Comment Re: Microfots never grows up (Score 1) 6
And they still insists on hiding the filename extensions even though that is a great way to hide malicious code.
Comment Re: Industrial scale (Score 1) 66
As long as the daily fix of caffeine is there.
Comment lol statism ai the cause of monopolies (Score -1) 37
Garbage regulations like IP create these behemoths. If you want freedom, stop regulating monopolies into existence.
Comment Re:In which 3rd world country can we store the was (Score 2) 80
The French nuclear industry produces 13,000 m2
You stack them on top of each other and end up with 1,850 cubic meters (m3) I would assume...
Comment Re: I don't want billionaires to pay their fair sh (Score -1) 281
Statism creates billionaires.
Comment Re:0.5 mm resolution (Score 1) 25
Also, they claim it is safe due to lack of radiation. But ultrasonic can fuck shit up too. I mean ultrasonic is currently used to break up kidney stones, shear and fragment DNA (for NGS prep).
Good points, but to be fair, ultrasonic is currently used to break up kidney stones because it is safe to use it to do so.
Submission + - Trump administration is U-turning on plan closing ocean monitoring system (cnn.com) 1
joshuark writes: The Trump administration is U-turning on its controversial decision to dismantle a critical ocean monitoring system that provides vital information on the health of the world’s oceans, after a bipartisan backlash in Congress.
The National Science Foundation, which funds the $386 million deep-ocean system, announced it would be pulling up buoys and other underwater equipment from arrays in late May. Thursday, NSF announced it will halt these plans and convene an expert panel to “identify a sustainable path” forward. The NSF’s about-face comes amid intense backlash to its original decision. Experts feared the US was taking eyes off the oceans as they endure a period of huge change, with off-the-chart temperatures fueling devastating storms and threatening fisheries.
Ocean scientists CNN previously spoke to said ditching the monitoring system was “foolish” and “counterintuitive.”
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle raised objections. “Dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative is supreme stupidity, costing taxpayers millions of dollars and destroying a vital source of climate data,” Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, a Democrat, wrote in a statement.
House Science Committee Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren, a Democrat from California, said the NSF’s reversal was welcome but cautioned it was not yet clear “how much damage they have already done.”
“This should have never happened,” she told CNN in a statement. “This pathetic scheme was illegal. NSF is governing via chaos and reactionary nonsense. Scientists and coastal economies that depend on this data deserve better.”
The NSF said it “remains committed to ocean sciences, to responsible stewardship of its research infrastructure and to supporting the stakeholders that depend on it.”
The National Science Foundation, which funds the $386 million deep-ocean system, announced it would be pulling up buoys and other underwater equipment from arrays in late May. Thursday, NSF announced it will halt these plans and convene an expert panel to “identify a sustainable path” forward. The NSF’s about-face comes amid intense backlash to its original decision. Experts feared the US was taking eyes off the oceans as they endure a period of huge change, with off-the-chart temperatures fueling devastating storms and threatening fisheries.
Ocean scientists CNN previously spoke to said ditching the monitoring system was “foolish” and “counterintuitive.”
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle raised objections. “Dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative is supreme stupidity, costing taxpayers millions of dollars and destroying a vital source of climate data,” Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, a Democrat, wrote in a statement.
House Science Committee Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren, a Democrat from California, said the NSF’s reversal was welcome but cautioned it was not yet clear “how much damage they have already done.”
“This should have never happened,” she told CNN in a statement. “This pathetic scheme was illegal. NSF is governing via chaos and reactionary nonsense. Scientists and coastal economies that depend on this data deserve better.”
The NSF said it “remains committed to ocean sciences, to responsible stewardship of its research infrastructure and to supporting the stakeholders that depend on it.”
Submission + - Meta lobbies Congress for protection from child-harm lawsuits (aol.com)
schwit1 writes: Meta Platforms has lobbied the U.S. Congress for legal immunity from child-harm claims tied to social media products such as Instagram, as it faces thousands of lawsuits from young users and their families, according to a source familiar with the matter and proposed legislative language reviewed by Reuters.
If adopted by lawmakers and passed into law as part of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) under consideration in the U.S. Senate, such a provision could undermine thousands of lawsuits against Meta and other online platforms over harms to children. Meta and Google's YouTube face a combined $6 million in damages after they lost the first case at trial early this year.
While legislators have given no indication of adopting the language, the lobbying effort shows the kind of legal protections Meta is seeking amid the biggest attempt to regulate online platforms in the U.S. since the 1990s.
If adopted by lawmakers and passed into law as part of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) under consideration in the U.S. Senate, such a provision could undermine thousands of lawsuits against Meta and other online platforms over harms to children. Meta and Google's YouTube face a combined $6 million in damages after they lost the first case at trial early this year.
While legislators have given no indication of adopting the language, the lobbying effort shows the kind of legal protections Meta is seeking amid the biggest attempt to regulate online platforms in the U.S. since the 1990s.
Comment Re:Based on AI flaws so far... (Score 1) 67
sounds completely compelling
That's not how engineers use AI agents any more. We don't just look at what it says — we have it prove that it's doing the right thing. We just look at the proof, so we don't have to look at all the details, nor blindly believe what they AI says. We also have adversarial reviews, which are typically more thorough (but less experience-based) than human reviews.
Comment Re:Sickening (Score 1) 315
He fired 100,000 government workers, putting many of them on government assistance for a while. That wasn't taking away people's money and prosperity?
He took political power away from millions. That's pretty much a zero-sum game right there. It's not just the wealth, it's using the wealth to influence the levers of power that control so many aspects of our lives.
Comment Re:Well then (Score 1) 38
Sell it on the open market and you'll profit.
Comment Re:Even a trillion dollars can't buy self esteem (Score 1) 315
Yeah, it's funny how those deluded by Trump think/pretend that they're the sane ones.
Comment Re:It's not really greed at that point (Score 1) 315
> When people like you get your way, that's how failed states happen.
No, failed states happen because of corruption. Like the USA is experiencing now.
Comment Re: Congrats to Mr. Musk (Score 1) 315
Wait, what?! Are you completely unaware of the Russian oligarchs?
Comment Re:it's so tiring... (Score 1) 58
Right, did you really expect Americans to elect a black woman?! We're in this situation because we have enough racists and misogynists that we're not able to elect a smart competent black woman over an exceptionally incompetent, corrupt buffoon. Anyone who says we're not a racist country is ignoring the plain facts — many would rather see the downfall of our nation than to hand over control to a black woman.
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