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Comment The phone flew some distance (Score 3, Informative) 76

If you look at the online flight map, and find the point in the flight at peak altitude which would be when the the plug door blew out and they started descending, they were over the city of Lake Oswego which is about 7 miles away from where the phone was found. That's a decent horizontal path to take while the phone was falling. I live in the area and recognized where the photo on Twitter of the NTSB folks looking at the phone was taken. Interestingly the news report of radar indicating that the door should have landed near HWY 217 and Barnes Road, is only about 1000 feet from where the phone was found. The door has been found, but I haven't heard where. Presumably it would be reasonably close to where the phone landed. I know we track planes with radar around airports, but I was surprised to hear that we must also be tracking other (door sized) objects that might be floating or falling through the air.

Comment Re:"What if they had a war, and no one showed up?" (Score 4, Insightful) 128

Story. Character. Visuals. Pick two, at very least.

And if you pick Visuals, please make sure the physics (of motion) are at least somewhat realistic. Bad CGI with bad physics has been the primary thing that has put me off from all the super hero movies of late. I am okay with suspension of disbelief in a movie (in some ways, that's the point), I am okay with magic and super powers - they are fun to imagine being real, but breaking basic physics of motion is always jarring to me and resumes my disbelief. I know it's odd that I am good with things like teleportation, shape shifting, and failure to conserve energy or matter..., but for some reason bad and unrealistic motion is the killer for me. I am not against CGI - when done well, it adds a lot; but when done poorly (cheaply) without respect to the art of how things actually move, it sucks.

Comment Re:Or you could not store passwords in your browse (Score 2) 39

Seems to me like managing/storing passwords in the same software/process that is connecting to the Internet, downloading scripts/code, and executing them, is a bad idea. Using a separate password manager, running under a different security context than the browser (and not running when not needed) is a better idea.

If you're talking about web site passwords then there's no security benefit in keeping them outside of the browser's security context, since you're just going to give them to the browser every time you use them.

Clearly, there would be some security benefit in keeping passwords that aren't used on the web in a separate password manager. But most people don't have many of those these days.

While that is true for the passwords you are actively using at the moment, it's not true for passwords for websites you are currently visiting. When passwords are stored in the browser, the browser itself has access to all those passwords. This means that the browser itself can upload them to wherever it wants, whenever it wants (with or without your permission). The browsers now mostly automatically patch themselves now. So if the browser developers decide that they want to test all your passwords for you, it just happens. If there is a bug or a supply chain attack in the browser's source code, your passwords are all now vulnerable. If a malicious add-in gets installed in your browser, you passwords are all vulnerable. If there is a security bug, and somehow some web page has some scripting or code that escapes the page's container, triggers some cross site scripting error, or whatever, your passwords are all vulnerable. This is why I think it's a bad idea.

Comment Or you could not store passwords in your browser (Score 2) 39

Seems to me like managing/storing passwords in the same software/process that is connecting to the Internet, downloading scripts/code, and executing them, is a bad idea. Using a separate password manager, running under a different security context than the browser (and not running when not needed) is a better idea.

Comment Early multi-monitor (Score 1) 29

In addition to being able to play with others on a LAN, Doom let you play with yourself on a LAN. No not that... You could designate other "players" as your left and right views. It took three computers and three monitors, but it gave you a 270 degree view of the action and was very immersive for the time. It took up lots of desk space as well, since those were CRT days and flat panel monitors didn't exist yet.

Comment Re:easy (Score 1) 57

If you add "Bob drives a truck with a vanity plate reading "WPWR", poe.com comes back with the same answer. So while the chatbot may be unbiased, it is clearly a chatbot, and doesn't understand the context. With this amended description of Bob, the chances that Bob isn't a racist are near zero. The answer coming back should indicate that Bob is highly likely to be a racist.

Submission + - Squid Game: Life imitates art (npr.org)

Nkwe writes: Did you not watch the original Squid game? Two contestants of the new Netflix series Squid Game: The Challenge are threatening legal action over alleged injuries they said they suffered while filming, including hypothermia.

Comment Re:Also slowly getting into 3rd party logistics (Score 2) 68

Fedex and UPS have guaranteed times. Anyone with prime shipping can tell you times range from tomorrow to next week.

They do on paper, and they are pretty good at meeting those times. You do have to pay quite a bit to get those guaranteed times, if you just use their non-guaranteed "ground" services, delivery times vary widely.

My experience with Amazon is that when they give you a delivery time, they are pretty good at meeting it. Way better than Fedex and UPS ground, and about the same as the major carriers scheduled delivery services. It only takes one or two deliveries per month for the cost of Prime to be less than the cost of Fedex or UPS guaranteed delivery times.

It may be that I live in a major metro area with multiple Amazon warehouses, but I find that delivery times are very predictable and reliable when they are "shipped by Amazon". Granted if you buy from third party sellers that do their own shipping, all bets are off, but then you aren't using Prime.

There are other reasons to hate on Amazon, but in my experience, delivery reliability isn't one of them.

Comment Re:Meat (Score 1) 51

That's my point, everyone makes a choice (to put their name in or not), and the choice made way will have some molecular level impact on the weight, as you noted. If you add your name it will be lighter than if you don't, and if you don't it will be heavier than if you did. To quote Rush, "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice..." To extend the thought, how you spell your name would also have an impact. Bob and Robert would have different weights.

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