Comment Re:Scale? (Score 2) 25
Their website has some pictures for scale:
Earth Is Hotter Than at Any Time Since Steam Engine Was Invented (bloomberg.com) 249
The last five years on Earth have been hotter than at any time since the industrial revolution kicked off almost two centuries ago. From a report: That's the conclusion of Europe's Copernicus Climate Change Service, which published data on Wednesday showing that global average temperatures since 2015 were some 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than when steam engines began powering industry. Last year was the second warmest on record after 2016. "These are unquestionably alarming signs," Jean-Noel Thepaut, the head of climate change monitoring at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, said in an email. As wildfires continue to ravage Australia and pollution increasingly chokes millions living in cities, the new data highlights the rapid changes that the Earth's ecosystem is undergoing as a result of man-made carbon emissions.
Comment Slow? (Score 1) 68
1 zettabyte = 1e9 terabytes
3 days = 259200 seconds
1 zettabyte / 3 days = 3,858 terabytes per second
That sounds pretty quick to me, considering that the current Fiber Optic speed record is only 1,050 terrabits per second or about 131 terrabytes per second.
Comment Elons Official Response (Score 1) 330
Tesla is calling on car manufacturers to disable its "Self-pilot" feature that enables self-driving operation. Citing the recent 32,675 fatal accidents involving a car with Self-pilot engaged, Tesla labels the feature as "Too Much Self Reliance Too Soon." Tesla said car manufacturers should "disable self-driving operation until the system can be made safer." "By marketing their vehicles as 'Self-pilot,' car manufacturers gives consumers a false sense of self-determination."
Comment Re:Legacy Application Support? (Score 1) 260
Prior to this change, the path could never be too long to fit into the buffer, Windows wouldn't allow it. Windows only allows a maximum path length of 260 characters, anything more is considered an invalid path name. The total path length including directories could not exceed 260 characters.
Comment Re:Nielsen ratings (Score 2) 302
It seems like Nielsen should allow tracking content watched on computer or tablet (or smartphone even). If anything, this situation just points to the fact that Nielsen needs to update how it collects ratings since there is no reason a Nielsen household couldn't also track viewing content from Netflix, Hulu, etc.
Comment Maybe before source code control (Score 4, Insightful) 246
Wouldn't they see your change to the file in the history/blame for the line?
Or do they suggest you hack your co-workers machine to run this script on their system?
Comment Re:Missed opportunity (Score 2) 92
Exactly. This would have been awesome:
Comment VLANs are your friend (Score 2) 384
I think you could configure each port on the switch with a different default VLAN and plug those into the terminals (e.g. Port 1 gets VLAN 1, Port 2 gets VLAN 2, etc). That will by default separate each port into a separate network. Then use VLAN tagging on your XP VMs that you were going to spin up, so they each are effectively connected to a separate port on the switch (e.g. VM 1 is tagged for VLAN 1, VM 2 is tagged for VLAN 2, etc).
This is just the high-level details of what you'll need to do. Most lower-end consumer grade switches don't have VLAN support, so you may need to spring for a better switch, and make sure your VM software supports VLAN tagging.
Comment Re:Why not just... (Score 1) 384
OP said that they all have the same IP. Presumably this is enforced by the manufacturer, and he has no way to change it.
Comment Swimming (Score 2) 81
My son is 18 months and will be in a Swim-Float-Swim class where they teach them basic survival swimming.
Of course he'll also be learning talking, walking/running, playground, etc and all those other things kids learn between 18 and 24 months.
Comment Re:Comcast Business Class (Score 5, Funny) 291
If I had only two bullets and was locked in a room with Comcast, Hitler, and Osama Bin Laden... I'd shoot Comcast twice.
Well, yeah, because the other two are already dead.
Comment Tracking Beacon? (Score 4, Insightful) 40
potentially turning every coffee consumer's device into a tracking beacon
Sensationalize much? Maybe it's just to tell which Starbucks you're closest to so it know where to place the order or narrow down the nearby store results? That would be the more likely reason.
Do people seriously think that any app requesting location services is turned into an always-on tracking beacon sending their every move back to Big Data(tm)?
Battlestar Galactica Creator Glen A. Larson Dead At 77 186
schwit1 writes Glen A. Larson, the wildly successful television writer-producer whose enviable track record includes 'Six Million Dollar Man', Quincy M.E., Magnum, P.I., Battlestar Galactica, Knight Rider and The Fall Guy, has died. He was 77.
From the article: Battlestar Galactica lasted just one season on ABC from 1978-79, yet the show had an astronomical impact. Starring Lorne Greene and Richard Hatch as leaders of a homeless fleet wandering through space, featuring special effects supervised by Star Wars’ John Dykstra and influenced by Larson’s Mormon beliefs, Battlestar premiered as a top 10 show and finished the year in the top 25. But it was axed after 24 episodes because, Larson said, each episode cost “well over” $1 million.
Comment Mechwarrior (Score 1) 701
Reactor Online, Sensors Online, Weapons Online, All Systems Nominal.
