I read elsewhere that because it was such a big and complex account there was some manual elements involved in the original accounts creation. It was that manually set configuration that eventually led to this clusterfuck and why it was a "one off" event - such things aren't done or allowed anymore. So my guess is that some engineer years ago either bypassed or failed to set some flag(s) that the normal tools would configure.

> What would cause black holes to merge
Simply gravity. Remember that dark matter is supposed to be 5 times more common than the normal visible matter (stars) we can see. Normal matter was uniformly distributed as well but that didn't stop star and galaxy formation. The same would apply to primordial black hole mergers. You are absolutely right about not seeing all stars merged into a single black hole. There is an open question how the supermassive black holes at the centre of every galaxy came to be. There hasn't been enough time (in theory) for black holes of that size to form.

The argument is given the amount of time since the big bang they would have merged to be a size where lensing should be visible. Also LIGO would detect those mergers more frequently than those happening within galaxy's. So they still need to explain why neither seems to true if their theory about DM being black holes is correct.

Yeah. I the app isn't the major problem here. It's the entire process. From what I've read many of the local managers were of an elderly nature and didn't even have their own smartphone. Kind of the first thing you would have thought anyone would check if you want everyone to use an app.

There's certainly a lot to like about podman *in principle*. Anything that can act as a drop-in docker replacement with better security, no daemon required and can run completely as a user process sounds great. How much traction it gets is hard to say at this stage.

I'm actually more interested in the buildah tool because personally being able to build OCI container images from a Dockerfile without having to have docker installed and running is a huge benefit. No more docker-inside-docker just to build my app, yes please.

Photons wouldn't explain the results because they can have any energy so wouldn't cause a correlation spike at any particular energy value. That would typically be explained by some unforeseen fault in the experiment, a problem with their methodology, some decay process or interaction they didn't factor into the calculations, a particle with that mass.

Because they have done this experiment twice now with completely new equipment and a different decay process and yet still see the same result would rule out the first explanation and almost certainly the second. Ever since the original result no one has found a fault in their calculations (yet) which is why all the media about a possible new boson particle.

However the question now remains why have no other experiments seen this same result. Is it because they haven't been looking in the right energy ranges? Is it really a new particle or just some new phenomenon we don't currently have an explanation for? As the saying goes, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. It will need verification from other experimental teams before anyone starts handing out Nobel Prizes.

Actually the G9x was the best gaming mouse Logitech ever produced. No nonsense, rock solid, adjustable weight, adjustable grip, and the usual adjustable profiles. It was so reliable, I still have two working after over 10 years, I almost suspect it was the reason Logitech stopped making it. Once you owned one you never needed to buy another gaming mouse again. I must not be the only person to think so as original boxed versions go for hundreds of dollars on Ebay.

> A system that requires more support is good business for them.

I don't think you understand how a Redhat subscription works. What sane business would go "our product is broken, please pay us even more money to fix it" ?

I'm curious if Redhat are regretting their decision on the early hard switch to systemd in RHEL7. I know for a fact their support system was flooded with issues from early adopters. I have friends in the industry still on RHEL6 as the upgrade to version 7 is a logistical nightmare and one who works at a reasonably large enterprise considering ditching Redhat entirely to go to a systemd-less alternative.

That faster boot time sure helps with servers that are only restarted once a year ...

Several years ago my Pointy-haired Boss was reading technology articles (bad idea) and caught the "Big Data" bug. It spread to our CTO, CIO and all department heads like wildfire. This led to our Development team being turned into NoSQL zombies who said words like "Hadoop", "Shark", "Spark" in response to any new product requirement. It was a glorious vision of a magical backend system that would take all our data from every platform, that would scale up and out forever, and could be asked any question and give us exactly the results we wanted all instantly. The fact no one in the entire company had ever used any of the technology before or the fact we didn't even have any Java experience to setup even the base Hadoop installation were just minor points not worth discussing. I would like to say I was the lone dissenting voice, well I was and said lets just stick to SQL, but even I got caught up in the hype eventually.

18 months later and a sickening amount of man-years wasted and contractor money spent with no usable products or services the conclusion was NoSQL isn't a good fit for our data or platform use case. So they all went back to standard MySQL and completed 90% of the delayed projects in under 4 weeks.

On the plus side management heads did roll. I have a new My Pointy-haired Boss and CTO. However they have now started to drop in the words "Microservices" and "Docker" into all discussions. I can see a new hype-train arriving shortly ...

Yeah, JMS mentions his politics here in a good obituary - http://www.epictimes.com/07/28...

So true, the green movement needs a new motto:

Stop Global Warming, Stop The Sun!

Agreed. What he meant to say was "BlackBerry will not comply with that sort of directive ... unless it makes economic sense to do so"

I'm so glad I now know that taking a selfie while swimming with sharks is not a good idea.

Huh? That's the best response I can give without using spoilers but I'm not sure you've read all 3 books.

As for the series I'm not sure I liked all of it, the later two books certainly dragged on slightly too long and probably should have been compressed into one novel. However the series as a whole, especially the first book, certainly know how to generate an incredibly creepy atmosphere with everyone lost in a strange world of paranoia and genuine weirdness.