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  1. Robistify is not English on Alexa Scientists Claim Audio Watermarking Technique Nearing 100% Accuracy (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Please sue your grade school for malpractice.

  2. My two Mac Pros 5,1s are still chugging along on The Most Powerful iMac Pro Now Costs $15,927 (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    48 Gigs of RAM and room for eight hard drives plus SSD raid card internally et cetera makes these a great option still and sadly the only option. The future will be what it is. Likely Ubuntu servers for the drives if Apple can't get their heads out of the sand and with no value added for the rest of the system, well, the main workstations / laptops can be anything.

    Hey, Apple, the point of a walled garden is to make the garden nice. You're at the point where you've stopped even maintaining the walls. I'm not your largest customer but I recommend a lot. When I go, the recommendations go with me.

  3. This is what the Romulans did. on 'Halo Drive' Would Use Black Holes To Power Spaceships (space.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I hope it works out better.

  4. The further you are from the equator... on DST-Hating Reps in Washington State Vote To 'Ditch the Switch' (komonews.com) · · Score: 1

    ...the less your opinion about daylight saving matters.

    People whose lives are comfortable blow minor things up so they have something to complain about. Taking advantage of as much daylight as we can is a good idea. These idiots will be the first to complain that it's dark in the winter.

  5. In Trek: TNG Haven was where they married nude on Amazon's Joint Health-Care Venture Finally Has a Name: Haven (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I hope this isn't a requirement.

  6. What you're saying is you want people to go after the key holder. Because that is what will happen as sure as robbers went after banks because 'that's where the money is.'

  7. When Gutenberg's press went into production.

    The facts are that encryption is a byproduct of math and any computer science student can develop and encryption system as a school project. This is like trying to hold back the printing press. It's not going to happen.

    What did happen is that law and social values evolved to accommodate the printing press. Defamation was compartmentalized into libel versus slander and social and political conventions emerged to balance different interests.

    The same is happening here.

  8. Winter and tiles don't get along on Google's Sidewalk Labs Thinks a Reinvented Awning Will Fix Toronto's Winter (engadget.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Cities that face winter use poured slabs for sidewalks because there are no cracks for the water to get into, freeze and then expand and break material. This will never make it past a demo section of pavement in a place near city hall so local officials can get their photos taken.

    Why, oh, why, would you embed electronics that need to be maintained and repaired into sidewalks particularly once ... I'll stop here. Physics will just take care of this idiocy unfortunately some taxpayer money will get wasted in the process, hopefully not much.

  9. Wait... what happened to the famous pipeline? on Tim Cook To Investors: Apple is Working on Future Products That Will 'Blow You Away' (macrumors.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They've killed off much of the ecosystem of products -- time capsules, excellent routers and repeaters, monitors -- and the entire line computer like is now made of laptop parts, they killed off their support for education, and their pro applications and computers. Could it be that the famous pipeline of products they promised after Jobs's death was smoke and mirrors? For shame!

  10. Nevermind this - where's this famous pro tower? on Apple Expected To Move Mac Line To Custom ARM-Based Chips Starting Next Year, Says Report (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm looking a two Mac Pros in front of me with seven drives shoehorned into the nearest one and nearly all of the PCI cards used. I've changed so many parts in it the thing has become the Ship of Theseus. They promised a new pro machine and nary a peep so far other than they've got 'top men' working on it. Well, where is it already?

  11. Wharrr. Wharrr pro tower?

  12. To quote Grumpy Cat. on Facebook Settlement With FTC Could Run Into the Billions (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Good. They made a fortune off of poisoning the well of civic conversation.

