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  1. There is at least decent physiological evidence for that.

  2. Brain still growing towards adult configuration. Still a kid.

  3. Re:You have that backwards asshole on Teen Allegedly Broke Into a Couple's Home To Ask For Their WiFi Password, Police Say (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, Drejka most certainly should have said something. However, he should have said his piece and then moved on.

    McGlockton was probably in the right to shove Drejka away since by that time he was shouting and looking like he might become violent. If Drejka actually feared things were going to go beyond a well earned shove, brandishing a weapon might have been justifiable, but simply pulling it out and shooting was going too far.

  4. Re:cart before the horse? on The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 2

    Yes, but when you don't yet know the answer, it helps if you can at least confine your search within what is possible. Math in general defines what is possible. We can further confine the search based of what math in particular can describe what we already know about reality.

    What's really interesting is that the algebra of Octonions seems to have the physical properties of the standard model naturally fall out as a result of the properties of the underlying algebra rather than having to be "bolted on" piece by piece. In general, that's a sign that you're on to something. Compare elliptical orbital mechanics controlled by one equation and a few simple parameters vs an infinite series of epicycles each hand tuned to fit observation.

  5. Re:Bugs on Google Executive Warns of Face ID Bias (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    To enlarge on that, even trying to create an unbiased data set can accidentally bias the data set. For example, should the racial mix of the training set be similar to the distribution in the population? You could accidentally undertrain it for some races resulting in the technological version of "they all look alike to me" BECAUSE you tried to make the training set unbiased.

    It is thought that the same thing happens to the neural net between our ears for people who live in a more homoginous population. No problem distinguishing between people in that population, everyone else all looks alike.

  6. Re:Face ID has no bias, training sets may on Google Executive Warns of Face ID Bias (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you sure it doesn't have problems caused by a different contrast between skin tone and background, for example? Perhaps the camera's automatic exposure and white balance adjustments are losing detail?

  7. Re:It's not the content, it's how you say it on Twitter Is Limiting the Visibility of Prominent Republicans In Search Results (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You must have been born after Bill Clinton left office. I say that because for a couple years in the late '90s it was impossible to watch the news or a late night talk show for more than 30 seconds or so without hearing all about Clinton and Lewinsky. He was eventually impeached, but not removed from office since as you said, having an affair isn't illegal.

    But even Bill "Horndog" Clinton knew better than to talk about grabbing women by the pussy while being video taped.

  8. Re:Thanks for my favorite bias example on Twitter Is Limiting the Visibility of Prominent Republicans In Search Results (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    So you don't like that she gave Hillary a black eye?

  9. Re:It's not the content, it's how you say it on Twitter Is Limiting the Visibility of Prominent Republicans In Search Results (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I just searched google for "Leland Yee" and for "Roy Moore".

    In both cases, party affiliation was mentioned in a little less than half or the pages returned.

    Try it, but keep a tally rather than counting on memory. You might be surprised.

  10. Re:My question... on 'No, Amazon Cannot Replace Libraries' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Translation, you want to have your cake and eat it too and you're pissed that I injected a bit of reality into the situation.

  11. Re:How about not blowing away work? on Windows 10 To Use Machine Learning in Latest Attempt To Make Reboots Less Annoying (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So why not keep asking until the reboot is done? Even so far as you can move the dialog out of your way so you can save but you can't make it go away until you reboot?

    And meanwhile, fic the rest of the old juke "You have moved the mouse, reboot so the change can take effect".

    It is nice that you don't have to reboot to change the IP address now,

  12. Re:Take away lesson: Back your computer up regular on Apple Seemingly Unable To Recover Data From 2018 MacBook Pro With Touch Bar When Logic Board Fails (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    You apparently mis-understood. Keep the T2, but tell it the key rather than having it hold the one and only copy. All 5 of the things you mention remain in force but if the logic board fails you can still have your data back by remembering your passphrase. Also you can have the full security and share access with someone else while retaining the ability to revoke that access later.

  13. Re:All the content is available on the Internet, b on 'No, Amazon Cannot Replace Libraries' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I read lot of ebooks for free. Some are out of copyright, but many are not. The two main sources I have are because the libraries pay a fee

    Yep, there's those libraries again! Indeed, perhaps if Amazon ever decides to offer such a service (IF), the LIBRARIES might throw a few bux their way too. But how are you going to read them without a reader and an internet connection?

    Public parks offer a place to sit and read, for free. You see, libraries aren't necessary.

    Where do you live where the parks have shelves of books for reading? Which is it, are some people unable to carry them around or not? So where will you get the books to read in the park if not the library?

    For someone who wants libraries gone, you sure do seem to be digging up a lot of reasons why they should continue existing.

    Thus a subsidy. You're not paying the true cost. And it has nothing at all to do with the real function of a library. It's a makerspace.

    Let's see, they're collecting the cost of materials and the cost of the hardware. Where is the subsidy again?

    Providing a way for auto-didacts who are long on drive and short on cash to improve their knowledge. Sounds on-mission to me.

  14. Re:My question... on 'No, Amazon Cannot Replace Libraries' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Then don't pay them.

    Then what? Sell the kids for experiments? Sure, some do it as a public service, but few can afford to do it for free. Many do it because they can't qualify (ironically) to adopt. The kids aren't just going to disappear and if the state took custody, their care is the responsibility of the state unless or until they are adopted by parents who are willing and able to take significantly better care of them than the parents who lost custody..

