Comment Logitech gives its employees that day off! VLDL... (Score 1) 56
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=logi...
Also, Viva La Dirt League made a few funny skit videos on GTA (check out their other ones too): https://www.youtube.com/@VivaL...
Comment Re:The AI agent is too useful (Score 2) 70
But they have put up another term and condition to protect themselves from errant customers. If the AI makes a mistake but the customer is adamant that they're in the right, the airline now has a specific clause to refuse them.
Comment Obi-Wan... (Score 1) 247
For me, I felt like old Ob-Wan: https://www.youtube.com/shorts...
Comment Never really dug GTA 3 and newer. (Score 2) 52
I played the first GTA once a bit and GTA Chinatown on the PSP. The latter I remember being fun. The others I never really got. Watchdogs and the later FarCry installments are more my thing.
Comment Europe, just like everybody else, has to ... (Score 1) 41
... activate it's basic brain functions when it comes to using and applying IT and just like everybody else has to build a digital culture. Until that happens, "big tech" will shoo them around, regardless wether an individual vendor is from the US, Europe or anywhere else. Simply giving every citizen using a computer and the internet an ICDL training and a hardware crypto chip and replacing E-Mail and DNS with modern distributed crypto services _not_ from the steam age of computing would solve about 80% of all security problems.The other 20% would be covered if deciders actually knew the difference between a client and a server.
Until that happens we'll continue to have the IT equivalent of African bushmen trying to build a highway bridge out of Kudzu and leaves and wondering with things cost such obscene amounts of money without delivering any real results and jepoardizing public safety.
Comment Blender rocks it once again. (Score 1) 6
I've been using Blender as my main 3D tool for 26 years now (even have an old official NaN licence) and it's so fun to watch Blender perpetually knock it out of the park when it comes to new features and overall improvement. Blender at this point has basically "won" the 3D spaceand there ain't no stopping it. Nice. I like it.
Comment How is it compared to Intel Macs? (Score 1) 190
Is it prime time ready for production?
Comment What's really curious and tricky about hetero ... (Score 2) 105
... dynamics is that to fully grasp how cunning and super-rational women can be when seducing a man you basically have to spend a considerable amount of your adult life exloring the sexual market place and studying women. But when you do that, you don't have the time to do a high-power career. Which makes super-performing billionaires exceptionally prone to getting trapped by women. See Jeff Bezos or this Nvidia guy for details.
If I were a large-scale back-room investor in these companies I'd make it mandatory that these men leave chosing their partners and intimacy companions entirely to a team of experts to save everyone involved any trouble. Men of this caliber have zero trouble getting a concubine (or a group of concubines) that are sweet to them, screw their brains out epic-style and bear their children.
If I were a billionaire I'd hire a concubine and be done with it. She'd've won the lottery and I would know exactly what to expect and be sound and safe if the lady choses to split. Not that I care, but I hope for Jeff Bezos sake that he has a prenup tripple-checked by an army of lawyers.
Submission + - Infant Bleeding Surged as Parents Rejected Vitamin K Shots, Studies Find (nytimes.com) 2
fahrbot-bot writes: The New York Times is reporting that a study has found a 347% increase in infant bleeding cases as fewer babies received the vitamin K shot, which helps blood clot, since 2017.
For decades, the American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended that every newborn receive an injection of vitamin K, which helps blood clot and can protect against sudden and catastrophic bleeding that can occur even in otherwise healthy babies. The injection is not a vaccine, but as mistrust in medicine has grown and as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other prominent health figures have cast doubt on the importance of childhood vaccinations, more parents have started forgoing it.
With fewer babies getting these injections, doctors had already begun to see more infants with serious hemorrhages. The new studies, published Thursday in the journals JAMA and JAMA Pediatrics, provide some of the first concrete data on this pattern. One found an especially sharp increase from 2024 to 2025, with cases of vitamin K deficiency bleeding roughly doubling in that time.
The JAMA study looked at more than five million infants. In 2017, 3.1 percent of these newborns went without a vitamin K shot; by 2025, it was 6.8 percent. The infants who had not received the shot had significantly higher rates of bleeding in their first six months, including more than double the risk of brain bleeds, which are especially deadly: 33 brain bleeds per 10,000 births, compared with 13.2 per 10,000 for babies who received vitamin K.
The JAMA Pediatrics study, on which Dr. Woolf was a co-author, looked at more than 11 million infants and found similarly that the rate of infants going without vitamin K more than doubled from 2017 to 2025. The overall rate of vitamin K deficiency bleeding rose nearly 350 percent, to 107.4 cases per 100,000.
The vitamin K injection is very safe, but more parents started declining it in the 2010s, citing, among other things, a belief that the shot was unnatural or unnecessary.
Dr. Elizabeth Wolf, an author of the JAMA Pediatrics study and an associate professor of pediatrics at Virginia Commonwealth University, said she hoped the results would break through to parents who may not realize the severity of the risk of going without vitamin K.
For decades, the American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended that every newborn receive an injection of vitamin K, which helps blood clot and can protect against sudden and catastrophic bleeding that can occur even in otherwise healthy babies. The injection is not a vaccine, but as mistrust in medicine has grown and as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other prominent health figures have cast doubt on the importance of childhood vaccinations, more parents have started forgoing it.
With fewer babies getting these injections, doctors had already begun to see more infants with serious hemorrhages. The new studies, published Thursday in the journals JAMA and JAMA Pediatrics, provide some of the first concrete data on this pattern. One found an especially sharp increase from 2024 to 2025, with cases of vitamin K deficiency bleeding roughly doubling in that time.
The JAMA study looked at more than five million infants. In 2017, 3.1 percent of these newborns went without a vitamin K shot; by 2025, it was 6.8 percent. The infants who had not received the shot had significantly higher rates of bleeding in their first six months, including more than double the risk of brain bleeds, which are especially deadly: 33 brain bleeds per 10,000 births, compared with 13.2 per 10,000 for babies who received vitamin K.
The JAMA Pediatrics study, on which Dr. Woolf was a co-author, looked at more than 11 million infants and found similarly that the rate of infants going without vitamin K more than doubled from 2017 to 2025. The overall rate of vitamin K deficiency bleeding rose nearly 350 percent, to 107.4 cases per 100,000.
The vitamin K injection is very safe, but more parents started declining it in the 2010s, citing, among other things, a belief that the shot was unnatural or unnecessary.
Dr. Elizabeth Wolf, an author of the JAMA Pediatrics study and an associate professor of pediatrics at Virginia Commonwealth University, said she hoped the results would break through to parents who may not realize the severity of the risk of going without vitamin K.
Comment Re:Nope (Score 1) 81
IIRC, parallel cable was worse because it slowed down the PCs.
Comment Re:Nope (Score 1) 81
DOS FTW! I used parallel laplink cable back then!
Comment If Roku viewers want this screen saver... (Score 1) 65
... They can just buy the screen saver directly from him and run it to their screens locally.
Comment Yeah, no shit, Sherlock. (Score 1) 89
Sorry, but this isn't news. This is literally the exact warning scientists have been giving since the 1950ies of not earlier. If this is news to anyone making bigger decisions they need a spanking.
Comment I misread the title. (Score 1) 44
I thought it said Garbage Pail Kids. I should sleep.
Comment Re:"registered customers"...? (Score 1) 48
I hate it when they require other information like phone numbers. I wished there were disposable phone numbers and aliases like e-mail addresses (e.g., ant+applebees@domains.edu).
