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AirPort Base Station Firmware: “eight substantial vulnerabilities, five of which are remote attacks”

Posted on May 31, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Assume your network is open.

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App Store Competition: the consensus

Posted on May 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Apple fears competition and suppresses it

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High Efficiency Video Coding (h.265): the patent wars continue.

Posted on May 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I think FaceTime uses h.265 and patents may be why Jobs “open” promise was never fulfilled. Now it’s 4K TV …

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Comedy in the Israeli Knesset

Posted on May 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Must read.

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WWDC by Sundell: “fire up your RSS reader and subscribe to this site’s feed”

Posted on May 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Glory Days.

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NYT: ‘In Baltimore and Beyond, a Stolen N.S.A. Tool Wreaks Havoc’

Posted on May 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. “Remember when the FBI wanted Apple to build backdoors into iPhones, arguing that Apple could trust them”. Zing!

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Mole-Rats Are Impervious to Many Types of Pain

Posted on May 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Wonderful biology including studies of physiology and genetics.

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Separated bike lanes protect pedestrians too.

Posted on May 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Painted lanes have negligible benefits for anyone.

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Private phone browsing: VPN + DuckDuckGo.app

Posted on May 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Best pair I know of.

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“two Department of Energy officials used the terms “freedom gas” and “molecules of US freedom” to replace your average, everyday term “natural gas.”

Posted on May 29, 2019 by jgordon

Link. The fact of the movie Idiocracy is starting to really disturb me.

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Bone marrow lesions in osteoarthritis

Posted on May 29, 2019 by jgordon

Link. OA is a lot of different diseases

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“Oh, we’d fill it,” Mr. McConnell, the Kentucky Republican and majority leader, gleefully told a friendly Chamber of Commerce audience”

Posted on May 29, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I respect the honesty of McConnell’s evil. He trained with the tobacco industry. Suspect even Trump thinks he’s sleazy.

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UFO analyzed.

Posted on May 29, 2019 by jgordon

Link. We need a distraction.

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“idea that young people don’t vote isn’t holding true in the Trump era.”

Posted on May 29, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Hope is a weakness. Only despair can sustain the resistance.

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Mueller – “the constitutional process for holding the President accountable for his crimes is impeachment.”

Posted on May 29, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Put McConnell on the historic record.

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“low-cost products can be subsidized by privacy-respecting advertising — but privacy-respecting advertising is not as profitable as privacy-invasive advertising”

Posted on May 29, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Google & Facebook can’t afford to change.

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Where Medicines Come From.

Posted on May 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Pharma mostly.

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“There are about 5.3bn people on earth aged over 15. Of these, around 5bn have a mobile phone.”

Posted on May 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. That was quick.

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“The ongoing flooding is consistent with scientific studies showing the increasingly apparent effects of human-caused climate change”

Posted on May 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Red states afloat.

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“cosmic web is driven by dark matter, but the small structures along the filaments form by the collapse of normal, electromagnetically-interacting matter.”

Posted on May 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. This is weird stuff.

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3D Touch gone.

Posted on May 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Not worth cost and complexity.

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Best possible Apple Card review: banks expect it to be low profit.

Posted on May 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Partly due Apple’s slice, but wow. Great news.

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“she rebelled against her parents so ferociously that she moved out on her own in Pittsburgh when she was 14, supporting herself by working as a waitress, a taxi driver, in jazz clubs and in pizza parlors.”

Posted on May 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Nobel prize in chemistry, Caltech professor.

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Ms Jiang has not forgotten Tianamen

Posted on May 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Brave woman

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“Mr. Trump has made fun of Mr. Bolton’s reputation for hawkishness, joking that the adviser would get him into war”

Posted on May 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Hah hah.

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“those who took more than 35 milligrams of B6 and 20 micrograms of B12 were 47 percent more likely to have a hip fracture.”

Posted on May 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. What’s the mechanism? Wonder if is something correlated

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Ice Lake: “Thunderbolt 3 and Wi-Fi 6 will both also be incorporated directly into the CPU”

Posted on May 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. T3 has a future.

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“Just bring back a music-only iPod with a good old click wheel.”

Posted on May 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. The clip on Nano was perfect

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“As of March, Google worked with roughly 121,000 temps and contractors around the world, compared with 102,000 full-time employees”

Posted on May 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I suspect same or worse at Apple.

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“As of March, Google worked with roughly 121,000 temps and contractors around the world, compared with 102,000 full-time employees”

Posted on May 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I suspect same or worse at Apple.

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“As of March, Google worked with roughly 121,000 temps and contractors around the world, compared with 102,000 full-time employees”

Posted on May 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I suspect same or worse at Apple.

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“As of March, Google worked with roughly 121,000 temps and contractors around the world, compared with 102,000 full-time employees”

Posted on May 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I suspect same or worse at Apple.

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“As of March, Google worked with roughly 121,000 temps and contractors around the world, compared with 102,000 full-time employees”

Posted on May 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I suspect same or worse at Apple.

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A clever editorial from the future on opportunity and genetic enhancements.

Posted on May 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. So well done and inevitably correct.

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“the efforts of caregivers are probably just as important to health as the drugs and procedures the medical system provides.”

Posted on May 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Friends and family are a gift.

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Darwin and naming

Posted on May 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Is Darwin underrated?

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“natural language learning systems, which include strongly probabilistic features, might make some headway with animal communication systems”n

Posted on May 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Non-categorical language

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GOPFox attack on science: “Mr. Happer and Mr. Bolton are both beneficiaries of Robert and Rebekah Mercer, the far-right billionaire and his daughter who have funded efforts to debunk climate science.”

Posted on May 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Trump lashes out.

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“I fired up LaunchControl and two minutes later had a launchd job installed that opened the SSH tunnel on boot and kept relaunching it if it ever failed.”

Posted on May 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Useful technique

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“Juul has had to rely on scientists with tobacco industry ties”

Posted on May 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. The league of evil scientists. Imagine their meetings.

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Sleep apnea is weirdly common

Posted on May 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. BMI of 30 isn’t so high.

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Refuting claims that low income wages have not stagnated

Posted on May 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link.

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“I just hit 100,000 reputation on Information Security StackExchange”

Posted on May 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. A different sort of social network.

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“52 percent of beer drinkers said this year that they wanted to reduce their consumption of alcohol”

Posted on May 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Me too! 5% is just fine. I avoid the high alcohol IPAs, I’m a wimp.

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“In most southern states, white women express at least as much opposition to legal abortion as white men, and in some cases more”

Posted on May 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Very unpopular opinion: Excluding Catholic Church, I think American men are politically opportunistic followers in this struggle.

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“n April, Customs and Border Protection detained close to a hundred and ten thousand people on the Mexican border”

Posted on May 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. A challenge for a competent government. A disaster now.

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Getting my Emily’s iCloud photos — you can multi-select in Photos.web (again)

Posted on May 25, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Wish these kinds of fixes got more attention. Was probably months ago.

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“Windows today uses backslash as a path separator because 50 years ago, TOPS-10 used forward slash as an option separator.”

Posted on May 25, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I still get mixed up.

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A methodical review of US trade issues with China

Posted on May 25, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Short: Trump is a cancer

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Recreational drugs evolved to repell insects.

Posted on May 25, 2019 by jgordon

Link. We have same basic brain but also dopamine system.

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