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Comment Re:undeniable (Score 1) 13

Renewables are undeniably a good idea. The energy is just right there.
Sure they are not without problems, and in a country the size of the UK, there's not enough to be energy independent, but even with that we should build more.

Denying it: Trump - Trump blames renewable energy for rising electricity prices. Experts point elsewhere (and other sources):

Trump called wind and solar power “THE SCAM OF THE CENTURY!” in a social media post and vowed not to approve wind or “farmer destroying Solar” projects. “The days of stupidity are over in the USA!!!” he wrote on his Truth Social site.

So short-sighted... (sigh)

Comment So... Can't fix the corruption? (Score 2) 83

by fahrbot-bot (#65811447) Attached to: Iran's Capital Is Moving. The Reason Is an Ecological Catastrophe

The situation in Tehran is the result of "a perfect storm of climate change and corruption," ...

The current Iranian regime seems pretty "Off with their heads!" for the slightest infraction and they can't punish whatever corruption is at play here? Is it because it's being done by those in religious/political/financial (whatever) power rather than rabble? /s

Submission + - Putin's most feared missile downed with a song (telegraph.co.uk)

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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.”

Comment Re:No such animal in the particle zoo. (Score 1) 39

There is no such thing as anti-hydrogen. You have the anti-proton, with negative charge; and the positron, with neutral charge. The positron will not orbit the anti-proton. You cannot make molecules out of anti-matter.

Wikipedia says otherwise: Antihydrogen.
Antiprotons have a charge of -1e and positrons have a charge of +1e.

Comment Re:Good products (Score 1) 102

by fahrbot-bot (#65810403) Attached to: HP and Dell Disable HEVC Support Built Into Their Laptops' CPUs

... they are recommending software decoding as an alternative to hardware decoding that they took away?

Sounds like they're also recommending people purchase more expensive HW products to get that feature -- or have it enabled. So the answer is - as usual: greed.

"HEVC video playback is available on Dell's premium systems and in select standard models equipped with hardware or software, such as integrated 4K displays, discrete graphics cards, Dolby Vision, or Cyberlink BluRay software.

Submission + - CERN can now produce antihydrogen atoms eight times faster than before (home.cern)

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fahrbot-bot writes: CERN is reporting that a new cooling technique means that the ALPHA experiment at their Antimatter Factory can produce antihydrogen atoms, the simplest form of atomic antimatter, eight times faster than before – over 15,000 antihydrogen atoms in a matter of hours.

Producing and trapping antihydrogen is an extremely complicated process. Previous methods took 24 hours to trap just 2,000 atoms, limiting the scope of experiments at ALPHA. The Swansea-led team has changed that.

Using laser-cooled beryllium ions, the team has demonstrated that it is possible to cool positrons to less than 10 Kelvin (below –263C), significantly colder than the previous threshold of about 15 Kelvin. These cooler positrons dramatically boost the efficiency of antihydrogen production and trapping—allowing a record 15,000 atoms to be trapped in less than seven hours.

Alternate article in Phys.org.

Comment Also... breathing. (Score 5, Insightful) 304

The revised webpage says: "The claim 'vaccines do not cause autism' is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities."

Breathing can also cause Autism -- and definitely death. Fact: All people with Autism and/or who have died are/were habitual breathers. Claims to the contrary are not evidence based because studies have not ruled out the possibility that breathing can cause Autism and definitely death. ...

In related news: The inmates are running the asylum.

Comment Re:Case in point (Score 1) 210

by fahrbot-bot (#65807597) Attached to: Microsoft Exec Asks: Why Aren't More People Impressed With AI?

“The fact that people are unimpressed that we can have a fluent conversation with a super smart AI that can generate any image/video is mindblowing to me,”

Where can you actually do that? That's not a thing. These people seriously think they have cortana over there. Apart from they dropped her already.

More to the point, many (most?) people probably don't even want to do that or care. For example, I don't need (or want) to have a conversation with a AI/LLM and don't need to generate images/videos or, more precisely, have AI generate them for me - and I can do my own coding.

Comment Just kids? (Score 1) 253

by fahrbot-bot (#65807559) Attached to: American Kids Can't Do Math Anymore

American Kids Can't Do Math Anymore

The current president has stated several times he / his administration will bring down the price of prescriptions 500%, 1000%, 1500% and people go, "Cool".

Noting that 100% mean free and +100% means they pay you. (Sorry, but the premise here means I had to include that.)

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