Comment China will beat the US (Score 2, Insightful) 94
NASA is so bureaucratic and heavy it just won't happen.
Comment Re:Misson to Mars (Score 0) 29
send a manned exploration crew there at some point in the near-to-mid future.
This is not possible, but I'm willing to be proven wrong.
This is not possible, but I'm willing to be proven wrong.
Comment Re:Pepperidge Farm remembers! (Score 1) 29
Assuming your numbers are correct, does anyone actually spend a week straight at these parks? Maybe one or two days, at most has been my experience.
Comment Re:Most people don't need Windows (Score 1) 86
You might like GNOME.
Comment Most people don't need Windows (Score 3, Interesting) 86
They should wipe the drive and install Mint, and take MS up on their promise for a refund, as stated in their license agreement between them and the purchaser.
Comment Re:What crisis? (Score 1) 169
Birth control is rare? Maybe in the Vatican.
Comment Dinner Party (Score 1) 49
I thought that died with Queen Victoria?
Comment Re:Why?! (Score 1) 57
Why not? If you're Russia why wouldn't you use this chip?
Comment Re:Why not a ban? (Score 1) 60
So much winning it's making my head spin.
Comment Re:Groundhog day... (Score 1) 59
The Communist Party always needs to maintain a controlling stake of the company and it's obvious why this is not palatable to foreign companies for a variety of reasons.
Comment If this data is as valuable as they claim (Score 1, Insightful) 43
Then they should offer to license and pay the creators for it.
Comment Re:Better name (Score 1) 36
Or Gay Porn Server.
Comment This happens all the time, everywhere. (Score 1) 36
Is this news because it happened "on a plane"?
Submission + - Zuckerberg faces questions over why superyacht reportedly declined to help ship (theguardian.com)
Alain Williams writes: Mark Zuckerberg has faced questions over why a small cruise ship in south-east Alaska rescued a stranded skiff and its crew when his 387ft superyacht had been closer.
The Silicon Valley billionaire’s yacht, worth a reported $300m, is said to have “repeatedly” declined to assist when a nearby boat called for help last week.
Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook and Instagram owner Meta Platforms, was not on board at the time, a spokesperson told Forbes.
When a nearby 21ft skiff ran out of fuel between Petersburg and Juneau, the Alaska Beacon reported operators of a cruise ship that was further away than Zuckerberg’s yacht came to the rescue.
“I’m on a small-ship Alaska cruise with my son,” a passenger on the UnCruise Adventures ship Wilderness Legacy posted on Bluesky.
“Our boat rescued a stranded vessel last night and apparently we did that after the Coast Guard radioed Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht – which was closer – and they repeatedly refused to respond. (There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this).”
The Silicon Valley billionaire’s yacht, worth a reported $300m, is said to have “repeatedly” declined to assist when a nearby boat called for help last week.
Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook and Instagram owner Meta Platforms, was not on board at the time, a spokesperson told Forbes.
When a nearby 21ft skiff ran out of fuel between Petersburg and Juneau, the Alaska Beacon reported operators of a cruise ship that was further away than Zuckerberg’s yacht came to the rescue.
“I’m on a small-ship Alaska cruise with my son,” a passenger on the UnCruise Adventures ship Wilderness Legacy posted on Bluesky.
“Our boat rescued a stranded vessel last night and apparently we did that after the Coast Guard radioed Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht – which was closer – and they repeatedly refused to respond. (There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this).”
Submission + - Reddit Bans 11-Year Account For Announcing a GPL Game, stress testing EU DSA (reddit.com) 3
DF5JT writes: On July 26 I posted a single announcement in r/backgammon: GNU Backgammon for Android, GPLv3, the first standalone backgammon engine on F-Droid. Reddit's spam filter removed the post and permanently banned my 11-year, 30,000-karma account — the result is publicly visible at reddit.com/user/OE1FEU. To this day Reddit has given no reason whatsoever, although Article 17 of the EU's Digital Services Act makes a statement of reasons mandatory. The only appeal channel is a 250-character web form that sends no confirmation and never answered; Reddit's own help text admits: "you may not have received a message to your inbox." A GDPR export of 11 years of data came to 7.2 MB, every post truncated after a few lines, with zero data about the ban decision. So I spent one day escalating through every mechanism the EU provides: certified out-of-court dispute settlement at Austria's RTR, complaints with the Austrian and Dutch Digital Services Coordinators, the data protection authority (citing the ECJ's SCHUFA ruling on automated decisions), noyb, and Austria's consumer association. Bonus finding: the European Commission's DSA Transparency Database contains 14,067 Reddit statements of reasons for that week — none for my ban — and the Commission's own feedback form limits reports to 500 characters and crashed with a 500 Server Error. Is the DSA enforceable for ordinary users, or just paperwork?
