Comment So close (Score 1) 43
Microsoft Weighs Retreat From Windows 11
If only they had stopped at this
Comment Correction (Score 1) 73
Starbucks Bets on Robots To Brew a Turnaround in Customers
" Shares still slid 5% on concerns that heavy spending, including $500 million to boost staffing, had hurt profits."
Starbucks Bets on Robots To Brew a Reduction in Staffing to Boost Profits
Comment Re:Nerd Details? (Score 1) 44
Which OS is it running?
NetBSD will get ported to it in 3.... 2... 1...
Tagline: "Of course it runs NetBSD"
Comment Re:We are the Borg (Score 1) 44
Resistance is futile.
Which means futile is V / I.
Comment Re:Fade Away (Score 1) 122
I guarantee he'll be looking for work ina year's time.
Or maybe he'll take up golf... Poettering, pottering, puttering, putting.
Comment Re: No trust (Score 1) 122
Remind me again what was wrong with sysinit scripts?
I think the idea of systemd, like most of the runtime systems, is fine, but I take issue with the expanse of systemd and it directly incorporating things, like date/time and resolver, it doesn't need to simply manage a system and its startup. The developers seem to have a not invented here attitude about things. Also, would it kill them to have it run as PID 2 instead of 1?
Comment Amutable? (Score 1) 122
Sounds like a sleep medication.
Comment In related news ... (Score -1, Offtopic) 7
Scientists Found a Way To Cool Quantum Computers Using Noise
Scientists find a use for the Melania movie.
"Col-der is be-tter for En-tang-gle-ment."
Comment Bad for the planet too? (Score 0) 46
Can We Slow Global Warming By Phasing Out Super-Pollutant HFCs?
Wow, I knew high-fructose corn syrup was a dietary problem, but
Comment Re:Financing that Melania movie (Score 1) 29
is really going to pay off.
They have the Solar System distribution and screening rights for it..
Comment Re:No Thanks (Score 1) 94
"Remove the advertising"?
Isn't advertising the whole business model of most tech companies nowadays?
That or "something, something, Future AI, something, something."
Comment Nice try, but ... (Score 4, Funny) 94
Microsoft is Experimenting With a Top Menu Bar for Windows 11
The Windows 11 menu bar will always be a bottom.
Comment Re:Precisely. TPM was FUD. (Score 2) 85
the TPM requirement is for very old PCs
Noting that while the TPM was created ostensibly for security, it also supports and is used for DRM and vendor lock-in. Making it a "requirement" allows better implementation and enforcement of all those goals. There's no technical operational requirement for it and what it supports for most users. The end result is that requiring a TPM, and newer CPUs that also support some of these goals, simply forced people to discard perfectly good systems running Windows 10 and purchase new hardware for Windows 11, which requires a MS cloud account -- with that new hardware and software providing more benefit to Microsoft than the end-user.
Donning a tinfoil hat I'll add that that by default new Windows 11 systems come with Bitlocker enabled and Microsoft saves those keys in the users' (required) cloud accounts, where they can easily be turned over to law enforcement (presumably with a warrant, but who knows?).
Submission + - Scientists create programmable, autonomous robots smaller than a grain of salt (sciencedaily.com)
fahrbot-bot writes: Science Daily is reporting that researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan have built the smallest fully programmable autonomous robots ever created. These microscopic machines can swim through liquid, sense their surroundings, respond on their own, operate for months at a time, and cost about one penny each to produce.
Each robot is barely visible without magnification, measuring roughly 200 by 300 by 50 micrometers. That makes them smaller than a grain of salt. Because they function at the same scale as many living microorganisms, the robots could one day help doctors monitor individual cells or assist engineers in assembling tiny devices used in advanced manufacturing.
Powered by light and equipped with tiny computers, the robots swim by manipulating electric fields rather than using moving parts. They can detect temperature changes, follow programmed paths, and even work together in groups
The work was reported in Science Robotics and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Unlike previous tiny machines, these robots do not rely on wires, magnetic fields, or external controls.
Alternate article: Penn and Michigan Create World’s Smallest Programmable, Autonomous Robots
Each robot is barely visible without magnification, measuring roughly 200 by 300 by 50 micrometers. That makes them smaller than a grain of salt. Because they function at the same scale as many living microorganisms, the robots could one day help doctors monitor individual cells or assist engineers in assembling tiny devices used in advanced manufacturing.
Powered by light and equipped with tiny computers, the robots swim by manipulating electric fields rather than using moving parts. They can detect temperature changes, follow programmed paths, and even work together in groups
The work was reported in Science Robotics and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Unlike previous tiny machines, these robots do not rely on wires, magnetic fields, or external controls.
Alternate article: Penn and Michigan Create World’s Smallest Programmable, Autonomous Robots
Comment Re:navel gazing legal system (Score 1, Interesting) 55
yay for consulting old irrelevant laws from a dead paradigm that were poorly thought out, poorly worded and poorly implemented in the first place
That description could easily apply to things like the Second Amendment. Just sayin'
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