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Comment Completely infeffective (Score 0) 21

Taking antiviral tablets for 8 to 12 weeks can cure more than 95% of cases.

As any anti-vaxxer like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr will tell you, if it's not 100% effective then it's useless. This drop in Hepatitis C cases can in no way be attributed to an antiviral medication. In reality, it's just people's natural immune system becoming more effective.

Note: if you have to ask, yes it is.

Comment Re:This is a bit too new to tell (Score 1) 116

The very same people who told right wingers to "go start your own" social media, when the whole big tech cabal collectively went after various people, are the same ones now complaining that they were banned without cause for posting on a Tuesday.

This isn't a pro or con right wing post, this is a "you made your bed now lie in it" post.

I'm not a fan of the bigoted posts from any side. People love the powers that be right up to and until they are on the wrong side of those powers. Take a moment and think things through, and lets stop being so damn tribal, and maybe, just maybe Liberty will survive.

Comment Re:Camera on a drone, but network? (Score 1) 63

It was is all lazy lego stick together. Which I am not even sure is wrong entirely except for the lazy part.

I have looks a number of larger drone systems land, sea, and air. The state of the art is mostly off the self components, especially where it comes to scientific equipment and sensors because redesign of that stuff would blow the budget out and modification would risk function and invalidation of a tested tool.

So what you get is a drone with an Ethernet lan aboard along with the usual NAT router and some kinda of wan link, usually satellite but often mobile/cellular. Depending on the level of actual sophistication / development that router might sweep up and store the sensor data (or have partner server that does) and republish it or the router might just expose the individual components to some VPN.

When I first was asked to start looking at some of these 'platforms' I really expected more automotive-like engineering, thought I'd see CAN bus and body-module like patterns and you do but it is typically restricted to motor/servo controls, and navigational equipment that actually drive/fly/sail the things around.

Comment Re:C != C (Score 1) 56

Alzheimer's disease is not related to people who have trouble paying attention or who are "easily confused". Alzheimer's is not a personality flaw that somehow leads to dementia, it is a neurological condition that is physically visible in brain tissue.

Comment Only voyeurs want these. That includes the seller (Score 1) 71

I have no fscking use for spyglasses or AI nonsense.

But if I could purchase a pair of glasses that function as a monitor of arbitrary size...and has the same or better resolution than my current monitor? In a heartbeat. No AI, no camera, no spyglass BS. Just shine a laser (or 3) in my eye and paint a monitor on my retina.
But nobody seems to be interested in making those.

Why?
Because the user functionality is bait.
The purpose of the glasses is surveillance for the benefit of the people selling them to you.

You can certainly use them for consensual POV vids, porn or otherwise.
If that's your thing then by all means have at it.
Just don't think for a minute you're the only one seeing the video.

Comment Samsung (Score 1, Redundant) 19

>"and the likes of Amazon, Samsung, and other phone manufacturers may also want to put their stores in front of potential customers. "

Samsung has had their own store integrated into all their phones/tablets for a loooong time. That isn't news. So I think perhaps the phrase was meant that Samsung might want to also be able to put their store onto non-Samsung phones/tablets.

Comment Re:Us number plates are hard to read (Score 1) 104

Hmmm....

Given that there is little prospect of the deep state giving up its toys, the debate comes down to a question of whether it's better to reduce false positives. On THAT basis the UK/EU style wins. OTOH false positives are what allows campaigners about the system to build up a case against it. So is it better that a few should suffer in order that there is a better chance for freedom for the masses?

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