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Comment Re: Now who saw that coming? (Score 1) 246

by cayenne8 (#64417096) Attached to: California Is Grappling With a Growing Problem: Too Much Solar

I still pay about $2500 a month

Wow....

Ok, I was about to ask how f'ing big is your house...but saw further down that it's about 3K square feet. Large, but not a mansion really.

Ok, a pool..etc.

But even with all that....$2500 a month for power???

Damn it must be expensive out there.

I live in New Orleans....where basically the AC clicks on in April and doesn't shut off till about the first week or so in November, and no I'm not exaggerating.

I do leveled billing, I don't turn off computers, or anything really to conserve power....I live in about 2000 sq ft I believe....and my bills monthly are in the $180 range...sometimes into the low $200's....

Again, I do not do anything to try to conserve energy....so, I'm guessing you either have an outrageous power draw somewhere, or it's just too damned expensive where you live for electricity...?

And you're saying that $2500/mo is even after you have solar running a lot of things?

wow...

Comment Re:Screw the American auto industry (Score 1) 297

You claimed "EV sales over the past year or so have slumped". Now you have backtracked to "7.4% this year so far" which is trivial.

Er....BOTH things can be true you know.

We are still pretty new into this year (less than 3 months)....so, 7.4% down is true so far.

The statement is also true it is down for the past year or so.

Maybe you didn't watch the videos that were from 2023 largely.....where it shows that the EV demand in the US was largely saturated, and EVs were piling up on dealers lots taking MUCH longer to sell than their ICE cousins which were selling at normal volumes and speeds.

Comment Re:it's not just TikTok, or just social media... (Score 1) 23

by Evtim (#64416964) Attached to: EU Opens Probe of TikTok Lite, Citing Concerns About Addictive Design

Until fairly recently the professionals refused to make or even discuss the connection.

The people who sounded the alarm bell were ridiculed. Including here, on /. - see the responses to Jonathan Haidt's suggestion to ban smartphones until age of 16. It was here a few weeks ago. Immediately our resident woksters went full attack mode. Guess why?

Comment Re:EU regulates croissants, says they taste too go (Score 1) 23

by Evtim (#64416950) Attached to: EU Opens Probe of TikTok Lite, Citing Concerns About Addictive Design

Data suggests that Social media is worse than smoking! Incredible!

On the other hand, the list of best therapeutics against all kinds of forms of mental issues is headed by......dancing! Followed by resistance exercises, cardio, etc. Every medicinal - based treatment of mental issues has lower effectiveness than 30 minutes resistance training per day.

Ha, I was a life time smoker until recently, but never went into social media of any kind. Ever. I eat animal fats and proteins plus veggies, sleep well, exercise daily and yes, believe it or not, I "dance". Alone. In various parks in Amsterdam. Never having formal lessons. I've had tourists taking pictures of me - what is this ass doing, flailing and jumping around like a mad person to music that only he hears! Don't care. Love the movement!

That is why I survived what professionals, and the statistics, call "hopeless cases". A person with no family, kids or religion, from poor unprivileged background, who, at a certain moment of his life gets divorced, his father dies way too young, gets depressed, addicted to smoking, stopped seeing his friends and then the corporation he works for screws him. All of this within several months. Without mentioning near bankruptcy due to medical bills (yes, in Europe; do not believe a word about the great socialized European medicare).

On the other hand, the kids growing on Social media, educated by crazies, ideologues and perverts, fed "entertainment" by our betters from Hollywood and elsewhere, fed "news" and " science" by the elite are becoming "suicidal" because someone said a joke on Twitter.

Still, the most crazy thing that I know off on TicTok are all those videos of complete and utter morons crying that Osama Bin Laden was right and the West is the root of all evil! CPP likes that! A lot!

Submission + - Windows vulnerability reported by the NSA exploited to install Russian malware (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by echo123
echo123 writes: Kremlin-backed hackers have been exploiting a critical Microsoft vulnerability for four years in attacks that targeted a vast array of organizations with a previously undocumented tool, the software maker disclosed Monday.

When Microsoft patched the vulnerability in October 2022—at least two years after it came under attack by the Russian hackers—the company made no mention that it was under active exploitation. As of publication, the company’s advisory still made no mention of the in-the-wild targeting. Windows users frequently prioritize the installation of patches based on whether a vulnerability is likely to be exploited in real-world attacks.

On Monday, Microsoft revealed that a hacking group tracked under the name Forest Blizzard has been exploiting CVE-2022-38028 since at least June 2020—and possibly as early as April 2019. The threat group—which is also tracked under names including APT28, Sednit, Sofacy, GRU Unit 26165, and Fancy Bear—has been linked by the US and the UK governments to Unit 26165 of the Main Intelligence Directorate, a Russian military intelligence arm better known as the GRU. Forest Blizzard focuses on intelligence gathering through the hacking of a wide array of organizations, mainly in the US, Europe, and the Middle East.

Microsoft representatives didn't respond to an email asking why the in-the-wild exploits are being reported only now.

Monday’s advisory provided additional technical details:

Read the rest at ArsTechnica.

Submission + - Voyager 1 is sending data back to Earth for the first time in 5 months (cnn.com)

Submitted by Tony Isaac
Tony Isaac writes: Voyager 1 is once again communicating back to Earth and appears to be functioning normally. Kudos to those NASA engineers who figured out how to diagnose that a chip was defective, and rewrite its code to avoid using that chip entirely! I can just imagine what kind of spaghetti code that is by now, but they figured out how to get it to work. I guess V'ger isn't quite here yet!

Submission + - Two lifeforms merge into one organism for first time in a billion years (msn.com)

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: For the first time in at least a billion years, two lifeforms have merged into a single organism.

The process, called primary endosymbiosis, has only happened twice in the history of the Earth, with the first time giving rise to all complex life as we know it through mitochondria. The second time that it happened saw the emergence of plants.

Now, an international team of scientists have observed the evolutionary event happening between a species of algae commonly found in the ocean and a bacterium.

Submission + - Voyager 1 resumes sending information (nasa.gov)

Submitted by quonset
quonset writes: Just over two weeks ago, NASA figured out why its Voyager 1 spacecraft stopped sending useful data. They suspected corrupted memory in its flight data system (FDS) was the culprit. Today, for the first time since November, Voyager 1 is sending useful data about its health and the status of its onboard systems back to NASA. How did NASA accomplish this feat of long distance repair? They broke up the code into smaller pieces and redistributed them throughout the memory. From NASA:

So they devised a plan to divide the affected code into sections and store those sections in different places in the FDS. To make this plan work, they also needed to adjust those code sections to ensure, for example, that they all still function as a whole. Any references to the location of that code in other parts of the FDS memory needed to be updated as well.

The team started by singling out the code responsible for packaging the spacecraft’s engineering data. They sent it to its new location in the FDS memory on April 18. A radio signal takes about 22 ½ hours to reach Voyager 1, which is over 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth, and another 22 ½ hours for a signal to come back to Earth. When the mission flight team heard back from the spacecraft on April 20, they saw that the modification worked: For the first time in five months, they have been able to check the health and status of the spacecraft.

During the coming weeks, the team will relocate and adjust the other affected portions of the FDS software. These include the portions that will start returning science data.

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