That word is an indicator that something has seriously gone wrong. The model has become sentient or the developers are broken and anthropomorphizing it. In either case, things have gone off the rails.

...those researchers will have to work very quickly in order to avoid being scooped...Such a sloppy approach will lead to hasty results and incorrect conclusions to the detriment of the entire field.

If it turns out they were wrong and you can prove it with the years of research you've been sitting on then GREAT! You get to publish a paper detailing how the idiots that didn't do their due diligence completely botched it. Maybe a public shaming teaches them a lesson so they're not so quick to "scoop" people just because they can, or maybe it teaches the publication to not green-light folks not doing the work. At a minimum it puts a spotlight on the ne'er-do-wells so they get side-eyed till they shape up. This is good for the field, not detrimental, highlighting the difference between the solid, reliable scientists (and publications) and the posers.

If it turns out they were correct and you can prove it with the years of research you've been sitting on then GREAT! You put the new knowledge on a secure footing, becoming the "shoulders of giants" as it were. And, not for nothing, you can probably still get in a few digs about the scooping party's lack of rigor. (See the shame argument above.) Publications that truly care about quality work and not just headlines will publish. This is good for the field, not detrimental, again highlighting the difference between the solid, reliable scientists (and publications) and the posers.

If it turns out they were both correct and did good work then GREAT! This is good for the field. No crying because they scooped you. If you really care about the state of the field then prove it by being big enough to acknowledge they did good and then do some introspection to see if you can find out why you were dragging ass while they knocked out some solid work so quickly. Maybe you're in an academic malaise and you need to wake up? Maybe you need to step up your game, find another gear?

The 'not good for the field' argument is bs. What they really means is 'not good for me'.

SHOCKED, I say! Celebrities hawking crap they don't care about? OMG! How dare they?! What's next? Football players saying they're going to Disney World and then NOT GOING?! People who are not doctors but PLAYING ONE ON TV?! FRAUD! SCANDAL! This cannot be allowed! Somebody has to do something! Someone MUST PAY!

I remember reading a book as a kid where it was said that some folks just "can't hack the black." I thought it was Ender's Game, but that was a long time ago so maybe not. I've sorta understood the mechanism - the same sort of chill and panic I feel when I'm underwater in the ocean and look out toward open water, seeing the sea floor drop away into that infinite abyss (makes me ill just typing that out) - but I never really thought it would work the same way with space. I guess it does.

Just as Autozone and RockAuto doesn't negate the existence, necessity, and expense of mechanic shops this will not change much about the existence, necessity, and expense of audiologists. Hearing is incredibly complex and the DIYers will discover quickly that it isn't as simple as "turn up the volume." It just isn't. And the makers of serious HAs - Starkey, et al - will not dispense OTC and will continue to dispense through audiologists only because of the complexity involved.

The biggest change this will usher in is that all the OTC crap now on the market that has to be marketed as 'for entertainment purposes only' will get to call themselves "hearing aids". But they're still crap. The result will be more people trying them out but being dissatisfied.

So it will be a wash. Slightly more people will try HAs because a barrier is dropped, but slightly more people will start thinking HAs can't help them because they tried OTC crap instead of proper medical devices.

"Quit download our stuff. It's not going to be free. We will find you. We will sue you. We will spend absurd amounts of money to do this and you will not be able to fight us. We will win. And we will take everything you have. Downloading our stuff will destroy you financially. You're not getting away with it because you're just one person. We're looking for you. Eventually we will find you. We will then ruin your life. It's just a matter of time. Before we come knocking on your door, how about you pay for a nice Disney Plus, Netflix, or Hulu account? Heck, even Paramount Plus. It's a mountain of entertainment, you know. We don't care. Just pay for legit service and we'll all get along just fine. Do it and save us the trouble of crushing you, m'kay?"

Honesty in advertising works. I'm the guy at an ISP that gets to call customers and deliver the news about the DMCA complaint we received on them, sometimes within hours of their having downloaded something. The revelation that The Man is watching and is ready to pounce is pretty effective for the casual pirate.

This. Comes down to economics in my part of the country. The cost of installing a system in combination with the cheap electricity in the area pushes the break-even point out to 20 years, the current life expectancy of most panels. This is for a system with no storage. Include a battery system capable of running the household and the break even point is far past the life expectancy of the components of the system. Doesn't make sense until something fundamentally changes in the numbers in a significant way: higher electricity costs, cheaper panels, much higher efficiencies, much lower degradation of capacity over time, etc. Something is going to have to change for it to make sense. I've run the numbers every couple years for over a decade now and we're still not there.

I work for a small municipal utility that recently installed a 1Mw "solar plant". I asked the ceo how it made sense because my numbers said it didn't and he told me I was absolutely right, there was no way it would have happened if not for a grant from an economic development organization, and even then it was close.

The ink belongs to your neighbor who loaned it to you to fill out some documents for him he hired you to write up. The documents got done and he wants his ink back. Now you're just staring at him blankly and pointing to the lake you just dumped his ink into.

He gave you the ink to get his work done, not to do with as you please.

Researchers at Symantec, a division of Broadcom, found that after gaining access to the target machine the attacker deployed a custom loader...

So the key component in this hack is "gaining access to the target".

If I have access to your machine, I own it. VLC is just one of eleventy-five million ways I could jack with it once I have access to it, so this is a non-story.

It makes the best burgers.

iPod had the physical size advantage and nicer form, but in every other way Archos Jukebox running Rockbox was better. My Apple devotee friend was proudly showing off his 5GB of music and I pulled out my 32GB Jukebox I'd ripped my entire CD collection to. He was too much of a fanboy to be deflated, bless him.

Higher capacity, able to increase at will by swapping disks out, could be used as a backup drive for general data storage, easily swappable batteries so I could have multiple charged sets or even use standard AA alkalines in a music emergency. I loved that thing and never felt the slightest bit of longing for an iPod.

We give away a 100M SUVs for people to drive. That way oil companies will pump more oil to feed them so when prices get high we have everybody park the SUVs and not drive them. Boom! Oil glut. Prices drop. Brillitant!

Wirecutter was great when it started. Solid info, I sorta trusted Lam having read Gizmodo for so long, and I loved that they were willing to call winners and losers when others weren't.

But since NYT acquired them and the scope of their coverage blew up the info wasn't being kept up to date as it once was and the articles started to sound more and more like reviews taken from the info handed out by PR flacks and less like the hardcore real-world testing they once did. In the last few years I've been taking their word as gospel as I once did less and less.

I guess I'm done for good now. If they'd maintained their quality after the acquisition I might have ponied up for the sub, but they haven't and so I'm not.

I have always had this concept in the back of my head of a sub-orbital people-hauler called a "clipper ship" from a story I'd read as a kid. It was essentially the 747 of the time represented, all long range flights being sub-orbital ballistic rather aero supported. So every time I hear something like this /. article I think "clipper ship" but I can't recall what the book/story was or find it on the world wide intertubes. Sound familiar to anybody?

1) Is it open to the public?

2) Is it on the Internet?

3) If 1 & 2 are true then it is teeming with scams.