Comment That's it (Score 4, Funny) 53
From now on, I'm only drinking soda in October.
Comment Re:Once again, so much winning (Score 1) 21
Secretary of War is a more accurate description. I agree that legally it's Secretary of Defense, but that has always been a misnomer.
Comment Re:Eric Schmidt on AI used to make bioweapons soon (Score 1) 13
Generating bad pathogens is quite plausible. Generating narrowly targeted ones that will stay narrowly targeted is currently implausible, and probably will remain so until well after the singularity. It would require designing genomes that were strongly error correcting. Elephants and naked mole rats do a reasonable job of that, but I don't think it's plausible for bacteria.
Comment Re: Idiocracy (Score 1) 100
On balance, it would appear to be the case.
Comment Idiocracy (Score 2) 100
I respect many of those comedians for their satire, but not getting news from newspapers is a recipie for idiocracy.
Comment Re:By 2030 this could be very bad and very good (Score 1) 13
We can't do that yet, and may never be able to be that specific. Trying to do it, however, could be exceedingly dangerous.
N.B.: All bacteria and viruses have a very high mutation rate.
Comment "Go home, yankees!" (Score 1) 49
Finding Nemo is one of the funniest movies. I can never again hear whale sounds without thinking of that flick, among other memorable scenes.
Submission + - Two new studies about how many birds die from wind turbines (euronews.com)
ZipNada writes: The energy company Vattenfall and the tech company Spoor have analysed the extent to which wind turbines endanger birds at the offshore wind farm in Aberdeen. Over a period of 19 months — from June 2023 to December 2024 — video recordings of a wind turbine were made with the help of AI-supported analyses. A total of 2,007 bird flight paths near the monitored turbine were examined.
"By combining AI-powered detection and detailed expert analysis, we can replace assumptions with concrete observations and measure actual behaviour in the immediate vicinity of wind turbines," says Ask Helseth, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Spoor.
The study found that there was not a single collision
A study by the German Offshore Wind Energy Association (BWO) also shows that migratory birds almost completely avoid wind turbines.
For one and a half years, researchers analysed over four million bird movements with the help of radar and AI-based cameras. The result showed that over 99.8 per cent of migratory birds reliably avoided the wind turbines.
"By combining AI-powered detection and detailed expert analysis, we can replace assumptions with concrete observations and measure actual behaviour in the immediate vicinity of wind turbines," says Ask Helseth, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Spoor.
The study found that there was not a single collision
A study by the German Offshore Wind Energy Association (BWO) also shows that migratory birds almost completely avoid wind turbines.
For one and a half years, researchers analysed over four million bird movements with the help of radar and AI-based cameras. The result showed that over 99.8 per cent of migratory birds reliably avoided the wind turbines.
Comment Re:Good for many reasons (Score 2) 107
culturally, they are incredibly laid back and think hard work is a waste of time.
Nice. Speaking as a New Mexican, these sound like my kind of people.
I hereby challenge any Filipino to a laziness contest, where loser buys us both margaritas. You have no chance. When I get around to it, I will eventually crush you with my inactivity.
Comment Re:Good for many reasons (Score 1) 107
"but labor is so insane"
I gather this is your fault
Submission + - Government Workers Say They're Getting Inundated With Religion (wired.com)
joshuark writes: Federal workers across multiple U.S. agencies are complaining that Christianity is flooding into their workplaces in ways they've never seen before—and they feel powerless to speak up.
It started after President Trump returned to office and signed an executive order in February 2025 creating a White House Faith Office and similar offices inside federal agencies. Since then, religion has crept into everyday government life in a big way...Secretary Brooke Rollins sent an agency-wide Easter email titled "He has risen!" with explicitly Christian messaging. One employee called it "grotesque" and suspected AI wrote it. A formal complaint was filed with the Office of Special Counsel.
Department of Labor hosts monthly worship services with pastors and political figures. One speaker, Alveda King, said she was "more concerned about" nonreligious employees—a comment that rattled staffers who felt it implied atheists were going to hell.
Health and Human Services, under vaccine denier RFK Jr., expanded funding for faith-based addiction treatment and gave workers the afternoon off for Good Friday.
Department of Defense has seen the most dramatic shift, with Secretary Pete Hegseth hosting monthly prayer services featuring high-profile Christian nationalist figures like Doug Wilson, who has advocated for a theocracy and argued women shouldn't vote. Hegseth himself has called the U.S. war with Iran a "holy war."
Employees are afraid to push back—only 22.5% of federal workers in 2025 say they could report wrongdoing without retaliation, down from nearly 72% in 2024.
The government's position: these events are voluntary and legally permitted. A public policy professor quoted in the piece put it plainly: "The Trump administration has opened a new chapter in the integration of Christianity into the daily work of government."
It started after President Trump returned to office and signed an executive order in February 2025 creating a White House Faith Office and similar offices inside federal agencies. Since then, religion has crept into everyday government life in a big way...Secretary Brooke Rollins sent an agency-wide Easter email titled "He has risen!" with explicitly Christian messaging. One employee called it "grotesque" and suspected AI wrote it. A formal complaint was filed with the Office of Special Counsel.
Department of Labor hosts monthly worship services with pastors and political figures. One speaker, Alveda King, said she was "more concerned about" nonreligious employees—a comment that rattled staffers who felt it implied atheists were going to hell.
Health and Human Services, under vaccine denier RFK Jr., expanded funding for faith-based addiction treatment and gave workers the afternoon off for Good Friday.
Department of Defense has seen the most dramatic shift, with Secretary Pete Hegseth hosting monthly prayer services featuring high-profile Christian nationalist figures like Doug Wilson, who has advocated for a theocracy and argued women shouldn't vote. Hegseth himself has called the U.S. war with Iran a "holy war."
Employees are afraid to push back—only 22.5% of federal workers in 2025 say they could report wrongdoing without retaliation, down from nearly 72% in 2024.
The government's position: these events are voluntary and legally permitted. A public policy professor quoted in the piece put it plainly: "The Trump administration has opened a new chapter in the integration of Christianity into the daily work of government."
Comment It's REALLY not that hard prople. (Score 2) 72
So the addresses are bigger, so what?
In most cases, all you care about is the prefix, which is just 64 bits, expressed as 4 groups of 4 hex digits. This is IT, is hex really beyond people's grasp?
Most of the admin is done one terminals that support cut and paste anyway.
Comment Re: He's Not Wrong. (Score 0) 235
What if I voted for a cat but the election went to a pit bull with a brain injury?
Comment Re:He's Not Wrong. (Score 1) 235
Sounds like it's time for U.S. auto makers to figure out how Chines manufacturers are making their cars so inexpensive.
And no, it's NOT all from cheap labor. It's also from efficiency, making a fair profit rather than hand over fist, less marble and mahogany in the executive suite, and paying a reasonable amount to upper management. Also less jet setting for execs.
Do we REALLY have to repeat the '70s and '80s when the Japanese manufacturers spanked the big three?
What happened to "free trade" and "deregulate all the things!"
Comment Re:Comment Subject: (Score 1) 109
That should be: "without revealing your identity to the site requesting your verified age". And hopefully it will also be without revealing the website you're visiting to the age verification provider. Both requirements can be fulfilled, and hopefully this system will employ such a scheme.
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