Comment You heard it here first (Score 1) 55
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 5, Insightful) 68
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) 90
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) 48
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) 65
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:Was it a fair test? (Score 1) 66
* Had employees already been through some basic anti-phishing training?
Every year we are required to take anti-phishing training. It's about 20 minutes long and gives examples of what to look for. You also have to take "tests" at the end to see if you learned anything.
Fortunately, for us, the phishing emails IT sends out are fairly easy to recognize if you take a few seconds to look at them. You don't even have to hover over any links.
Every year we are required to take anti-phishing training. It's about 20 minutes long and gives examples of what to look for. You also have to take "tests" at the end to see if you learned anything.
Fortunately, for us, the phishing emails IT sends out are fairly easy to recognize if you take a few seconds to look at them. You don't even have to hover over any links.
Comment Re:Let me guess (Score 4, Informative) 46
And I bet you'd love it if we didn't have Russian diesel... imagine what your head of Mexican lettuce would cost.
The same. The first delivery of diesel amounts to 2.5 hours of diesel usage in the U.S. The total delivery comes out to about 3 days worth.
Yeah, totally fantastic to support a dictator deliberately targeting civilians to get for 3 days of fuel. It's sure to substantially drive down costs.
The same. The first delivery of diesel amounts to 2.5 hours of diesel usage in the U.S. The total delivery comes out to about 3 days worth.
Yeah, totally fantastic to support a dictator deliberately targeting civilians to get for 3 days of fuel. It's sure to substantially drive down costs.
Submission + - Tesla does not allow people to repair their own vehicles (newrepublic.com)
smooth wombat writes: A decade ago, Rich Benoit bought a used Tesla at auction. The car had been flooded and he thought he'd repair it. When he reached out to Tesla to buy parts, they said no.
“They literally just said no,” he said. “I thought it was going to be a lot easier: ‘Hey, I’ll just buy a battery, put a battery in, put a new motor in, you know, buy some new interior parts.’ They literally said no. I’ve never seen anything like that before, and I think that’s what started the journey for me.”
Benoit’s professional background was in I.T., but this launched a new career in fixing electric cars, and he also runs a now 10-year-old YouTube channel with co-founder Carl Hewitt about his work, called Rich Rebuilds. He says nearly every electric vehicle company has responded the same way Tesla did. So his new career intersected quickly with the right-to-repair movement, which argues that companies shouldn’t be allowed to refuse access to the information and equipment people need to make repairs on the products they’ve purchased.
At least nine states have passed right-to-repair laws—most of them blue, along with Texas and Kansas—and every state has debated similar laws that would require at least some manufacturers to provide the tools people need to make repairs on their products. A federal bill is sitting in the House, waiting for potential consideration in the lame-duck session, but it’s unlikely to rise to the top of Congress’s long to-do list. For Benoit, though, this is about much more than just fixing cars. “This kind of encompasses a larger overarching theory that the corporations own what you have,” he said. “You don’t own anything. You just rent it.”
“They literally just said no,” he said. “I thought it was going to be a lot easier: ‘Hey, I’ll just buy a battery, put a battery in, put a new motor in, you know, buy some new interior parts.’ They literally said no. I’ve never seen anything like that before, and I think that’s what started the journey for me.”
Benoit’s professional background was in I.T., but this launched a new career in fixing electric cars, and he also runs a now 10-year-old YouTube channel with co-founder Carl Hewitt about his work, called Rich Rebuilds. He says nearly every electric vehicle company has responded the same way Tesla did. So his new career intersected quickly with the right-to-repair movement, which argues that companies shouldn’t be allowed to refuse access to the information and equipment people need to make repairs on the products they’ve purchased.
At least nine states have passed right-to-repair laws—most of them blue, along with Texas and Kansas—and every state has debated similar laws that would require at least some manufacturers to provide the tools people need to make repairs on their products. A federal bill is sitting in the House, waiting for potential consideration in the lame-duck session, but it’s unlikely to rise to the top of Congress’s long to-do list. For Benoit, though, this is about much more than just fixing cars. “This kind of encompasses a larger overarching theory that the corporations own what you have,” he said. “You don’t own anything. You just rent it.”
Comment It's not enough (Score 5, Informative) 164
Every data center Ukraine can locate needs to be leveled. That would be far easier if the Russian asset in the White House would stop sucking Putin's dick and help Ukraine do its job.
After that, a systematic destruction of every power generation site surrounding Moscow needs to be undertaken. The city needs to go dark and stay dark during the winter.
If Ukraine hasn't already planned for this, they need to do it now. So long as Russia deliberately Ukrainian power generation and civilian targets, Ukraine needs to do the same. Once Moscow is dark, the muscovite midget's whining will be a joy to hear.
Comment Re:uh no (Score 2) 164
t's true that Ukraine has taken back some number of square kilometers of land (at high cost, mind you),
Yes. Several thousand Russian soldiers are now dead during Operation Vivaldi. A glorious outcome. What took you Russian trolls over a year to do Ukraine did in three months. You not only lost thousands of soldiers trying to take the land, you lost several thousand more losing the land.
Brilliant!
And before you start on, "But what about Ukraine's losses?", they have already admitted they lost soldiers, but in a small number. Nothing near the thousands you slovenly, drunk degenerates lost.
Yes. Several thousand Russian soldiers are now dead during Operation Vivaldi. A glorious outcome. What took you Russian trolls over a year to do Ukraine did in three months. You not only lost thousands of soldiers trying to take the land, you lost several thousand more losing the land.
Brilliant!
And before you start on, "But what about Ukraine's losses?", they have already admitted they lost soldiers, but in a small number. Nothing near the thousands you slovenly, drunk degenerates lost.
Comment Verizon isn't much better (Score 2) 95
My parents have Verizon and have had them for years. The cost of phone, tv, and internet is roughly $135/month, and that's only for them to get 12 specific channels they choose along with local channels. Neither watch much tv any more which is why they went with this package.
That is still far too much. However, when my dad and I look over what it would cost to drop the tv portion and use something else such as YoutTube TV, they'd only say about $10/month.
We've talked about moving him to Comcast to get the lower rates, but he hasn't made the jump yet.
I have Comcast for internet only and have no problems with them despite the repeated complaints on here.
Comment Re:Does it anti matter? (Score 1) 48
Otherwise the anti-matter universe would have more loosely coupled matter and everything is a lot more stretchy and elastic.
That explains Mister Fantastic and Helen Parr.
That explains Mister Fantastic and Helen Parr.
Comment Re:Fuck I hate how stupid they think we are (Score 1) 101
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) 61
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) 12
Microsoft will rename "Patch Tuesday" to "Patched? Tuesday" - problems solved.
