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Comment Re: human safari (Score 1) 213

I would have [...] total annihilation of all enemies with the maximum force possible.

Get a grip dude. You may be someone enemy tomorrow. Treat others how you want to be treated. Seek mercy and justice. That requires speaking out against all war crimes - whether commited by Palestinian, Russian, Ukrainian or Israeli individuals and systems. And making peace with enemies.

Comment Re: human safari (Score 1) 213

Dont justify murder. There are plenty of cold blooded murderers on the Ukrainian side, like the ones who burnt the three Russian minority-group soldiers right at the start of the way. Even if the density of murderers is way more on the Russian side, murder of hors de combat troops on either side is never justified. Continuing this war will harden both sides. Zelenskyy needs to make an offer that takes his weak position into account. Maybe withdraw from failing positions and deliver an imperfect 'unilateral ceasefire' like the Russians did.

Comment Re:Noise Rate (Score 1) 196

And by the time the first "warning" was raised- the girl's camp was under water. The "emergency" wasn't raised until hours later.

And the republican legislature (including the repp for Kerr County) voted down the flood siren warning system. He says now that he "might" have voted differently.

Comment Re:Noise Rate (Score 1) 196

The emergency alerts on the phones do not discriminate. They play that incredibly nasty noise.
And they also play it for amber alerts--- for kids who were kidnapped over 100 miles away -- 24 hours a day.

One you get woken up for a watch or an amber alert at 3am out of a sound sleep, the alerts get turned off.

Comment Re:The thing that gets me... (Score 1) 104

Is that even with all this solar, wind, etc.... China *still* must build more coal plants even tho we are finding out their population is smaller than we thought.

In time, alternative energy will destroy demand for coal but for now, the projections are still for more coal plant by 2045.

I'm hoping they are wrong and solar/wind comes online faster. It's cheaper than coal but they simply can't produce and build it out fast enough globally.

Comment Re: Parts more interesting than the whole (Score 1) 69

Yes I saw that too. It says it's open source too. I guess that refers to the software .. I was hoping the hardware - or the bill of materials - would be open source too. :) specifically, the bits about the motion platform at the base of the robot's head. But at least the software should have the motion platform control source code

Comment The thing that gets me... (Score 0) 104

Is that with all this solar, wind, etc.... China *still* must build more coal plants even tho we are finding out their population is smaller than we thought.

In time, it will destroy demand for coal but for now, the projections are still for more coal plant by 2045.

I'm hoping they are wrong and solar/wind comes online faster. It's cheaper than coal but they simply can't produce and build it out fast enough globally.

Comment Re:Noise Rate (Score 1) 196

And it's not just kids (won't someone think of the children)...

In Texas, we can get a half dozen "watch" alerts a day when storm systems are moving through.

That's *POINTLESS*. If your alert system is sending more than one message a day, you probably didn't set it up well.

And worse, the watches usually mean "stay at home, avoid getting caught in deep flood waters" and not "leave your home because floodwaters over your roof will be there in under 90 minutes."

Comment Re:Simple... (Score 1) 196

And it's not even just amber alerts. You can get a half dozen "watch" alerts from a fast moving system *per day*.

At that level, "watch" alerts are useless. Especially since in most of texas they mean, "don't leave home or your car may be flooded out" and not "leave home- your home will be flooded out".

And the short staffing of the service in the U.S. due to Ham-handed layoffs this year did not help.

Comment Does it matter? (Score 4, Insightful) 43

Regardless of whatever budget Congress sets, the majority party has already been clear that they have no intent to enforce it. If the president uses the NASA money for something else, or even just puts it into his own personal pocket, we can be confident that he won't be impeached, and if impeached, he won't be convicted.

The only thing that matters is the total budget. The president is free to spend that total however he wishes. This isn't the law as written, but it's the law defacto. If voters have a problem with that (do they?) they can choose a different party to be the majority.

Comment Parts more interesting than the whole (Score 1) 69

I am more interested in the parts list. For instance they seem to be using a mini motion table using linear actuators -- like the ones aircraft training simulators use -- as the base of the robot's neck. This is great at their price point. This could be used in a driving simulator or for industrial testing.

Any idea about their bill of material? And how to source parts they use?

Comment Figures... protect yourself (Score 1) 37

They earned their billions through billions of eyeballs. So they doubled down by investing a few billions to squeeze yet more billions.

Are your eyes feeling the squeeze? Look away then, and gently cup the palms of our hand over your eyes like the see-no-evil monkey emoji.

Unscreen yourself every 15 minutes. (I'm logging off Slashdot now)

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