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  1. Pixar doesn't do a lot of video editing. Most of what they do is 3D modeling and animation, using their own proprietary software.

  2. Re:Totally Agreee on 'Watershed' Medical Trial Proves Type 2 Diabetes Can Be Reversed (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, weighing yourself every day is aiming for more precise than possible. Unless you want to weigh the food you eat and your urine and bowel movements every time you have them. Once a week is plenty.

  3. Re:I fully expect... on 'Watershed' Medical Trial Proves Type 2 Diabetes Can Be Reversed (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If not being overweight is a "lifestyle change" then it's a cure. That's like saying not hitting yourself in the arm will put bruises into remission. That's not remission, it's just not hurting your body and making it unable to function properly.

  4. Re: What specific problem did NN try to solve? on FCC Won't Delay Vote, Says Net Neutrality Supporters Are 'Desperate' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    By that logic, Microsoft was never a monopoly. And yet it was ruled to be abusing its status as one.

    If all the options are worse because they are not allowed to compete at the same level, that is a monopoly as determined by our courts.

  5. Re: What specific problem did NN try to solve? on FCC Won't Delay Vote, Says Net Neutrality Supporters Are 'Desperate' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Not handing out my address, but no - there is one real DSL option and exactly one Cable option if I'm excluding satellite and cellular. Sure, legally DSL is open to competition, but in practice there are only higher prices and speeds so slow as to not be worth it.

    Unless you have some secret place to look...

  6. Re:Another variation on the Paradox of Choice on Fewer Toys Gives Kids a Better Quality of Playtime, Study Claims (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    Easy way for me is that every month there's a "What's coming and going from Netflix" article on Lifehacker, and use that to discover new movies or shows. I still have my disc subscription, but realized that I recently paid about $60 to rent one disc because I forgot about it since February. Turned out that the disc arrived cracked in half back then. Most of my queue is rare stuff anyway, so no streaming options. I would have to buy the DVD outright on a gamble - though less of a gamble than $60 to rent.

  7. Re:Another variation on the Paradox of Choice on Fewer Toys Gives Kids a Better Quality of Playtime, Study Claims (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course, part of the reason this doesn't happen on Netflix for me is that I have a queue over 100 items deep with content I pre-selected when I had time to do it (and was more interested in browsing in a web browser than watching a movie).

  8. Re:Another variation on the Paradox of Choice on Fewer Toys Gives Kids a Better Quality of Playtime, Study Claims (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    I must not have ADD. I've never started a movie on Netflix and only watched part of it, especially not repeatedly. I might laugh at how bad it is, but I can at least commit to it.

    What you're saying has little to do with available choices and more to do with a short attention span.

  9. Re: Imagination on Fewer Toys Gives Kids a Better Quality of Playtime, Study Claims (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    Who is Jesus Christmas?

    And what of kids too young to be literate?

  10. Well stopping at that point in the story is a bit misleading...

  11. Don't know if you meant 'Certified Engineer' or meant certifiable as a joke - as in "officially recognized as needing treatment for a mental disorder."

  12. Re:Hard work is not a four letter word on The Compelling Case For Working Less (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "thanks to the indoctrination from government education" many of us have crippling debt. Working hard isn't nearly enough to dig yourself out. I don't know who you think you know, but your generalizations are false.

  13. Re: What specific problem did NN try to solve? on FCC Won't Delay Vote, Says Net Neutrality Supporters Are 'Desperate' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "open up the market"? There's all kinds of other providers on the market. And they unofficially carve up the country and do not operate in the same territories, because they want a local monopoly everywhere they serve. But a local monopoly somehow doesn't count as a monopoly.

  14. Re:What specific problem did NN try to solve? on FCC Won't Delay Vote, Says Net Neutrality Supporters Are 'Desperate' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    youtube-next, or itunes-next from some new startup

    Or forgetting content providers, just me connecting my home network to a friend's home network down the street. That's Internet service and should not require a ransom payment to be usable either.

  15. Re:"About $5.5 billion in revenue was lost to pira on Not Even Free TV Can Get People To Stop Pirating Movies and TV Shows (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    They sue for distribution, not downloading. The number of people you seeded to is the number of infractions they go after.

  16. higher nitrate for clearer picture,

    Though a bit more pink.

  17. Not the biggest issue with 10.13 on Apple Snafu Means Updating To macOS 10.13.1 Could Reactivate Root Access Bug (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I had a customer with an older Macbook Pro, for whom updating to 10.13 overwrote her boot partition with the 10.13 recovery partition - then froze dead in its tracks leaving the laptop unbootable. All her files that weren't overwritten had to be recovered by signature through Photorec.

    I put in a brand new hard drive (the drive was starting to fail), and installed Sierra. Updating to 10.13 (High Sierra) did the same thing again.

    Only resetting the PRAM solved it. I can't really even make sense of why that was required or why that worked.

  18. Absolutely fits. Not just for OS X and iOS where even the first point release is still too buggy to bother with on a new version, but also for their products in general where they pretend major flaws like swelling batteries don't exist.

  19. Re:Security Risks on Should Apple Share iPhone X Face Data With App Developers? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Most biometric data already is (freely available to anyone within observation distance) - that's the whole reason for the problem with using it as a password in the first place.

  20. Re:Security Risks on Should Apple Share iPhone X Face Data With App Developers? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The first is that it is a lot harder for you to change your face than it is to change a password.

    That's why biometric data should only be used as a user ID, not a password. So far, there are very few devices that do this at all.

  21. Signal to Noise issue on Your Brain 'Blinks' When Your Attention Shifts, Researchers Discover (vanderbilt.edu) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Changing visual focus means moving your eyes or head. There's a huge rush of information as everything in between passes by in a blur. If you don't ignore that information it tries to take over your focus. I'm sure that this is probably learned behavior, much like learning to drive means learning to ignore most visual input and only see the things that matter.

  22. Re:The ADD of Mozilla continues on Mozilla Releases Open Source Speech Recognition Model, Massive Voice Dataset (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    While I agree, the recognition should be weighted by context - so that keywords are recognized more readily. At least until natural language processing progresses by leaps and bounds from where we are now. And if there isn't a way for the server side to provide context hints, you'll want to process the voice server-side anyway.

  23. Re:typo in the title on Democrat Senators Introduce National Data Breach Notification Law (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: 1

    The groups are called Democrats and Republicans.

    And when you use it descriptively, you call them "Republican" senators. So why would the group name not apply?

    So it is with "Democratic Senators" with the emphasis on the capital "D".

    While it may be less common, both phrases have been in use since the 1800's, according to Google's Ngram viewer. That one is more common doesn't make the other wrong.

  24. Re:Read the complaint on Disney Sues Redbox, Hoping To Block Digital Movie Sales (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    The first sale doctrine applies to a particular copy of the work.

    The first sale doctrine applies to EVERYTHING. Not just copyrighted work. If you buy it, you can sell it. If you license something, you can't sell the license. Nobody has licensed the content until the code is redeemed (at least that should be Redbox's argument).

  25. Re:Read the complaint on Disney Sues Redbox, Hoping To Block Digital Movie Sales (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Sort of my point. Only the purchaser (Redbox's customer) would be breaking the EULA. Suing Redbox should make no sense. But Disney knows the end users don't have enough money to bother with.