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  1. Re:Gmail is broken by design on macOS 10.14.4 Mail Client Has Broken Gmail Access For Some Users (apple.com) · · Score: 1

    To add, looking at comments, this specific issues seems to be an authentication issue, resolved by creating a new 'app password (for non 2fa clients), then re-adding the account in Mac Mail. So, not related to any type of IMAP/GMAIL folder mapping.

  2. Re:Gmail is broken by design on macOS 10.14.4 Mail Client Has Broken Gmail Access For Some Users (apple.com) · · Score: 1

    I am no IMAP expert - but I would wager that it is somehow related to the fact that gmail uses labels/tags instead of folders. AFAIK with IMAP one message can be in one folder. With Gmail, a folder is just messsages with only one label, but messages can have many labels. Translating that to IMAP seems to be a likely clusterfuck area.

  3. This 'AI' and others of it's ilk will be jumped on by law enforcement and government. They do not care if it is wrong. Just like existing polygraphs, it will be used to psychologically bully people and fool juror/the populace while having no basis in real science.

    With the current trend towards anti-intellectualism we have now, this will only get worse, not better.

    Read some of the info here about 'lie detection'. https://antipolygraph.org/

    I have some intimate experience with polygraphs. As a convicted sex offender, I have had to submit to them as part of a treatment regimen. I have passed polygraphs I lied on, and failed them while telling the truth. The judgement lies in the examiners subjective whims, not anything objective.

  4. Re:Property is dead on Android Q Will Include More Ways For Carriers To SIM Lock Your Phone (9to5google.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly this. I have a verizon Pixel XL - it was on a contract but acting flaky. I paid it off and upgrades to a Pixel 3 XL. The old XL still works, but every other reboot it hang sin some sort of unactivated mode that hands th whole OS until I force a reboot. I paid for this phone. It should be mine to use on wifi as a media player, camera, whatever.

  5. Then you dissolve the rest in toxic chemicals, with child workers breathing in the fumes. Then you can extract the metals, and dump the chemicals into the ground.

  6. Re:environmental damage ? on New York Sky Turns Bright Blue After Transformer Explosion (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Just here to say thank. I don't come here often anymore and have no mod points, but I am glad to see knowledgeable people chime in on a subject instead of just armchair experts.

  7. Both are black-ish boxes on Why I'm Usually Unnerved When Modern SSDs Die on Us (utoronto.ca) · · Score: 1

    Yes, you can listen for mechanical issues, yes you can (sometimes) read bad block and other SMART data. But, ultimately, without millions in equipment and skills, you just do not know. It is a cheap data storage brick. Choose one appropriate for your capacity and I/O needs, have a good backup plan in place, and quit whining.

  8. I used Premium Google Play Music for 3-4 years. Due to finances, I cut it. I recently got a spotify premium trial (after using free spotify for a few months). GPM beats it hands down in terms of navigation, recommendations, etc. I am certainly biased by the long use of GPM, but when I try to look as subjectively as possible I still think GPM wins. Also, I have uploaded a large amount of my old vinyl and CD collection to GPM, whihc is handy. I also have it all on a plex server, but even with a beast of a server at home and a good connection, plex is slow and clunky. It also does not pre-buffer files in the playlist so there are LONG delays between tracks.

    I really dread what is going to happen with a half baked app from Google that will probably fail and be dropped.

  9. Re:Facebooks business is selling ads on Reporters Posed as 100 Senators To Run Ads on Facebook. Facebook Approved All of Them. (vice.com) · · Score: 1
    Sorry, voting is not a right to be earned. It may suck that stupid uninformed people vote. There will always be some (a few or a lot). The amount could be reduced by better education, including civics and critical thinking/logic courses which we do not really do.

    But, making it an earned right buts the permission of people to vote in the hands of the elected. Once you block people from voting based on some arbitrary knowledge, you can use that vague test to effectively block people by gender, race, etc. Not a slope I want to slide down. We already blocked Native Americans, African Americans, women, and still mostly block felons and others. Let's not make it worse please. Instead lets work to actually create an informed electorate.

