Comment Re: US needs to do the same (Score 1) 25
Sure many parents would if they could find enough time instead of having their eyes glued to their phones screen.
Submission + - Gil Gerard, Star of TV Series 'Buck Rogers,' Dead at 82 (nytimes.com)
joshuark writes: Actor Gil Gerard is dead at eighty-two. He was best known for playing the title character in “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century,” which ran on NBC from 1979 to 1981. His death, from cancer, was announced in a social media post by his wife, Janet Gerard. Mr. Gerard was approached in the late 1970s to play the role of William “Buck” Rogers, which was based on a character in a comic strip that began running in newspapers in 1929 and that was later adapted for radio and film. At first, he wasn’t interested.
After turning down the part twice, his agent asked him to at least read the script before he passed on the project.
“So I read it, and I said, ‘Well, yeah, I like the character,’” he said. “Got a good sense of humor. It’s kind of fun.” Mr. Gerard signed onto the project, a film that would later become the pilot for “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century,” which ran on NBC for two seasons, from 1979 to 1981. “I thought the character had a sense of reality about him,” Mr. Gerard said in 2017. “He wasn’t a stiff kind of a guy. He was a guy who could solve problems on his feet, and he wasn’t a superhero.”
In addition to his wife, he is survived by his son, Gib, whom he had with his first wife, the actor Connie Sellecca.
When announcing his death, Ms. Gerard also posted a note that Mr. Gerard had recently written on social media.
“If you are reading this, then Janet has posted it as I asked her to,” it read. “My life has been an amazing journey. The opportunities I’ve had, the people I’ve met and the love I have given and received have made my 82 years on the planet deeply satisfying.”
“Don’t waste your time on anything that doesn’t thrill you or bring you love,” he added. “See you out somewhere in the cosmos.”
After turning down the part twice, his agent asked him to at least read the script before he passed on the project.
“So I read it, and I said, ‘Well, yeah, I like the character,’” he said. “Got a good sense of humor. It’s kind of fun.” Mr. Gerard signed onto the project, a film that would later become the pilot for “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century,” which ran on NBC for two seasons, from 1979 to 1981. “I thought the character had a sense of reality about him,” Mr. Gerard said in 2017. “He wasn’t a stiff kind of a guy. He was a guy who could solve problems on his feet, and he wasn’t a superhero.”
In addition to his wife, he is survived by his son, Gib, whom he had with his first wife, the actor Connie Sellecca.
When announcing his death, Ms. Gerard also posted a note that Mr. Gerard had recently written on social media.
“If you are reading this, then Janet has posted it as I asked her to,” it read. “My life has been an amazing journey. The opportunities I’ve had, the people I’ve met and the love I have given and received have made my 82 years on the planet deeply satisfying.”
“Don’t waste your time on anything that doesn’t thrill you or bring you love,” he added. “See you out somewhere in the cosmos.”
Comment Re:Where's the data dump? (Score 2) 17
Disney hasn't yet claimed copyright on 600 year old records? They should be OK for a while before the laws are updated to include these military records?
Submission + - Facebook admits it is the masturbation epicenter of the world (torrentfreak.com)
Mr. Dollar Ton writes: Meta is using a classic BitTorrent defense in its legal battle with adult film producer Strike 3 Holdings. In its motion to dismiss, the tech company argues that IP-address evidence is insufficient to prove who the infringer is. Meta further counters that the "sporadic" downloads on its corporate network began years before its relevant AI research started. Instead of AI training, Meta argues the activity was likely just for "private personal use"
Submission + - Your In-Store Whole Foods Purchases Are Now Listed In Your Amazon Account
FairAndUnbalanced writes: In what could be an un-welcome surprise to those sharing their Amazon Prime cards with spouses or others, Amazon is now displaying your in-store Whole Foods purchases under the "Your Orders" section of the associated Amazon.com account. Any in-store purchases that you made in Whole Foods stores using your Amazon Prime credit card, or by scanning the QR code from the Whole Foods app, show up, and all in-store purchases as far back as mid-2020 are displayed.
There appears to be no press release or formal announcement about this change.
There appears to be no press release or formal announcement about this change.
Comment Can hear the pointy nose boss (Score 3, Funny) 52
You can so hear the echos of a satellite engineer doing his job for 40 years quietly without supervision. Can see him issuing his command secretly because he knows doing it officially would take too long and result in too many pointless meetings.
