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Comment I don't know about the hardware, but . . . (Score -1) 138

. . . the software - Z OS, and the standard interface to it (ispf, TSO) - sucks ass.

There is a good reason other companies like apple, Microsoft exist. It's because their products actually improve over time.

Anyone who thinks ispf is useful for anything has clearly lived under a rock for too long.

Comment Nuclear Propulsion = Radiation Death Chamber (Score -1, Troll) 80

Any astronaut going into space is exposed to high levels of radiation, that much is well known. Nuclear propulsion will expose them to hundreds of times the levels of radiation they will be exposed to already, this is insane.

What's even worse is that NASA does not have any proper post-flight chiropractic care for its returning astronauts. They come back to earth, riddled with radiation-fuelled vertebral subluxations, and are not treated for them. Over time these life-stealing subluxations will manifest themselves into heart dis-ease, cancer, diabetes, and countless other life threatening maladies.

Medical doctors don't even know how to detect the source of vertebral subluxation on a person's spine, let alone how to treat them. All they will do is prescribe more drugs. God only knows how many years these nuclear propulsion astronauts will have their lives shortened by.

Comment AI is biased against natural healing (Score -1) 33


I tried that ChatGPT program that kids use for their homework. Every time I asked about health issues, it mentioned some form of Big Pharma backed treatment. Drugs, surgery, more drugs. Not once did it ever mention vertebral subluxations of the spine or their health-sapping effects.

Not... a... single... time...

You'd thing some form of "intelligence" would tell people to get their spines checked by a proper health care professional (chiropractor) when they look up signs of sickness like headaches, back pain, infertility, heart disease, cancer, bowel distress, etc. Every reply was GET DRUGS.

AI will be the end of humanity, but not because of it killing us overtly, it will quietly recommend more and more drugs and other treatments that are slowly killing us with life-robbing subluxations.

Comment Instead of a new browser, how about a new life? (Score -1, Offtopic) 29

Get off the couch! You don't need another browser to read on the WWW (World Wide Web), you need to get off the couch and get mobile.

There's nothing wrong with some light web browsing over a nice kale and quinoa egg white omelette at breakfast, but once that's done, you should get active!

Go for a light run, enjoy the fresh air, get some natural vitamin D from the sun. And, whenever possible, have your spine checked by a chiropractor. True health care professionals that are not in the pockets of Big Pharma.

Forget about Arc and Chrome and Safari and whatever. If you take care of your health, you won't care about such trivialities.

And I would like to say Hello to all my patients on my private Discord channel. We have over 30 people seeking health and wellness through the miracle of Chiropractic! If you would like an invite to SublixationBlock, please let me know.

Comment Re:It's magic once you try it (Score 1) 92

I've a feeling that it would be like reading through a tiny window. The page changes would come so quickly that it would throw me out of the immersion.

Reading on a phone provides a much shorter page than with either a paper book or my current e-book readers. It's one of the reasons I don't care for using my phone to read long-form text. This would be even worse in that respect.

Privacy

TSA Expands Controversial Facial Recognition Program (cbsnews.com) 70

SonicSpike shares a report from CBS News: As possible record-setting crowds fill airports nationwide, passengers may encounter new technology at the security line. At 25 airports in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, the TSA is expanding a controversial digital identification program that uses facial recognition. This comes as the TSA and other divisions of Homeland Security are under pressure from lawmakers to update technology and cybersecurity. "We view this as better for security, much more efficient, because the image capture is fast and you'll save several seconds, if not a minute," said TSA Administrator David Pekoske.

At the world's busiest airport in Atlanta, the TSA checkpoint uses a facial recognition camera system to compare a flyer's face to the picture on their ID in seconds. If there's not a match, the TSA officer is alerted for further review. "Facial recognition, first and foremost, is much, much more accurate," Pekoske said. "And we've tested this extensively. So we know that it brings the accuracy level close to 100% from mid-80% with just a human looking at a facial match." The program has been rolled out to more than two dozen airports nationwide since 2020 and the TSA plans to add the technology, which is currently voluntary for flyers, to at least three more airports by the end of the year. There are skeptics. Five U.S. senators sent a letter demanding that TSA halt the program.

Comment Re:Chegg is a scam (Score 1) 31

I have no love for Chegg, but I'm sorry to see ChatGPT take their business.

ChatGPT provides sort of plausible answers, even if they're kind of generic. Until it starts pulling something out of its ass, or starts citing sources that I don't expect the student to have actually read -- at that point I look at their work more closely and can tell that it wasn't really them.

Chegg's answers are always obvious bullshit from the get-go. Easy to catch.

Comment Are they going to subsidize the farmers ? (Score 0, Troll) 31

You can't *fucking* grow plants without CO2 in the god damned atmosphere.

We're at about 0.04 percent (yeas, that's 4/100th of a percent for those of you who didn't learn basic math)

At 0.04 percent, we're still way off optimum CO2 for plant growth.
At 0.02 percent, plants don't grow !

Stop fucking around with shit you don't understand !

Comment Amazing what happens when Govt. subsidizes a tech. (Score 0) 133

So, I'm not complaining. I'm all for clean power - but - let's get real, NUCLEAR is the solution.

Modern nuke plants are way, way, way more efficient than anything else on the market. They're super safe. The by-product can be rendered essentially harmless.

If we really care about this, let's subsidize Nuclear.

Businesses

Before Hitting Pause On HQ2, Amazon Sent a "You're Welcome" To Area Residents (fcnp.com) 26

Long-time Slashdot reader theodp shares a fresh perspective on how the "pause" announced for building Amazon's HQ2 headquarters could impact the local community: The Falls Church News-Press notes that Amazon's pause announcement came just days after a 12-page glossy mass mailing entitled Capital Region Community Impact Report went out to thousands in the region.

Beginning with a statement from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, the report spelled out "Amazon's philanthropic commitments in the Capital Region," including $32M donated to 150+ local organizations in 2021, $990M+ committed to create and preserve 6,245 affordable housing units. 13,700 people supported by Amazon-funded affordable housing investments and 23,000 students who received food, clothing, school supplies, hygiene items and other urgent support through Amazon's Right Now Needs Fund.

According to the report, the commitments also included benefits to 75,000+ students across 343 schools who received computer science education through the Amazon Future Engineer program, to 166,000+ students who participated in the CodeVA K-12 CS education program during the 2021-22 academic year, the 5.3 million free meals delivered to underserved families in partnership with Northern Virginia food banks, 10,000 meals purchased from local restaurants and donated to support Covid-19 first responders, $350,000 contributed to local community theaters and arts-focused non-profits, to 6,000 students who explored cloud computing solutions at the Wakefield H.S. Think Big in the 2021-22 academic year, the 200,000 children and families from underserved communities who received free access to the National Children's Museum through a $250,000 gift from Amazon, and the 16,700+ students served by Amazon's support for local youth sports leagues.

Not to look an Amazon philanthropy gift horse in the mouth, but should politicians be reliant on Amazon philanthropy to meet their communities' basic needs? Amazon's 2022 income taxes, by the way, were -$3.217B.

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