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A smart toilet capable of detecting early warning signs of cancer and other serious diseases has been developed by scientists in the US. I'm not going to touch this one (but of course there's AI involved)
{redacted} due to a small, but likely vocal group who would complain about a medical term in the title. And I want to keep my job here.
I don't think I want to know who-or how they-ascertained that every "snowflake" is unique.
modified 7-Apr-20 11:32am.
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the words "toilet" and "camera" should not be in the same sentence.
wrong on so many levels. 
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Smile...say cheese!
I'm hiding from exercise...I'm in the fitness protection program.
JaxCoder.com
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Mike Hankey wrote: Smile...say cheese!
I can't actually speak from that end.
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You don't need to...
English does have the expression "an image is worthier than 1000 words", doesn't it?
M.D.V. 
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Or, in this case, "A picture's worth a billion hits on an instagram account".
As long as it's not uploaded to grindr...
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Critical Analysis Report
To: User101@ToiletUser.com
From: Admin@ToiletWatcher.com
Subject: Critical Analysis Report
Dear User101
We have noticed you eat wait too much creamed corn.
Also, it looks like your kids have been eating pennies again
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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Gaps in security and new ways of working will lead to data breaches and security problems over the coming weeks and months. I thought the playgrounds were closed?
I certainly hope they're spying from home, or they could be in trouble.
modified 6-Apr-20 18:44pm.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Gaps in security and new ways of working Zoom will lead to data breaches and security problems over the coming weeks and months.
Far too verbose.
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The U.S. sees a clear path to the use of moon and asteroid resources. "Keeps me searching for a heart of gold"
Hopefully he wasn't just mishearing his doctor recommending some lab work.
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Whip them to work harder while reduce funding: success!
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Great!
Let him play with his toy spaceships and digger machines!
It'll keep him busy, while wiser heads fix the messes he's made.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: while wiser heads fix the messes he's made.
You're just going by what the television tells you to believe.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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You could be right -- if I ever watched television, which I don't.
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Well you're getting your one-sided view from somewhere.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Sure, from a certain-coloured person's twitter account and daily press briefings.
It's the best entertainment since the OJ trial.
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Trump owns the moon and the asteroids? 
M.D.V.
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He does have SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE FOOOOORRRRRRRCE! I guess he figures no one will challenge him on it. 
TTFN - Kent
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Does China own the South China Sea? No, but they are laying claim to it.
Does Russia own the North Pole? No, but they are laying claim to it.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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And is totally wrong as well.
M.D.V.
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Although last year there was an uptick in sales for audio cassettes at levels not achieved since the early 2000s, the format generally has been considered a useless relic of a long-gone era. Now people can watch your hot new mixtape
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With 60 db S/N and 20 kHz analog bandwith, according to Shannon, you could in theory squeeze something like 400 kpbs onto the tape. On CC, the channels are totally separate, so you could have twice that bit rate. That is not to be laughed at. If you build your own hardware, you could even use all four tracks, for 1.6 Mbps bit rate. You could even fiddle around with other physical .parameters: When metal tape was introduced, lab prototypes showed a frequency range up to 20 kHz with 60 dB S/N on dictaphone 1/16" tape cassettes (half the CC width) running at 15/16" per second (half the CC speed). For backwards compatibility reasons, physical parameters had to be adjusted. Philips (the CC patent holder) refused to accept any non-standard tape speed, and e.g. pre-emphasis had to be adjusted so that playback of metal tapes on legacy players would return a reasonably balanced sound.
I used 128 kbps videophone in the ISDN days (even 64 kbps!), not exactly claiming that that is was IMAX quality, but a whole lot better than you would think! An essential point: ISDN B channels were fixed bitrate, single-connection channels, wasting no resources on channel contention, reordering of mislaid packets and so on: The pure 128 kbps was available to video and sound, without any restriction. (When IP telephony started to invade Norway, the common rule was that you needed at least a 1 Mbps Internet connection to support an IP phone line - 16 times the 64 kbit rate an ISDN connection would occupy.) That is how a tape works: It is dedicated to a single dedicated video stream, wasting no resources on channel allocation and management.
If we are talking about modern, H.264 or H.265 compressed video, resolution limited to what is visible to the human eye (at normal viewing distance, not when using a magnifier to "prove" that is video is "useless quality") anything in the 1 Mbps range actually provides quite tolerable quality. At least as good as the classical analog SD video. 400 kbps may be somewhat on the low side, but you'd probably be surprised by what can be delivered on that bit rate.
However, don't forget that H.264/265 encoding is not standardized. Only the decoding is standardized. An advanced encoder can find low bit rate encodings that will decode to an artifact free image, while a simplistic encoder may be wasting a lot of bits, yet creating encodings causing a lot of artifacts when decoded by standard methods. We saw this to an excessive degree with MP3: The early, simplistic MP3 decoders required at least 192 kbps to provide a decent sound quality. Today, high quality coders provide significantly better quality at 128 kbps. The same applies to H.26x video: The best encoders (often using patented or company secret tricks to find the most efficient encodings) provide impressing quality, compared to the "naive" encoders.
Don't get me wrong: I certainly do not want "CC video" to be the VHS of the 2020s, only to point out that this project is not as laughable as it at first may appear.
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But does it play DooM?
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