Comment Re:No thanks... (Score 1) 99
Gentoo FTW!
Comment Who thought this was a good idea? (Score 3, Interesting) 48
How many people did they get to harass just because they were having electricity usage, that they are paying for, which was "too high?" Some peoples' usage is going to be higher just because they work from home, enjoy their air conditioning, and maybe have a server farm or something.
Submission + - The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming (politico.com)
fjo3 writes: If what Stardust was claiming on the Zoom with Pasztor was true, then a key threshold had already been crossed. Humanity had gained the power to turn down the sun, and barely anyone on the planet even knew. What’s more, that untested power was now effectively for sale. In a world of rising chaos, sci-fi-pilled billionaires and nationalist leaders, a private company offering the means to control the world’s temperature — with almost no international laws regarding the deployment of such technology — was a disturbing prospect, thought Pasztor.
Submission + - DOJ Arrests U.S. Citizens and Chinese Nationals for Exporting AI Tech to China (pjmedia.com)
schwit1 writes: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced in a statement that it has arrested two U.S. citizens and two Chinese nationals and charged them with conspiracy to illegally export to China advanced NVIDIA microchips called Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). GPUs are used in a wide range of critical artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
The two American citizens who were arrested are Hon Ning Ho, also known as “Mathew Ho,” a Tampa resident who was born in Hong Kong, and Brian Curtis Raymond from Huntsville, Alabama. The two Chinese nationals arrested by the DOJ are Cham Li, also known as “Tony Li,” a resident of San Leandro, California, and Jing Chen, also known as “Harry Chen,” a 45-year-old who was living in Tampa under an F-1 nonimmigrant student visa.
All four were arrested and appeared in courtrooms in their respective jurisdictions on Nov. 19.
“The indictment unsealed yesterday alleges a deliberate and deceptive effort to transship controlled NVIDIA GPUs to China by falsifying paperwork, creating fake contracts, and misleading U.S. authorities,” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg. “The National Security Division is committed to disrupting these kinds of black markets of sensitive U.S. technologies and holding accountable those who participate in this illicit trade.”
The charges the defendants face include multiple counts of conspiracy to violate the Export Control Reform Act (ECRA); ECRA violations; smuggling; conspiracy to commit money laundering, and money laundering. Each defendant faces a possible 20-year prison sentence for each ECRA violation, 10 years per smuggling count, and 20 years per money laundering count. Given the number of counts they face, it’s possible they could spend the rest of their lives in prison.
The defendants will be tried in federal court in Florida.
Earlier this year, a report from the Financial Times revealed that at least $1 billion worth of Nvidia’s chips were shipped to China after the Trump administration began to intensify the restrictions on microchips to China.
The two American citizens who were arrested are Hon Ning Ho, also known as “Mathew Ho,” a Tampa resident who was born in Hong Kong, and Brian Curtis Raymond from Huntsville, Alabama. The two Chinese nationals arrested by the DOJ are Cham Li, also known as “Tony Li,” a resident of San Leandro, California, and Jing Chen, also known as “Harry Chen,” a 45-year-old who was living in Tampa under an F-1 nonimmigrant student visa.
All four were arrested and appeared in courtrooms in their respective jurisdictions on Nov. 19.
“The indictment unsealed yesterday alleges a deliberate and deceptive effort to transship controlled NVIDIA GPUs to China by falsifying paperwork, creating fake contracts, and misleading U.S. authorities,” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg. “The National Security Division is committed to disrupting these kinds of black markets of sensitive U.S. technologies and holding accountable those who participate in this illicit trade.”
The charges the defendants face include multiple counts of conspiracy to violate the Export Control Reform Act (ECRA); ECRA violations; smuggling; conspiracy to commit money laundering, and money laundering. Each defendant faces a possible 20-year prison sentence for each ECRA violation, 10 years per smuggling count, and 20 years per money laundering count. Given the number of counts they face, it’s possible they could spend the rest of their lives in prison.
The defendants will be tried in federal court in Florida.
Earlier this year, a report from the Financial Times revealed that at least $1 billion worth of Nvidia’s chips were shipped to China after the Trump administration began to intensify the restrictions on microchips to China.
Comment Re:Move to free states. (Score 1) 85
If you feel the need to carry a gun, something is wrong with your life. More to the point your environment.
The only exception is if it's your job putting you in harms way.
A few years ago I was working in a clinic in the South. It was during the COVID-19 nonsense. Some woman brought her kid in and wanted the physician assistant to write a medical letter saying that the kid couldn't go to school and needed private tutoring at home. He wouldn't do it. She goes flipping crazy and starts threatening to shoot up the clinic. She then goes out in the front of the clinic and proceeds to scream obscenities for about 20 minutes.
Of course, the cops were called by about four of us in the office. Two hours later a cop shows up, and says that since she eventually left during that time frame they couldn't do anything. Being the ranking guy in the clinic, I shut it down and closed it. While I was doing that, my PA went out and retrieved his gun from his car. I have no doubt that had she walked back in there, she'd be pushing up daisies.
Incidentally, I turned that cop into Internal Affairs. His lieutenant was pretty pissed when I talked to him.
Remember, when seconds count, the cops are only minutes (or hours) away. The Supreme Court ruled quite a while back that the police aren't really required to protect citizens.
A few years ago there was a shooting at a Walmart in El Paso. The only reason I wasn't caught in the store when it happened is that I did a late checkout at my hotel.
