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I don't remember. It was many years ago -- circa 2015. Nevertheless, I'm irritated by the implication that it's the user's responsibility to do this. At least as recently as last y…

They held my number hostage for a while after I switched off iPhone. I think it took months for iPhone users to be able to message my number before it actually started reaching me …

I'm getting the impression that the new job I'm starting very soon uses something like this. Any suggestions on most convenient way to cover up camera when not using it? I've looke…

AFAIK the only player to have tested positive for COVID in that outbreak is Gleyber Torres (the rest were support staff), who had an actual COVID infection before, which undermines…

Not the best example since there was a severe earthquake in Pompeii in 62 AD. They were still rebuilding in 79 AD when the town was destroyed by Vesuvius.

Not sure you meant to imply otherwise, but just to clarify: Bly intentionally got herself committed for an undercover assignment.

From a great coffee table book, "100 Facts About Pandas", by David O'Doherty and Claudia O'Doherty (no relation). https://www.amazon.com/Facts-About-Pandas-David-ODoherty/dp/... On…

Don't forget about Keith B. Alexander, the director of the NSA at that time. He testified to congress that this program helped foil 54 terror plots. Weeks later, he conceded that i…

> There's so much to learning where the sharp bits of math are; proofs are the razor-thin path through the briar patch. This is an excellent metaphor using beautiful language. Did …

Isn't this article missing the point of the internet? It talks about an ambitious (but ultimately aborted) top-down project to build thousands of interlinking mainframes. But build…

Billions? Ridiculous. There's a lot of suggestions of what one might accomplish with this exploit, but I'm not sure they would be obviously more lucrative than this. Any time you u…

I'd like to believe we will start mass manufacturing all promising candidates long before testing is complete. The stakes are so high this time that it's important _as soon as_ tes…

The Astros hid behind the guise that they were outstanding at picking up "tipping" from opposing pitchers. i.e. The smallest difference in a pitcher's delivery, imperceptible to yo…

To all appearances, this looked like an actual kidnapping. For myself, I'm happy to receive an amber alert on my phone even if it sometimes ends up being a false alarm. About your …

I don't know specifically about secp256r1, but in general, I think there were already a lot of suspicions and most people were wary of any ECC curves NIST or NSA had chosen by 2008…

> At any time in the past five years, Google could have leveraged Android’s 80-plus-percent market share and told carriers that it was launching a default messaging service that wo…

Ah, thank you! That explains it.

As far as I can tell, he uses "word" in the same way it's used today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture) But, he does say a "word" is the information of 6 l…

This post is running around BSV-associated social media outlets. [1] [2] BSV is a project almost entirely propped up by a billionaire gambling tycoon named Calvin Ayre who is promo…

I'm still enraged over the fact that Oracle got $300 million to make a website for Oregon's healthcare and failed . The website wasn't ready (nor would it ever be ready), and the w…

You mentioned in another comment that haplogroups would be too foreign a classification for you, but that would likely be the most specific/differentiated classifier. If somebody s…

It doesn't mean _nothing_ -- it's just prone to the same type of problems and edge cases affecting pretty much every attempt at categorizing in a very complex system.

"There is not universal agreement on the region’s components." [1] "It can be difficult to define exactly which countries are included in the Balkan States. It is a name that has b…

I can only speak for myself, but when I got one of these tests 6 years ago, I never got such an impression. They've updated my results several times since and I never feel hoodwink…

None of the differences, either split by company or by twin seem egregious or even particularly unsatisfactory. They cite that AncestryDNA measured each of their DNA to be 99.6% si…