The comparison is inevitable and made by ever media outlet commenting on the launches. SpaceX actually accomplishes things (orbital insertion, LEO sats, military missions, CRS and Crew missions to the ISS among them. Blue Penis has a cartoon of a guy in a big cowboy hat pretending to be another cartoon guy, while taking people on a long-ride to absolutely nothing.

If you'd like to experience near weightlessness you can pay $28M to win a seat at an auction at fly to "the edge of space", or buy $300 worth of SCUBA gear, leave out most of the weight in your BCD, and enjoy the same. The sights are better.

Why people pander to this effort is beyond me. All it does is waste a lot of people's time, money, and fuel to get these rich clowns up to "almost nothing" for "almost no time" where they accomplish "nothing" and are merely passengers on an almost-space vessel -- not astronauts. That's been discussed on /. and TechDirt and Wired and others before so As the US Secretary of Transportation put it in April 2025:
> “The crew who flew to space this week on an automated flight by Blue Origin were brave and glam, but you cannot identify as an astronaut,” continued Duffy's post about the proper terminology regarding what they achieved. “They do not meet the FAA astronaut criteria

Useless, pointless, expensive. Please, compare that to SpaceX, ULA, or the Chinese and other countries' programs.

The all-caps isn't yelling -- it's for emphasis. This IS A BIG DEAL and the people who downplay it ("[F]ederal" something other claiming to be authorities, which is just generic LEO mumbo-jumbo for we-won't-tell-you-who-said-it and our-ass-is-covered) are making the situation worse by ostritching themselves.

> [F]ederal authorities said that the discoveries were not cause for alarm

The discoveries are not cause for alarm. The 10x radiation in the wild, that's a cause for alarm. Nuclear radiation is toxic (not poisonous) meaning it builds up over time. If the wasps have them then it's being spread outside the containment zone. That is REALLY REALLY BAD because the rate of radioactive leak, the material which is radioactive, the half-life, these are all unknowns.

>...and experts noted that the discovery of radioactivity in wildlife near nuclear facilities did not necessarily indicate the likelihood of a major leak

Yes, discovery doesn't "necessarily" indicate anything. However, the presence of radioactive materials does indicate a failure of the containment vessel(s) and whether it's "major" (what's that???) or not, it's a leak of a substanc toxic to humans which --abset a dosimeter or Geiger counter-- we are not able to natively detect.

The "urgency" to declare it "not a major problem" instead of promptly investigating it, finding the breach, correcting that breach, sweeping other areas than 'that one wasp's nest" and doing a cleanup is incompetence and disregard for human safety in action.

The buyer is clearly a little confused if he thinks "pullling into Burning Man" with a 50 year old obsolete RV that says "NASA" on the side is going to make him the new folk hero of Mud&Shit City. Good luck to him in unloading it for 10x what he paid for it, but if "being the star at Burning Man" is on the agenda, time to do less shrooms, d00d.

I'm sorry Tim Cook has a vision problem and he has difficulting seeing the world without iPhones. My eye doctor, Dr. Katelyn Hurliman, is really great. Perhaps he can take Steve Jobs liver-thieving jet and fly on out to see her. She'll having him seeing 20/20 (corrected) in no time. After all, when you can jump on your jet and go raid foreign dispensaries and transplant spots, who's to stop you from drying early... oh... yeah.

In my house we have no Microsoft anything. No Windows. No X-Box. No Zune. Nothing. We also have no Apple products. No Mac, iMac, iPhone, etc. While I'm sharing, we also have no Ring doorbells (free videos to law enforcement) or smart TVs that listen to our every word. In case you're wondering -- I've been using smartphones since Windows NT/2002, later Windows Mobile 2003, and then the Moto Droid I and have been Microsoft free since then. Call it 22 years. I've never used an Apple product because I don't like their walled garden. Same for MS. I gave away my PS4 because Sony F***ED GeoHotz.

You might say "Well isn't it silly of you to reject modern technology?" Maybe so but I'm not willing to pay the Tim Cook price. Obvsiously someone who can't see a world... should hand the reigns off to someone who can.

