Comment Double density (Score 1) 38
Meanwhile in Britain, the robots we encounter are pretty thick too.
Comment Re:But does it run Linux? (Score 1) 52
Like with the other AMD Ryzen 9000 series processors and the AMD EPYC 9005 server parts, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D was working without issue on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Any modern Linux distribution should basically be in good shape for the AMD Ryzen 9000 series processors. The one recent caveat is needing Linux 6.12+ for the AMD Zen 5 CPU power reporting if that is important to you otherwise it's an easy one-liner patch to backport.
Comment Re:Careful With That Axe, Eugene (Score 1) 107
Yes, concrete lampposts were real. Oh, and... I forgot the link... (side B is better)
You got me on the handles
Either way: dangerous future for bystanders amidst all those swingers!
Comment Careful With That Axe, Eugene (Score 3, Funny) 107
Axes won't work:
a) Electrocution risk for the chopper
b) Passers-by may get Brained By Falling Masonry
Very bad idea.
Comment Mod parent up (Score 1) 31
Mod parent up, and grandparent down as misinformed
Comment "...an entire field of bright rocks..." (Score 1) 25
"Follow the yellow brick road!"
Comment World Service interview with David Shoebridge (Score 1) 260
Good interview addressing this 1m23s into this BBC World Service radio programme with New South Wales Senator David Shoebridge:
Newsday - Julian Assange leaves the UK after being freed in US plea deal
Julian Assange has reached a plea agreement to end the United States' long-running legal case against him. He has left prison in the United Kingdom and is currently on a plane. We'll talk to one Australian politician who has supported him.
Submission + - UK Considers Banning Smartphone Sales To Children Under 16 (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Ministers are considering banning the sale of smartphones to children under the age of 16 after a number of polls have shown significant public support for such a curb. The government issued guidance on the use of mobile phones in English schools two months ago, but other curbs are said to have been considered to better protect children after a number of campaigns. [...] A March survey by Parentkind, of 2,496 parents of school-age children in England, found 58% of parents believe the government should ban smartphones for under-16s. It also found more than four in five parents said they felt smartphones were “harmful” to children and young people.
Another survey by More in Common revealed 64% of people thought that a ban on selling smartphones to under-16s would be a good idea, compared with 20% who said it was a bad idea. The curb was even popular among 2019 Tory voters, according to the thinktank, which found 72% backed a ban, as did 61% of Labour voters. But the thought of another ban has left some Conservatives uneasy. One Tory government source described the idea as "out of touch," noting: “It’s not the government’s role to step in and microparent; we’re meant to make parents more aware of the powers they have like restrictions on websites, apps and even the use of parental control apps." They said only in extreme cases could the government “parent better than actual parents and guardians."
Another survey by More in Common revealed 64% of people thought that a ban on selling smartphones to under-16s would be a good idea, compared with 20% who said it was a bad idea. The curb was even popular among 2019 Tory voters, according to the thinktank, which found 72% backed a ban, as did 61% of Labour voters. But the thought of another ban has left some Conservatives uneasy. One Tory government source described the idea as "out of touch," noting: “It’s not the government’s role to step in and microparent; we’re meant to make parents more aware of the powers they have like restrictions on websites, apps and even the use of parental control apps." They said only in extreme cases could the government “parent better than actual parents and guardians."
Comment Re:Isle of Road information (Score 1) 57
Came here to say this. SABRE is great, and their forums too.
Wikipedia could learn a good lesson from their Article Rating system
which marks pages from 0 to 5 according to various quality criteria. If only more websites had such a grading system, it might just take off... hehe :-)
As for Wikipedia
I can see the need for "standards" to adhere to, but surely hiding lesser articles behind quality levels is better than the NPP deleting articles/edits outright that people have spent hours/weeks creating, that non-NPP readers may still find useful. Let readers choose.
Submission + - French Court Issues Damages Award for Violation of GPL (heathermeeker.com)
AmiMoJo writes: On February 14, 2024, the Court of Appeal of Paris issued an order stating that Orange, a major French telecom provider, had infringed the copyight of Entr’Ouvert’s Lasso software and violated the GPL, ordering Orange to pay €500,000 in compensatory damages and €150,000 for moral damages. This case has been ongoing for many years. Entr’ouvert is the publisher of Lasso, a reference library for the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) protocol, an open standard for identity providers to authenticate users and pass authentication tokens to online services. This is the open protocol that enables single sign-on (SSO). The Lasso product is dual licensed by Entr’Ouvert under GPL or commercial licenses.
Comment Fixed that for you (Score 1) 51
Just a few months before developing the device, Alu and his colleagues observed more surprising behavior
Comment Re: peating signals (Score 1) 29
For all you know there may even be a signal which repeats every decade, and unless you check your old and new data, you may not even notice it.
What do you think BBC sitcoms are?
Submission + - Freenet 2023: A drop-in decentralized replacement for the world wide web
Sanity writes: Freenet, a familiar name to Slashdot readers for over 23 years, has undergone a radical transformation: Freenet 2023, or "Locutus". While the original Freenet was like a decentralized hard drive, the new Freenet is like a full decentralized computer, allowing the creation of entirely decentralized services like messaging, group chat, search, social networking, among others. The new Freenet is implemented in Rust and designed for efficiency, flexibility, and transparency to the end user.
Submission + - Fusion's role in fighting climate change (thebulletin.org)
DanDrollette writes: One way to help eliminate carbon emissions and thereby fight global warming may be to exploit fusion, the energy source of the sun and stars.
Submission + - Iodine instead of Xenon for Ion Drives (newscientist.com)
Tesseractic writes: Chen Ly over at New Scientist reports on a Nature article on ion drives:
https://www.nature.com/article...
Dmytro Rafalskyi at ThrustMe, a space technology company based in France, and his colleagues have developed an electric propulsion system that uses iodine. They operated a small satellite and performed successful manoeuvres using the drive.
https://www.nature.com/article...
Dmytro Rafalskyi at ThrustMe, a space technology company based in France, and his colleagues have developed an electric propulsion system that uses iodine. They operated a small satellite and performed successful manoeuvres using the drive.
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