I salute you satellite engineer. Thank you.
Comment Is Slashdot social media? (Score 2) 112
What is social media? When is a site not social media? I imagine calling Reddit social media is reasonable. What's the difference between Slashdot and Reddit, besides the number of users?
Would a 16 year old be allowed to view Reddit to research topics but not be allowed to create an account or login?
Comment Competition is always good. (Score 1) 32
Now that Xbox is lost in the forest and Nintendo has carved out a nice niche in the market with their own market share, Sony can be Sony and raise prices because... where else you going to go for your console hit?
Come on Microsoft, upend the market again and give Sony motivation to at least try coming out with something competitive instead of this clear money grab.
Submission + - The 2024 Hugo Awards (thehugoawards.org)
Dave Knott writes: After once again being plagued by controversy, this time due to a thwarted ballot-stuffing campaign, the 2024 Hugo Awards have been awarded at the 2024 World Science Fiction Convention.
This year's winners are:
* Best Novel: Some Desperate Glory, by Emily Tesh
* Best Novella: Thornhedge, by T. Kingfisher
* Best Novelette: “The Year Without Sunshine”, by Naomi Kritzer
* Best Short Story: “Better Living Through Algorithms”, by Naomi Kritzer
* Best Series: Imperial Radch, by Ann Leckie
* Best Graphic Story or Comic: Saga, Vol. 11, written by Brian K. Vaughan, art by Fiona Staples
* Best Related Work: A City on Mars, by Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith
* Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, screenplay by John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein and Michael Gilio, directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein
* Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: The Last of Us: “Long, Long Time”, written by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, directed by Peter Hoar
* Best Game or Interactive Work: Baldur’s Gate 3, produced by Larian Studios
* Best Editor Short Form: Neil Clarke
* Best Editor Long Form: Ruoxi Chen
* Best Professional Artist: Rovina Cai
* Best Semiprozine: Strange Horizons, by the Strange Horizons Editorial Collective
* Best Fanzine: Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together, editors Roseanna Pendlebury, Arturo Serrano, Paul Weimer; senior editors Joe Sherry, Adri Joy, G. Brown, Vance Kotrla
* Best Fancast: Octothorpe, by John Coxon, Alison Scott, and Liz Batty
* Best Fan Writer: Paul Weimer
* Best Fan Artist: Laya Rose
* Lodestar Award for Best YA Book: To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose
* Astounding Award for Best New Writer: Xiran Jay Zhao
This year's winners are:
* Best Novel: Some Desperate Glory, by Emily Tesh
* Best Novella: Thornhedge, by T. Kingfisher
* Best Novelette: “The Year Without Sunshine”, by Naomi Kritzer
* Best Short Story: “Better Living Through Algorithms”, by Naomi Kritzer
* Best Series: Imperial Radch, by Ann Leckie
* Best Graphic Story or Comic: Saga, Vol. 11, written by Brian K. Vaughan, art by Fiona Staples
* Best Related Work: A City on Mars, by Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith
* Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, screenplay by John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein and Michael Gilio, directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein
* Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: The Last of Us: “Long, Long Time”, written by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, directed by Peter Hoar
* Best Game or Interactive Work: Baldur’s Gate 3, produced by Larian Studios
* Best Editor Short Form: Neil Clarke
* Best Editor Long Form: Ruoxi Chen
* Best Professional Artist: Rovina Cai
* Best Semiprozine: Strange Horizons, by the Strange Horizons Editorial Collective
* Best Fanzine: Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together, editors Roseanna Pendlebury, Arturo Serrano, Paul Weimer; senior editors Joe Sherry, Adri Joy, G. Brown, Vance Kotrla
* Best Fancast: Octothorpe, by John Coxon, Alison Scott, and Liz Batty
* Best Fan Writer: Paul Weimer
* Best Fan Artist: Laya Rose
* Lodestar Award for Best YA Book: To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose
* Astounding Award for Best New Writer: Xiran Jay Zhao
Comment Thankfully Malaysia isn't great at censorship. (Score 3, Interesting) 21
ISPs in Malaysia are given a list of domains they must prevent from resolving, it's a long list that's not limited to porn and gambling but also other sites the government feel may hurt feelings of Malaysians.
Thankfully that's it, and using Google or Cloudflare nameservers or even running your own name servers instead of ISP servers removed all censorship.
Hopefully the government kill switch is as poorly thought out as their censorship implementation.
