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Comment Re:Nope Not True Edge to Edge (Score 1) 570

I just don't get it. What about this is supposed to be an improvement?

Screen size of the plus model in the form factor of the non-plus model. More screen = good.

I know what you mean about bezel-less though; it looks really pretty (at least the S8 does) but seems like it might be less functional.

Comment For All Those People Saying Just Don't Connect It (Score 2) 320

...have you ever heard of house guests?

I have a Smart TV that I had not hooked up to the Internet. We had house guests with kids stay in that room. As they stayed for a while, they got the house WiFi password (for the guest network). Guess what happened next?

I didn't notice for a while, so there was plenty of potential for forced updates, CIA intrusions, or other tomfoolery (not that I think anything happened). I also discovered that the only way to turn WiFi off for this TV (an LG model) was a factory reset.

Math

Can Statistics Predict the Outcome of a War? 572

StatisticallyDeadGuy writes "A University of Georgia scientist has developed a statistical system that can, she claims, predict the outcome of wars with an accuracy of 80 percent. Her approach, applied retrospectively, says the US chance of victory in the first Gulf War was 93%, while the poor Soviets only had a 7% chance in Afghanistan (if only they'd known; failure maybe triggered the collapse of the USSR). As for the current Iraq conflict: the US started off with a 70% chance of a successful regime change, which was duly achieved — but extending the mission past this to support a weak government has dropped the probability of ultimate success to 26%. Full elaboration of the forecasting methodology is laid out in a new paper (subscription required — link goes to the abstract). Some details can be gleaned from her 2006 draft (PDF)."

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