  13. The like button gets brigaded as well on YouTube Struggles To Fight Mobs Weaponizing Their 'Dislike' Button (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Google rose to prominence by showing the web as it was without fear or favour. This gave them considerable advantage over then-competitors who hand-indexed the web based upon user inputs and corporate priorities. Google is normalizing deviance from this critical system. For them, this was a category one priority and much of their internal product research was based around this. Weaponizing the dislike button is as common as brigading the like button. People beg for likes as they share videos about this or that important message depending on this week's crisis du jour. In fact, many YouTube videos begin and end by begging for likes. I bet if people had brigaded the like button for YouTube's Rewind video management would not be complaining. It will take a while but Google prioritizing opinion shaping will devalue their search product offering. And given how broadly distributed their search function is throughout their product portfolio this may have interesting second and third order effects.

  14. The researchers call this "over-reproduction." on LSD Changes Something About the Way People Perceive Time, Even At Microdoses (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    In laymen's terms, stoned.

  15. Where's my new Mac Pro full-size workstation? on The Apple Mac Turns 35 Years Old (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    I want a box I can put multiple video cards, half a dozen hard drives and several PCI cards in.

    It will have a very busy, high heat duty cycle so nothing with laptop parts, please. It's going to be using all of the electricity that comes out of the wall so give me a box that can move a lot of air through it.

    My Mac Pro 5,1s are hanging on but I can use a refresh. Currently nothing, nothing in the Mac line up is anything close to a replacement and please don't suggest that using EGPUs makes sense on a desktop machine.

    I want a new full sized tower for heavy lifting.

  16. Or they may go the Nikon route on Apple Might Start Making Its Own Batteries For iPhones, Macs (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Nikon does not fab their own sensors. They source them from Sony and some other companies. What they do have is a sensor design team or department that acts as though they have a fabrication facility. This lets them take the product offering from Sony and then spec it to their particular needs. Apple may not need to make batteries ultimately but they certainly go through a lot of them and developing in-house expertise on this component cannot hurt them.

  17. >He deliberately published a huge amount of false data ...

    He published nothing. Other people who should have known better published it. That, that precisely, is the problem.

  18. You may want to take a closer look. The papers were written to be ridiculous, and sometimes clearly contradicted themselves to see if anyone was reading them all the way through.

  19. He made up patently absurd nonsense that should have been rejected prima fascie. There's a big difference there.

    You may want to take a look at the papers -- they're utterly bizarre and the correspondence from the editors shows their ... otherworldliness ... for wont of another term. Read the dog park paper and the editor's bizarre comments.

  20. Snowden had no intention to flee to Russia. His intention was got go to Equador from Hong Kong but his passport was revoked mid-flight. He was stopped en route when making his connection to Cuba.

  21. Good thing they have a diversified product list on Apple Says It Could Miss $9 Billion In iPhone Sales Due To Weak Demand (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    With pro level machines, machines priced for education and the general public to mitigate and ups and downs in sales.

  22. That's probably the oldest app I have installed on The Old Guard of Mac Indy Apps Has Thrived For More Than 25 Years (macworld.com) · · Score: 1

    PopChar is a close second.

  23. Re: It's even worse if you're a demanding user on Did Apple Retail Prices Get Too High in 2018? Consumers Say Yes. (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm techncial enough that I don't imagine this will be a problem. Thanks, mind.

  24. It's even worse if you're a demanding user on Did Apple Retail Prices Get Too High in 2018? Consumers Say Yes. (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    There was a theme in 1950s science fiction about degraded societies who could use technology but after a disaster could no longer manufacture or even properly understand it. This is how I look at Apple today. I look at the two Mac Pro 5,1s in front of me right now and see no replacement for them, and no replacement for them on the horizon.

    There's not even a hint of embarrassment about it. Saying you want pro level workstations is like talking a foreign language in the Apple world. Look, a laptop with an E-GPU is not substitute for a workstation and in the case of a desktop, needing to add an E-GPU is an idiotic solution when the video cards are literally designed to pop into card slots, so no, a Mac mini is not a solution.

    They've become a company of telephones. And, barring an course correction, my next computers will be Hackintoshes.

  25. We need to get behind more important things on 'Sending Astronauts To Mars Would be Stupid' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Like complaining about what scientists wear when guiding interplanetary missions. Thats where real human achievement will occur.