Comment Re: Good products (Score 1) 96
I think there is some confusion here. They don't seem to have disabled it on older chips, only on new laptops, before sale, where AV1 is supported.
Comment So it's kind of like how Trump is president (Score 1) 46
Yeah you could for example point at the trans panic as the reason why Trump is President not once but twice because without that moral panic he couldn't have won but you'd also have to ignore all the voter suppression cheating and the sabotage the Republicans have done to the economy and the Republicans packing the courts allowing Trump to commit multiple crimes and get away with it and and and...
The Democrats insisting on running a woman when the country has made it crystal clear that they do not want a woman at top of ticket didn't help either.
Basically every single system had to collapse in order to make a has been game show host with 28 credible rape accusations president. Again..
So yeah you have multiple causes for a disaster a lot of times.
But take any one of those causes out and the disaster goes away. So I don't think it's unfair to say those things caused the disaster.
And in this case Iran is a relatively poor country that was trying to do a theocratic dictatorship by America in order to secure influence in the Middle East so it's not like they have a lot of say in reducing climate change. It's mostly a matter of the United states, the wealthier states of Europe and China. And you can hardly blame them for their corruption if you are an American since, well you caused it.
Of course pointing all this out is not going to endear you to Americans. We don't like to think about the consequences of our actions.
The Democrats insisting on running a woman when the country has made it crystal clear that they do not want a woman at top of ticket didn't help either.
Basically every single system had to collapse in order to make a has been game show host with 28 credible rape accusations president. Again..
So yeah you have multiple causes for a disaster a lot of times.
But take any one of those causes out and the disaster goes away. So I don't think it's unfair to say those things caused the disaster.
And in this case Iran is a relatively poor country that was trying to do a theocratic dictatorship by America in order to secure influence in the Middle East so it's not like they have a lot of say in reducing climate change. It's mostly a matter of the United states, the wealthier states of Europe and China. And you can hardly blame them for their corruption if you are an American since, well you caused it.
Of course pointing all this out is not going to endear you to Americans. We don't like to think about the consequences of our actions.
Comment It's going to be a miracle (Score 3) 13
If we don't have a 30 style crash. In addition to basically completely deregulating Wall Street and investment in general and all the other structural economic problems we are all just kind of pretending aren't there over and over and over again we are seeing crooks let off the hook by the current administration for no discernible reason except the blisteringly obvious one.
We are basically speedrunning a repeat of the lead up to world war II only this time we have nuclear weapons. But I'm sure it'll be fine right? Right?
We are basically speedrunning a repeat of the lead up to world war II only this time we have nuclear weapons. But I'm sure it'll be fine right? Right?
Comment Yeah and that's the problem (Score 0) 36
It's the same stupid fucking pattern over and over again where you have wealthy elites who are well respected by the public and have control of the local media so the journalists will not discuss them critically.
There's nothing magic about being Japanese. Corruption and malfeasance are just things that human beings do everywhere.
The only country I have seen that I have the slightest faith in their ability to safely run nuclear reactors as France and that's because when France's ruling class tried to raise the retirement age to 62 there were riots in the streets.
I know those things don't seem connected but they are. It shows that the public there is not likely to let their betters run roughshod over them like America and Japan and frankly 99% of the rest of the world does.
The problem here is that elites can cause enormous disasters by taking huge risks that they are not personally culpable for and then get away with it because we have a different set of rules for them then we do for everybody else.
That is not by any stretch of the imagination in uncommon setup in the world. Frankly France is the odd man out here.
There's nothing magic about being Japanese. Corruption and malfeasance are just things that human beings do everywhere.
The only country I have seen that I have the slightest faith in their ability to safely run nuclear reactors as France and that's because when France's ruling class tried to raise the retirement age to 62 there were riots in the streets.
I know those things don't seem connected but they are. It shows that the public there is not likely to let their betters run roughshod over them like America and Japan and frankly 99% of the rest of the world does.
The problem here is that elites can cause enormous disasters by taking huge risks that they are not personally culpable for and then get away with it because we have a different set of rules for them then we do for everybody else.
That is not by any stretch of the imagination in uncommon setup in the world. Frankly France is the odd man out here.
Comment Re:They haven't solved any of the social problems (Score 1) 36
And marginally less profit for the plant owners...
If the people responsible for the disaster were currently rotting in prison it would be one thing but I keep coming back to the fact that the public blamed the engineers and let the CEOs off without even so much as a trial..
If the people responsible for the disaster were currently rotting in prison it would be one thing but I keep coming back to the fact that the public blamed the engineers and let the CEOs off without even so much as a trial..
Comment You know you could Google (Score 1) 36
And read up on the history of the Fukushima disaster. You could read up on the long history of engineers warning that a large tsunami was going to cause a meltdown and that it could be easily prevented by reinforcing and building up the wall that protected the area in order to buy time and then having off-site generators that could be brought on to prevent the meltdown from happening.
The problem here isn't capitalism it's fascism. Specifically it's a ruling elite that is completely above the law. As the saying goes fascism requires an in-group that the law protects but does not bind and an outgroup that the law binds and does not protect. Japan has those things.
The engineers were in the out group and the CEOs were in the in group. So the CEOs could ignore the engineers warnings and get away with it but the engineers get blamed for causing a disaster they predicted and warned against.
This is the problem with having a ruling class. They can do bad things to you and get away with it because they are above the law.
Just because you don't like social problems doesn't mean social problems don't exist.
The problem here isn't capitalism it's fascism. Specifically it's a ruling elite that is completely above the law. As the saying goes fascism requires an in-group that the law protects but does not bind and an outgroup that the law binds and does not protect. Japan has those things.