And as mentioned above, if someone has my name it's trivial to find my address. Hell, it's mandatorily put on a government web site. (Yes, my home address.) So when I turned someone in for child abuse who happened to be in MS-13 (found out later), you're damned right that I have guns in my house.
Submission + - Misinformation investigation leads to a Google algorithm fix (pickr.com.au)
Leighlo writes: Hey Slashdot team, thought you'd be interested in a piece I wrote following an investigation into misinformation and disinformation rising to the top of Google and its AI overviews in Australia. Essentially, someone is buying up old domains and running fake articles, which in turn is tricking and manipulating Google, and just about every search and AI engine.
I gave my findings to Google, and a good week or so later, it is applying fixes.
I gave my findings to Google, and a good week or so later, it is applying fixes.
Submission + - NASA Is Tracking a Vast Anomaly Growing in Earth's Magnetic Field (sciencealert.com)
alternative_right writes: For years, NASA has monitored a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies, stretching out between South America and southwest Africa.
This vast, developing phenomenon, called the South Atlantic Anomaly, has intrigued and concerned scientists for decades, and perhaps none more so than NASA researchers.
The space agency's satellites and spacecraft are particularly vulnerable to the weakened magnetic field within the anomaly, and the resulting exposure to charged particles from the Sun.
This vast, developing phenomenon, called the South Atlantic Anomaly, has intrigued and concerned scientists for decades, and perhaps none more so than NASA researchers.
The space agency's satellites and spacecraft are particularly vulnerable to the weakened magnetic field within the anomaly, and the resulting exposure to charged particles from the Sun.
Submission + - Children With Autism, ADHD, And Anorexia Share a Common Microbe Imbalance (sciencealert.com)
alternative_right writes: A new, small study suggests children with autism, ADHD, and anorexia
share similarly disrupted gut microbiomes, which, by some measures, have more in common with each other than with their healthy, neurotypical peers.
Led by researchers from Comenius University in Slovakia, the study used stool samples to assess the gut microbiomes of 117 children.
The exploratory study included 30 boys with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), 21 girls with anorexia nervosa, and 14 children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The remaining samples were from age- and sex-matched healthy and neurotypical children, providing a control group.
share similarly disrupted gut microbiomes, which, by some measures, have more in common with each other than with their healthy, neurotypical peers.
Led by researchers from Comenius University in Slovakia, the study used stool samples to assess the gut microbiomes of 117 children.
The exploratory study included 30 boys with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), 21 girls with anorexia nervosa, and 14 children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The remaining samples were from age- and sex-matched healthy and neurotypical children, providing a control group.
Comment Move to free states. (Score 1, Insightful) 85
and relying on panic-button apps like Glok to summon help quickly.
Anyone worried about this might consider buying a Glock.
Comment Ask them to interface with the incoming probe (Score 1) 35
Admiral! There be whales here!
Submission + - How to Not Get Kidnapped for Your Bitcoin (nytimes.com)
schwit1 writes: Pete Kayll, a musclebound veteran of Britain’s Royal Marines, had an unusual instruction for the Bitcoin investors gathered in Switzerland in late October.
"Just bite your way out," he told them.
It was the final day of a weekend-long cryptocurrency convention on the shore of Lake Lugano, near the Italian border. A small group of investors had lined up in a conference room to have their hands bound with plastic zipties. Now they were learning how to get them off.
"Your teeth will get through anything," Mr. Kayll advised. "But it will bloody well hurt."
Most people don’t go to an international crypto conference expecting to learn how to gnaw through plastic. But after hours of panels devoted to topics like Bitcoin-collateralized loans, these investors were looking for something more practical. They wanted to know what to do if they were grabbed on the street and thrown into the back of a van.
Already paranoid about scams, hacks and market turmoil, wealthy crypto investors have lately become terrified about a much graver threat: torture and kidnapping.
"Just bite your way out," he told them.
It was the final day of a weekend-long cryptocurrency convention on the shore of Lake Lugano, near the Italian border. A small group of investors had lined up in a conference room to have their hands bound with plastic zipties. Now they were learning how to get them off.
"Your teeth will get through anything," Mr. Kayll advised. "But it will bloody well hurt."
Most people don’t go to an international crypto conference expecting to learn how to gnaw through plastic. But after hours of panels devoted to topics like Bitcoin-collateralized loans, these investors were looking for something more practical. They wanted to know what to do if they were grabbed on the street and thrown into the back of a van.
Already paranoid about scams, hacks and market turmoil, wealthy crypto investors have lately become terrified about a much graver threat: torture and kidnapping.
Submission + - Physicists reveal a new quantum state where electrons run wild (sciencedaily.com)
alternative_right writes: Electrons can freeze into strange geometric crystals and then melt back into liquid-like motion under the right quantum conditions. Researchers identified how to tune these transitions and even discovered a bizarre “pinball” state where some electrons stay locked in place while others dart around freely. Their simulations help explain how these phases form and how they might be harnessed for advanced quantum technologies.
Comment Are you kidding me? (Score 1) 70
So I have my attack drones land in the forest and wait 24 hours, then swarm attack the Kremlin. Or I use a link that doesn't involve the cellular network. Or I make the thing autonomous. Or I buy Russian SIM cards and install them in the drones.
Seriously, how incompetent is the Russian government? They seriously need to lay off the vodka.
Comment Re:Autoimmune impacts 5% of the population (Score 1) 49
Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world's first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better. Stronger. Faster.
Comment WTF? (Score 4, Insightful) 79
Why the hell would someone go open a terminal window and paste random shit in from a web page?
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