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  1. Re:US Post Office always secure. on Senator Wants Nationwide, All-Mail Voting To Counter Election Hacks (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    >I thought we learned back in 2000 that exit polls weren't always the most reliable.

    But if they consistently reflect the actual polls over a number of elections, that's evidence that the voter intent is what got recorded. A large random variation or systemic variation would show up otherwise. If there's a discrepancy, there are all sorts of reasons that could be the cause of the discrepancy. E.G. , so it's easier to show the absence of fraud than the presence of fraud.

    We've seen both cases. Oregon seems to do OK with its mail in ballots compared the other places where voter intimidation and geographic exclusion are common practice.

  2. Re:US Post Office always secure. on Senator Wants Nationwide, All-Mail Voting To Counter Election Hacks (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    >How do you know that?
    >How do they know that?

    Because there isn't a statistically significant difference between how people report they have voted and the election results.

  3. Re:US Post Office always secure. on Senator Wants Nationwide, All-Mail Voting To Counter Election Hacks (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Because this Senator is from a state that largely doesn't matter in Presidential politics, and needs a headline so people remember him. Especially since he spends the vast majority of his time in either Washington DC or New York City, and not anywhere in the state he represents.

    You do know that senators are supposed to spend time in DC. It's where congress is. He appears to be an unusually competent senator. We only know this because in Oregon we have the internet, so we can check up on him without also travelling to DC.

  4. Nope. Hormesis is when a toxic substance is present but below its toxic level, it hardens the body by stimulating its defences.

    Homeopathy is when the substance is so dilute it isn't even there, which makes its claims ludicrous. Lots of junk science has been done, mostly using the placebo effect to claim homepathy works when it doesn't. No credible, competently run experiment that accounts for the placebo effect has shown homeopathy to work.
       

  5. ...or they will discontinue the service by next week.

    These are truly exciting times to be alive.

    Indeed.
    In other respects the new cameras are neat. Nice high resolution colour pictures over a wide range of light levels and direct streaming to ethernet.

    The consumer's dilemma is strong with this one. So much shiny, such deep vulnerabilities.

  6. Thinking about it, I can X over SSH to get in. I do that but not to monitor cameras. It's there to have a record when crap goes down.

  7. No.

    If I did, it would be through a VPN but those are not exactly easy to get right these days with all the prime number issues.

  8. I want to be able to connect my security camera system to the Internet so I can check on things remotely.

    There's Nest for that. You have to pay the hosting fee, however they're probably going to maintain the software as a result.

  9. It just got me a Amcrest PoE camera.

    I'm not sure why it needs to be on anything other than it's own lan segment accessible only to zoneminder. Vulnerabilities are presumably in there and are never going to be patched.

  10. Homeopathy works in many cases.

    In fairyland maybe, but not in a causal universe

    And the question if it works or not is not the point.

    Yes it is.

    The point is that you are fabulating properties into Homeopathy that are not there.

    No, I was stating those properties were not there. No fabulating was performed

    Because you don't know the actual concepts/ideas behind it. Plain and simple.

    Yes I do

    No idea what Hormesis, but I look it up.

    Go ahead. Let the science course through you throbbing brain veins.

  11. Re:Science Fiction is busy destroying itself on Why Is Science Fiction Snubbed By Literary Awards? (galacticbrain.com) · · Score: 1

    3. The solution is to address the misogyny, not to force everything into the 50/50 balance a lot of SJW want

    Why can't women be space marines?!?!?!

    Because they don't have the means to get into space. Low Earth orbit is attainable for both sexes though.

  12. >Apple is just but hurt

    So they are hurt even though they are a just company?

  13. Are the Developers being forced to make web browsers? Are They being forced to make browsers for iPhones? Are They being forced by Apple?

    You really didn't grasp the gist of the complaint did you?

  14. 5nm Limits? Phooey on Law-Defying Transistor Smashes Industry 'Limit', Measures Just 1nm (thestack.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This..
    >The semiconductor industry has long assumed that any gate below 5 nanometers wouldn't work, so anything below that was not even considered.

    This is simply false.

  15. >The very existence of the camera is proof that this is a location that someone has come before

    The very existence of ads on the web site for the camera shows a commercial incentive to make up bigfoot stories to drive traffic.

