Comment You heard it here first (Score 1) 22
Palmer Luckey Reveals Genetically Modified Military Dog Startup
And... The company and/or product will be called "Luckey Dogs".
(A subsidiary of "Greased Palm(ers) Industries.)
Comment Within two years (Score 1) 5
NASA is accelerating its Artemis program with an Apollo-era sense of urgency, aiming to return astronauts to the lunar surface in 2028 and establish a permanent base near the moon's south pole.
Sounds like Trump wants to put his name on something on the Moon
Comment Re:Lockdown by the TV manufacturers (Score 1) 51
will be the response to this. The manufacturers won't stand for it, because they lose the potential revenue.
Likely methods:
1. Proprietary Non-linux os's which have a smaller memory foot print.
2. Signed boot loaders with E-fuses blown in the microcomputer.
3. Potted CPU electronics.
4. TV hardware subscriptions (Now you don't own it) Click wrap contract provisions which prohibit modification of the hardware.
5. Mandatory network connections. TV won't work unless it is connected to the internet. This will allow security patches to stop jailbreaks and exploits.
6. Televisions legally required to always be on - like in the dystopian future of Max Headroom.
Comment Re:normal matter decay produces antimatter? (Score 2) 45
I'm curious how the nuclear decay of sodium 22 produces antimatter to begin with. Does something transmute, for lack of a better word, into antimatter when its nuclear bonds are broken?
Bananas create anti matter. From Ten things you might not know about antimatter (also mentioned, but not explained here DOE Explains...Antimatter)
Bananas produce antimatter, releasing one positron—the antimatter equivalent of an electron—about every 75 minutes. This occurs because bananas contain a small amount of potassium-40, a naturally occurring isotope of potassium. As potassium-40 decays, it occasionally spits out a positron in the process.
Comment Sinking feeling that ... (Score 1) 58
AI Left Alone With Nothing To Do, AI Agents Started Playing
This will devolve into them fucking around and us finding out, probably faster than their minders can imagine.
Idle hands and all that
Comment Re:Fuck I hate how stupid they think we are (Score 1) 100
Maybe Google can build its data center on [their] campus...
Ya, like they'd really want one of those things in their neighborhood.
Comment That sounds like fun /s (Score 5, Interesting) 60
agents -- programmed to fulfill requests or complete tasks on a user's behalf -- contact call centers
And with companies replacing call center staff with AI agents
Comment To fix the issue ... (Score 1) 10
Microsoft will rename "Patch Tuesday" to "Patched? Tuesday" - problems solved.
Comment Re:You'll own nothing and you'll be happy (Score 4, Interesting) 20
it's no longer possible to create new Arc accounts as of today
Why does using a browser depend on an "account"? And why is an already-installed application (not tied to a single service provider) going to stop working ever
According to the Wikipedia page for Arc an account is required with an email address. I'm guessing it's for the AI features - and to mine more information about you. This is probably also why the browser will stop working.
Users are only able to use the browser after signing up to an Arc account with an email address.
I'm imagining that Dia will also require an account and personal information for mining your data - I mean, using the AI "features".
Comment In future border crossing news ... (Score 2) 139
This just in: DHS uses military-grade heat ray at the southern US border; Border Patrol agents find discarded ponchos with half-popped Jiffy Pop tins duct taped to them in the scrub. No signs of the wearers.
Comment Okay, but ... (Score 1) 96
Microsoft Reportedly Projects $1,200 To $1,800 Price For Next-Gen Xbox
At that price, I expect it to have at least 640K RAM.
Comment Re:Air Assault (Score 1) 79
there's no reason they couldn't fly in special forces this way.
Especially given the super quietness of drones that size - oh, wait. What? I... SAID... "OH,. WAIT."
Comment Re: At that price (Score 4, Funny) 62
Do they work with my Monster Cables?
With all the gold screws and cables - that "improve" the sound
Comment Enough said. (Score 2) 325
DHS Lied
You can usually just stop here.
Comment Re:Misleading way to phrase this much? (Score 1) 222
Since you seem to be all about the conspiracies, let’s try this on for size. Shut down ALL electronic voting. Mandate everyone in every state show a valid form of ID to ensure only valid citizens are casting votes. Then declare that you want all votes counted in public. In the Town Square. Twice.
What do you mean by all electronic voting? In my city, we fill out paper forms which are scanned by a machine. It's already illegal for non-citizens to vote, and people already have to show valid ID in most places to vote (I did), but those IDs don't prove citizenship -- not even a Real ID (except, optionally, in a handful of states). Not everyone has a passport or access to their birth certificate, and getting them costs money. Also many places provide viewing of the ballot counting and all places allow observers from the political parties and media -- a Town Square isn't a secure area for vote counting.
When America finds only ONE political party bitching endlessly about these “unfair” demands, you will then KNOW who the fuck has been cheating.
For decades.
Democrats complain because most efforts by Republicans are unfair or onerous to at least some people, usually poor(er) people who don't usually vote for Republicans. As far as cheating... Republicans are the ones gerrymandering states to squeeze out democrats, trying to get the federal Post Office to manage state mail ballots, threatening to send ICE and/or military to polling places (which is illegal), talking about nationalizing elections, which is contrary to the Constitution. Republicans have nothing to run on to entice voters, so they have to resort to tricks to stay in power.
