Posts by Eddy Ito

Re: you could simply not put the creepy things in your home

More terrifying is the politicians who seem to think 1984 provides all the fixes to the shortcomings of Animal Farm and once both are properly implemented it will produce their ideal society.

Re: Let's be careful out there

That's kind of why I'm hopeful. Once all the deep fakes and meddling are known common practices I think people will become more skeptical of everything they see and hear and less prone to the knee jerk bloviating that so saturates anti-social media. I'm also hopeful that people will see the blatant political hyperbole for theatrical histrionics it is.

Then again, I'm hopeful I'll find a valid winning lottery ticket in my jacket pocket even though I haven't bought one for years.

Re: An ARM version might be more useful...

Hmm... I wonder what it would take to give the full Tails treatment to Android. I know you can get an ARMv7 Tor Browser on Android but I really want the whole enchilada. Tordroid anyone?

Don't worry, the lawyers will each get a similar check but with six or seven more zeros.

If wikipedia is correct, I actually find it amusingly ironic to think that some neo-nazi or white supremacist would use it to find online refuge.

The name derives from the Arabic bilād as-sūdān (بلاد السودان), or "the lands of the Blacks".

That's just it, it's not very forgiving for anyone to have a "toasty afterlife". The old testament is different with the jealous, vengeful, grapes of wrath, fire, brimstone, etc. has a reason for a hell but the kinder, gentler, and most importantly forgiving new testament absolutely doesn't.

No matter, I agree the goat's head thing is a bit odd unless a game of buzkashi went a bit awry.

Re: Umm... nope.

Domestic banana plants, specifically the current Cavendish and the former Gros Michel are triploid cultivars having been bred to be seedless and that leaves propagation by asexual vegetative reproduction which rules out cross breeding and largely means they can't evolve. Many wild species of bananas do have seeds and can reproduce sexually allowing them to adapt or be cross bred to become resistant. The problem then becomes one of marketing in that the perception is that people largely won't accept bananas with seeds.

Coffee is different since seedless coffee would be pointless as it's the seeds/beans that we're after so they are fully capable of evolving and adapting and cross breeding is easily possible. The problem is that coffee plants typically take several years to mature before they produce a significant crop so it takes time.

Re: He has a tough name to work with...

I'll tell ya, Tomorrow.

Re: It's a bit like rugby?

... but with larger gaps during the plays/tackles.

I don't remember where I saw it but there was a study, if you can call it that, which determined that the average NFL game contained roughly 12 minutes of action even though it is officially 1 hour long and takes over 3 hours to play. Of course that means that folks willing to splash over $8k on super bowl tickets are paying nearly $700 per minute of action not counting the time and money spent on ancillaries like plane tickets, hotel rooms, and stadium priced beer.

Re: A good pro-bono opportunity for Google

Go one step further and put gear in every delivery and postal vehicle plus many OTR trucks already have trackers so I'm sure they must also have some data. Since they all have lithium batteries they have to go ground anyway.

What can I say, I took the explanation out of the safe and presented it to you but you still don't understand it even though it isn't encrypted.

Re: I think the real problem is...

Ah, I notice the linked article does mention accuracy albeit in a fuzzy way:

Support for using the technology that way increases depending on its accuracy: If the software is right 80 percent of the time, then 39 percent agree with using it and 32 percent disagree. If the software is right 90 percent of the time, then 47 percent of respondents agree with using it and 25 percent disagree. And if the software is right 100 percent of the time, then 59 percent agree with using it, while 16 percent disagree.

Astonishingly it only gets 59% support even when it's perfect.

Re: About this new wall

Think of the wall as, hopefully, the final curtain to the many years of security theater we've been having. Soon we won't be groped at the airports, our communications will be secure, none of our private information will be sucked into the malevolent void that is the NSA, bureaucrats will stop trying to backdoor encryption, and we'll all be happy and peaceful.

What? Why is everyone laughing?

Re: H1-B abuse

Add to that it looks like the "skills gap" was all part of the gaming as Vox explains some current research.

Re: Re-seller

Don't forget that all these new connected cars also have connections that can be tracked. Presumably that location data would also be available to chop shops repo companies should they have a desire for your car you miss a payment.

Re: The only reason "everyone" runs Outlook is because "everyone" uses Exchange.

Yes, plus "buying Microsoft" goes in hand with the "nobody ever got fired for" adage.

Re: Incredible

Louisiana is actually one of the better ones on braiding. You only need 500 hours of training to get a braider's license where other states like Rhode Island require a full cosmetology license to the tune of 1,500 hours of training.

Full IJ report link on this page for anyone interested in how silly it can get.

Re: Even in Australia

Hmm... those huntsman spiders look a bit like king crab. Surely it just needs to be marketed properly. Perhaps we could call it the soft shelled Oz desert crab or something, fry it up, serve the legs on a toasted hot dog bun with butter and the rest in a nice bisque spiced with just a hint of cayenne.

Ducks can also be quite tasty, drones - not so much.

Re: They should stick to mice and keyboards

Oh come now, Logitech mice aren't that bad. Their cordless mice are about the only thing I have that will go through a box of Costco Duracells in the few months before the batteries start to leak.

Re: Bollocks to this creepy shit.

I don't know, I noticed my brother got one and I think at this point you could start a company called Ingsoc and build a speaker that responded to "big brother" or "the party" and it would likely fly off the shelves.

I can see it now, "big brother, how long until two minutes hate?"

Re: Does it despense vast amounts of bog rool??

As the kids today would say, it all depends on your level of wokeness or stay woke. I assume it's an actually an acronym for something like 'Willfully Overlooking Knowledge & Education" or something like that.

Re: China is not a democracy

because in a democracy there are at least mechanisms for checks and balances. In the dictatorships of the World what the dictator declares goes...

A true democracy doesn't have any such mechanisms, it's largely just mob rule and in its pure form is little different from any other oppressive regime. Democracy's only fortune, or failure, is that it tends to be less consistent in its oppression.