Comment Re: These articles are cool and all but (Score 1) 66
Itâ(TM)s worth the extra cost to not funnel money into the uneducated and religion mad Middle East.
Comment The Sun is fucked (Score 1) 29
We only have about 1 billion, maybe 2 billion at max years to figure out how to build a generational starship. That may seem like a long time, but it'll be right up on us in no time. You realize that with present day tech, it's basically impossible. We don't have the faintest idea of how to build a habitat in space. It's not even in the realm of imagination as to how to do it. We need to start funding it at a massive level.
Comment Re:undeniable (Score 2, Informative) 66
Renewables are undeniably a good idea. The energy is just right there.
Sure they are not without problems, and in a country the size of the UK, there's not enough to be energy independent, but even with that we should build more.
Denying it: Trump - Trump blames renewable energy for rising electricity prices. Experts point elsewhere (and other sources):
Trump called wind and solar power “THE SCAM OF THE CENTURY!” in a social media post and vowed not to approve wind or “farmer destroying Solar” projects. “The days of stupidity are over in the USA!!!” he wrote on his Truth Social site.
So short-sighted... (sigh)
Comment Convenient (Score 1) 42
Magician Forgets Password To His Own Hand After RFID Chip Implant
Now even he won't know where his hand has been.
Comment So... Can't fix the corruption? (Score 3, Insightful) 103
The situation in Tehran is the result of "a perfect storm of climate change and corruption,"
The current Iranian regime seems pretty "Off with their heads!" for the slightest infraction and they can't punish whatever corruption is at play here? Is it because it's being done by those in religious/political/financial (whatever) power rather than rabble?
Comment Re:I can see why they ignored it for so long. (Score 2) 33
I can see why they ignored it for so long: having multiple places to put dot files for a single app is irritating.
Not nearly as irritating as having dozens of random dot subdirectories in the root of your home directory.
The first issue costs a few developers a few days of their time to fix. The second is a problem that nags millions of users for eternity.
Comment In (Inevitable) future news ... (Score 3, Funny) 49
Unfortunately, one of the three trustees has irretrievably lost their private key,
The IACR will switch to a two-of-three private key system to prevent this sort of thing from happening again.
Two of the three trustees have irretrievably lost their private keys
Comment Humanoid robots (Score 1) 23
When are countries going to have autonomous humanoid robot soldiers? If only someone had made a movie to warn the public of the dangers of robots we wouldn't be in this predicament.
Comment Re:They need onsite chiropractic care for emergenc (Score 1) 42
If even Japan can see the crazy, that's saying something.
Comment They really do need to work on efficiency (Score 0) 49
Because at this rate, by my math, the number of AI cores Google requires will exceed the number of atoms in the visible universe within about 120 years.
Comment Re:They haven't solved any of the social problems (Score 4, Insightful) 42
I understand your pathological need to blame any and everything including tsunamis on capitalism, but do you have any proof the public blamed the engineers over the CEOs for the disaster?
And by the way, you really want to dump this on capitalism? Seriously? If you’re itching to pick a fight, let’s bring Chernobyl into this—because that wasn’t some act of nature. That was your beloved system basically nuking itself through sheer incompetence, or maybe it was because it couldn't stand communism anymore. Either way, it took everyone and their neighbors along for the ride.
Comment Re:They need onsite chiropractic care for emergenc (Score 1) 42
Chatbots were a lot stupider and more incoherent then, yes.
Are there eels in your hovercraft?
Submission + - Putin's most feared missile downed with a song (telegraph.co.uk)
fahrbot-bot writes: The Telegraph is reporting that Ukraine forces are jamming signals for Russia's ‘invincible’ Kinzhal hyper-sonic missile with a song satirizing Russian propaganda.
Night Watch, the group operating the technology, claims to have brought down 19 Kinzhal missiles – described by Putin as “invincible” – in the past two weeks.
The team told technology website 404 Media that it is using a song and a redirection order to knock the “next-generation” missiles, which carry a 480kg payload and cost around £7.7m each, out of the sky.
Kinzhals and other guided munitions rely on the GLONASS system – Russia’s GPS-style navigation network using satellites – to find their targets. Night Watch developed its own “Lima” jamming system that replaces the missiles’ satellite navigation signals with the Ukrainian song “Our Father is Bandera”.
When the song begins, the Lima system feeds the incoming missiles a false navigation signal, tricking them into believing that they are flying over Lima, in Peru, so that they attempt to change their trajectory. Traveling at a speed of more than 4,000 miles per hour, however, the missiles become destabilized by the abrupt and unexpected change of course.
Night Watch said they developed the system after discovering that the Kinzhals used a controlled reception pattern antenna (CRPA), an antiquated type of technology for resisting, jamming and spoofing. The team told 404: “They had the same type of receivers as old Soviet missiles used to have.
“The airframe cannot withstand the excessive stress and the missile naturally fails. When the Kinzhal tried to quickly change navigation, the fuselage of this missile was unable to handle the speed and, yeah, it was just cut into two parts. The biggest advantage of those missiles, speed, was used against them.”
Night Watch, the group operating the technology, claims to have brought down 19 Kinzhal missiles – described by Putin as “invincible” – in the past two weeks.
The team told technology website 404 Media that it is using a song and a redirection order to knock the “next-generation” missiles, which carry a 480kg payload and cost around £7.7m each, out of the sky.
Kinzhals and other guided munitions rely on the GLONASS system – Russia’s GPS-style navigation network using satellites – to find their targets. Night Watch developed its own “Lima” jamming system that replaces the missiles’ satellite navigation signals with the Ukrainian song “Our Father is Bandera”.
When the song begins, the Lima system feeds the incoming missiles a false navigation signal, tricking them into believing that they are flying over Lima, in Peru, so that they attempt to change their trajectory. Traveling at a speed of more than 4,000 miles per hour, however, the missiles become destabilized by the abrupt and unexpected change of course.
Night Watch said they developed the system after discovering that the Kinzhals used a controlled reception pattern antenna (CRPA), an antiquated type of technology for resisting, jamming and spoofing. The team told 404: “They had the same type of receivers as old Soviet missiles used to have.
“The airframe cannot withstand the excessive stress and the missile naturally fails. When the Kinzhal tried to quickly change navigation, the fuselage of this missile was unable to handle the speed and, yeah, it was just cut into two parts. The biggest advantage of those missiles, speed, was used against them.”
Comment Re:No such animal in the particle zoo. (Score 1) 40
There is no such thing as anti-hydrogen. You have the anti-proton, with negative charge; and the positron, with neutral charge. The positron will not orbit the anti-proton. You cannot make molecules out of anti-matter.
Wikipedia says otherwise: Antihydrogen.
Antiprotons have a charge of -1e and positrons have a charge of +1e.
Comment Re:Good products (Score 1) 104
Sounds like they're also recommending people purchase more expensive HW products to get that feature -- or have it enabled. So the answer is - as usual: greed.
"HEVC video playback is available on Dell's premium systems and in select standard models equipped with hardware or software, such as integrated 4K displays, discrete graphics cards, Dolby Vision, or Cyberlink BluRay software.
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