Comment Re:Could we be any more stupid? (Score 1) 56
Those Wuhan scientists needed something to do after COVID.
Rand Paul and Republicans in Congress too.
Comment Re:oops (Score 1) 56
we're going to accidentally Andromeda Strain ourselves.
That or Helix
Comment Re:Side effects (Score 1) 188
RFK Jr must be in a hell of a pickle, he wants to say "vaccine baaaaaad" but flu is a big killer of the elderly so it's literally killing his voter base and here is an effective preventer of that death.
And then there's this admission, just a few days ago. RFK Jr tells US families to vaccinate children against measles amid outbreak
The health secretary replied: “Parents should get their children vaccinated for measles. A measles vaccine is effective, it stops measles in about 97% of the cases. People should get vaccinated.”
Later in the interview he added that people should also get the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, the main protection against the disease that has been a particular target of the anti-vaccination movement.
Comment Age range (sigh) (Score 1) 188
available this fall for adults ages 50 to 64 and those 65 and older,
Or, simply, "50 and older" -- unless "those 65 and older" aren't considered "adults".
Comment Re:What is this TV of which you speak? (Score 1) 114
I understand the reasoning behind wanting the limit, but does TV actually matter anymore?
The limitations apply to television, radio and print media collectively. From Ownership:
Based on authority granted by Congress, the FCC sets limits on the number of broadcast stations (radio and TV stations) an entity may own, and on the common ownership of broadcast stations and newspapers.
Comment Re:Another democracy safeguard dismantled (Score 1) 114
Another democracy safeguard dismantled
Not dismantled (yet anyway), but certainly another ignored by this administration. I imagine this will get challenged in court and the FCC will probably lose, especially as the limit was explicitly specified in a statue passed by Congress. The (currently) republican-controlled congress could change this before the Paramount case gets into court, but that's a long shot, unless they squeeze it into some unrelated must-pass bill.
Comment Skip the photos (Score 1) 25
Just look at the raw data directly.
Comment And apparently added an app. (Score 4, Informative) 226
The Reddit post said it also added an app to re-watch the ad later, meaning they installed something on the vehicle w/o the owner's permission. Not to nitpick, but that's not cool. I bitched at my dealership once when they put license plate frames on my car, with their name on them, w/o telling me when I dropped it off for service. They claimed it was a promotional thing. I said so... you installed something on my car without my permission? They don't do that anymore.
Comment Re:Disconnecting the car? (Score 4, Interesting) 226
I'm still rocking my 2010 Honda Civic
2001 Honda Civic Ex (136k miles) and 2002 CR-V Ex (62k miles) here, both 5-spd manuals and run great. Keeping them as long as I can.
Comment So ... (Score 2) 46
Because the fetch is issued by the operating system's credential service rather than by Safari, it never enters Private Relay's proxied path. The destination server sees the device's real IP address either way,"
A server is seeing someone trying to authenticate from one IP address and accepting credentials from a different IP address?
[Morty Smith voice] "Coolsies"
Comment So much for SpaceX Autopilot Mode ... (Score 5, Funny) 81
SpaceX Rocket Crash Into the Moon
Incident Report: "Mr. Musk remarked: That Moon came out of nowhere."
Comment Re:"EA Ruins Things"... (Score 4, Insightful) 47
Now complete with garbage misogyny, antisemitic genocidal nutbaggery, and the rest of the horrible baggage of the Saudi Terrorist Crime Family.
Ya, but then the Trump family connection
Comment Torn between two thoughts (Score 1) 209
(a) There's a sucker born every minute.
(b) A fool and his money are soon parted.
To be fair, I've thought this about all Trump schemes and fund raising. Perhaps some new laws will result from his tenure to prevent future president from the kinds of self-dealing he's done while in office, and SCOTUS will uphold them, though I'm dubious they'll actually be needed (as much) going forward.
Comment Damn dyslexia (Score 4, Funny) 56
Tokenmaxxing Is Not What We Are Optimizing For
I was half way through re-reading The Two Tower - (*sigh*)
Comment uh-huh (Score 1) 38
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took time to tout a dashboard he personally created using AI from a Morgan Stanley analyst's PDF research report, which suggested a rosy payback for the so-called MAG7's ('Magnificent 7' companies) massive capital expenditures on AI (to which Nadella later added a "not financial advice" disclaimer).
He wouldn't have touted or even created this dashboard if the report hadn't suggest a rosy payback. The jury is still out on that prediction.
