Comment 'Entertainment Purposes Only' (Score 1) 53
Does this mean we can throw co-pilot on the same pile as horoscopes, personality tests, and healing crystals?
Comment Re:I don't agree with age verification (Score 0) 193
nah, he got what he deserved. you wanna lick boots don't be surprised when you find a few up your ass.
Comment Re:Who cares. (Score 1) 91
That's just not true. I switched my gaming machine to linux (mint) and have had only minor hiccups. It works perfectly well for anything that doesn't use a kernel level anticheat and I don't play those games anyway because they suck.
Comment Money = Speech (Score 2) 33
The Citizens United decision was a HUGE FUCKING MISTAKE.
Comment Is this the same gallup... (Score 2) 53
...that asks poorly phrased questions like 'do you have a best friend at work'?
Yeah, not enough grains of salt for their bullshit.
Comment Great! (Score 1) 32
Now lets see these results repeated OUTSIDE of China...
Comment and the cycle continues (Score 2) 40
Great, and then after the Indians botch it all to hell companies will have to look to us natives to ACTUALLY fix it.
cool, I guess...but I've seen this show before and it sucked the first time around.
Comment Re:Does this need to be a meeting? (Score 1) 72
and not everyone is good ad absorbing verbal material, but here we are.
I would prefer written for two reasons:
I can read faster than you can speak
We now have written evidence of what was asked for or what was delivered.
That second point may be a disadvantage for some...
Comment goddamnit.... (Score 1) 24
God damn it India, quit being such a fuckup backwater.
Comment Been a while... (Score 1) 69
It's been a while since we heard from the Anti-Gabe. As expected, he's still retarded and absolutely anti-consumer.
Have fun joining Ubisoft and Activision on the trash heap, Timmy! Not even your Chinese overlords can save you from yourself!
Comment Re:Your next generation of [humanbots] (Score 1) 124
Maybe you can answer the question since you brought it up?
Or do you not know either?
Submission + - Starlink tries to block Virginia's plan to bring fiber Internet to residents (arstechnica.com)
AmiMoJo writes: Starlink operator SpaceX is fighting Virginia's plan to deploy fiber Internet service to residents, claiming that federal grant money should be given to Starlink instead. SpaceX is already in line to win over $3 million in grant money in the state but is seeking $60 million.
Starlink is poised to benefit from the Trump administration rewriting rules for the $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) grant program. While the Biden administration decided that states should prioritize fiber in order to build more future-proof networks, the Trump administration ordered states to revise their plans with a "tech-neutral approach" and lower the average cost of serving each location.
Starlink is poised to benefit from the Trump administration rewriting rules for the $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) grant program. While the Biden administration decided that states should prioritize fiber in order to build more future-proof networks, the Trump administration ordered states to revise their plans with a "tech-neutral approach" and lower the average cost of serving each location.
Submission + - Plex users urged to update Media Server after security flaw exposed (nerds.xyz)
BrianFagioli writes: If you run Plex Media Server, itâ(TM)s time to drop everything and update. The company has quietly patched a security issue that affects recent versions of its software, and users are being told to upgrade as soon as possible.
According to an email Plex sent to affected customers, versions 1.41.7.x through 1.42.0.x are vulnerable. The newly released build, 1.42.1.10060 or later, contains the fix. Plex says the flaw was found through its bug bounty program, but sadly, it has not publicly shared details about how severe the issue is or whether it could be exploited remotely.
Plex isnâ(TM)t saying whether this vulnerability could be used to run code on a server or gain unauthorized access, but its urgency in contacting users directly suggests itâ(TM)s not something to ignore. If your Plex instance is exposed to the internet for remote streaming, the risk could be even greater.
Updating is straightforward: you can do it through the serverâ(TM)s management page or by downloading the installer from Plexâ(TM)s official site. If you self-host, itâ(TM)s also a good moment to review your setup, disable outside access if you donâ(TM)t need it, and check your logs for anything suspicious.
Plex has had its share of security incidents in the past, including a 2022 breach that forced a password reset for all users. While thereâ(TM)s no evidence this latest issue has been exploited in the wild, the best move is to patch now and ask questions later.
The update is available today, and if you havenâ(TM)t installed it yet, you should make it your next click.
According to an email Plex sent to affected customers, versions 1.41.7.x through 1.42.0.x are vulnerable. The newly released build, 1.42.1.10060 or later, contains the fix. Plex says the flaw was found through its bug bounty program, but sadly, it has not publicly shared details about how severe the issue is or whether it could be exploited remotely.
Plex isnâ(TM)t saying whether this vulnerability could be used to run code on a server or gain unauthorized access, but its urgency in contacting users directly suggests itâ(TM)s not something to ignore. If your Plex instance is exposed to the internet for remote streaming, the risk could be even greater.
Updating is straightforward: you can do it through the serverâ(TM)s management page or by downloading the installer from Plexâ(TM)s official site. If you self-host, itâ(TM)s also a good moment to review your setup, disable outside access if you donâ(TM)t need it, and check your logs for anything suspicious.
Plex has had its share of security incidents in the past, including a 2022 breach that forced a password reset for all users. While thereâ(TM)s no evidence this latest issue has been exploited in the wild, the best move is to patch now and ask questions later.
The update is available today, and if you havenâ(TM)t installed it yet, you should make it your next click.
Comment Re: The Network Effect can be a b**** (Score 1) 42
The average technical acumen of slashdot users has gone WAY downhill, huh?
Submission + - Ultra-high energy neutrino detected by KM3NeT
JoeRobe writes: Scientists associated with the Kilometer Cube Neutrino Telescope, or KM3NeT, have reported detection of an ultra-high energy neutrino deep in the Mediterranean sea. The neutrino reportedly had an energy of 120 million billion electron volts (1.2x10^17 eV, or 120 PeV). This is similar to the energy of ping-pong ball travelling ~5 m/s, but all that energy was packed into a single subatomic particle. According to the New York Times, "Here, squeezed into one of the tiniest flecks of matter in our universe, that energy amounted to tens of thousands of times more than what can be achieved by the world’s premier particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN."
According to the authors of the Nature paper, the direction of the neutrino "is compatible with the extension of the galactic interstellar medium", but they did not find any catalogued source that would produce such a high energy neutrino, within the Milky Way or from about 40 other galaxies that could be candidates.
Phys.org describes the impressive scale of the KM3NeT detector array:
"It is located at 3,450 m depth, about 80 km from the coast of Portopalo di Capo Passero, Sicily. Its 700 m high detection units (DUs) are anchored to the seabed and positioned about 100 m apart.
Every DU is equipped with 18 Digital Optical Modules (DOM) each containing 31 photomultipliers (PMTs). In its final configuration, ARCA will comprise 230 DUs. The data collected are transmitted via a submarine cable to the shore station at the INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud."
According to the authors of the Nature paper, the direction of the neutrino "is compatible with the extension of the galactic interstellar medium", but they did not find any catalogued source that would produce such a high energy neutrino, within the Milky Way or from about 40 other galaxies that could be candidates.
Phys.org describes the impressive scale of the KM3NeT detector array:
"It is located at 3,450 m depth, about 80 km from the coast of Portopalo di Capo Passero, Sicily. Its 700 m high detection units (DUs) are anchored to the seabed and positioned about 100 m apart.
Every DU is equipped with 18 Digital Optical Modules (DOM) each containing 31 photomultipliers (PMTs). In its final configuration, ARCA will comprise 230 DUs. The data collected are transmitted via a submarine cable to the shore station at the INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud."
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