If you're going to downvote me because I don't use Apple or MS products, please post a followup explaining why I should give up my rights AND spend three times what the hardware costs so Steve Jobs can steal some poor guy (without a jet)'s liver, and Tim Cook can go blind because there might be a world he doesn't comprehend. The multiverse includes such a world, and people HELP EACH OTHER, not build $5Billion campuses shaped like a spaceship because ego.

"Perhaps" = no, none of that.

We don't need to "hear black holes" so WiFi and ATMs and GPS work?

What a bunch of nonsense. We should reserve spectrum internationally, but this fearmongering "supermarket shelves not being stocked" is pure fearmongering crap. What's next - your car won't start because blackhole interference? Your electric toothebrush won't work because WiFI? Total crap with no basis in physics, radio frequencies, science, or anything at all other than pure nonsense.

Maybe it's just the "slashdot-weekend" summary. After reading the crap above I'm not going to the original article. If you do, maybe you'll get more out of this schlock than I did.

In 1993 AOL was a walled garden. By 1995 they allowed connections from and to the real Internet.

Homeland Security Act of 2002 simply reorganized existing federal agencies under HSI. Star of ops was March 2003, or 8 years after 1995.

So, no the little hack stirring up Slashdot-Slow-Weekend didn't catch the attention of an agency not to exist for 8 more years, and
didn't fix up a walled garden that had been open for 2+ years.

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Betteridge's law says no.

We raise humans, rear horses, train dogs, etc. all through some function of Carrots and Sticks. In humans we can even use the "belongingness" to the social group and mores, ethics, and "here's how it's done, kid."

That's hallucinations. LLMs do analyze large corpus of already-existing content, they do synthesize a subset, and they do format it in a unified way. However, they don't think, feel, or have consequences.

Carrots - don't work. The LLM doesn't care.
Sticks - don't work. The LLM doesn't care.
Accountability - doesn't work. The LLM resets the session once done and further affiant sayeth naught indeed.

So much like a dictator jobbie [Scottish slang] in a country where all other branches of governments have said "do what you want and don't worry about consequences" LLMs are free to do the same.

It won't make you stupid. If you follow it you ARE ALREADY stupid.
It may give you a selected set of regurgitated crap it found in its "training" corpus. Now you're potentially STUPID and FULL OF CRAP.

But like any critical reader, critical thinker, or an adult, you have to determine if what's being given to you is AN answer, THE answer, or CRAP in relation to the PROMPT you gave it. Garbage in (prompt) garbage out (result).

LLMs aren't intelligent, and they're not your friends or possible lovers nor are things they create more or less real than anything you read on the net.

Read responsibly.

Mar a Lago is a hotel. Its generators cover essential stuff but not everything. Generally that is refrigerators, HVAC systems, and emergency lighting. USSS bungalows aren't included. Neither is the anti-intrusion system they DON'T EVEN HAVE. But Mar a Lago is irrelevant. The White House and the Pentagon and the NSA are vulnerable.

There's nothing like a "security expert" who thinks they're able to assess all the threats. I'm a security guy who knows the flaws. Lack of funding means lack of effort and an absence of effort is a chain-link fence without a monitor, a guard, a camera, electricity, or common sense.

Just on par with the Trump mis-administration -- fuck it up; blame Biden or Obama or Hillary, and release the Epstein Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. files, or the ones about anything else other than Epstein's Lolita Island and Trump's bromance with the pedo.

Sure, you can have 100x hallucinating "engineers" "writing code" and doing it badly, not repeatably, and lying about it. In the real world we'd call them "ex-employees."

Or you can hire a real developer who understads concepts of writing excellent code, documenting decision trees taken and not, as well as the WHY and the HOW of algorithms chosen. Maybe just one. Who doesn't lie, hallucinate, do drugs on the job, fail to make sense, can't repeat the same result with the same RFP, etc.

I'm glad he's rich. He's still an idiot. Just a rich idiot.

The IMO is pretty pissed off at Google because the results are embargoed from publication until the 28th of July.
Apparently Google did their own metrics and claimed the Gold-Medal. IMO is not happy,
https://arstechnica.com/ai/202...

But hey, good on Goog for demonstrating some level of success, whether IMO gives them a gold medal or not.
Shame on them for violating the publication embargo, but I haven't read that contract or those T&Cs so I only
judge by what IMO says and what Goog says.

