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Google Updates Chrome Web Store Review Process and Sets New Extension Code Requirements (venturebeat.com) 26

Google is finally turning its attention to Chrome Web Store. On Monday, the company announced a range of big changes that would make the online store more secure for customers. From a report: The first two are happening now: Developers are being subjected to a more rigorous review process, and the Chrome Web Store no longer accepts obfuscated JavaScript files. In a couple of weeks, Chrome users will get the option to restrict host access for their extensions. And in 2019, two more changes will take effect: Chrome Web Store developer accounts will require 2-step verification, and Google will introduce manifest version 3 of the extensions platform.

[...] Effective today, extensions that request powerful permissions will be subject to additional compliance review. Google doesn't offer much detail here, but it does say your extension's permissions should be as narrowly scoped as possible and all your code should be included directly in the extension package to minimize review time. If your extension uses remotely hosted code, Google will also be taking a closer look (and will monitor on an ongoing basis).

Mars

4-Billion-Pixel Panorama View From Curiosity Rover 101

A reader points out that there is a great new panorama made from shots from the Curiosity Rover. "Sweep your gaze around Gale Crater on Mars, where NASA's Curiosity rover is currently exploring, with this 4-billion-pixel panorama stitched together from 295 images. ...The entire image stretches 90,000 by 45,000 pixels and uses pictures taken by the rover's two MastCams. The best way to enjoy it is to go into fullscreen mode and slowly soak up the scenery — from the distant high edges of the crater to the enormous and looming Mount Sharp, the rover's eventual destination."

Comment Re:Gasoline-like energy density (Score 1) 582

Electric charging stations are not the size of gas stations. They are the size of a parking meter.

More like the size of a parking lot, no? (Assuming we're talking about long-distance travelers with mostly depleted batteries, not commuters or those running errands who can top off at the grocery store while they shop)

Comment Re:Not "linearly" (Score 1) 582

The surface area issue only comes into play with alternating current - it's called the Skin Effect. The higher the frequency, the thinner the area that the current travels on. According to the linked Wikipedia article, the skin effect at 60Hz (North American household power) is 8.5mm deep. I would take this to mean that the entirety of a 17mm think wire would carry current, but an 18mm thick wire would have a small part at the core that wasn't carrying current. The way to get around this is by using Litz wire. Click the link for more fun facts!

Comment Re:Astronomers are so funny (Score 1) 302

F=(-m)(-a)

F=(-m)(-a)
F=-1*(-m)(a)
-1*F=(-m)(a)
-F=(-m)(a)

Suggesting that the more force you exert on our hypothetical negatively-massed object, the slower it accelerates. Alternately, merely breathing on it should have the affect of sending it flying away from you at something approaching the speed of light.

Or, one could interpret the "-F" term to mean that we have to exert "negative force" on our object in order to accelerate it. Which would suggest that the object responds in the opposite direction to the force applied - pushing on it causes it to accelerate towards the direction that the push came from, and pulling on it causes it to accelerate away from the direction of the pull. Assume that the old Newtonian saw RE equal and opposite reactions applies to our exotic matter, and that we don't lose anything to deforming or heating it. We now have an immovable mass.

This has indeed been fun. Absurd, but fun!

Comment Re:Holy Hell that's large (Score 1) 107

It's hard to be "turbulent" when there is only one molecule in flight, in a vacuum. I believe that the idea here is that although the molecule can only pass through one of the slits in the grating, it behaves as if it passed through all of the slits simultaneously and interfered with itself on the way through, thereby affecting the probability of where it strikes the detector.

IANA physicist, tho.

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