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Re: How does Apple Wallet know to track my orders? - Today

Apple shares info with select vendors. They ask your permission first. You must have approved it.

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Re: speculum?!….Charter/Spectrum announces new internet pricing….wants to improve customer service….. - 2 days ago

QuoteNewtonMP2100 …..also say will be upfront about costs….taxes and fees baked in……no annual contracts…prices good up to 3 years…..promises to give credit when service suffers for matters within their control….. All of which come under new FCC requirements.

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Re: And the October Surprise will be... (poll) - 3 days ago

You didn't offer "All of the above."

by Tiangou - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: 12-Pack 11-Oz Soylent Complete Protein Shake (Vanilla) $19.95 - 5 days ago

Those bottles get smaller every time I blink.

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Re: COMEDY! DJT shares soar 25% as Trump says ‘I’m not selling’ stake - 5 days ago

QuoteGGD QuoteTiangou He doesn't have to sell it. He can do what Musk does and take out bank loans against it. (Presumably only from Russian banks at this point.) One thing I don't understand about that strategy is where do they get the money to pay back the loans+interest, if they would have needed to sell stock to come up with that amount in the first place. They're no/low-interest "

by Tiangou - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: COMEDY! DJT shares soar 25% as Trump says ‘I’m not selling’ stake - 5 days ago

He doesn't have to sell it. He can do what Musk does and take out bank loans against it. (Presumably only from Russian banks at this point.)

by Tiangou - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: HOW can companies be so clueless about phishing ? - 6 days ago

Quotedk62 I do not understand a downside of paying online. A lot of people do not want to allow billing parties to have their bank account info and then provide the same on a printed piece of paper. And I pay by credit card, which is much more secure. But always receive paper bills, unless coming through dedicated EHR portal app. In my case, no itemized bill was available online for view/do

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Re: Mike Johnson pulls stopgap funding plan over widespread GOP opposition - 7 days ago

Quotegabester What exactly is "proof of citizenship?" One has to present a birth certificate with a US address on it? That's just a piece of paper... so presumably one have to present some other document that identifies one physiologically like a passport or driver's license. What about for people who are born outside the US to US citizens? Do they have to present their parent

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Re: HOW can companies be so clueless about phishing ? - 7 days ago

Happened to me. Never opted into online billing. This one provider's group from the hospital pulled my email from the hospital databases and started sending me email notifications to "click here" to pay a bill. It ended up in my spam folder. The reference in the subject-line to my "recent hospital visit" was the only reason I clicked on it. I used Tor to connect to t

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Re: I was better off during the Trump administration - 7 days ago

I got a great new job when he left office. Coincidence?

by Tiangou - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Starliner suffered additional failures while coming back to earth... - 8 days ago

NASA's judgment was sound when they decided not to send astronauts down in the Starliner capsule. On Saturday morning, NASA's plagued Starliner spacecraft finally made it back to the ground. The capsule landed in the New Mexico desert after spending just over three months in space. But thanks to technical issues worrying NASA officials, it left behind the agency's two stranded astronaut

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Re: @#$%& hospitals and @#$%& facility fees - 8 days ago

Quotemattkime This was started because my wife was charged for preventative care that should have been covered. First I had to get the bill - it had no detail, you have to ask for that! Its as though you went to a restaurant and they just wrote down "dinner" and a number. Then we had to ask insurance why a specific item wasn't covered. Now we'll have to go back to the hospital and ask w

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Re: Is there a way to "Rebuild your desktop" on the iPhone? - 8 days ago

Try Settings > General > Keyboard > Keyboards... Make sure that "English (US)" is the one and only keyboard displayed in the list. (You can drag right-to-left on their names to remove other keyboards.)

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Re: Is there a way to "Rebuild your desktop" on the iPhone? - 8 days ago

Settings > Siri & Search... Scroll down until you find the app... Make sure that "Show In Search" is enabled.

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Re: here come the rev'nu'uh - 8 days ago

Quotemacphanatic Why not clean up the tax code, eliminate/minimize loopholes to make cheating on taxes much more difficult? And make the penalty for flagrant cheating astronomical. The billionaires and large corporations are the ones who write our tax code.

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Re: Dual Boot issue on Mac Mini 2018 - 9 days ago

Mojave doesn’t fully support the Monterey version of the APFS container scheme. Short of wiping the Monterey drive, there’s probably nothing you can do.