As I said in the subject line, there are no spoilers here of the content variety.

This movie is just plain stupid from the intro, the thesis, the "intrigue", the amazingly idiotic Lois Lane and her ass-stupid questions to Superman. (Like I said, no spoilers but just evaluative comments).

This is certainly a "reboot" if by "reboot" we imply taking all of Superman lore and reducing it so much the "past truth" is no longer fact, making his adoptive parents stupid, making the arch-villain work with [spoiler] and making his home an environmental complaint.

I lost 30 minutes of my life trying to give it a fair shot. The $8? I'll earn that on the next gig. But the 30min... that's gone forever.

Do yourself a favor. Remember that a majority of US voters voted for Donald Trump. Just because something is "loved by the majority" doesn't mean it's not a stupid piece of shit. Like Trump, Gunn's Superman is exactly that.

The bathroom is out the theater door and down the hall. Don't vomit on the floor. Some underpaid teenage kid has to clean it up.

Presentations used to be printed on SLIDES that would go on a PROJECTOR that would backlight the slide onto a 45 degree mirror onto a screen. This is LONG BEFORE PowerPoint.

Then Apple introduced the ability to create slides, and they had features like a "cloud" which meant "that thing in the middle we don't care to define at this time." Date went in. Data came out. Cloud picture was the 1990s version of the black box. Also, there was now an option for a BORDER on each slide, and borders could include SQUARES with ROUND corners.

Managers everywhere loved it, and budgets were approved and money flowed if only you were "smart enough" to use those squares with rounded corners.
Fifty years ago.

Glad to see the bloat-wizards at K-750-packages-DE have caught up to 1992. It's a good thing they call it Plasma, because it ain't no matter.

> ...returned to its original crime-prevention mission...

That "mission" is law enforcement's mission, not Ring. Go look at Ring's website and you won't find ANY mission let alone providng YOUR video of YOUR property off a camera YOU bought with YOUR money and installed with YOUR time and PAY MONTHLY to access your video... only to give it away to every stormtrooper with a badge.

Mission-creep is one thing, but here's another -- Ring users said they DON'T WANT THEIR VIDEOS SHARED WITH THE stormtroopers, ICE, or any other LEOs. Ring's "leadership team" is clearly not about --in any way-- doing what their paying customers want.

The Blink Doorbell (https://support.blinkforhome.com/en_US/blink-video-doorbell) doesn't require a monthly subscription, doesn't require you to provide the video, and doesn't share the [lack of provided] video with LEOs.

If you want to support a company with a product that doesn't have a "mission" to spy on you and give footage to the nazis, Blink's a good option.

The Federal Aviation Act of 1958 requires airlines to file tariffs indicating, among other things, the rates they charge. While there is a range, it's not unlimited, and advance (published) notice is required. There will not be dynamic nondesterministic pricing based on passenger net worth, ability to pay, past history of flights and fees, etc. That would violate the tariff and be unlawful.

As others have said, WERE Delta to ACTUALLY find a legal way to implement this, those of us who would be targeted will just fly other airlines. The last time I flew delta was August 2024 where we had two first-class tickets, two legs, four total on the round-trip. The seat pitch was cramped, there was caked on grime in the tray slot, and the seat pocket in front of us contained garbage. That was my only Delta flight in ten years, and the last Delta flight to come.

Sure, anecdotal evidence doesn't make for good statistics, but it's good enough to make my desire to vomit override my lack of desire to be financially raped by an "AI".

Face it, those of you who think this will democratize pricing -- it will only raise prices. Otherwise they'd stick to the current fares.

Robin Hood's CEO knows nothing of what his coders are doing, and you can tell because he conflates "AI code" with "AI code editors."

In either case AI can't yet code at any level of trust worthy of a flower stand point of sale system let alone a commodities trading platform.

He knows nothing. He speaks as if he does. Those are the signs of an idiot pretending not to have impostor syndrome.

AI isn't coding ANY production code ANYWHERE today. If it were, we'd hear about it from REAL companies with REAL software and
NO trust issues.

Yeah, all bullshit.