Comment Re: who let the cost cutting PHB take over boeing? (Score 1) 155
Insurance does care about safety and airlines require insurance. If aircraft start having safety issues their insurance costs are going to increase costing airlines a lot more to fly the aircraft.
Submission + - Cray-1 vs Raspberry Pi (roylongbottom.org.uk)
bobdevine writes: "In 1978, the Cray 1 supercomputer cost $7 Million, weighed 10,500 pounds and had a 115 kilowatt power supply. It was, by far, the fastest computer in the world. The Raspberry Pi costs around $70 (CPU board, case, power supply, SD card), weighs a few ounces, uses a 5 watt power supply and is more than 4.5 times faster than the Cray 1"
Comment Re:Pandering (Score 2) 192
He is committing to not doing things that the Conservative party has no intention of doing. There was no intention by the Conservative party to tax meat, compulsory car sharing or force households to use seven recycling bins so it's a very easy commitment to keep.
Far easier to do nothing and look like a great deal is being done than do something and risk becoming even more unpopular.
Submission + - Terraform by Hashicorp forked to OpenTF (theregister.com)
ochinko writes: Terraform, arguably the most popular Infrastructure as Code product, has been forked after the parent company Hashicorp changed its license from the Mozilla Public License to the Business Source License v1.1.
"Our view is that we're actually not the fork because we're just changing the name but it's the same project under the same license," Sebastian Stadil, co-founder and CEO of DevOps automation biz Scalr told The Register. "Our position is that the fork is actually HashiCorp that has forked its own projects under a different license."
HashiCorp's decision to issue new licensing terms for its software follows a path trodden by numerous other organizations formed around open source projects to limit what competitors can do with project code. As the biz acknowledged in its statement about the transition, firms like Cockroach Labs, Confluent Sentry, Couchbase, Elastic, MariaDB, MongoDB, and Redis Labs have similarly adopted less-permissive software licenses to create a barrier for competitors.
You can see the OpenTF manifesto here: https://github.com/opentffound...
Submission + - Linus Tech Tips' YouTube Channel has been hacked by Crypto Scammers (overclock3d.net)
Kitkoan writes: Hackers had gained control of Linus Tech Tips' YouTube channel to promote a Cryptocurrency scam
Earlier today, hackers had gained control of the Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel and used it to promote a fake crypto giveaway that falsely used the name of Elon Musk and the Tesla brand (obviously without the permission of either party). Thankfully, the Linus Tech Tips crew has quickly worked to re-establish control of the channel, but not before the channel had started two live streams to promote AI, chat GPT, Bitcoin, and their aforementioned (fake) crypto giveaway.
At this time it is unknown how the Linus Tech Tips channel was hacked, but the good news is that it didn't take long for the channel to be taken back by its rightful owners. All links to the hacker's fake crypto giveaway have now been removed from the channel, and soon all evidence of the hack should be removed from YouTube.
Like any crypto giveaway scams, hackers had asked users to send crypto to the hackers with the promise that a large amount of crypto would be sent back. As is typical for these scammers, Elon Musk, a well known investor in cryptocurrencies, was used as the face of this scam (obviously without his permission). Scammers had claimed that Elon Musk was taking part in the "Biggest Giveaway Crypto of $100,000,000". Given the site's poor grammar, it is clear that the site has been created by foreign scammers, not Musk.
Earlier today, hackers had gained control of the Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel and used it to promote a fake crypto giveaway that falsely used the name of Elon Musk and the Tesla brand (obviously without the permission of either party). Thankfully, the Linus Tech Tips crew has quickly worked to re-establish control of the channel, but not before the channel had started two live streams to promote AI, chat GPT, Bitcoin, and their aforementioned (fake) crypto giveaway.
At this time it is unknown how the Linus Tech Tips channel was hacked, but the good news is that it didn't take long for the channel to be taken back by its rightful owners. All links to the hacker's fake crypto giveaway have now been removed from the channel, and soon all evidence of the hack should be removed from YouTube.
Like any crypto giveaway scams, hackers had asked users to send crypto to the hackers with the promise that a large amount of crypto would be sent back. As is typical for these scammers, Elon Musk, a well known investor in cryptocurrencies, was used as the face of this scam (obviously without his permission). Scammers had claimed that Elon Musk was taking part in the "Biggest Giveaway Crypto of $100,000,000". Given the site's poor grammar, it is clear that the site has been created by foreign scammers, not Musk.
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