Comment Re:Backups? (Score 1) 173
This is Russia. Backups are for weenies.
Comment Re:Assasination threat? (Score 2) 173
Given the trajectory of the current u.s. administration, that's a distinct possibility.
Submission + - Russia: Commercial satellite providing help to the Ukraine are now targets (behindtheblack.com)
schwit1 writes: Russia this week informed regulators at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) that it now considers all European and American private satellite constellations "legitimate targets to be destroyed" if they provide any help to the Ukraine.
Russia tells ITU that GPS/Galileo/GNSS nav commercial broadcast sats helping Ukraine militarily should expect interference. Same for EutelsatGroup, OneWeb, Starlink constellations, which Russia has said are 'legitimate targets to be destroyed.
There is more at the full article, but that is behind a subscription paywall.
Russia's announcement here is probably in response to Trump's more bellicose statements recently about Putin and Russia.
I suspect Russia will begin by trying to jam these constellations. Let us hope it does not go farther than that.
Comment Accuracy vs Precision (Score 0) 20
Ultimately how do we determine that a clock is 'accurate'?
It is no longer related to the earth's rotation, which is several fractions of a second different.
OK it it's something like 1/9,192,631,770 of a vibration of a cesium atom, but that begs the question of who decided that a second was 9,192,631,770 cesium vibrations long.
In the end, something must be arbitrary.
Comment New ideas (Score 1) 124
How many Superman movies, TV shows, and cartoons have been made in the last 70 years?
Jesus, are we completely out of any new ideas?
I guess they will keep recycling superman and batman until every last baby boomer is buried and forgotten. Plus 75 years. Sigh. It's going to be a long wait....
Comment Cloud gaming. (Score 1) 84
Anyone who is dumb enough to buy a cloud-connected gaming console richly deserves the surprises they will surely get.
Comment Units again! (Score 1) 74
has four 1.5-megawatt turbines — enough to power 7,000 homes for a year
One again this statement is so nonsensical that I'm not going to point out the error this time.
Fucking reporters. Idiots.
Comment Backbone at last? (Score 1) 43
Nah. False alarm.
Comment Dick (Score 1) 117
So you run on silent, non-polluting battery power in order to get somewhere and engage in noisy, polluting recreation that annoys the fuck out of everyone else. Congratulations.
Comment Defund the NOAA (Score 1) 136
That's the solution we'll get from the current administration.
Comment This should be good (Score 4, Insightful) 73
Nothing generates clicks more than outrage.
And this story definitely pins the needle at 10.
Stupid companies view customer service as an expense to be minimized.
Smart companies view it as an opportunity to increase engagement and inspire loyalty.
Submission + - DoJ deal gives HPE the go-ahead for its $14 billion Juniper purchase (telecoms.com)
AmiMoJo writes: HPE has settled its antitrust case with the US Department of Justice (DoJ), paving the way for its acquisition of rival kit maker Juniper Networks. Under the agreement, HPE has agreed to divest its Instant On unit, which sells a range of enterprise-grade Wi-Fi networking equipment for campus and branch deployments. It has also agreed to license Juniper's Mist AIOps source code – a software suite that enables AI-based network automation and management. HPE can live with that, since its primary motivation for buying Juniper is to improve its prospects in an IT networking market dominated by Cisco, where others like Arista and increasingly Nokia and Nvidia are also trying to make inroads.
Comment: Pour one out for Juniper.
Comment: Pour one out for Juniper.
Comment Be nice to the reps... (Score 1) 83
Just be glad you have a human, because replacement AI bots are much, much worse...
Stupid companies see customer service centres as an unnecessary expense.
Smart companies see customer service centres as an opportunity to makacust customer happy and loyal.
Think about it, how many times have you swore to never do business again with some firm because of the horrible experience with customer service?
Comment Poetic Justice (Score 1) 38
Imagine the AI industry being taken down by spam.
Next up: pr0n.
Comment C-63 (Score 1) 79
I think that the C63 AMG which is now a hybrid 4-banger has sold very very poorly.
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