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  1. They probably did. But since ALS damages brain cells, you likely have to re-calibrate. Looks like they were doing this in 2010 with less severely disabled people. I'm too lazy to look further back.

  2. And how was this controlled for confirmation bias, like has been discredited for other techniques where the person that reads the results also knows the answers

    The computer could be double-blinding it to an extent. It depends on if they're looking at the signal and making a human determination or if the computer is doing statistical analysis on the input and making the 'yes/no' answer for the researcher.

  3. it means that the machine can read your thought 40% of the time and then the remaining 60% is a coin flip.

    That's not how probabilities work. It's true that it's better by 20% than a coin flip, but the rest of your conclusions are completely wrong.

  4. Re: We ALREADY HAD cable TV without the box! on Roku Owners: Comcast Is About To Sell You Cable TV Without the Cable Box (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    And they didn't use a notch filter for blocking that - those were "encrypted" with an analog obfuscation scheme.

  5. Re:Tipping Point on HTTPS Adoption Has Reached the Tipping Point (troyhunt.com) · · Score: 1

    It's "evil" to be able to have your traffic sniffed. Leave that data for all the ad networks that serve ads over HTTPS.

  6. Re:How soon until this is extended to other areas? on 'Australia Is Stubbing Out Smoking' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't approve of ones that force the consumer to not have choice (New York banning drink size).

    That was one of the worst ideas, not that I live there.

    If I'm being cheap somewhere, I'll buy a large drink and share with my wife. One large is less than two smalls. And it has the added effect that since it's being shared, I don't feel entitled to "free" refills either. Overall, that means forced smaller sizes would be worse for my health.

  7. And in a first to file country, they can reverse engineer it and hopefully get their patent application in first.

  8. Re:Paint me a picture... on Touch Bar MacBook Pros Are Being Banned From Bar Exams Over Predictive Text (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    It looks like the TouchBar bypasses that restriction.

    It looks like they're too lazy to learn the API and turn it off. Software updates are for startups. Surely the program in focus has control at the OS level, right? You'd want the same for the rest of the keyboard (mostly).

  9. Re:We ALREADY HAD cable TV without the box! on Roku Owners: Comcast Is About To Sell You Cable TV Without the Cable Box (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    One of the cable cards that isn't working out is in a Silicon Dust three receiver unit, and I have no problems recording HD content off of it.

    If you're in a walled garden on Windows, I'm sure it works. But I want to do things my own way.

  10. Re:We ALREADY HAD cable TV without the box! on Roku Owners: Comcast Is About To Sell You Cable TV Without the Cable Box (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I suspect people would be up in arms if you had to go to the local cell phone store every time they wanted to change phones or plans

    A majority of people think this is the case (in the US at least).

  11. Re:We ALREADY HAD cable TV without the box! on Roku Owners: Comcast Is About To Sell You Cable TV Without the Cable Box (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course, digitally-switched traps or combiners could do it too (if they exist or could be made to exist). Since CableCard never really worked out, I've never had a reason to subscribe. The last time I had a subscription was Satellite where I connected the receiver to MythTV and controlled my own recording. Simply not possible to do well in HD with any current provider (without DMCA violations anyway).

  12. Re:They don't understand cord-cutters on Roku Owners: Comcast Is About To Sell You Cable TV Without the Cable Box (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Other commenters are saying this is a credit against the "per-outlet" fee that's much higher. Each Roku gets its own fee.

  13. Re:We ALREADY HAD cable TV without the box! on Roku Owners: Comcast Is About To Sell You Cable TV Without the Cable Box (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    The fact is, they already implemented it once. They can always do it again. You're right that you have to install separate equipment on every single line coming from the distribution point. The installer put one on mine when I signed up for Internet-only service to block the Clear-QAM local channels.

  14. Re:We ALREADY HAD cable TV without the box! on Roku Owners: Comcast Is About To Sell You Cable TV Without the Cable Box (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Just like analog cable, you can install channel filters to block channels to non-subscribers. This is a long-ago solved problem.

  15. Expect it to not work so great if you happen to use AT&T for your internet.

    Or count toward your bandwidth cap if you use Comcast.

  16. They don't understand cord-cutters on Roku Owners: Comcast Is About To Sell You Cable TV Without the Cable Box (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Cable is yet again trying to "modernize" itself too woo back the cord-cutters. Yeah, the Roku is not why people are cutting the cord. It's the pricing model that a $2.50 credit doesn't come even close to fixing.

  17. Re:What does this mean for Widevine? on Google Open-Sources Chrome For iOS (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    It means that Chromium and Chrome are not 100% identical - same as any and all proprietary code in Chrome (such as patent-restricted codecs). Bad headline, as I'm sure they released "Chromium" source.

  18. Re:Who wants DVDs? on Sony Warns It Will Take $1 Billion Writedown, Blames Slowing DVD Sales (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    There are CDs almost old enough to prove that (already at 35 years out of 50 on that tech). Plus, accelerated aging gives a good approximation.

  19. Re:Hyland's teething tablets on FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses To Recall (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, I'm very far from convinced that teething is even really a thing.

    Really? You don't remember when your permanent teeth grew in? Wisdom teeth? That doesn't mean there's an effective treatment (still tearing through flesh to erupt), but the pain is definitely real.

    Also, fever is a scientifically measurable symptom of teething.

  20. Re:Language continues to die ("router") on LG's UltraFine 5K Display Becomes Useless When It's Within Two Meters of a Router (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    When you write a summary, you summarize the article. That's what the article says. You shouldn't write your own interpretation into the summary.

  21. Re:Why is it insane for the router to be far? on LG's UltraFine 5K Display Becomes Useless When It's Within Two Meters of a Router (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    My car has a radio and speakers in it too, but that's not what it was "designed to do."

  22. Now tell us how a monitor is a radio as used in that definition.

    If it doesn't comply with FCC rules, it might be. "Any emission, radiation or induction" is a pretty wide definition.

  23. The FCC rules are not written in scientific language, you idiot.

  24. It's really hard to get hit by a meteorite. They're really heavy.

  25. I'm seeing too many Chinese products that don't have the FCC marking

    That only happens when they run out of the fake stickers.