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Comment Re:AM is history (Score 1) 264

by DigitalReverend (#63722356) Attached to: US Senate Panel Passes AM Radio, Ticket Fee Pricing Bills

I hate to say this, but you are very wrong about AM radio. VHF, UHF, and Satellite can all be rendered useless. There was infrastructure put in place for AM Broadcast for the emergency broadcast system. AM Radios being widespread and easily accessed by the masses allows for important information to be sent out en masse.

As a ham myself, I am somewhat disappointed in what you have stated.

Submission + - Playing football—even without a concussion—can cause brain damage (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by CodeInspired
CodeInspired writes:

The familiar thudding soundtrack of football means nothing more to many fans than a well-executed game. But for neuroscience researchers, those sounds can signal something much darker: brain damage. Now, a new study shows playing just one season of college football can harm a player’s brain, even if they don’t receive a concussion.

The science behind CTE (Chronic traumatic encephalopathy) and head trauma seem to be pretty solid. Are contact sports on their way out of mainstream society?

Submission + - Slack vs Discord: Choose Your Business Fighter (standuply.com)

Submitted by annakes
annakes writes: We’re gonna be watching Slack vs Discord battle for the next few minutes. Well, in the first corner, we have a workflow monster and work chat master — Slack. In the second corner, we see another chat monster for gamers and for all who get with the times — Discord.

Submission + - U.S. Gov Issues Hacking Alert for Small Planes

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: The DHS has issued a security alert for small planes, warning that modern flight systems are vulnerable to hacking if someone manages to gain physical access to the aircraft. The alert stems from research done by security firm Rapid7, which found that an attacker could potentially disrupt electronic messages transmitted across a small plane's network, for example by attaching a small device to its wiring, that would affect aircraft systems. Engine readings, compass data, altitude and other readings "could all be manipulated to provide false measurements to the pilot," according to the DHS alert.

Comment Re:Wait, shouldn't we be blaming the Millennials? (Score 1) 271

What USA Today fails to point out is that most boomers were out of the house at 18 either learned a trade or finished college in four years. Millenials are living in their parents basements until they are nearly 30 and thanks to greedy colleges, it's taking more than 4 years to complete a degree. You can't start a race late and then complain that those who started earlier are ahead of you.

Comment The pollution still happens (Score 0) 248

but where it happens is just relocated.

Mining materials for batteries = pollution
The manufacturing of batteries = pollution
Recharging those batteries from the grid = pollution
Old non-recyclable batteries = pollution

I am not sure why people don't get this. I guess as long as they don't see the pollution in their back yard, they don't think it exists.

I think they'd be better off converting the buses to run on LNG or some other alternative fuel that has lower emissions.

Submission + - Minimum wage bill could eliminate 1.3 million jobs, CBO says (politico.com) 3

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes:

CBO’s finding that a $15 hourly minimum would result in 1.3 million jobs lost was a median estimate. CBO's upper estimate of 3.7 million jobs lost poses another test for Democratic centrists, many of whom were skeptical about the impact on local businesses.

Price meet demand.

Time to invest in the fast-food robot industry.

Submission + - Logitech USB Mouse Dongles can be hacked to hijack systems (zdnet.com)

Submitted by raikoseagle
raikoseagle writes: It has been reported via a Zero Day that Logitech Unifying dongles and Dongles for the MX2S series mice can be hacked to hijack systems. Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported, which include ones that enable keystroke injection, keylogging, mouse-jacking, Logitech has only announced that they will address some of these vulnerabilities. As reported via CNet https://www.zdnet.com/article/...

Submission + - IBM closes its $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat (cnbc.com)

Submitted by PolygamousRanchKid
PolygamousRanchKid writes: IBM closed its $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat, the companies announced Tuesday. The acquisition of Red Hat, an open source, enterprise software maker, marks the close of IBM’s largest deal ever. It’s one of the largest in U.S. tech history. Under the deal, Red Hat will now be a unit of IBM’s Hybrid Cloud division, according to the original announcement.

IBM previously said it hopes its acquisition of Red Hat will help it do more work in the cloud, one of its four key growth drivers, which also include social, mobile and analytics. The company lags behind Amazon and Microsoft in the cloud infrastructure business.

In an April note, Nomura Instinet analysts led by Jeffrey Kvaal said, “OpenShift [a Red Hat product] should help IBM win new customers and new workloads as enterprises begin to usher mission-critical applications from on-premise to public or private clouds.”

Submission + - Wikipedia Users Trying To Quietly Remove Political Connections In Epstein's Bio (redstate.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The sensational case surrounding billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein hasn’t just stopped at Epstein. People are turning it into a political fight due to Epstein’s habit of being connected to big political names such as Bill Clinton and Donald Trump.

As people in our society will do, when they want to learn who somebody is they’ll hit up America’s number one source of information, Wikipedia. The site is open sourced, meaning anyone can come in and make changes to a page. This can be used to update references, correct information, or in some cases, rewrite history for malicious reasons.

Upon clicking on Epstein’s bio, you’ll be treated to various facts about his life, such as the fact that he was good friends with Clinton, as well as disgraced actor and sexual assaulter Kevin Spacey. In fact, it details that Clinton had been on Epstein’s private plane 26 times.

Or at least that’s what you would have seen if you had pulled up Epstein’s page at around 8:30 this morning. According to some eagle eyed Twitter users, the page was edited sometime between then and 10:30 this morning with the connections to Clinton and Spacey now completely gone.

Submission + - Bitcoin mining on an Apollo Guidance Computer: 10.3 seconds per hash (righto.com)

Submitted by volvox_voxel
volvox_voxel writes: We've been restoring an Apollo Guidance Computer1. Now that we have the world's only working AGC, I decided to write some code for it. Trying to mine Bitcoin on this 1960s computer seemed both pointless and anachronistic, so I had to give it a shot. Implementing the Bitcoin hash algorithm in assembly code on this 15-bit computer was challenging, but I got it to work. Unfortunately, the computer is so slow that it would take about a billion times the age of the universe to successfully mine a Bitcoin block.

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