Comment Re:7% change in Genes (Score 1) 43
A chimp shares 96% of our DNA. a cat 90%. a banana 60%.
Comment Re:Leaving artifacts for future generations (Score 2) 157
kind of like the rolling stone from Indiana Jones - but you cant see it, it's delayed in time and it will kill everything that you come into contact with as well.
When was the last time we did not open a tomb which had warning signs with curses on it? Oh yeah, never.
Comment dune buggy (Score 1) 48
Makes me want to drive around there in a dune buggy.
Comment Re:Damnit.. THIS IS A BINARY ISSUE! (Score 1) 447
but who would attempt to build this secure system? the experts? the same experts who say it is stupid and cant be done? oh, wait....
Comment Re:Please enjoy my MacOS version, too... apk (Score 1) 75
I truly believe slashdot should auto-ban any user who makes a comment with the string " apk" in it. Just look at the fucking spam all over this page. jesus christ.
Comment Re:Background Noise? (Score 2) 79
If I didn't have the music to drown them out, the only creative work I would do would involve figuring out how to kill them all.
I usually don't believe in it, but I think you might be my soulmate.
Comment Re:Racist? (Score 1) 164
it definitely allows for some interesting exchanges with companies - it is always fun to ask companies for the information they stored about you under GDPR. Depending on their response you also get a feel about how often they have been asked this before. Some send "standard"-looking forms with your data, some send you weird copy-and-paste excel looking files.
Comment Re:Driving from China to Seattle (Score 1) 182
Same here. I actually thought it was a pretty cool beginning. The China thing was weird, but then again, the excerpt ends in the middle of the thought process. Whatever comes next could clarify and explain where it leads.
Submission + - GPS uses 10 bits to store the week. That means it runs out April 6, 2019 (theregister.co.uk)
Zorro writes: Nav gadgets will be Properly Screwed if you don't or can't update firmware.
Older satnavs and such devices won't be able to use America's Global Positioning System properly after April 6 unless they've been suitably updated or designed to handle a looming epoch rollover.
GPS signals from satellites include a timestamp, needed in part to calculate one's location, that stores the week number using ten binary bits. That means the week number can have 210 or 1,024 integer values, counting from zero to 1,023 in this case. Every 1,024 weeks, or roughly every 20 years, the counter rolls over from 1,023 to zero.
The first Saturday in April will mark the end of the 1,024th week, after which the counter will spill over from 1,023 to zero. The last time the week number overflowed like this was in 1999, nearly two decades on from the first epoch in January 1980.
Older satnavs and such devices won't be able to use America's Global Positioning System properly after April 6 unless they've been suitably updated or designed to handle a looming epoch rollover.
GPS signals from satellites include a timestamp, needed in part to calculate one's location, that stores the week number using ten binary bits. That means the week number can have 210 or 1,024 integer values, counting from zero to 1,023 in this case. Every 1,024 weeks, or roughly every 20 years, the counter rolls over from 1,023 to zero.
The first Saturday in April will mark the end of the 1,024th week, after which the counter will spill over from 1,023 to zero. The last time the week number overflowed like this was in 1999, nearly two decades on from the first epoch in January 1980.
Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Is It Ethical To Purchase Electronics Products Made In China?
dryriver writes: A lot of people seem to think "Its OK to buy electronics made in China. We get to buy products considerably cheaper than we otherwise would, and China by all accounts is growing and developing and modernizing as a nation due to all the cool stuff they now make for the world." There is only one problem with that reasoning. 21st Century China has an attrocious human rights record, and almost all human rights watchdogs report that China is becoming more and more repressive each year. Freedom House put it this way in 2018: "It’s worth noting that, in its attitude toward political dissent, the Chinese Communist Party has proven much harsher than the old Soviet regime of the Brezhnev era. Modern Chinese sentences are longer, the prospects for early release are far worse, and the Chinese authorities are generally unmoved by pleas for leniency from foreign diplomats." Basically, consumer Dollars from around the world are not gradually creating a gentler, freer, more prosperous and more modern China at all. They are making the Chinese Communist Party richer, stronger, bolder and more aggressive and repressive in every respect. To the question: Knowing what the human rights situation is in China, and that consumer Dollars and Euros flowing into the country from abroad is making things worse, not better, is it at all ethical to buy electronics or IT products manufactured in China?
Comment Re:I love predictably thoughtless "problem solvers (Score 1) 48
It is easy. Just mine some asteroids and....
I have a feeling that the attitude "just mine some asteroids" might be a wee bit more complicated in practice. But I like the idea of working on an asterioid mining ship.
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