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“MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) models sold prior to 2016 will be covered by a Repair Extension Program for the hard drive cable issues”
Link.
Hundreds of trillions of bristlemouth live in deep ocean.
Link. Dominant vertebrate. Edible?
Khmer empire dominated 12th century?
Link. Collapse ever stranger.
Comcast deploys its Congress bots.
Link. Henry Waxman fell hard.
Details on SIM reset attack on SMS 2FA.
Link. Strengthen password and disable 2FA?
AT&T enhanced security option.
Link. Obscure but important.
SMS based 2FA is dangerous.
Link. Faux security.
Secret Subterranean Spaces.
Link. “cataphile”
VT will publish pharma price hike justifications.
Link. Great experiment.
Recession Risks: Only moderate.
Link. Good so far.
Facebook the educator: cloud data disappears.
Link. Like Google and Apple. At least Facebook provides reasonable exit.
So Meg Whitman does have a spine.
Link. More than Christy and Ryan.
Young Britons might be more clueless than young Americans.
Link. At last we have a worthy rival.
Rebellion in China: over university access.
Link. Why so few strong universities? Fear of contagion?
NYT on use of severance payoff to keep H-1B displacement quiet.
Link. Tailor made for Trump … Except he has probably done same.
Facebook Meesenger is insecure by design.
Link. WTF.
Clean install of windows 10 on VMWare Mac – getting a license ($130)
Link. Cheaper increases counterfeit risk.
“Pointless (academic DSGE) macro”
Link. Economists cant despise 1990 sociology any more.
Twenty years after Irish famine, Britain repeated in Orissa India.
Link. The natural order of things.
Taking guns from demented.
Link. Cars have licenses and physicians can suspend them.
NYT quick review of modern hacking defense.
Link. Espionage, sabotage and crime intersect in Russia, China, North Korea and elsewhere. Best defense is manual typewriter.
Recovering Microsoft Documents in macOS.
Link. Good reference.
Rumors of Apple’s Alexa clone.
Link. Following the leader can be good, but Apple 1.0 releases have been horrible for years.
Text formats: markdown vs plain text vs RTF.
Link. All inferior to 1998 WYSIWYG HTML editors.
Ryan gets heat from GOP west.
Link. West vs South for the future.
American tribes – by voting.
Link. Black is a unified tribe, but White is not.
Even Howe’s obit is intimidating.
Link. Ferociously strong, crazy fast healing, mean if he wanted to be.
“unless the probability for evolving a civilization on a habitable-zone planet is less than one in 10 billion trillion, then we are not the first”
Link. Our Great Filter awaits.
Nature Publishing Group’s Scientific Reports publishing garbage.
Link. Fake too. Greed at work.
National LIbrary of Medicine has a Medical Encyclopedia: MedlinePlus/
Link. Not knew, but I didn’t know of it. Is pretty good really. Feed to track updates.
Many military PTSD may be TBI with CTE.
Link. When history of blast injury. Badly organized article.
Mori unhappy with new world of ios sw rental.
Link. We will all use fewer apps.
USB-C: it isn’t ready.
Link. Yikes!!
Concatenating Values by Group in Microsoft Access: comma separated and more.
Link. Used in reports, collapse many:one relationships.
EML – the undocumented and little appreciated archival document format.
Link. 1982 to 2016. I save in file system. Interestingly no formal documentation.
XKCD today: The true bugs (blerp).
Link. xkcd.com/1692, http://bit.ly/1YhLq5E.
K: German austerity policy a disaster for European project.
Link. Confused virtue with wisdom.
Brooks to GOP: Only saps trust Trump.
Link. He reread 1990s portraits. T isn’t going to change. Ever.
Gang stalking net delusion community – “I’m not crazy” is the key.
Link. The best protection against delusion is to always doubt your own sanity.
Communities of delusion: gang stalking.
Link. Delusion is way more common, and fascinating, than most imagine. Trolls must make worse.
Zika: delay pregnancy.
Link. Until we know more?. For one mosquito season, after which herd immunity drops risk.
Sanders-Dem negotiations continue.
Link. History in balance.
BeerAI: recommendation engine.
Link. Net not dead yet.
iTunes 12.4 “Annoyances”: pretty modest.
Link. Glimmers of hope.
“free trials are definitely an option for any app that is approved for subscription pricing”
Link. Apple goes all-in on rental. Worthy experiment.
Microsoft Shelves Xbox One DVR
Link. Patents? Pressure from media partners?
Time Warner Cable is truly despicable.
Link. Makes Comcast look good.
Tuning qubits to solve annealing-compatible problems.
Link. Towards a general purpose quantum computer.
US infant mortality mysteriously high.
Link. SIDS? Sleeping position?