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iOS 12 update may undo cellular data lock.

Posted on October 6, 2018 by jgordon

Link. To restore toggle “Cellular Data Changes” off then on again. I think this is an old bug.

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iOS 12 update may undo cellular data lock.

Posted on October 6, 2018 by jgordon

Link. I think this is an old bug with iOS updates.

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“After what we did to Canada and what we have threatened others with, why should they ever rally with us again?”

Posted on October 6, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Lotterman, sober econ journalist, is old enough to be furious with the modern GOP.

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Only Apple can provide family mobile device management for iOS.

Posted on October 6, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Aka “remote parental controls”. iOS MDM is technically hard, no money in family market, family needs are unique, Apple can destroy market at any time.

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“the amount of space it takes to encode a quantum bit is tiny, and therefore a tremendous amount of information can be encoded onto a black hole’s surface.”

Posted on October 6, 2018 by jgordon

Link. You and me and we.

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Fall Bike Rides In and Near SP

Posted on October 6, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Great choices.

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#MeToo is the new #BLM: “a plurality of Republican women (48 percent) said they would consider voting for a political candidate facing multiple accusations of sexual misconduct”

Posted on October 6, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Forget the men, poll the white women.

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Internet bill of rights: “to move all personal data from one network to the next”

Posted on October 6, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Whoa. Extremely unlikely but interesting.

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Assault by neurosurgery – the Duntsch case.

Posted on October 6, 2018 by jgordon

Link. A perfect storm, but (much) less extreme versions are known to everyone who does healthcare.

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Apple 2FA still kind of sucks

Posted on October 5, 2018 by jgordon

Link. SMS bypass.

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Apple makes a persuasive case – no hardware hack.

Posted on October 5, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Curious.

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“The Reichskonkordat … is a treaty negotiated between the Vatican and the emergent Nazi Germany … signed by Eugenio Pacelli, who later became Pope Pius XII”

Posted on October 5, 2018 by jgordon

Link. American Evangelicals understand the Catholic position better now.

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Does Coenzyme Q10 Reduce Statin-Related Muscle Aches?

Posted on October 5, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Statins deplete synthesis but replacement doesn’t seem to do anything

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Goeppert Meyer – amateur physicist

Posted on October 4, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Nobelist too

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Luxardo Maraschino Cherries

Posted on October 4, 2018 by jgordon

Link.

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Cărturești Carusel Bookstore in Bucharest, Romania

Posted on October 4, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Hope.

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This annoys me: “existence of a revanchist core of white men”

Posted on October 4, 2018 by jgordon

Link. 52% of white *women* voted Trump. The problem isn’t just white men.

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Solar electric bicycle raced 12,800 km in 64 days.

Posted on October 4, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Love the 99% saddle discount.

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“The truly wealthy end up paying a much lower effective tax rate than the merely rich, not because of loopholes in tax law, but because they break the law”

Posted on October 4, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Trump is less surprising now.

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Neanderthal genes protected against Neanderthal HIV.

Posted on October 4, 2018 by jgordon

Link. We got both, long ago.

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“It is not just that the perpetrators of this cruelty enjoy it; it is that they enjoy it with one another. Their shared laughter at the suffering of others is an adhesive that binds them to one another, and to Trump.”

Posted on October 4, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Trump era is tutorial in human nature.

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The Bandwidth Needed to Restore an iPhone

Posted on October 4, 2018 by jgordon

Link. “Designed for a California network connection.” Weekly app updates suck bandwidth too.

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Russian cyberwarfare is kind of rogue, kind of nutty

Posted on October 4, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Makes no military/strategic sense. Kids on vodka?

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War between China and US is not unthinkable.

Posted on October 4, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Missing Obama.

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Supermicro hack: “traced the malicious chips to four subcontracting factories that had been building Supermicro motherboards for at least two years.”

Posted on October 4, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Not clear FBI wanted this known. So far Supermicro presented as victim. Would be surprising if they were not penetrated though.

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Lessons from Trump: American tax law corrupt for decades.

Posted on October 4, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Trump’s GOP has made clear how rotten our society has been.

