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  • Man pleads guilty to stealing naked photos from iCloud accounts

    genius_macgenius_mac
    Too bad most of the media tends to report phishing and stolen passwords as hacks. It is very, very different: this here is password hijacking, and not breaking and entering.

    ronnbaconstangwatto_cobra

  • Tim Cook to talk Facebook, 'Tim Apple,' more in interview airing Monday

    genius_macgenius_mac
    It’s a matter of interpretation, but knowing how Trump speaks, I hear that as “Tim, Apple...”.   It says if he is using both his name and the company name to reinforce it in his speech.  I’ve heard him do this in different ways quite a few times. It comes off as very disjointed and I can certainly see why it sounds like he said “Tim Apple” as a name.  I just think his intent was to separate the two words.
    Knowing Trump and the last several years of his narcissism, he just does not care to learn the names of anyone and just make some up since he does not respect anyone else. He did this a lot and often through his life. Just like he did with facts and his "alternative realities". 

    Anyone with intelligence knows it is from his narcism, don't excuse it for anything else.
    Dogpersonwatto_cobrafastasleepDetnatorzigzaglens

  • Eve Energy weather made official, new Eve Energy comes to US, Eve Aqua gets Thread support...

    genius_macgenius_mac
    I have several Eve HomeKit gadgets: Several Degrees, Rooms, Motion, Light Strip, and switches. They all work pretty well and the Eve app is much easier to use than Apple’s Home app. I have been pretty satisfied with them. I have many rules program to turn lights on and off at different times, when someone walks into a room, and rules that work in conjunction with an Ecobee sensors. 

    The Eve Degrees use button cell batteries. These typically do not perform well at low temperatures if lower than 50% battery life.  I really have not had issues with three of them that are outside for several years. If they fail to connect, it is typically time to replace the battery. The app is pretty good at indicating hen their battery is low. With the last Texas freeze, they worked well even at 0.3F that they measured. The battery was at 60% and had no issue with transmitting a lot of info that week.
    watto_cobra

  • Apple closing seven Apple Stores in Texas due to COVID-19 spikes

    genius_macgenius_mac

    Even the governor that has downplayed the virus and has rushed to reopen Texas in early May, is now calling for people to stay home:

    https://www.click2houston.com/news/texas/2020/06/24/texas-governor-says-state-facing-massive-covid-19-outbreak-expects-state-to-pass-5000-new-cases-again-wednesday/

    Houston area is at near capacity in hospitals. Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio metro areas have had significant increases in cases and hospitalizations.

    Texas has had 5x increase in daily positive cases since reopening, and is now #5 in the nation on number of cases:

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/texas-coronavirus-cases.html

    Also WHO clarified their comments to indicate the difference between asymptomatic and presymptomatic:

    On Tuesday, Van Kerkhove and her colleague Mike Ryan, MD, executive director for health emergencies at the WHO, explained that there are two distinct kinds of silent transmission: “asymptomatic” (spreading a disease when you don’t have symptoms) and “presymptomatic” (spreading it before symptoms start). Both are difficult to stop. Presymptomatic spread is believed to be far more common than asymptomatic spread.

    Van Kerkhove said published and unpublished studies discussed in WHO briefings suggest that between 6% and 41% of people who test positive for the virus will be asymptomatic. Even less is known about what proportion of these people go on to infect others.

    The new coronavirus can infect the upper respiratory tract -- the nose and throat, said Ryan, adding that any situation where a person is expelling air under pressure may drive the virus out. He gave the example of someone shouting at their friend in a loud nightclub.

    “Some studies have been done on this -- singing, speaking loudly, exertion, maybe in a gym where you’re breathing very heavily,” he said. “Clearly that is playing a role in transmission, there’s no question.”

    While true asymptomatic transmission might be uncommon, what’s likely to be more common is presymptomatic transmission. Presymptomatic transmission also occurs with the flu. Studies have shown that people with COVID-19 can infect others anywhere from 1 to 3 days before they get sick, Van Kerkhove said.

    Ryan also pointed out that in COVID-19, a person’s viral load, the amount of the virus they have in their body, appears to peak right as they get their first symptoms.

    “That means you could be in a restaurant feeling perfectly well and just starting to get a fever, but you’re feeling OK, you didn’t think you needed to stay home. That’s the moment when your viral load could be quite high,” said Ryan.

    That’s why masks are important, he said, especially when you can’t stand or sit at a distance from others.

    “There is this period of time, you know, where even a professor of infectious diseases themselves wouldn’t know that I’m getting COVID,” Ryan said. “You’re not aware of your status.”

    “It’s because the disease can spread at that moment that the disease is so contagious,” he said. “That’s why it has spread around the world in such an uncontained way."

    https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200609/who-clairifies-comments-on-asymptomatic-covid-spread

    fastasleepmontrosemacs