Comment Re:About damn time (Score 1) 65
Bitcoin doesn't generally provide perverse incentives for people to manipulate political events or assassinate political leaders so they can win bets online.
Comment "the race car flew down the 2.8-mile runway" (Score 3, Funny) 23
So, it was the only vehicle on the course and only had to travell in a straight line?
I mean... what was actually being demonstrated here? That it knew how to shift?
Comment Musk might be evil but OpenAI is sleazy. (Score 2) 45
OpenAI appears to have been completely sucked in by greed and just shouldn’t be allowed to stop being a non-profit.
Comment If it’s going to take 4 years to replace the (Score 1) 11
If it’s going to take 4 years to replace the trees lost in a single hurricane season this isn’t going to go well.
Comment Re:I mean this was inevitable. (Score 1) 71
My understanding is that there's a contract to design an updated version but I don't think they've actually ordered any new motors.
Submission + - MOND isn't dead yet: Paper argues that gravity changes at very low accelerations 6
porkchop_d_clown writes: MOND — MOdified Newtonian Dynamics is a hypothesis that Newton's law of gravity is incorrect under some conditions. Now a paper published at https://iopscience.iop.org/art... (and summarized at https://phys.org/news/2024-01-...) claims that a study does indeed show that pairs of widely separated binary stars do show a deviation from Newton's Second Law, arguing that, at very low levels, gravity is stronger than the law predicts.
Comment I mean this was inevitable. (Score 1) 71
The SLS is designed to use leftover Shuttle motors and there aren't enough of them, and several parts of the project are far behind schedule.
And now Peregrine failed. That happens, but it's certainly embarrassing considering how many countries have planted probes on the moon in recent years.
Submission + - United and Alaska find loose parts on Boeing 737 Max 9 door plugs (theguardian.com)
UnknowingFool writes: Following the incident on Alaska Airlines 1282 on Friday where a door plug blew off mid-flight, the FAA ordered all Boeing 737 Max 9 airplanes to be grounded and the door plugs to be inspected. Both United Airlines and Alaska Airlines have reported finding loose parts on their planes with United specifically listing "bolts” where Alaska only referring to "hardware". Both airlines have repaired the situation and put the planes back into service. It remains to be answered why the parts were loose and what further issues could arise.
Comment He once got me a promotion, maybe. (Score 1) 96
I once collected a lot of cred and, possibly, a later promotion for implementing one of his algorithms to improve an application's performance in the early 90s. I will never forget the value of partially ordered heaps!
Comment Re:For a good cause... ? (Score 1) 85
It's not about the color of the bubble, it's about all the extra features that iMessage supports but SMS doesn't.
Comment Re: What is this brouhaha about? (Score 1) 85
> So, someone used an "exploit" to make a closed protocol interoperable, the interoperability was shut down.
What "protocol interoperability" are you talking about? Beeper doesn't make Android SMS apps work with iMessage, Beeper is a proprietary application that they want to charge money for - an application that used a security hole to access Apple's iMessage servers without a valid account.
Comment Re:What is this brouhaha about? (Score 1) 85
> Beeper adds a compatibility layer so that iMessage works on Android or whatever. Apple don't like that.
No, there is no "compatibility layer". Beeper found a way to hack Apple's messaging servers so that Android phones could pretend to be iPhones.
Comment A pity but... (Score 2) 40
even when I was a kid I thought it was just fluff. Omni and (later) Discover were much better.
Comment Re: Counterpoint.. (Score 1) 160
You posted links reporting that Apple has fixed security flaws as proof that Apple has multiple unpatched security flaws?
How does that work, exactly?
Comment Re:The whining will continue no matter what (Score 3) 241
You need to read that poll again.
Permanent daylight-saving time (later sunrises and sunsets): 50%,
Permanent standard time (earlier sunrises and sunsets): 31%,
No preference: 12%,
Not sure: 7%,
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