  10. Re:Secret? on Google Launches reCAPTCHA v3 That Detects Bad Traffic Without User Interaction (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The javascript can read information like mouse movement and other user info and behavior, shipping that off to a google server farm for processing. The actual algo that decides human/not human does not have to reside in the browser side code.

  11. A poem on Prank Calls Brought ICE Hotline To a Standstill, Internal Emails Show (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Home, by Warsan Shire (British-Somali poet)

    no one leaves home unless
    home is the mouth of a shark.

    you only run for the border
    when you see the whole city
    running as well.

    your neighbours running faster
    than you, the boy you went to school with
    who kissed you dizzy behind
    the old tin factory is
    holding a gun bigger than his body,
    you only leave home
    when home won't let you stay.

    no one would leave home unless home
    chased you, fire under feet,
    hot blood in your belly.

    it's not something you ever thought about
    doing, and so when you did -
    you carried the anthem under your breath,
    waiting until the airport toilet
    to tear up the passport and swallow,
    each mouthful of paper making it clear that
    you would not be going back.

    you have to understand,
    no one puts their children in a boat
    unless the water is safer than the land.

    who would choose to spend days
    and nights in the stomach of a truck
    unless the miles travelled
    meant something more than journey.

    no one would choose to crawl under fences,
    be beaten until your shadow leaves you,
    raped, then drowned, forced to the bottom of
    the boat because you are darker, be sold,
    starved, shot at the border like a sick animal,
    be pitied, lose your name, lose your family,
    make a refugee camp a home for a year or two or ten,
    stripped and searched, find prison everywhere
    and if you survive and you are greeted on the other side
    with go home blacks, refugees
    dirty immigrants, asylum seekers
    sucking our country dry of milk,
    dark, with their hands out
    smell strange, savage -
    look what they've done to their own countries,
    what will they do to ours?

    the dirty looks in the street
    softer than a limb torn off,
    the indignity of everyday life
    more tender than fourteen men who
    look like your father, between
    your legs, insults easier to swallow
    than rubble, than your child's body
    in pieces - for now, forget about pride
    your survival is more important.

    i want to go home, but home is the mouth of a shark
    home is the barrel of the gun
    and no one would leave home
    unless home chased you to the shore
    unless home tells you to
    leave what you could not behind,
    even if it was human.

    no one leaves home until home
    is a damp voice in your ear saying
    leave, run now, i don't know what
    i've become.

    but i know that anywhere is safer than here. (Painting: Holy Family Icon by Kelly Latimore)

  12. Re:I don't get it... on Prank Calls Brought ICE Hotline To a Standstill, Internal Emails Show (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...what has happened so fundamentally in our country (US) where people don't care about actual citizenship, and protecting our borders?

    If you are here in this country illegally, you have criminally trespassed. You should be deported.

    That is the current law.

    If folks don't like that, then start to put pressure on your congress-critters and have them change the laws.

    I agree we need to update and fix the immigration laws. It should be fair, and a more simple and less $$ process, BUT, it also should allow for control of who all gets to come in. I think we could look to encourage more immigration from those that are educated and can come to the US and help the workforce and economy right away.

    There will be some lower educated types too, as that all levels are needed, but the ratio needs to be controlled.

    But I just don't get these seemingly increasing number of folks in the US promoting full blown open borders, with no control of who gets in here.

    While it is noble to take our great wealth and resources to help others around the world, we can NOT support the whole world and cannot house or bring everyone and their goat into our country.

    If countries, such as in South America are having such problems,.....we can't bring everyone here, those people need to fix things at HOME and stay there.....

    ICE is the part of the federal government that helps control immigration and deports those that come here illegally. Why do we not support them?

    Hell, one of the few constitutionally enumerated responsibilities and powers of the federal government IS to protect our borders.

