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Comment Re:Well, there's one logical consequence (Score 1) 148

by fahrbot-bot (#64418008) Attached to: China's Ageing Tech Workers Hit By 'Curse of 35'

People will start to think like professional athletes: I have to earn a life's wage by the time I'm 35, because after that I won't have an income anymore.

To be fair, an athlete is more likely to experience a career-ruining injury than the average worker and then be unable to continue in that career. I'm not trying to justify the insane salaries many seem to get, but can understand why they'd want to earn while they can. Of course, being responsible with those earnings would go a long way toward future financial security. (Good advice for everyone.)

Comment Re:The honorable thing (Score 3, Informative) 223

by sinij (#64417414) Attached to: Google Fires More Employees Over Protest of Cloud Contract With Israel
For a very long time Google attitude sent implicit messages to employees that on-the-job political activism is a job perk. These Google employees mistakenly believed that this applies to all political opinions, but they found out that criticism of Israel is not part of "safe to support" political cause. Had they picked a different sit-in subject, like demanding Google block Russia, they would still be happily employed.

Comment Re:That's 50 down, 950 to go (Score 1) 223

by sinij (#64417384) Attached to: Google Fires More Employees Over Protest of Cloud Contract With Israel

I'm no Israel apologist, but BS is BS, it smells the same all over the world. It's a lot more important to use the brain God gave you than to be "on the right side of history". Stop listening to these guys.

You are a censorship apologist, as you are calling for people to get fired over opinions. It does not matter if you think that what they believe is BS, in a free country you should not be fired for political beliefs.

Comment Re:We are not far behind (Score 1) 115

They are prosecuting non-violent protesters that did not vandalize anything and they are trying to use Enron-era law to get 20 year sentences. Which is ridiculous. I wouldn't be complaining if it was limited to a bunch of misdemeanor trespass charges, but Democrats are going for 20 year sentences for anyone who entered Capitol, including reporters.

Submission + - Two lifeforms merge into one organism for first time in a billion years (msn.com)

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: For the first time in at least a billion years, two lifeforms have merged into a single organism.

The process, called primary endosymbiosis, has only happened twice in the history of the Earth, with the first time giving rise to all complex life as we know it through mitochondria. The second time that it happened saw the emergence of plants.

Now, an international team of scientists have observed the evolutionary event happening between a species of algae commonly found in the ocean and a bacterium.

Comment Re:We are not far behind (Score 1) 115

Which non-violent political protesters were jailed? Surely you can't be referring to the January 6th rioters, who tresspassed in the capitol building, vandalized it, and assaulted the capitol police? All three acts are clearly illegal under any rational reading of the law.

Every single one of them did all these things?

Submission + - Voyager 1 Is Communicating Well Again (scientificamerican.com)

Submitted by fahrbot-bot
fahrbot-bot writes: Scientific American is reporting that after [5] months of nonsensical transmissions from humanity’s most distant emissary, NASA’s iconic Voyager 1 spacecraft is finally communicating intelligibly with Earth again.

When the latest communications glitch occurred last fall, scientists could still send signals to the distant probe, and they could tell that the spacecraft was operating. But all they got from Voyager 1 was gibberish—what NASA described in December 2023 as “a repeating pattern of ones and zeros.” The team was able to trace the issue back to a part of the spacecraft’s computer system called the flight data subsystem, or FDS, and identified that a particular chip within that system had failed.

Mission personnel couldn’t repair the chip. They were, however, able to break the code held on the failed chip into pieces they could tuck into spare corners of the FDS’s memory, according to NASA. The first such fix was transmitted to Voyager 1 on April 18. With a total distance of 30 billion miles to cross from Earth to the spacecraft and back, the team had to wait nearly two full days for a response from the probe. But on April 20 NASA got confirmation that the initial fix worked. Additional commands to rewrite the rest of the FDS system’s lost code are scheduled for the coming weeks, according to the space agency, including commands that will restore the spacecraft’s ability to send home science data.

Also: Voyager 1 is sending data back to Earth for the first time in 5 months and NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft finally phones home after 5 months of no contact

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