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    CenturyLink left customers without Internet for 39 days—until Ars stepped in

    Verizon 5G Home Internet is selective in how many homes in a given cell they allow access. The state idea is that they don’t want to overwhelm the cell. I have learned that if in certain areas you want service, you have to literally wait until someone in that area cancels his or her service.
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    Windows security updates could come with fewer reboots beginning later this year

    At the time the idea was that OS X would follow the Unix environments of the time, which permitted (perhaps required, I actually do not know) updating and patching packages individually and then restarting associated processes. If you have an administrator this can be done. If your user is a...
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    AT&T’s botched network update caused yesterday’s major wireless outage

    Do we have any reason to not believe AT&T that this was the cause?
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    AT&T outage leaves more than 70,000 phones without service

    This is the beginning of the black swan event the mainstream media has promised will hit us this year. It will somehow give cover for massive nationwide mail-in-ballot voting.
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    Google’s hidden AI diversity prompts lead to outcry over historically inaccurate images

    AI is not truly intelligent. At least not in the sense that Karl Popper might have defined it, or Immanuel Kant, to Aristotle.
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    AT&T outage leaves more than 70,000 phones without service

    This reminds us all of how fragile our technology world is.
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    AT&T outage leaves more than 70,000 phones without service

    Metronet is doing great work rolling out their fiberoptic service in our area (metro Indianapolis). You are right, AT&T’s U-verse is pretty bad and very expensive.
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    AT&T outage leaves more than 70,000 phones without service

    Is this a cyberattack in our ongoing, undeclared war with China, or the one with Russia?
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    Daily Telescope: Seeing interstellar dust by the light of our galaxy’s stars

    It’s not a given that there are other civilizations out there. Not even that there is life.
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    Compression Attached Memory Modules may make upgradable laptops a thing again

    I would love seeing something like this on Apple hardware. I am wondering, however, what the motivation for the company would be.
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    Anti-vaccine nonsense will likely kill thousands this season, FDA officials say

    How can it become murder? Everyone else who is vaccinated is protected. It could really only be unmedicated suicide. Everyone else who remains unvaccinated is purposefully choosing the other side of the risk profile. Ethically, they indemnify everyone else.
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    Anti-vaccine nonsense will likely kill thousands this season, FDA officials say

    It did not help that we learn from FoIA releases more and more about how the Pfizer COVID shot was approved by the FDA, even though Pfizer knew that it was neither safe nor effective. It does not take misinformation for that to build mistrust among the general population in pharmaceutical...
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    The key to fighting pseudoscience isn’t mockery—it’s empathy

    All absolute truth is built on recognized (not reasoned) truths, i.e., which are self-evident. We call those axioms. Christians recognize God’s revelation as axiomatic (to be sure, most don’t analyze it like that), and even that is based in a person, Jesus Christ, in other words an encounter...
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    The key to fighting pseudoscience isn’t mockery—it’s empathy

    The frequent admonitions to “follow the science” in connection with the COVID debacle haven’t helped the cause of science. Case in point: I am a physicist with a Ph.D. in atomic physics. Because “science” said that the COVID shot was safe and effective and then Pfizer’s FoIA’ed FDA filings...
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    Alphabet’s “Renew Home” company brings power grid data to your smart home

    What are the privacy implications of having these devices in my home. Do I really want to let Google know my power use habits? Should I expect lots of advertisements for Bosch clothes driers to replace my aging current Bosch model?
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    HP misreads room, awkwardly brags about its “less hated” printers

    Try this link, instead: You don’t need to own a printer. Do this instead.
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    HP misreads room, awkwardly brags about its “less hated” printers

    Can’t we just go back to installing a printer drive and let the OS handle everything else?
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    HP misreads room, awkwardly brags about its “less hated” printers

    HP should have become Agilent, and what is Keysight/Agilent today, should have remained Hewlett-Packard. The Hewlett-Packard power supplies were the best. Other lab instrumentation, too. The calculators, which remained HP, always had the best keys. I am wondering, what I should replace me HP...