It's pretty cool that they're seeing where the supermassive black holes come from. The models of what's happening in there must be amazing.

RF control drones are nowhere near dead. Even DJI Mavics are still used daily for recon missions, nothing beats their combination of price to video quality.

This is a love tap, fists will be thrown later. One thing can and should be done, we need to start adding aerosols into the atmosphere, the higher the better. Adding Na compounds to jet fuels would introduce just enough aerosols in order to start reflecting a tiny amount more of solar radiation than what makes it to the surface of the planet. 1-2% reflection is all we need to start reducing the temperatures. Of-course we will have to keep doing it until we figure out a more permanent solution.

Film at 11.

Okay lefties, here's a good analogy for you:

Eli Whitney believed the cotton gin would make slavery obsolete since it would automate away the then-most labor intensive part of the cotton harvest. It had the opposite effect. Removing the bottleneck lowered the cost of cotton products and increased demand for cotton.

The dream of idle riches was always dreamt by people who didn't understand where whatever measure of material prosperity they had came from. In their imaginations it may as well have been a magical goose laying golden eggs, not the hard work of talented people.

Right-leaning hoi polloi imagined themselves stumbling upon such a goose as God's reward for hard work and moral rectitude. Left-leaning hoi polloi (and "intelligen"tsia) imagined a tophat-wearing capitalist hoarding for himself the goose that rightfully belonged to ThePeople(TM).

You dipsticks were suspiciously silent, masked up, and taking a knee back when the woketards were running slightly more wild than they are today.

First they came for the magats, and I said nothing eh?

I voted for a dem once. 20 years ago for Ed Rendell because he wasn't batshit crazy and his republican challenger was comically unserious (before it was cool). Never again. A guy likr that couldn't make it to the top of the ticket on your side anymore unless he pinkieswears to let the barbarians through the gate to get that sweet sweet dsa organizing on his side.

In such a scenario, I would be (and have been) compelled to vote for my side's barbarians.

What's better? Unloading half our bombs on some towelheads on the other side of the planet in exchange for $4 gas or having the force of the state compel a cultural revolution at home?

I can deal with $4 gas without developing the urge to murder the hr guy at work.

This problem needs to be solved by references, ask AI, people, is this program safe before installing.

Google is now adding more rules to make sideloading more difficult while Apple never provided a way to sideload an app in the first place. People need to be able to build and load their own apps without permission from the OS manufacturer, a phone is a computer with specialized hardware, we do have ability to build and run apps on our own hardware.

Pft. Real programmers...I mean real lawyers write their filings with a quill while wearing a powdered wig.

I'm not saying I'm in favor of sending the wayland/systemd/gnome3 crowd to gitmo...but I'm not saying I'm necessarily against it either...

Seeing as it puts you at the mercy of the people who make your stuff for you.

History, both recent and not so recent, repeats this lesson again and again.

Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?

Only a matter of time before it becomes possible to decode people's internal monologues remotely.

Or just train yourself to think unsexy thoughts, think unsexy thoughts, thin unsexy thoughts...

Maybe it's the onset of middle age taking over from knee-jerk skepticism talking, but at this point I firmly disbelieve in total any PR materials invoking any hot topic in the news, lefty news, righty news, and nominally straight news alike.

Flock is not a single police officer standing on a street corner. Flock is a network of continuous data collection from every perspective on every road and intersection. Flock is not a camera, it is an AI system that follows you precisely everywhere, it is a data dump without a court order. There is expectation that a police officer will NOT follow you everywhere without a court order just because he is paid from taxes and has nothing better to do, this is stalking.

I went to school 20 years ago and everything was (then still-alive) solaris/bsd or (then new) Linux. University web infrastructure, engineering school computer lab thin clients, etc.

When I started work, it was a little different, but the same effect. Most of the legacy systems were from the early 90s and made for solaris or hpux. And by the time it was time to port to a more modern os, us new kids naturally gravitated to the path of least resistance and least licensing costs. That was either pure oss linux or (eventually) red hat, which by virtue of being intended a mass market product competing or complementing purley oss solutions, was loads cheaper than something (by then) niche like a vendor-supplied unix system.

Windows got skipped over for everything except desk machines.

Now it's 20 years later and us greenhorns are turning into greybeards who've never in our careers seriously considered doing anything serious on windows.