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[quote=scaredyclassic]The pool is beautiful there. Let the HOA clean it. I hate dealing with my pool. Actually, now I remember making an offer on a perfect Meadowview house. On the meadow. Bid a little too low. Was so sad. Should’ve come in stronger. Then I’d be in Meadowview right now!!!

Wine country is OK but I prefer Meadowview.[/quote]
The ‘Y’ uses a ‘robot’ to clean their pools. I saw them place it after pool hours — and watched it work. It looked like it had more ‘smarts’ than the typical automatic pool cleaner. It didn’t stay at the bottom of the pool.

Add the cleaner and solar to handle the pool pump bills and you should be fairly good. If you want, you can add an automatic chlorinators/pH balancing system.

I don’t think there will be much of a problem with interracial couples on the West Coast. There was a lot of mixing occurring on the west coast during the ’60s, so the entire area from Mexican border to the Canadian border on the west coast is safe. There may be some inland areas in California, Oregon and Washington that may see fewer interracial couples, but not enough to cause problems. Even Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas don’t have that many issues for interracial couples. I would be careful with Idaho, Montana and possible Wyoming though.

I am also one of the interracial (and interpolitic) couples. I have found that issues have followed patterns and have largely died down in S.D. and the places I mentioned above.

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[quote=scaredyclassic]My gums disease has gotten worse recently. I could brush and floss more. But my recent research informs me that diet may make a big difference. Some periodontists believe carbs, refined flour esp, create a nasty mouth environment that fills with plaque for susceptible people like me.[/quote]
Refined starch/sugar is bad for almost everyone in large amounts. Refined starches convert to sugars very quickly, and sugars feed the bad bacteria in the mouth. I also wonder about other parts of your health and how you are brushing as well.
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So I am trying a 90 day experiment until my next cleaning…no carbs, no bread or rice or sugars just olive oil salads beans and meat, and see if it gives my gums a chance to heal. … also going to drink green tea all day as some research says this helps gums heal.[/quote]
Good start, the salad-lean meat is similar to the Atkins diet. You also might want to look at how you are brushing/flossing and with what type of toothpaste.

I would brush first to get most of the bacteria out. Flossing first can drive bacteria into the gums if there is more bacteria on the surface than under the gums. I use Arm&Hammer PeroxiCare – tastes like crap but really seems to work. Contains hydrogen peroxide and baking soda. Many toothpastes still contain sugar (to make them more palatable). PeroxiCare is available at Walmart.

I tend to floss with some of the toothpaste still in my mouth (because it has hydrogen peroxide and baking soda). It is a little messy to do, but seems to do a better job of cleaning under the gums. The other thing I sometimes do is use a WaterPik.

Rinse with water, swishing it to try and force it between your teeth (mouth and jaw closed using the tongue to force the water between the teeth). Then rinse same way with Listerine. After spitting out the Listerine, I tend to let the remaining amount stay in my mouth for a few minutes before final rinse.

Sometimes using ACT restoring mouthwash also helps, but this is more focused on tooth integrity than gum.

When you brush is also important. If you are having problems, might be good after each meal. It is also more important to brush before going to bed – because bacteria will have all night to work at your gums and teeth if you don’t.
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This gum disease is related to plaque, the same crap in our arteries. I have a feeling my crappy mouth is related to internal crap.[/quote]
No they are not related other than they both may be diet related. The olive oil, salads and beans may help with plaque in your arteries. You need to increase the ratio of HDL to LDL fats on your blood. Omega 3 fatty acids also help your arteries.

By the way, the bacteria that attacks your teeth and gums can lead to Chronic Heart Failure if it gets in your blood because that same bacteria also attacks the heart.

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You might want to check the history of IBM Watson. It is ‘Deep Blue’s spawn, not something weird (yet again) from Microsoft.

With the Microsoft chatbot, some people realized that they were dealing with a parrot, a not particularly bright one at that, instead of an AI. An AI would have asked why the person wanted it to repeat everything said.

PS: IBM Watson bought some critical medical companies recently. It would probably do better at analyzing xrays, CTs and MRIs than sending them off to some cheap sweatshop in India. It will probably be more consistent than can be achieved even with well trained individuals.

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-ibm-watson-is-transforming-healthcare-2015-7

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[quote=ocrenter]a better question would be “do we need people”.

ultimately AI will prove to be superior to human beings in all aspects. And a mechanical body with infinitely exchangeable and upgradeable parts will be superior to biologic based, age limited body.

Do we want to go there is the question…[/quote]
We are already going there… IBM Watson has entered the market.

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[quote=spdrun]Unless the forums require a login to view and/or are set to “no index”, this is a public site. HTTPS or not.[/quote]True, but SSL has to do with interception and spoofing of communication as well as securing content. W/O SSL, your password(s) you use on a site can get snagged.

