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Comment Balkh province (Score 5, Informative) 96

Damn, you guys are morons. Even the Taliban knows banning WiFi has NOTHING to do with immorality or Wi-Fi .. people in Balkh don't like the Taliban. It was, and is, a Northern Alliance stronghold (now called National Resistance Front - NRF ), they are annoying the heck out of the Taliban. Reference: https://www.afintl.com/en/2025... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.afintl.com/en/2025... https://moderndiplomacy.eu/202.... This ban will make things a lot worse for the Taliban there, not better. The reason for the WiFi ban is because the Taliban thinks the attacks on them were coordinated through Wi-Fi and that the NRF use it to communicate.

Comment Re:Can't stop the signal, Mal... (Score 2) 96

by fahrbot-bot (#65664324) Attached to: Taliban Leader Bans Wi-Fi In an Afghan Province To 'Prevent Immorality'

Yes, they could try to locate everyone that manages to use banned technology like this, but as commodity-level technology designed to be used by even unskilled individuals, they're not going to be able to stop people from using technology. All they'll be able to do is to punish them after finding them.

Yup, 'cause the Taliban is known for giving up easily and being lenient to people breaking morality decrees. /s

Submission + - Scientists find that ice generates electricity when bent (phys.org)

Submitted by fahrbot-bot
fahrbot-bot writes: Phys.org is reporting on a study published in Nature Physics involving ICN2, at the UAB campus, Xi'an Jiaotong University (Xi'an) and Stony Brook University (New York), showing for the first time that ordinary ice is a flexoelectric material — meaning it can generate electricity when subjected to mechanical deformation.

"We discovered that ice generates electric charge in response to mechanical stress at all temperatures. In addition, we identified a thin 'ferroelectric' layer at the surface at temperatures below -113C (160K)," explains Dr. Xin Wen, a member of the ICN2 Oxide Nanophysics Group and one of the study's lead researchers.

"This means that the ice surface can develop a natural electric polarization, which can be reversed when an external electric field is applied—similar to how the poles of a magnet can be flipped. The surface ferroelectricity is a cool discovery in its own right, as it means that ice may have not just one way to generate electricity, but two: ferroelectricity at very low temperatures, and flexoelectricity at higher temperatures all the way to 0 C."

This property places ice on a par with electroceramic materials such as titanium dioxide, which are currently used in advanced technologies like sensors and capacitors.

Comment Self taught brain surgeon (Score 2) 70

by backslashdot (#65664072) Attached to: Perceived Importance of College Hits New Low

College is needed for STEM .. especially engineering and physics, because most people need to be told to do all the requisite math. Yes you can learn mechanical engineering from online videos and books.. in fact that would no doubt make the best mechanical engineers .. but then only about 1/3rd of humans would be able to do that without the motivation and structure college provides.

Comment Re:What do they expect... (Score 1) 70

by russotto (#65663774) Attached to: Perceived Importance of College Hits New Low

Silicon Valley tech people not finishing college is more Fire in the Valley era than anything more recent. Gates and Allen, Jobs, and Wozniak all dropped out. Ballmer was the only major connection made at college for any of them, so far as I know. Page, Brin, Bezos, Randolph, and Hastings all finished college, some with graduate degrees. Zuckerberg dropped out, but his going to college was central to his business model.

Comment The BLS jobs data is not from a survey of the publ (Score 1) 149

by russotto (#65663372) Attached to: An Unresponsive Public Is Undermining Government Economic Data

The BLS jobs data is from the CES (Current Employment Survey). This is a survey of firms, not of the public. That's what Trump was complaining about. Whatever is wrong with that survey seems to be very new -- it used to be revisions were fairly evenly distributed, but since 2023 the revisions have been very biased downward. It seems unlikely this has anything to do with public survey fatigure.

The unemployment numbers come from a public survey (Current Population Survey), but those are different from the jobs numbers.

Comment Re: when ticket master resells an ticket they make (Score 1) 36

by fahrbot-bot (#65662494) Attached to: FTC Probes Whether Ticketmaster Does Enough To Stop Resale Bots

I wouldn't be surprised if it's revealed that it's ticketmaster or the developers of their platform that's behind the bots just to line their pockets.

Related Rick and Morty - er, Summer ...

Rick: Well, obviously, Summer, it appears the lower tier of this society is being manipulated through sex and advanced technology by a hidden ruling class. Sound familiar?

Summer: [Gasps] Ticketmaster.

Comment Re:Let me guess (Score 1) 17

by fahrbot-bot (#65661988) Attached to: TikTok Deal 'Framework' Reached With China

Larry Ellison and cheeto gets a cut just like the US Steel deal.

And... Trump gets editorial control and preferred feed placement, Pam Bondi gets warrant-less access to all user data, Stephen Miller gets control of (shadow) banning people and Karoline Leavitt is in charge of "fact checking" ... And JD? Nothing, no one likes him. :-)

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