The engineers were in the out group and the CEOs were in the in group. So the CEOs could ignore the engineers warnings and get away with it but the engineers get blamed for causing a disaster they predicted and warned against.
This is the problem with having a ruling class. They can do bad things to you and get away with it because they are above the law.
Just because you don't like social problems doesn't mean social problems don't exist.
Comment Re: We're in the group (Score 1) 190
Therefore, someone choosing to homeschool their child isn't reducing the amount of school funding in the pool. No one is getting a tax credit for homeschooling.
Yeah, and I never said they weren't. I've no idea where you came up with that.
My point is that it costs real money to provide a quality education (public or private) and a lot of people aren't okay with that fact.
"Education is expensive but the cost pales in comparison to ignorance."
Anyway, better luck reading more carefully next time and have a wonderful day.
Submission + - The Ethical Computing Initiative (codeberg.page)
mixmasta writes: A (hopeful) new movement dedicated to a simple propositionâ"that our technology products should respect us! That is, support our wishes and uphold the principles of freedom, privacy, and informed consent.
Tired of being coerced by BigTech? So are we. Join and help us pull together a complete computing platform.
Tired of being coerced by BigTech? So are we. Join and help us pull together a complete computing platform.
Comment They haven't solved any of the social problems (Score 0) 36
That caused the Fukushima disaster.
They still have a weak regulatory environment for businesses. Remember folks the public blamed the engineers for the disaster not the CEOs who wouldn't listen to the engineers when they were told that the next big tsunami would cause a disaster and that they need it off site generators and to reinforce the storm wall.
The engineers knew that the Fukushima reactor was going to melt down. It wasn't if, it was when.
And I will say it again, the public blamed the engineers. Not the CEOs who ignored the engineers.
That culture has not changed in the slightest. The technical problems with nuclear have been solved but the social problems have not.
And before anyone chimes in it's true that nuclear has a lower death count but try telling that to anyone in the city who lost all of their property when they had to evacuate Fukushima for 10 years. And remember the CEOs responsible all got away with it. Not a single one of them did a single day in jail
They still have a weak regulatory environment for businesses. Remember folks the public blamed the engineers for the disaster not the CEOs who wouldn't listen to the engineers when they were told that the next big tsunami would cause a disaster and that they need it off site generators and to reinforce the storm wall.
The engineers knew that the Fukushima reactor was going to melt down. It wasn't if, it was when.
And I will say it again, the public blamed the engineers. Not the CEOs who ignored the engineers.
That culture has not changed in the slightest. The technical problems with nuclear have been solved but the social problems have not.
And before anyone chimes in it's true that nuclear has a lower death count but try telling that to anyone in the city who lost all of their property when they had to evacuate Fukushima for 10 years. And remember the CEOs responsible all got away with it. Not a single one of them did a single day in jail
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 Windows 11 is the most user hostile software (Score 1) 75
I have ever seen in my life.
Like llms and AI in general it's not for you. It's designed to benefit Microsoft and specifically a handful of the billionaire shareholders at the expense of literally everyone else that ever comes in contact with it.
I have set up before but I really wish Linux would just pick a distro and a package manager to make the standard.
It's too much for users and managerial types to wrap their heads around. As stupid as it sounds you can't just move icons around and not cause major support headaches. It's why Apple traditionally goes out of its way to keep icons and even windows exactly where the user left them.
Like llms and AI in general it's not for you. It's designed to benefit Microsoft and specifically a handful of the billionaire shareholders at the expense of literally everyone else that ever comes in contact with it.
I have set up before but I really wish Linux would just pick a distro and a package manager to make the standard.
It's too much for users and managerial types to wrap their heads around. As stupid as it sounds you can't just move icons around and not cause major support headaches. It's why Apple traditionally goes out of its way to keep icons and even windows exactly where the user left them.
Comment Re:Good products (Score 1) 96
Netflix and YouTube both use AV1, which is royalty free.
Comment Re: More IBM vaporware (Score 1) 19
NT existed when IBM brought out at least two major versions of OS/2 without such features while NT had them, so... No.
Comment Re: We're in the group (Score 1) 190
If you want these things, then you will pay for a good public education.
THIS ^^^^^ times a million billion zillion.
Do you want educated doctors, lawyers, engineers, nurses, etc etc etc? It's well worth paying for that, and don't fool yourself into thinking it's not.
Comment Wait so your example is from 24 years ago? (Score 2) 55
Also if you know anything about the history of that case Microsoft was on track to be split up until George Bush Jr got elected and then rather than splitting them up between the office and windows divisions they got... I'm not even going to call it a slap on the wrist. They got rewarded!
In exchange for zero prosecution for their anti-competitive tactics Microsoft had to give tens of millions of dollars worth of software to public schools.
Microsoft had been trying and failing for years to force public schools to switch to Windows and they had been resisting it because Windows is in nightmare to administer. That was a huge boon to Microsoft and it let them push Apple once and for all out of the education market.
So the example you gave is a perfect example of the Republican party not enforcing antitrust law in the slightest. Good job at least you tried.
In exchange for zero prosecution for their anti-competitive tactics Microsoft had to give tens of millions of dollars worth of software to public schools.
Microsoft had been trying and failing for years to force public schools to switch to Windows and they had been resisting it because Windows is in nightmare to administer. That was a huge boon to Microsoft and it let them push Apple once and for all out of the education market.
So the example you gave is a perfect example of the Republican party not enforcing antitrust law in the slightest. Good job at least you tried.
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