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Yep, I love it, what once was sci-fi is becoming every day common.
One day we will live hundreds of years and will have mastered the conversion of matter to energy and vise versa, well we will not live hundreds of years but babies who are born today just might.....sigh.........
 





Not in this country. Among the poorest people in this country life expectancy's are going down.....not up. With the middle class becoming a smaller slice of America there are more people who fit into the poorer class. I would like to see this change, however. It is a shame that university tuition are so very high now that people have to go into major debt to go. Also, the advent of online schools has made getting a quality education less likely.
Rant over.
 
Single payer healthcare will shorten the average lifespan, they are already limiting Medicare, a person has a lifetime allowance of radiation therapy and it doesn't matter if it might save their life or not, there's a lot of limits and it will only get worse, hell Obama care caused a lot of good doctors to up and quit.
I am glad to see Trump signed the right to try bill giving people a fighting chance and helping needed medication to get approved faster.

The truth is a lot can change pretty fast, if we get single payer in the years ahead them life expectancy will take a dive, but if we invest in the future then things will start to get better, we can't say for certain what will happen.
 
What Trump and republicans did to the ACA is the reason for democrats taking over the house in a 40+ switch over to their side. If we could get medicare to bargain for better rates on medications THAT would improve rates far better than anything Trump has pushed for.
 
Ha, that's how my bank scans my face when logging in with their app, I have an iPhone 10X and had assumed it was just using an image from the camera, didn't know it was emitting IR light.

Above: From https://www.macworld.com/article/3225406/iphone-ipad/face-id-iphone-x-faq.html

In the case of the iPhone, it appears to do a type of psuedo scanning with a dot projector, but far more sophisticated than I had thought, had no idea it was emitting an IR dot-grid pattern.
 
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If it were just an image, you'd be able to fool the camera with a photograph of your face - so not very secure :) They get away with it as a decent biometric by using the grid of dots to form a 3D scan based on how the pattern deforms across the user's face. You'd need a waxwork of the person's head to fool it I think - so that approach is secure enough!

Also using the IR dot field gets around how it could work in the dark - I know phone cameras are better than ever at low-light photography, but if the phone's projecting it's grid in IR, then it can still work reliably in bad light.
 
Me dressed up as
guess who...................
And me and one of my cats [ persian]
 

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London? You’re nearby? Awesome. Shame you’re here for Storm Gareth though. :p
Welcome to the UK. :D
I’ve been literally soaked through in the last half an hour.
 
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