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Re: domo arigato, Mr. Roboto?!....trailer: Dreamworks Animation 'The Wild Robot' coming very soon..... - 9 days ago

Wasn’t that an episode of Futurama?

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Re: Biggie small'd?!....its' official, 'Big Lots!' files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy..... - 9 days ago

I was wondering. They’re already closing all of the stores anywhere near me.

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Re: Is Hydrogen Gas coming out of your hot water faucets? - 9 days ago

Hydrogen gas is produced by the chemical action within your water heater. The gas can accumulate in the water heater and/or water pipes if hot water has not been used for a period of two weeks or longer. If the water heater is turned OFF, the build up of gas would be eliminated. Caution: Hydrogen gas can be explosive under these circumstances. To prevent the possibility of damage or in

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Re: Why do I subject myself to this? I'm already on edge fer Chrissakes. - 10 days ago

Not a particularly inciteful video. What set you off?

by Tiangou - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: "AI is not a tool; it's an agent." - 10 days ago

QuoteTed King Does our wetware manage to not reduce down to decision trees all the way down? We don't work in binary. While individual neurons may exhibit two-state behavior, they work in circuits and in combinations with variability in modulation and magnitude. At best, we can guesstimate states based on an average neural response, but we're often wrong. fMRI was once thought to be

by Tiangou - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Names can be tough, even for people not in the throes of dementia... - 11 days ago

In Mosinee, WI: “Boeing, I shouldn’t say anything. There is a beautiful Boeing plane right there. But, ehh Boeing had a little hard time, so they are going to save—Leon is going to send them a rocket. He looks forward to it, that’s all he thinks about is things like that...” Leon?

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Re: "AI is not a tool; it's an agent." - 11 days ago

QuoteTed KingTheoretically, could we determine the output of an AI of the gpt type if we knew the inputs and all of the processing parameters that were programmed in and had unlimited computer power to calculate it out? Yes, theoretically. But the databases are so large and they've added so many instructions and introduced so many variable outcomes that the paths to the outcomes for even very s

by Tiangou - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: Starliner in reentry…. - 11 days ago

Quotesekker Now they need to figure out how they put in thrusters into a SPACE SHIP that failed when they became cold. They know exactly how it happened. They ignored test results and pre-launch failures because it would have been expensive and added long delays to remove/replace the thrusters. And they didn't fail in the "cold." They failed when the thrusters heated up and tefl

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NASA-approved high-risk manned private space mission poised to launch this Monday... - 11 days ago

Launch of Polaris dawn is scheduled for the early hours of Monday, September 9. SpaceX is getting ready to launch a billionaire-led crew on a first-of-its-kind mission that’s far more dangerous than any other private venture to space. The private crew will attempt many firsts, including the first commercial spacewalk, the first time SpaceX’s extravehicular spacesuits are worn by astro

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Re: Invisibility in Plain Sight! - 12 days ago

Quotemrlynn Actually, only the skin is invisible (transparent)... But what if you inject it? So I asked Bill a question that probably some of you are thinking of, if you're totally into that world, which I find to be very interesting. So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light — and I think you said that that hasn't been checked

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Re: Invisibility in Plain Sight! - 12 days ago

Oh, joy! Invisible mice. And with only “minimal systemic toxicity."

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Re: WiFi bulbs and power failures …. Aaargh - 12 days ago

A smart bulb that lost its settings due to a power failure would be one of the dumbest things ever. They're designed to retain settings when the light switch is turned off. Do you have a "smart hub" ...? Maybe it's glitching? Or you have lousy WiFi in the basement?

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Re: Secret pre presidental info to trump? - 12 days ago

QuoteRgrF Trump announced he didn't want and wouldn't accept any briefings. Secret Service made a run, but they were out of coloring books at the dollar store.

by Tiangou - 'Friendly' Political Ranting

Re: "AI is not a tool; it's an agent." - 12 days ago

QuoteTed King Do you think AI (at least some them, or hypothetically) can learn? No. LLMs are built off of huge and complex databases. The organization of the result of a LLM search through the databases is designed to hit our human apophenia just right. It's a trick. A deception. There is no intelligence behind AI. It's a misnomer. LLMs are this generation's version of the "Anima

by Tiangou - 'Friendly' Political Ranting