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Comment Re:Guess whose content is not going to be used at (Score 1) 183

by Marlin Schwanke (#59927974) Attached to: France Rules Google Must Pay News Firms For Content

Google will de-list the news papers, and after a few days/weeks the newspapers will complain about all the lost traffic. This has happened before, in Belgium, in Spain, ...

Google should de-list the French media sites and then for good measure present French users with foreign English language news stories covering France with a banner at the top of the Google News page explaining why. The French bureaucracy needs a good dose of public ire.

Submission + - Alien comets may be common, object from beyond Solar System suggests (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: The comet is an alien intruder from another star system. But 2I/Borisov, the second known interstellar visitor after far smaller ‘Oumuamua, discovered in 2017, looks remarkably like a normal comet from our own Solar System: an object a few kilometers across spewing carbon monoxide gas, water vapor, and dust. Researchers who announced their analysis this week say the size of the two objects, along with the rate of their discovery and other factors, suggests that at any given moment more than a dozen interstellar visitors at least as large as ‘Oumuamua are passing through the Solar System.

Submission + - NVIDIA Launches GeForce GTX 1660 Super For Faster 1080p Gaming (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: NVIDIA is expanding its GeForce GTX family of GPUs today with a pair of new Turing-based graphics cards, the GeForce GTX 1660 Super and GeForce GTX 1650 Super. As their mode numbers suggest, these new cards reside above their "non-Super" branded counterparts in NVIDIA's line-up, but a notch below GeForce GTX Ti variants. The GeForce GTX 1660 Super is somewhat of a cross between standard GTX 1660 and a 1660 Ti. The GeForce GTX 1660 Super has a similar number of CUDA cores and texture units to the vanilla GTX 1660, but with faster 14 Gbps GDDR6 memory. The GeForce GTX 1660 Super has higher GPU and memory clocks than a GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, however. In its price range, the GeForce GTX 1660 Super appears to be a solid value. Its gaming performance is strong, especially at 1080p resolution and generally faster than AMD's Radeon RX 590. The cards are also power-efficient, cool and quiet, and the GPUs are significantly overclockable as well. GeForce GTX 1660 Super cards should be available at retail today for around $230, with GTX 1650 Super on its way late next month.

Submission + - Rare earthquake recorded in New York today (recentnaturaldisasters.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes:

October 29, 2019: A small earthquake of magnitude 1.3 has been recorded in New York, the United States Geological Survey reported.

According to the USGS, the earthquake occurred at 08:09 pm. The epicenter was located at 4 km depth.

The earthquake's epicenter was locatedabout 1.5 km E of Mamaroneck, New York, United States.

Submission + - 50 years ago, the internet was born in Room 3420 (fastcompany.com)

Submitted by harrymcc
harrymcc writes: On October 29, 1969, a graduate student in a UCLA computer science lab logged into a computer hundreds of miles away at the Stanford Research Institute. It was the first connection via ARPANET, which—after 20 years as a government and academic network—evolved into the modern internet. Over at Fast Company, Mark Sullivan marked the anniversary by visiting the room where the historic login took place and talking to three of the people who made it happen.

Submission + - Trump ordered Mattis to 'screw Amazon' on Pentagon contract (cnn.com) 1

Submitted by PolygamousRanchKid
PolygamousRanchKid writes: A new biography of former Defense Secretary James Mattis reports President Donald Trump personally got involved in who would win a major $10 billion contract to provide cloud computing services to the Pentagon, according to the website Task & Purpose, which writes about military issues. Task & Purpose reports the new book, "Holding The Line: Inside Trump's Pentagon with Secretary Mattis" by former Mattis speechwriter and communications director Guy Snodgrass recounts that Mattis always tried to translate Trump's demands into ethical outcomes. According to Snodgrass' book, Trump called Mattis during summer 2018 and directed him to "screw Amazon" out of the opportunity to bid on the contract. For several years Trump has voiced his displeasure with Amazon and Jeff Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post.

In July, Trump vowed that his administration would take a "strong look" at the Pentagon's contract plan, saying that "some of the greatest companies in the world" had complained including IBM, Oracle and Microsoft. Oracle had pushed hard to scuttle Amazon's effort, going so far as to develop a document alleging that officials inside and outside the Pentagon had conspired to help Amazon win. CNN reported in July that the document had made its way to Trump's desk. Multiple independent reviews of the process found little evidence of wrongdoing, however.

Comment Why Even Bother Reporting Breaches (Score 2) 15

Why even bother to report this stuff anymore. We should all assume that every bit of our personal information is freely available online and get over it. The way business runs their IT it doesn't seem far off the mark. Business that amass and store consumer data in such a sloppy fashion should be shuttered. I won't be holding my breath.

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