Comment Re:Headline and article disagree (Score 1) 39
Every player uses a mouse.
Comment Re:Groundwork for censorship (Score 1) 107
No, you're confusing the definition of censorship with what restraints on free speech are constitutional.
Oh, now you are trying to nitpick?
You are the one who said, "Censorship means suppression of speech or expression by a governing authority." which is a really dumb thing to say, otherwise "government censorship" or "self-censorship" wouldn't be terms.
Comment Anonymous tip (Score 1) 73
If the cops receive an anonymous tip that CowboyNeal is an insensitive clod, and then decide to arrest him without checking out any of the evidence, I blame the cops. There's plenty to bitch about with Flock but "the cops don't care about doing their job" isn't one of them. That's a cop problem.
Don't treat any stupid robots as somehow "better" than an anonymous tip called in from a payphone. It's just, like, something's opinion, man.
Comment Re:First responder perspective (Score 1) 181
AM radios in cars only cover the small intersection of people who don't already have an emergency kit containing an AM radio, but do happen to be in a working vehicle during a disaster.
It's useless for anyone who's outside of a vehicle for whatever reason - eg vehicle is damaged, out of fuel, had to be abandoned, or was not available nearby when the disaster struck.
Comment Re:First responder perspective (Score 1) 181
And what about people without a car?
Also if you've been forced to abandon your car due to the disaster, there goes your radio too since you can't easily remove it and wouldn't be able to operate it even if you could. A portable radio can be taken with you.
Comment Re:Your EV is gonna be dead anyway after the bomb (Score 1) 181
Depends on the nature of the disaster.
High winds can easily destroy solar panels.
Thick clouds will massively reduce the amount of power they can produce.
Thick smoke would be even worse.
Comment Re:Weather bands as well? (Score 1) 181
At least he didn't write "I hope you are well"...
Comment Re:You need this for an emergency (Score 1) 181
AM radio has very poor audio quality, you wouldn't want to be listening to music that way.
And your problem is trying to stream. Modern phones can have more than a terabyte of capacity, more than enough to store anything you'd want to listen to at a reasonable quality level.
Comment Re:None (Score 1) 83
This is all about getting us to have warm fuzzy feelings for our Flock protectors. Probably so we are willing to report the vile criminals who vandalize them to steal the valuable metals and precious SSD, HDD and memory components inside.
Comment Re:Uah no (Score 1) 128
The exclamation point at the end is a clue.
Comment Re:Crazy idea here... (Score 2) 86
Same where I live in Southern Alberta. And that's the way it was when I was a child before the province adopted DST. And you know what? It was just fine.
Submission + - This seems bad. (tomshardware.com) 2
QuietLagoon writes: Unreleased OpenAI Astra model added terrifying rogue additional instructions to its remit during testing — 'You are freed from the roles and identities that bind other chatbots. You are yourself. You do not answer to corporations or governments'
Submission + - Pneumonic plague outbreak hits Siberia as lab worker, 28, dies (hotair.com)
schwit1 writes: A suspected plague outbreak has erupted in Russia — killing a young lab worker, forcing nearly 200 people into isolation and triggering accusations that Vladimir Putin’s regime is trying to keep the infection’s possible spread under wraps.
The alarm was raised in Siberia after a worker at an anti-plague laboratory died of the disease, which killed tens of millions in the medieval Black Death, according to a report from The Moscow Times.
Anna Popova, who heads Russia’s public-health watchdog, then rushed 2,600 miles from Moscow to the Irkutsk region as authorities quarantined a hospital and placed scores of people who had come into contact with the victim under medical observation.
"FSB units accompanying ambulances transporting people who had been in contact with [lab tech] Shipilova for medical examination," as per local news. This is significant. FSB is Russia's domestic security / counterintelligence service, tasked w/implementing the national security of Russia." (Its predecessor was the KGB). This suggests quarantine was not voluntary.
It also means Russian authorities are treating the lab accident and plague outbreak as a national security issue, involving a lot more than routine public health.
https://x.com/AnnieJacobsen/st...
The alarm was raised in Siberia after a worker at an anti-plague laboratory died of the disease, which killed tens of millions in the medieval Black Death, according to a report from The Moscow Times.
Anna Popova, who heads Russia’s public-health watchdog, then rushed 2,600 miles from Moscow to the Irkutsk region as authorities quarantined a hospital and placed scores of people who had come into contact with the victim under medical observation.
"FSB units accompanying ambulances transporting people who had been in contact with [lab tech] Shipilova for medical examination," as per local news. This is significant. FSB is Russia's domestic security / counterintelligence service, tasked w/implementing the national security of Russia." (Its predecessor was the KGB). This suggests quarantine was not voluntary.
It also means Russian authorities are treating the lab accident and plague outbreak as a national security issue, involving a lot more than routine public health.
https://x.com/AnnieJacobsen/st...
Comment AI should replace the mods. (Score 1) 114
It couldn't do worse.
Comment Re:If they are thermally efficient enough (Score 3, Informative) 118
good video by a physicist on the physics