    And again, if you/your parents were even vaguely eligible for free (to you) lunches, then they didn't have the money to pay full price to a private school. I am not questioning your parent's virtue, just looking at what tuition costs vs what school lunch costs and the means test to get a "free" lunch.

  15. Re:Take away lesson: Back your computer up regular on Apple Seemingly Unable To Recover Data From 2018 MacBook Pro With Touch Bar When Logic Board Fails (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    As I said, even if that never happens, you're still better off with the schema I laid out and there is no down side.

  16. Re:All the content is available on the Internet, b on 'No, Amazon Cannot Replace Libraries' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    There are free programs to help people who can't read learn how to. I'll bet you can find out about such programs AT THE LIBRARY. Other then the library, there is not a free program to lend people books to read or readers to let them read free e-books (which mostly aren't offered except for ancient books out of copyright). There are resources on the internet IF you have internet access and something to browse with. That's where the library comes in.

    If they can't carry the book around, libraries offer a place to sit and read.

    As for the rest, you have confused censorship with choosing on a limited budget and with limited space what books will do the most good for the most people. If they get more money and more space they will choose more.

    As for the 3D printing, you typically pay for the materials used and even enough over to eventually pay for the printer. They just don't try to turn it into a profit center.

  17. Re:Take away lesson: Back your computer up regular on Apple Seemingly Unable To Recover Data From 2018 MacBook Pro With Touch Bar When Logic Board Fails (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    ...and someone else can trivially pull the drive and work on decryption to their heart's content. They can even copy the encrypted data off the SSD, return it to the computer, and work on decryption after telling the owner that they "Found their computer"...

    They can do that now.

    Remember that I said that the Secure Boot has 3 settings? One of them is "Off". So you can run the Super Happy Joy Ultra Best Linux Distro all you want!

    Until critical update 6573563 turns that option off.

    Even if that update never comes, you're still better off with the scheme I laid out that offers the ability to recover data if the logic board fails and has no downside for you.

  18. Re:My question... on 'No, Amazon Cannot Replace Libraries' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I read what you wrote, I just thought you couldn't be that unaware of how things work. FOSTER parents are paid by the state (yes, your tax dollars) to take children in for a limited time and provide them a temporary home. In practice, that home environment ranges from excellent to they'd be better off as runaways on the street (and many do). You're thinking of ADOPTIVE parents, but generally they are interested in adopting babies, not school age children. This is shown by the number of kids who age out of foster care rather than being adopted.

    Notably, kids who age out of foster care are far more likely than average to end up below the poverty line or incarcerated.

    Meanwhile, if your parents were even vaguely eligible for a school lunch program, you either went to public school (somebody's tax dollars, exactly what you're protesting now), or private school on a voucher (somebody's tax dollars) or grant (somebody's tax dollars). Under your proposal, you would have been one of those kids that eventually aged out of foster care after living with an average of 6 different foster families.

  19. Re:My question... on 'No, Amazon Cannot Replace Libraries' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    So, when the government uses threats of violence to wrench children from their parents, you will happily not only pay to educate them but also to provide food, clothing, shelter, and healthcare (not to mention extensive bills for therapy)?

    If you think education is 'real cheap' in America, your parents quietly paid a lot more than you think and know it or not, you were born on third base.

  20. Re: It is the app’s fault on VLC Blacklists Newer Huawei Devices To Combat Negative App Reviews (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The people complaining are exactly the ones that typically install software with OK,OK,OK,agree,OK,OK and don't even read the dialogs.

    If you're not that sort of user, you can still sideload the APK directly from VLC's site and make the necessary change.

  21. Re:Take away lesson: Back your computer up regular on Apple Seemingly Unable To Recover Data From 2018 MacBook Pro With Touch Bar When Logic Board Fails (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    They would be better off (and make data recovery more likely) if the user provides the T2 with a boot pasphrase. The AES key is the sha2 hash of the passphrase.

    That plus a socketed SSD provides the same security but now you can recover from a failed logic board.

    You are necessarily no worse off with that since you should have a backup encrypted with a key known to you anyway.

    Even better is a randomly generated working key encrypted with the sha2 hash of a passphrase. Then you can have multiple passphrases that can be individually revoked or changed without re-encrypting the drive.

    The only 'advantage' to the way it's being done now is that Apple and the *AA can make sure you can't choose to run your own modified OS that does what you want. The cost is that you may lose your ability to recover your own data.

  22. Re:Take away lesson: Back your computer up regular on Apple Seemingly Unable To Recover Data From 2018 MacBook Pro With Touch Bar When Logic Board Fails (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    If it's important enough, board level repair might allow for target disk mode, IF parts and documentation were are available.

    I'm not so sure what the use case is for the encryption being locked in the T2 though. If the user doesn't have to enter a password to get it to access the data, it might as well not encrypt. If the user does, why store a key in the T2?

  23. Re:Here's a whacky idea on Russian Hackers Reach US Utility Control Rooms, Homeland Security Officials Say (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Defense in depth is needed, but first, they need to address the case that's much much worse than stopping at air-gapping: Assuming they're protected by an airgap when they actually aren't.

  24. Re:side with the authorities here on WhatsApp Balks at India's Demand To Break Encryption (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    And so they can find out who originated a bunch of messages all at one time quietly and cheaply rather than with a noisy effort that might make them justify the action.

  25. Re:My question... on 'No, Amazon Cannot Replace Libraries' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    An excellent question. Here's another, why should my tax dollars pay for the education of your children?

    Because one day, you and your children (if any) will have to depend on them to help run the world.

    I presume you got an education?