  16. I thought BitTorrent was a protocol to allow efficient distribution of large blobs of data.

    What do you need a studio for to be a BitTorrent?

  17. Re:Did it make Apple's developer docs usable again on Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store (kapeli.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    >I'm not sure what the Dash app does or how it works

    It is an application that lets you easily pull in documentation for hundreds of libraries and languages for offline reading and searching.
    I find it immensely useful. I use it to keep the docs for for pretty much anything I have ever used (languages, libraries, tools). Pulling the documentation in is a case of typing in the name and clicking on the thing you want.

    I comes into its own if you travel on planes and find that an ideal time to do some uninterrupted programming.

  18. Homeopathy does not disagree.
    Perhaps you want to read up how it is supposed to work?

    Homeopathy doesn't work.

    Hormesis certainly does work. Don't confuse the two.

  19. I took as some kind of information, the total lack of pictures of the 'garbage patch' in articles about the garbage patch. How hard would it have been for the people who have been there to pull out their phone and take a picture?

    It's right there in TFS. They sighted a piece "ever half second" while flying over in a C130. If they're going 100 miles/hour, they cover a bit less than 150 feet per second, or a visible bit of plastic every 75 feet. Dunno what their search width was, but I'd guess less than a quarter mile. They're not looking for microbeads - they're looking for visible, macroscopic floaters

    If you're walking through "remote wilderness" park and you come across an empty water bottle or a candy bar wrapper every 100 feet, you'd probably come to the conclusion that the park is full of garbage.

    If I'm told there's a floating garbage island in the sea, I expect evidence of it could be seen in photographs. Those that were claiming there were such islands or high densities of free floating garbage were simply lying. That some people were accurately reporting what was seen doesn't alter the fact that others were openly lying.

  20. How do you know? Dilution lessens the problem of many toxins.

    Dilution doesn't work for a number of reasons. It doesn't work here at all and it doesn't work in general as well as you think it does. Currents, for one. Bioconcentration, for another. The persistent nature of the compounds (or indeed particulates) in question, for another.

    So once more - How do you know? You're telling me stuff that happens, not how it is a problem or evidence for that problem..

  21. So you claim to be smart enough to know the term microbead, but are also too stupid to Google it....

    No at all. I claim to be smart enough to identify when I don't know something and to call people out when they claim to know something that they obviously don't.

  22. >That does not lessen the problem. There's still a vast amount of debris out there, just spread out a lot [noaa.gov], over multiple area

    How do you know? Dilution lessens the problem of many toxins. Why not this? Have you got a control Earth on the other side of the Sun where you tried it without the plastics?

  23. "there is no island of trash in the pacific"

    http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/the_next_20/2016/09/the_great_pacific_garbage_patch_was_the_myth_we_needed_to_save_our_oceans.html

    I took as some kind of information, the total lack of pictures of the 'garbage patch' in articles about the garbage patch. How hard would it have been for the people who have been there to pull out their phone and take a picture?

    There are good reasons to be concerned about digging carbon out of the ground and burning it. I'm not so sure a patch of microbead pollution in the middle of a huge ocean is something to be concerned with. Certainly nobody has put forth a compelling mechanism by which it will bring about our end.
     

  24. Re:I thought this app was for privacy? on Encryption App Signal Wins Fight Against FBI Subpoena and Gag Order (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    >So why does it want access to SMS?

    For the authentication phase.

  25. Re:then can create a single wifi network? on Google To Introduce Google Wifi, Google Home and 4K Chromecast Ultra Devices On October 4th (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    you mean like every wifi ap ever?

    WDS doesn't work at all with a lot of APs, and doesn't work properly with even more (e.g. won't interoperate with other AP software than itself.) Tomato and OpenWRT are both good platforms for actually making WDS work, though.

    Same comment as the one I made above. WDS and ESSID are different things.

    ESSID is the one that's worked from day one. WDS (4 address frames) took a bit longer to be properly comprehended by P802.11 and it is not something you want to use unless you need it. I remember an 802.1/11 summit in a plenary meeting where competing views of how to comprehend WDS in the 802.1 architecture were put forth.