That said, I don’t think this site would be considered a critical site unless you are using the same password on this site as you are using for a more ‘critical’ or ‘sensitive’ site (bank account?).

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[quote=moneymaker]Never said it was anything new, just that most people don’t know it. The NSA can still spoof a MAC address and spy on somebody that way. Just interesting to me that Microsoft was so slow to join the EV thing. Also I hear that Apple is pretty darn secure. I have not had any issues but I did not realize how vulnerable one can be on a non secure site until now.[/quote]Even spoofing a MAC will not get you past the cert check on SSL. If you read my references, you will notice that the EV things is basically BS. BTW Apple is not that secure, though their recent phones have fixed previous problems. OSX still has some security problems, and they are not that proactive on fixing their browser – there are some known 0-days on Safari.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/07/mac_malware/

BTW, there is hardened versions of Linux, SELinux, which is now incorporated into the main kernel thread. SELinux was mod’d on recommendation of NSA. https://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/ This was not done to allow them to get in, the NSA needed a secure OS for themselves and MSFT nor Apple were stepping up. The NSA lost SGIs Trusted IRIX (which I used to work with) with SGIs implosion, Suns had questionable security – could barely hold onto their C3 cert. Trusted IRIX was B-1. This eval was along the old style inspect – test according to the Rainbow-Series publications and not the ‘newer’ EAL-CAPs.

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[quote=spdrun]It’s well known that over-the-air HDTV has better definition than cable — cable is known to be lossily compressed.[/quote] OTA transmission also uses a lossy compression algorithm too. Cable actually has more bandwidth than OTA and less interference. OTA HDTV is both better and worse quality compared to cable. The primary channel seems to be better quality, secondary channels seem to be worse. It also looks like the key frames (I-frame) of the video occurs less frequently in OTA than cable. This shows up as channel switching occurring slower on OTA compared to cable.

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This is old news. The capability to validate security has been around since the beginning of SSL.

The security requirements in the EV-certificate 2008 CPS are (except for minor differences in the legalese used to express them) practically identical to the requirements for Class 3 certificates listed in Verisign’s version 1.0 CPS from 1996. EV certificates simply roll back the clock to the approach that had already failed the first time it was tried in 1996, resetting the shifting baseline and charging 1996 prices as a side-effect.

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Validation_Certificate. It really does not add anything, and may subtract things. One of the problems in the past has been with man in the middle attacks (which is the what is described in your link). There have been two issues leading up to those attacks:
1) For years, Internet explorer did not check the full certificate keychain. It would just check that it had a cert and not that the cert belonged to the website being accessed.
2) Certain 3 letter snooping agencies have negotiated with top level signatories for the purpose of getting a cert. This is why checking the full keychain is important.

One thing to note: because the certain 3 letter snooping agencies are negotiating with the CA (Certificate Authorities), they will also be able to negotiate access to the extended certs as well.

By the way, it is possible to access the top level certs in your browser and add or delete CAs as you feel necessary.

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There is also LibreOffice (along with OpenOffice) which take care of MSWord, eXcel, PowerPoint. There is also OpenProj, ProjectLibre, and GanttProject for the MSProject replacement. @spdrun, there is going to be a mod to GIMP that will set Photoshop back on its heels. Photoshop processes images at a higher depth than 8 bit, which means less ‘banding’ in images when contrast/brightness/gamma gets changed. GIMP only works in 8 bit…. until the next update which will significantly increase the bit depth.

An there is also the Linux options which often work quite well on old machines. The ISOs can be downloaded through BitTorrent, and either burned to a CD/DVD or put on a USB drive. Some of these ISOs can be run ‘Live’ right off the CD/DVD-rom so you can see if you like how it runs (it will run slower because access is significantly slower than a hard drive), Fedora, CentOS(RedHat clone), Debian, Mint, Ubuntu for examples.

Oh yeah, there is also Hugin for creating panoramas, including photo-spheres.

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[quote=harvey][quote=ucodegen][quote=scaredyclassic]Wait, why is the epa “unconstitutional”?[/quote]
It has the potential to create and enforce laws extra-judicially and outside of the constitutionally stated process (laws are supposed to be written/enacted by Congress, signed by Pres, reviewed by Judicial). There is a somewhat accepted sidestep that Congress enacted the EPA, so it is now allowed, though still is a question whether the EPA can create laws in and of itself outside of Congress.[/quote]

The military has its own legal system, with courts, judges, prisons, and even the death sentence.

All because of a law passed by congress.

