Comment Wow. (Score 1) 65
In other news, water is wet.
Submission + - Delivery robot spontaneously bursts into flames in California (theverge.com)
AmiMoJo writes: An autonomous food delivery robot burst into flames on a Berkeley, California walkway on Friday. Kiwi, the startup that makes and manages the one hundred-strong fleet of robots, issued a statement to say that the fire was quickly extinguished by a passerby before the city’s fire department arrived and doused the machine in foam. No one was harmed as a result of the incident. Kiwi said that it believed the fire was caused by human error, when a faulty battery was manually inserted into the robot.
Submission + - Switzerland votes to abandon nuclear power in favor of renewables
bsolar writes: Swiss voters approved a new energy strategy proposed by the government. Under this new policy no new nuclear power plant will be built and the 5 existing nuclear power plants will continue operating and will be shut down at the end of their operating life (expected to last about 20-30 years). The plan is to offset the missing nuclear energy production by renewables and lower energy consumption.
Comment Off by a little bit... (Score 3, Informative) 149
The Krebsonline DDoS was 600gbits+, not megabits.
Comment Re:Is this News? (Score 1) 271
Adblock isn't, by default at least. I saw it here once on my phone and then on my laptop, both running firefox with adblock.
Comment Re:Posting from Cox in Irvine, CA (Score 1) 271
Using Google DNS & L3 DNS here (Gulf Coast). It doesn't matter what DNS provider you use, I don't think, it hits you anyway. I don't think the west coast is affected by the outage, though. At least, that's what Cox says.
Comment Re:Verizon (Score 1) 375
Depends on your location.
This.
Verizon has been the strongest as far as signal and speed form my experience.
It's the exact opposite in southern (don't know about northern) Louisiana.
Lafayette region here, no problems with signal...voice/3g/4g all work fine.
Comment Re:Story is wrong: (Score 2) 455
She ain't floating, though ;)
Comment Bordernode.com (Score 1) 375
I use http://bordernode.com/ Cheap (they have a 30% off coupon right now), works...etc etc.. What's not to love? I have their cheapest plan w/ the gbit upgrade, use it for an IRC server. DDoS-filtered, un-metered inbound bandwidth, ('only' 500gb outbound) can't really complain for $20-something a month.
Comment Wow, I didn't know (Score 1) 363
California had an economy; I thought they just had a clusterfuck.
Comment Re:The price is actually pretty nice (Score 4, Informative) 249
I know nothing about it, but my guess is that it's only 1 Gbps to the router room of the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga. From there it presumably rides their T1 to the Internet. (Or whatever they have.) Also, it's probably 1 Gbps download / 128 Kbps upload.
It's symmetrical. https://epbfi.com/you-pick/#/fi-speed-internet-1000
Comment Re:It's always refreshing (Score 1) 1090
Dude, it's "The Learning Channel." They don't promise what you'll learn. You learn what not to be, how not to act, how many kids not to have, and good reasons not to get limbs lopped off. If it weren't for TLC I'd be a whiny bitch with 20 kids, 1 arm, no legs, and weigh 1/2 ton. Thank god TLC is there for me. Without god I don't know what I'd do.
TLC stopped being 'The Learning Channel' about a decade ago. Now it's just TLC, doesn't mean squat.
Comment Re:Bad doggie, facebook. (Score 1) 2
. And to think, here I thought you were trying to pick up your privacy scores.
hahaha...yeah right.
Comment Re:Is the AI any better? (Score 1) 107
....and I'm wasting heaps of cash on something that just isn't worth it
Like building and maintaining a steam line in 2040?
Comment Re:Nothing new (Score 1) 222
F-4 !=F-14, which is what the GP was referring to