    I am liberal. I do not support 'wide open borders'. I do not know anyone that does.

    You do know that most of the problems in central america are US caused. In Hondouras we helped with the coup that created the current shitty government, high murder rate and poor conditions. We push the war on drugs that only enriches cartels in these countries.

    As to illegal immigrants. it is capitalists here that provide the opportunity. They are economically unwilling or unable to hire Americans and pay them a higher wage and taxes and instead hire illegals. Who should be punished in this scenario? The person looking for abetter life, or the businessman, farmer, construction company that exploits their labor to the detriment of citizens?

    Also, this caravan - if it comes to a border point - this is legal asylum seeking. The office of refugee resettlement spends about half a billion per year resettling asylum seekers. Trumps camps cost 2 billion in just a few months. Sometimes it is cheaper just being a decent person.

    This country has PLENTY. The only reason it does not feel like that to most is the artificial scarcity imposed by the oligarchy. This is the capitalism so many her slavishly and uncritically adore.

  13. "And nothing of value was lost"

  14. Re:cost in America will go up to cover this on China Negotiating For Cheaper Cancer Drugs (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Well that goes without saying - but our reps have long since sold out. I don't think anything will change that short of collapse or revolution.

  15. Re:cost in America will go up to cover this on China Negotiating For Cheaper Cancer Drugs (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In the US - the gvmnt cannot negotiate the price of drugs - even for medicare/medicaid. Given that these programs are one of the biggest purchasers of drugs in the USA - this is a golden teat that pharmaceutical companies will continue to exploit - by raising prices all around. Why not, their biggest customer is guaranteed to pay any price.

  16. Hey dick. I was in prison for over a decade and had to submit to searches like that.

    I still do not agree with TSA search/scans even if much milder. We are using fear to control the population, and wasting treasure (money). Our 'leaders' loving having that fear to wield as a cudgel, and the real terrorists are laughing as our society turns in on itself in fear and waste.

  17. I think this may have been a more general DDOS (seemingly on DNS infrstructure). I use comcast at work with google DNS and major sites were down all over. downdetector and digital attack map showed evidence of a massive DDOS too.

    I hate comcast but maybe this one is not on them (or just them).

  18. Pump and dump - it's not just for hookers anymore.

  19. Re:It could be so much easier! on Apple Is Testing a Feature That Could Kill Police iPhone Unlockers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Thinking about it some more, having it have multiple steps would help. Perhaps the dead-man trigger would not wipe the device but put it into an 'alert' state such that any attempt at data connection through USB or failed 'real' unlock attempt would wipe the device.

  20. Re:It could be so much easier! on Apple Is Testing a Feature That Could Kill Police iPhone Unlockers (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    What you are promoting is a dead-man-switch. Technically easy to implement, but not done by any device manufacturer currently. Probably because they do not want the piles of support calls for accidental phone wipes.

  21. It should be named Facebook Universal CryptoKoin or FUCK on the exchanges.

  22. Re:Concrete != cement on Can We Live Without Concrete? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It is the cement production that releases CO2. Concrete is an aggregate of cement and sand, stone etc. - so yeah, cement is the proper term here.

  23. 5% on Can We Live Without Concrete? (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    FIVE PERCENT of global CO2 emissions for cement production. Reinforced is one of the most useful, versatile, and inexpensive construction materials we have devised. I wish to reduce co2 emissions - targeting something that far down the stack seems stupid to me given its utility. Much better gains in CO2 reduction can be made elsewhere (power generation and transportation).

  24. Re:Yes, there is an alternative on Can We Live Without Concrete? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I am not knocking hemp - we should use it more. But, please - try to build a skyscraper or bridge out of hemp. Get back to me on that when you figure it out.

  25. Re: Private company on YouTube Is Removing Some Nootropics Channels (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Something similar can be said about any non-union employee working in an at-will employment state. No contractual guarantee....