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“⌘⌫ returns an item in the Trash to its original folder”

Posted on October 3, 2018 by jgordon

Link. MacOS archeology.

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Age of athletic collapse moves from 70 towards 80 in elite athletes.

Posted on October 3, 2018 by jgordon

Link. For most humans 85 is the wall.

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Australia – vaccination may eliminate cervical cancer

Posted on October 3, 2018 by jgordon

Link. But … “In Japan … fear campaigns have helped cause the rate of HPV vaccinations to plummet from 70 percent to close to zero”

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Cook on Jones: “Safari is the app for you if you want to look at anything that’s on the free and open Internet that’s not on our app store.”

Posted on October 3, 2018 by jgordon

Link. USENET is his other option.

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“drivers behaved more dangerously around female riders, passing, on average, three inches closer to female cyclists. Of all the unsafe passes in the study, 73 percent occurred against female cyclists”

Posted on October 3, 2018 by jgordon

Link. We also know drivers are more dangerous if cyclist wears a helmet.

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Event Management Software.

Posted on October 2, 2018 by jgordon

Link. A niche I didn’t know about

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Trump’s extended con of his father.

Posted on October 2, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Kept taking him for more money.

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“cyclists typically roll stop signs at the same speed most motorists consider to be “stopping.”

Posted on October 2, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Mostly true, but didn’t occur to me.

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Sildenafil OD shows how it can alter color vision

Posted on October 2, 2018 by jgordon

Link. A poor choice at least helps medical science.

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Trump and subs: “set up a sham corporation to disguise millions of dollars in gifts from their parents, records and interviews show”

Posted on October 2, 2018 by jgordon

Link. White collar criminal.

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Quantum Computing and Cryptography: we can manage this

Posted on October 2, 2018 by jgordon

Link. “… we might end up back to where we were in the late 1970s and early 1980s: symmetric cryptography, code-based cryptography, Merkle hash signature”

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Insurers torture-by-form: “If one insurer puts up enough barriers, patients may switch to another”

Posted on October 2, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Why we need government and lawyers.

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A Warning From Europe – a naturalized Polish conservative Jewish woman on the rise of the right

Posted on October 1, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Unique perspective, persuasive warning. For conservative intellectuals (few remain!) who say things aren’t “so bad”. //@clarkgoble

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Safari 12 Crashes Spotlight in Sierra

Posted on October 1, 2018 by jgordon

Link. “deselect the Bookmarks & History category.”

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“iOS 12, binary data stored in Core Data with the External Storage option gets corrupted/goes missing on every second save of the context.”

Posted on October 1, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Wow.

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iPhone XS: serious computational photography

Posted on October 1, 2018 by jgordon

Link. I want SLR comparisons

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Incoming Calls

Posted on October 1, 2018 by jgordon

Link. As I read this I got a spam call.

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“use of alternative medicine in lieu of conventional cancer treatments resulted in an overall death rate two and a half times higher than the rate experienced by patients getting standard therapies”

Posted on October 1, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Steve Jobs.

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China’s chaotic healthcare system rebuilds.

Posted on September 30, 2018 by jgordon

Link. They move fast, be interesting to check back in a few years.

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“Denny Tamaki, the son of a Japanese mother and a United States Marine, became the first mixed-race governor in Japan”

Posted on September 30, 2018 by jgordon

Link. He must have stories to tell.

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Google’s Family Link for remote device management – puberty, adulthood, and Google Suites.

Posted on September 30, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Apple has nothing like this. What happens at age 18?

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If Obama loved Kim: “ridicule on Fox News, the outrage on the Senate floor, the musings about the 25th Amendment, and the motion of impeachment that someone would file the very next day.”

Posted on September 30, 2018 by jgordon

Link. The GOP is all Trump.

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“extended dynamic range available for video shot with the iPhone XS, provided you’re shooting at 30 frames per second or lower”

Posted on September 30, 2018 by jgordon

Link. I think same in XR as XS.

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LTE only, no wired broadband: “12% in 2016 to 20% this year.”

Posted on September 30, 2018 by jgordon

Link. This is the big one.

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