Link. “The complete street perceives the street as a space where different transportation modes can coexist: not only cars, but also buses, and lanes for trams, bicycles and scooters” And pedestrians. It will be a hell of a fight.
Category Archives: share
Apple Manage Devices / Associated Devices is still kind of broken
Link. Apple has two inconsistent databases for managing device DRM.
DRM in 2005 – “Palladium” and “RetinaLock ™”.
Link. Interesting to see how this played out. Thanks to streaming RetinaLock is closer than ever.
iOS 12 Family Sharing: Purchase Sharing supports changing Apple ID and UI could support future multiple Apple IDs.
Link. It’s not a fix for Apple’s 10 year Apple ID/DRM fiasco but it’s the hint of a beginning of a fix.
iCloud calendar invitations have been broken for five years (2016)
Link. I need to test this again in 2019. Doubt it’s fixed though. Very hard bug to describe.
iOS 12 Parental Controls / Restrictions / Screen Time: Parental Controls (Passcode restricted) is not always compatible with “Share Across Devices”
Link. Apple should hire me.
iOS 12: It’s now possible to remove/change Restriction / Screen Time passcode without removing restrictions
Link. This is a big help for parents. Changing passcode used to require redoing restriction configuration.
iPhone X case … Moment lens?
Link. I’ll need a new case. Should it be one that mounts a lens?
“The iPhone XS is so good at balancing light, it’s actually quite difficult to create a silhouette”
Link. XR is good value for photographers, XS is an expensive lens addition. Not unthinkable though.
The windowless buildings of the AT&T NSA relationship.
Link. Legacy of the old monopoly. Google would be the modern AT&T.
Banks conspired to fix credit card transaction fees.
Link. 6 billion is too small a penalty.
iOS 12: “family sharing” is still for children only — ask to buy disabled at age 18 in US
Link. Expected but still disappointing.
iOS 12 Books will not sync to Sierra or High Sierra Books.
Link. Ok, that sucks. Wonder what other problems I’ll be first to find…
ICRF-3: we are the center of our universe
Link. Obviously.
“of our 20,000 protein-coding genes, about 5,400 have never been the subject of a single dedicated paper.”
Link. Science is defective.
Georgia GOP keeps elections open for Russian hackers.
Link. Norwegian hackers would motivate then.
“moves by Russia, China, France, Germany, and the UK to begin to decouple themselves from the American-dominated monetary system ”
Link. MAGA.
“Role models were high in every trait but neuroticism. They also appeared with increasing frequency as people aged.”
Link. So oldness not 100% downhill. Surprisingly interesting article.
“elite marathoners can rarely manage more than two supreme efforts a year”
Link. From the Kipchoge coverage. Presumably related to their precision training.
XS LTE better: “won’t see these improvements, even in the upcoming iPhone XR, unless you have the iPhone XS or XS Max”
Link. Hmm.
iOS 12 Released – Tsai overview
Link. The refurb market implications are most interesting
A history of RSS.
Link. Simplifies a bit, but also details I didn’t remember. I suspect RSS decline was mostly about revenue stream control.
A New Antibiotic?
Link. Cross fingers.
More generic med price scams
Link. A small, rapacious, and ruthless industry.
Path existed
Link. I forgot. Assisted suicide I think. Reminds me of Google’s pre-plus product that was big in Brazil.
Apple’s price justification: longer use
Link. Excellent value … for the upper class.
GOP went radical right, Dems bumped a little left.
Link. The sober person’s party.
Concussed kids: “… no more than two to three days of [physical?] rest,”
Link. Pendulum reverses.
Freezing credit is free but still a PITA.
Link. Banks presumably hate credit freezes.
Aspirin for primary heart disease prevention dies.
Link. Trending this way for a while.
The St Paul Traverse road and mountain bike trail (MSP, Minnesota)
Link. It’s not the Duluth Traverse, but it’s the best we can do for now.
Bike rack U-Lock Tote holster synthetic (waterproof)
Link. $36. I’m interested. U locks are a pain.
“Atlas and ICESat-2 will help scientists develop a better sense of how much and how quickly that ice is melting in a warming world.”
Link. Despite GOP rhetoric this mission got funded. How much opposition was there?
NYT behind-the-scenes reporter story is extraordinary.
Link. More impactful than the professionally neutral main report.
Rheumatic fever still happens after strep throat.
Link. Requires complete collapse of health care. I thought Strep had lost the toxin. Vaccine would be fabulous.
Scott Rhodes, Sandstone Idaho Nazi, plagues US with robocalls.
Link. One person can do a lot of damage.
Details on Trump’s farm payments: “total package now will cost the Treasury about $4.7 billion, of which $3.7 billion, or nearly 80 percent, is earmarked for soy.”
Link. Tariff compensation goes only to political allies.
TV women anchors have ideal look: “stereotypically heteronormative, not overly sexy, and predictable.”
Link. Black women have to straighten hair, no gray ever, blonde if at all possible.
Stopping fentanyl mail by enhanced package tracking.
Link. Fentanyl is lightweight, compact, easy to package.
World mood lowest in 10 years. “Negative experiences were highest in the Central African Republic”
Link. Civil wars.
NRA upset over cartoon Kenyan Tank Engine.
Link. The NRA has become an altRight party. Tax implications?
U.S. Has Highest Share of Foreign-Born Since 1910.
Link. India and China dominate since 2010, North Dakota largest impact.
“Mr. Mattis talked the president out of ordering torture against terrorism detainees”
Link. Cheney must have been disappointed.
The Economist, Liberalism: “A more modest, but still radical, alternative is to replace today’s welfare schemes with an expanded commitment to guaranteeing minimum income through negative income taxes”
Link. Skip ahead to tax section. Preceding is basically “HRC was right and we don’t want to admit that”.
Team Manafort fooled Trump … and Josh Marshall
Link.
Manafort: “He wanted to make sure that his family was able to remain safe and live a good life.”
Link. Putin’s poisons make an impression.
Alzheimer’s and viruses.
Link. EBV, HHS … lots of viruses join us over our lifespan. They probably contribute to aging process.
Trend Micro hacked its customers
Link. This is bad. Very bad
Apple owns the privacy market.
Link. Accept the golden cage and you may get some privacy. If you have the money. Apple business strategy divides the world into freemen and serfs.
“The XR will show exactly the same amount of actual content as the XS Max”
Link. Geek out on this. The XR is the thinking person’s favorite.