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ibigb

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    Comment #42521551

    Yes it can; I've done this in the past.

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    Comment #32803572

    You might look here: http://realtraps.com You can probably reduce some room resonances.

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    Comment #31959658

    Maybe more people would vote before taking up arms?

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    Comment #31899632

    My TV appliance does not support other browsers; must every appliance be open and support multiple competing browsers? Is there some rational boundary where the appliance can be sh…

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    Comment #30730223

    What you have described is usually called a 24 bit rgb image--not a 8 bit image. An 8 bit image can have only 256 distinct levels, whereas a jpeg can have ~16 million or 2^24 value…

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    Comment #30722651

    I said a jpeg pixel is the summation of 64 8 bit coefficients. The coefficients are 8 bit, but obviously the cosine values are not 8 bit. They can be floating point. All a jpeg nee…

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    Comment #30714508

    A jpeg pixel is 64 (=8 x 8), 8 bit coefficients which are summed together for each pixel. That result is not 8 bits, but more; that is a misunderstanding, often repeated. A jpeg is…

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    Comment #29565512

    All cloud platform scan for CSAM. Apple was going to move the scanning task off their servers, where it is now, onto apple devices only as the devices upload to apple's cloud. If y…

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    Comment #28248146

    From https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303 >End-to-end encryption provides the highest level of data security. Your data is protected with a key derived from information unique …

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    Comment #28248019

    It seems apple devices are a black opaque box: support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303 Every thing is encrypted except imap email storage. They have no access to anything except that. The…

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    Comment #28197713

    Let us look on the bright side: With all the "alternate facts" promulgated by politicians one must undertake some discernment of the context, the source, and not immediately accept…

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    Comment #28128759

    Q1) Is apple responding to government lawmakers: EARN IT seeks to deal with the scourge of online child exploitation by coercing service providers to more aggressively police such …

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    Comment #27159514

    I'd guess most macos systems (laptops) have encrypted hard drives.

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    Comment #26844657

    I found this interview very germane to the subject of extra inflammation from the diet and the newly discovered cellular mechanisms for turning it off. Some of the latest research …

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    Comment #26376111

    The idea that one can transplant a brain and thus a human's consciousness is based on erroneous concepts. Because humans currently have only physical senses they assume, naturally,…

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    Comment #24199862

    Would a wealth tax benefit society? It would seem that if an individual was creating wealth, other individuals would be wise and say: "you keep going!" How would it profit society …

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    Comment #24143073

    For a review of many vitamin D studies google "site:theincidentaleconomist.com vitamin d", a blog by a doctor who evaluates many studies. Many do not show extra vitamin D beneficia…

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    Comment #23338920

    Interestingly the first person to talk about pole reversals was the American holistic healer Edgar Cayce. On the 11th day of August, 1936: Q What great change or the beginning of w…

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    Comment #23265843

    I used to get upset with untruths being published. But then I found that humans are evolving and it is an individual evolution, not really a herd evolution, and each individual mus…

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    Comment #22655844

    Doesn't Google know who is using their services? Who paid?

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    Comment #21102758

    You can use a numeric sequence passphrase as your passcode; there is no 6 digit limitation; I have a > 6 numeric passcode/passphrase.

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    Comment #18947156

    > MIDI doesn't support per-note pitch bend "MIDI Polyphonic Expression" and is a new MIDI standard created by us, ROLI, Apple, Moog, Haken Audio, Bitwig and others for communicatin…

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    Comment #18241679

    You are misleading us by editing out the rest of the sentence. What you stated is for dial-up service. AT&T terms: >• with respect to dial-up accounts, using any software or device…

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    Comment #18200678

    Information changes the question asked. You don't state the questions. Did you mean: neighbor has 2 children, we don't know the sex, what is the probability one or more is a girl? …

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    Comment #16023616

    For a better understanding of consciousness, thinking, knowledge, I would refer you to a short thesis correcting some of the errors of ideas about same: http://wn.rsarchive.org/Boo…