The EPA is no different. It was granted authority within a certain scope by congress. Congress can also take that authority away. Government wouldn’t work if congress had to approve every detail of every organization.[/quote]The issue is that congress may not have the authority to delegate lawmaking to the EPA. It changes the balance of power established by the constitution (which is also why the line item veto was shot down) Claiming that I am stating that Congress would then have to approve every detail is a bit of a straw-man argument. Only the environmental laws and how they are enforced would be covered by that issue, not day to day ops.

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[quote=bearishgurl][quote=FlyerInHi]New developments (suburban or condo/apartment complexes ) are best to lay fiber.
No so much in rural areas where target shooting don’t bother the neighbors.[/quote]I can’t imagine that we’re going to get Scroogle Fibber anytime soon in (urban) dtn Chula Vista. We’ll be lucky to get buried SDGE cable in my lifetime, eliminating constant 6-8 hr power outages during high-usage A/C days.

For now, my internet cable is strung up on poles and works just fine :=)[/quote] We have internet through TWC, and were seeing basic cable because it was not scrambled (at the time, it is now). We are not running basic internet, so we are paying a bit for it. It is kind of irritating that TWC is charging for local channels. They claim they have to pay for it which kind of makes sense when you consider that TWC changes the commercials that are aired with the channel. But TWC does not have to change the channels, after which they would not be charged for the feed. TWC is trying to ‘both-end’ the deal. Changing the commercials to their sponsors, and then charging to view.

After our feed got scrambled, I was fiddling with the cable for one of the TVs and after a short calculation, found that a full wave antenna at 900Mhz is about 1 foot long. Just for the h**l of it, I had some ‘punch-down’ wire for type-66 telco blocks, so I stripped 1/2 and inch off a 6 inch long piece and just stuck it in a short piece of RG-6 cable connected to the antenna port of the TV and propped it vertically above the TV. I then set the TV to scan for channels and got 18 digital signals… including KPBS!! in high def. Some were weak, but several came in quite strong. The OTA signal looks sharper than TWC’s, so I suspect that TWC is down-compressing the signal, reducing effective resolution. The digital high def signals are sent at higher frequencies than the old VHF TV signals, so smaller antennas work. Most antennas you can buy are not true omni-directionals.

At this point, I have a bit of an ‘itch’ to build a small phased turnstile loop antenna.. (vertically stacked, phased evenly to flatten the reception pattern vertically, extend it horizontally).

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[quote=bearishgurl]In our case, these wild, starving coyotes have had to traverse 9 miles or more over/under 2-3 FREEWAYS, as well as thru large culverts and drainage canals (both dirt and concrete) to end up sprinting emaciated into downtown Chula Vista in “attack-mode search” of a random small dog or cat to “snack on” for their very survival.[/quote]Note that the coyotes were willing to travel from the wild into the city over 9 miles or more under 2-3 freeways… That means that food is easier to obtain in the city than in the wild. Coyotes will choose the easiest food. City food doesn’t run away as fast, not as smart about coyotes and doesn’t fight back. Coyotes can easily cover 9 miles, I have done an 11 mile one way, 22 mile circular trip through Penasquitos canyon(as the crow flies).. no real big deal.. so the trip would not make a coyote ’emaciated’.

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Considering the comments on the EPA, you might want to check this out:
http://news.yahoo.com/epa-putting-foot-down-modifications-003034829.html

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[quote=bearishgurl]These unwise choices have caused the coyote population living out there to run scared into town. By the time they are able to successfully sprint into my (urban) area 9-10 miles west (near SD Bay), they are emaciated, thirsty and starving. Several small pets of my neighbors have been killed while in their front yards … even tied up (one small dog was killed right in front of its owner)! I’ve helped their distraught owners transport and bury three of these pet bodies where there was just basically eyes, spine and a few entrials left, if that. It’s really sad that Big Development has been allowed to essentially destroy the habitat of these wild animals only to add to the headaches and congestion of the area with overbuilding.[/quote] While Big Development may contribute to the problem, homeowners have also contributed as well as the legislature. Dog food dishes left outside overnight with food in it, uncontrolled trash, leaving little dogs/cats outside overnight (little dog = Chicken McNugget to a coyote). The other problem is that people like to see deer and try to entice them closer to their property. The coyotes follow the deer as well as other wild animals. The final thing that has contributed is that coyotes no longer fear man – in part due to laws now in place. We are not legally allowed to take action against coyotes on or around our property (as if coyotes don’t learn and adapt).

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[quote=scaredyclassic]Wait, why is the epa “unconstitutional”?[/quote]
It has the potential to create and enforce laws extra-judicially and outside of the constitutionally stated process (laws are supposed to be written/enacted by Congress, signed by Pres, reviewed by Judicial). There is a somewhat accepted sidestep that Congress enacted the EPA, so it is now allowed, though still is a question whether the EPA can create laws in and of itself outside of Congress.

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