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Submission + - New FCC Broadband standards should consider working latency (ycombinator.com)

Submitted by mtaht
mtaht writes: In the 2024 FCC 706 process report, released a few days ago — Broadband "Working Latency" finally became an issue, in light of the old pathetic FCC 100ms requirement not accounting for bufferbloat & only measuring idle latency. The worst 10 ISPs in the USA had over one second of latency under load at the 99th percentile!.

Comment Re:Kids don't have enough money to mine (Score 2) 114

by UnknownSoldier (#64265876) Attached to: Florida Lawmakers Pass Ban On Social Media For Kids

> Kids are neither valuable nor interesting.

Did you miss the ENTIRE last ~100 years of propaganda such as Tobacco companies targeting young women, exploiting children developers, blatant product placment, the hyper commercialization of toys such as May the Fourth ???

Kids are a HUGE untapped market because kids nag their parents to buy over-priced garbage.

Submission + - New York State to Start Requiring Credentials for All K-12 CS Teachers

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: In 2012, Microsoft President Brad Smith unveiled Microsoft's National Talent Strategy, which called for K-12 Computer Science education for U.S. schoolchildren to address a "talent crisis [that] endangers long-term growth and prosperity". The following year, tech-backed nonprofit Code.org burst onto the scene to deliver that education to schoolchildren, with Smith and execs from tech giants Google and Amazon on its Board of Directors (and Code.org donors Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg as lead K-12 CS instructors). Using a mix of paid individuals (Code.org 'Affiliates'), universities and other organizations (Code.org 'Regional Partners') it helped fund, and online self-paced courses, Code.org boasts it quickly "prepared more than 106,000 new teachers to teach CS across grades K-12" through its professional learning programs. "No computer science experience required," Code.org teases prospective K-12 teachers (as does Code.org partner Amazon Future Engineer). Funded by tech billionaires and their companies, Code.org's get-big-fast K-12 CS teacher workforce expansion workshops were endorsed by the Obama White House (which later tapped Smith to help sell the press on President's failed $4 billion CS for All initiative).

However, at least one state is taking steps to put an end to the practice of rebranding individuals as K-12 CS teachers in as little as a day, albeit with a generous 10-year loophole for currently uncertified K-12 CS teachers.

"At the start of the 2024-2025 academic year," reports GovTech, "the New York State Education Department (NYSED) is honing its credential requirements for computer science teachers, though the state has yet to join the growing list of those mandating computer science instruction for high school graduation. According to the department's website, as of Sept. 1, 2024, educators who teach computer science will need either a Computer Science Certificate issued by the state Board of Regents or a Computer Science Statement of Continued Eligibility (SOCE), which may be given to instructors who don't have the specific certificate but have nonetheless taught computer science since Sept. 1, 2017. [...] The NYSED website says the SOCE is a temporary measure that will be phased out after 10 years, at which point all computer science instructors will need a Computer Science Certificate."

Comment Re:Sure, they're "thinking about this" (Score 2) 51

> Exclusives are important in the console world.

Artificially splitting your potential customers is myopic and idiotic.

Artificial FOMO is only important to the finance department and dumb fan boys who get into stupid debates over which console is better. (Hint: They are BOTH low-end PCs at this point.) Every one else just waits for the game to be available on Desktop and/or the other console.

There is a reason why simcades like Scam Turismo, I mean Gran Turismo 7, aren't available on desktop. Because Polyphony Digital couldn't compete in that space. Exclusives are used to prop up an archaic business from dumb gamers who don't know any better.

Microsoft is actually doing something smart by releasing Forza Horizon 4 and Forza Horizon 5 on both desktop and Xbox. Those who want to play, regardless if they own a console or desktop (or both) can just play. That is putting the customer first not this bullshit of artificial scarcity.

Although in Nintendo's case they are laughing all the way to the bank with every new release of Zelda and Mario. Nintendo was actually smart back in the Wii days -- they didn't get into a pissing contest like Microsoft and Sony over hardware so Nintendo makes more money on their older hardware because they know their software drives their hardware sales.

I own a PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4, Xbox (Original), Xbox 360, and Xbox One. I have zero interesting in buying yet-another-archaic low-end PC when consoles don't have any advantages anymore.

Submission + - Big name cancer institute is correcting dozens of papers and retracting others (nbcnews.com) 1

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has requested the retraction of six studies and corrections in another 31 papers after a scathing critique drew attention to alleged errors a blogger and biologist said range from sloppiness to “really serious concerns.”

The allegations — against top scientists at the prestigious Boston-based institute, which is a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School — put the institute at the center of a roiling debate about research misconduct, how to police scientific integrity and whether the organizational structure of academic science incentivizes shortcuts or cheating.

The criticism also spotlights how artificial intelligence is playing a growing role in catching sloppy or dubious science.

Comment Re:Weren't the prior colliders also (Score 1) 103

The famous 1977 Powers of Ten video has had a few "versions" over the years:

* The Scale of the Universe - Maybe you were thinking of this one?
* UNIVERSCALE - craps out at the fm scale
* The Super Zoom - CG animation but still a nice quantum perspective

--
Wake me up when Scientists discover the 6 fundamental forces.

Comment Re:MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 Admin (Score 1) 199

4DOS.com was a Command.com replacement that relocated most of itself into high memory freeing up precious 640KB conventional memory so you didn't have to deal with (as many) autoexec.cfg shenanigans.

Symantec (who bought Peter Norton's Norton Utilities in 1990) licensed 4DOS v3.0 and renamed it NDOS.

Now get off my LAN. /s

I wonder how much the German gig is paying ... =P

Submission + - Fossil fuel industry knew about climate change since 1954 (theguardian.com) 1

Submitted by smooth wombat
smooth wombat writes: Newly uncovered documents show that as early as 1954, the fossil fuel industry was aware of potential climate change from the burning of fossil fuels. This came about through their own funding to study the effects of burning fossil fuels.

A coalition of oil and car manufacturing interests provided $13,814 (about $158,000 in today’s money) in December 1954 to fund Keeling’s earliest work in measuring CO2 levels across the western US, the documents reveal.

Keeling would go on to establish the continuous measurement of global CO2 at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. This “Keeling curve” has tracked the steady increase of the atmospheric carbon that drives the climate crisis and has been hailed as one of the most important scientific works of modern times.

In the research proposal for the money – uncovered by Rebecca John, a researcher at the Climate Investigations Center, and published by the climate website DeSmog – Keeling’s research director, Samuel Epstein, wrote about a new carbon isotope analysis that could identify “changes in the atmosphere” caused by the burning of coal and petroleum.

“The possible consequences of a changing concentration of the CO2 in the atmosphere with reference to climate, rates of photosynthesis, and rates of equilibration with carbonate of the oceans may ultimately prove of considerable significance to civilization,” Epstein, a researcher at the California Institute of Technology (or Caltech), wrote to the group in November 1954.

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