread, fire retardants, carpets, couches, cars, etc...).

Both things are easy to try with minor to no side effects and aren't expensive. At the very least the diet will help your joint pain.

Except at least one is likely exactly at the median so it's less than half are lower and less than half are higher.

Why does everyone get that wrong, especially when they're trying to sound smart or be technically correct.

So you're saying you don't have an ISP nor a cell phone plan? You don't make any purchases online? You don't have utility accounts? No mortgage and your landlord accepts cash payments? Hell, my used car came with services I had to cancel and those companies still physically mail me new sign-up offers nearly a year later. We really need better anti-harassment advertising/services laws.

You mean your company spent substantially more than $100 million intentionally creating a difficult-to-unsubscribe process. Fuck them.

For the technical aspect of the change, all you'd need to do is add a subscribe/unsubscribe checkbox to whatever your signup process is. That even works for call centers. "Are you calling to start or cancel?" Reuse the "is this a duplicate account" logic and the logic for terminating account should already exist. So from a tech perspective it's one data field being added to existing forms. Of course there's still documentation and testing. Probably an excessive number of design meetings as well. Though there shouldn't be many of those if the company was being moral about it. And don't forget legal costs analyzing new laws, but you need to keep an eye on them anyway.

Or the company could have been moral at the start and the resource cost would have been minimal. But no, and they've probably earned more from scamming people than it takes to update the company. So again, fuck your company.

Honesty test? You're the one being dishonest:

The advice is to better secure personal communications from public telecom level hacking. It specifically says not to replace existing secure government communications with public apps. Using it for official government communication instead of approved polices is not what is recommended. Using it for classified material is illegal regardless of if a department recommended it or not.

You are correct that anyone doing so should be called out, fired, and prosecuted. Using these things for official government communications is illegal (against record keeping laws?) It is fair to call out Trump's people for doing it because they are the current officials and they are using it illegally for government comms instead of just personal comms.

Slashdot title: "freeze your call if someone starts undressing"
iOS Warning: "paused because you may be showing something sensitive"

Those are two very different statements. Meaning this system doesn't stop incoming content, it just gives you a speedbump when giving out nudes.

And where's the test data set? What skin tones does it work on? What body shapes? I assume this news would be bigger if Apple finally got all that right rather than all the other nudity detectors which get so many things wrong. If I wanted to trust this to protect my kids (0) then I'd want to know the edge cases it misses and info about false positives. Further this is a child protection service not an adult blocking service. Was training it on developed adults good enough to protect undeveloped kids? Or is it just checking if a % of screen matches an estimated skin tone?

Aren't LLM inputs the same as neural network imports? Meaning a bunch of nodes receiving character/token/numeric input? In that case there's no way to isolate data vs commands unless you give every input node an additional node that toggles on/off if the related node is being given prompt or data input. Without training it like that injection attacks will always be possible.