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Comment Re:Title should read ... (Score 1) 53

Can you elaborate on #2? In principle, an IPv6 firewall / stateful router can protect devices on the LAN by essentially using NAT logic except for rewriting addresses, right? Assuming that a more naive approach of blocking incoming SYN packets by default isn't good enough, at least.

(Posting as AC so I can moderate up some deserving comments below.)

Comment Re:Hmm (Score 4, Interesting) 173

The problem in this case, as usual, was lazy government rather than big government. A government with high capacity to get things done is not necessarily bad, but usually government turns into a power trip or a mire of reasons that things cannot be done -- and big or effective government is bad in both of those cases.

Comment Re:Pointless article .. (Score 4, Insightful) 140

Did TFA explain why the mother didn't get a court to order her ex to transfer the parental role to her? There are decades of precedent about how to have courts sort out custody disputes and to deal with people who won't cooperate. As an added benefit, it is almost entirely independent of the account provider -- it will work for Apple, Google Samsung, whomever.

Comment Re:Yes we know (Score 3, Informative) 141

2K and 1080p are the same resolution, but 2K -- like 4K and 8K -- is an approximation to the horizontal resolution, whereas 1080p is a combination of the vertical resolution and the scan mode (progressive scan rather than interlaced).

720p: 1280x720, 1080p or 2K: 1920x1080, 4K: 3840x2160, 8K: 7680x4320.

Comment Re:I'm inclined to believe that BUT... (Score 1) 141

Sure, but their calculation was that a 4K screen is sharper than human eyes can resolve for a 44" screen at 2.5 m (8.2 ft) away. A hypothetical 2K 44" screen needs to be 5 m away in order to give the same number of pixels per degree (PPD) -- and most people are not sitting 5 m away from their TV, especially if it's 44" diagonal. 65" screens are pretty cheap nowadays, and a 50% increase in diagonal size would translate to a 50% increase in viewing distances to get the same PPD.

Their online calculator makes it clear that a 2K 44" TV at 2.5 m is limited by the screen rather than a typical viewer's eyes -- so the Slashdot headline is a lie.

Comment Re:What "quantum age"? (Score 1) 63

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Falgassert.com%2Fpost%2F250... addresses the case of 21.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fpdf%2F1903.007... seems to be the paper about 35, although it says that noise meant that "the algorithm fails to factor N = 35" (and didn't do a great job for 21 either).

Comment Re:So estheticians had a problem (Score 1) 56

Almost all US healthcare spending is by the government. And the US government spends more per person on health care than any other country spends government+private. By a lot.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.statista.com%2Fstati...

A large majority of that government spending is direct spending on Medicare and Medicaid, not subsidies for insurance. So when you complain that the US "doesn't even have a functioning healthcare system", the most obvious reason is because our governments have broken the system.

Comment Re:Targeting the people who have aged out of it (Score 2) 11

Isn't that why they make phones with 256+ GB storage? "The cloud" (aka "someone else's computer") might be convenient in various ways, but it's inherently slower than what is already on your phone, and it doesn't work so well from the top of a mountain[1], the bottom of a parking garage, or other places with lousy mobile coverage.

[1]- I was surprised that Mount Fuji had mobile good coverage all the way up, but I guess Japanese people also want to Snapchat/SNS from there.

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