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 Damn... There goes my porn (Score 3, Interesting) 143
Russian sites like Yandex, Rutube, VKvideo... are great to find porn. But if they go down, I'll take the minor inconvenience for the sake of Ukraine.
More seriously, Yandex has been throttling queries rather aggressively lately, and I'm pretty sure it has something to do with their compute going up in smoke due to Ukrainian drones.
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 It's DEFENSE department (Score 4, Informative) 139
War department is Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth doing their fascist circle-jerk.
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 Re:Building wealth (Score 1) 202
"Besides not having the option of owning a home, which was doable for a lot of people in the post WW2 era, many people don't have any retirement savings except Social Security. And there are also far too many Americans who are a paycheck or two away from homeliness. People are buying groceries on credit, which is insane."
This is mostly not true. The purchase power, even for poor people, has never been higher. Poor people make bad choices in life, that's why they are poor, not for lack of money. E.g., don't have kids until you have a stable housing situation, are established on the job market and/or finished an education. Don't drink alcohol, smoke or eat take away food until you have a couple of months income saved. Start saving money when you live cheaply with your parents. Etc etc.
How many of the people you describe in the quoted paragraph do you think followed these very simple advices?
Comment Re:Welcome to the Uber/WalMart economy (Score 1) 202
There is no such thing as capitalism, see https://dagens-fel.livejournal... . Stop spreading myths. Stop be ignorant.
Besides, the so called problems you describe are handled by competition, both about customers as well as employees. And children are their parents' responsibility. Duh!
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.
