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Comment Re: Alibaba (Score 1) 31

Well, I'm about to find out if I need to do my first chargeback, I have a delayed response on a return authorization for where I was sent the wrong item. They advertised a different version. This might be confusing for them since the difference is small - yet critical. But there really should be no confusion because they advertised the other version both in the images and the product name/listing title.

Comment Not good news for Brit / Irish / German bars (Score 1) 13

All these places are streaming terrestrial TV & sports from god knows where but almost certainly not legally. Things like soaps, rugby, football, hurling etc. Bars are packed out when big matches are on. If Greece starts cracking down on this stuff these places are screwed.

Comment Well duh (Score 2) 43

An autonomous drone has to be able to cope with cables, pylons, trees, plastic bags & other blowing detritus, flag poles & flags, wind turbines, terrain, buildings, birds, light aircraft, drones, wind, gusts, down/up drafts, frost, heat, cold, strong sunlight, reflections, snow, rain, hail, lightning, etc. It has to be able to do this day or night. Drones also have their own failure modes on top of all this.

If a drone can't avoid obstacles and fail to safe then it has no business whatsoever flying near populated errors. Not to mention that even if did operate safely then it's still a noise nuisance. It would be very sad indeed if people start taking potshots at these things or griefing them.

Submission + - 'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It's 2022 (404media.co)

alternative_right writes: AI slop feels inescapable — whether you’re watching TV, reading the news, or trying to find a new apartment.

That is, unless you’re using Slop Evader, a new browser tool that filters your web searches to only include results from before November 30, 2022 — the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.

The tool is available for Firefox and Chrome, and has one simple function: Showing you the web as it was before the deluge of AI-generated garbage. It uses Google search functions to index popular websites and filter results based on publication date, a scorched earth approach that virtually guarantees your searches will be slop-free.

Submission + - Ion-based cooling technique could make computer chips more powerful (phys.org)

alternative_right writes: [R]esearchers at The University of Osaka have developed a strategy to enhance cooling by driving the flow of ions through nanoscale channels. This ionothermoelectric strategy is analogous to the Peltier technique, in which passing an electric current through a material results in heating or cooling. This compelling invention is published in ACS Nano.

"We fabricated a nanosized pore in a semiconductor membrane and surrounded the nanopore with a 'gate,' in the form of a nanowire. Applying a voltage to the gate induced the flow of ions through the nanopore," explains lead author, Makusu Tsutsui. "Varying the voltage modulated the surface charge of the nanopore."

A negative applied voltage resulted in a negatively charged nanopore that was only permeable to positively charged ions, or cations. Consequently, each ion drags a certain quantity of heat along with its charge. The team created a concentration gradient in saltwater around the nanopore to drive cation transport in one direction, effectively pumping heat out of the nanopore. Reversing the applied voltage made the nanopore surface positive and permeable only to negative ions, or anions, therefore switching the system from cooling to heating.

Comment Re:It's (Score 1) 75

Looks good, but I can't find the app in my TV's store so it's a complete non-starter.

I got a Google TV because I knew it would have the best app support. Looks like you didn't.

My desktop TV-used-as-Monitor has stupid LG WebOS, but I also don't need a TV-specific app since my desktop is connected to it and I don't connect the TV to the network, only HDMI.

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