Comment Re:That's normal (Score 1) 89
In the photos I don't see kids, I see lots of adults all with smartphones in front of their faces recording "THE EXPERIENCE".
Submission + - Basic Rust support merged for upcoming Linux 6.1 (phoronix.com)
sabian2008 writes: This Monday the first set of patches to enable Rust support and tooling was merged for the upcoming Linux 6.1 . Quoting Linus the man himself
The tree has a recent base, but has fundamentally been in linux-next for a year and a half. It's been updated based on feedback from the Kernel Maintainer's Summit, and to gain recent Reviewed-by: tags. Miguel is the primary maintainer, with me helping where needed/wanted. Our plan is for the tree to switch to the standard non-rebasing practice once this initial infrastructure series lands. The contents are the absolute minimum to get Rust code building in the kernel, with many more interfaces[2] (and drivers — NVMe[3], 9p[4], M1 GPU[5]) on the way. The initial support of Rust-for-Linux comes in roughly 4 areas: — Kernel internals (kallsyms expansion for Rust symbols, %pA format) — Kbuild infrastructure (Rust build rules and support scripts) — Rust crates and bindings for initial minimum viable build — Rust kernel documentation and samples
Submission + - UK's First Nuclear Fusion Plant To Be Built By 2040 (bbc.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A power station has been chosen to be the site of the UK's, and potentially the world's, first prototype commercial nuclear fusion reactor. Fusion is a potential source of almost limitless clean energy but is currently only carried out in experiments. The government had shortlisted five sites but has picked the West Burton A plant in Nottinghamshire. The plant should be operational by the early 2040s, a UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) spokesman has said. The government had pledged more than 220 million pounds for the STEP (Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production) program, led by the UKAEA.
The Local Democracy Reporting Service said the project would replace the coal-fired power station site — owned by French energy giant EDF — which is set to be closed this year. Matt Sykes, managing director of EDF's Generation business, said: "We are absolutely delighted that the UKAEA has selected the West Burton site in Nottinghamshire to host the UK's first fusion reactor. "The area has been associated with energy generation for over 60 years. Developing such an exciting new project continues this tradition and has the potential to transform both the region and the UK's long-term energy supply."
The Local Democracy Reporting Service said the project would replace the coal-fired power station site — owned by French energy giant EDF — which is set to be closed this year. Matt Sykes, managing director of EDF's Generation business, said: "We are absolutely delighted that the UKAEA has selected the West Burton site in Nottinghamshire to host the UK's first fusion reactor. "The area has been associated with energy generation for over 60 years. Developing such an exciting new project continues this tradition and has the potential to transform both the region and the UK's long-term energy supply."
Comment Assumed our company key got disabled, wasted morn (Score 4, Interesting) 271
I wasted a few hours on this insanity this morning.
My final solution (tried many options) was to use some tools from Ratborus.
KMS Clean to remove my existing key, and then W10 Digital Activation with KMS38 option.
It now says:
Windows(R), Professional edition:
Volume activation will expire 1/18/2038
Now where do I send an Invoice to Microsoft for wasting my morning on this BS?
If you need a copy of KMS Tools Portable, it's here
https://www.solidfiles.com/fol...
The password is part of the filename, so for the latest version:
KMS_Tools_Portable_01.11.2018_password_1234567890987654321.7z
The password is 1234567890987654321
Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Which motherboard manufacturer provides the best support? 2
Hrrrg writes: A number of years ago, I built a computer with an Asus LGA 1150 Z87-Pro motherboard. Since the discovery of the Spectre and Meltdown CPU flaws, I was hoping for a BIOS update to address them. However, it seems that there will be no BIOS update forthcoming for this 5 year old motherboard. I would prefer not to repeat my mistake with future builds. Can you recommend another manufacturer that is doing better?
Submission + - "Father of GPS" receives the IEEE Medal of Honor today (eetimes.com)
dkatana writes: A former paperboy from Wisconsin passionate about maps led the team in the Air Force responsible of designing the navigation system we use everyday.
From IoT Times:
'At the IEEE honors ceremony today in San Francisco, Bradford Parkinson, a retired Air Force colonel who spent his life between maps and navigation systems, will be awarded the 2018 IEEE Medal of Honor, “For fundamental contributions to and leadership in developing the design and driving the early applications of the Global Positioning System.”'
The current Global Positioning System (GPS) did not exist until 1995, just 22 years ago, and the engineer who led the project for the US Department of Defense (DOD) was Mr. Parkinson.
From IoT Times:
'At the IEEE honors ceremony today in San Francisco, Bradford Parkinson, a retired Air Force colonel who spent his life between maps and navigation systems, will be awarded the 2018 IEEE Medal of Honor, “For fundamental contributions to and leadership in developing the design and driving the early applications of the Global Positioning System.”'
The current Global Positioning System (GPS) did not exist until 1995, just 22 years ago, and the engineer who led the project for the US Department of Defense (DOD) was Mr. Parkinson.
Submission + - SPAM: Referendum to Split Calif. Into 3 States Will Be on Ballot
schwit1 writes: One of several proposals aiming to split California into multiple smaller states has reportedly reached an important new goal thanks in large part to the efforts of its billionaire champion.
According to a press release this week, the CAL 3 initiative surpassed the number of signatures needed to present the measure to voters in this year's election. If state officials determine the documents are genuine, it would then qualify as an initiative to be added this November.
Link to Original Source
According to a press release this week, the CAL 3 initiative surpassed the number of signatures needed to present the measure to voters in this year's election. If state officials determine the documents are genuine, it would then qualify as an initiative to be added this November.
Link to Original Source
Comment Re:GOOGLE, STOP. *GOOGLE* STOP. (Score 1) 52
I do like WhatsApp, but it does NOT have a desktop client, and does NOT have a web client.
The pseudo desktop client actually links to your phone, so you must keep WhatsApp active on your phone to use the Desktop app.
Same with web client, it's just an echo of the phone app.
Also you cannot have more than one desktop/web client active at a time, frustrating.
Comment Been using tttthreads.com for months, works better (Score 2) 47
The domain has changed, not tttthreads.com anymore, but still works fine:
https://threadreaderapp.com/
Not limited to 25 messages, not controlled by twitter.
Submission + - New Amiga to go on sale in late 2017 (theregister.co.uk)
An anonymous reader writes: From Apollo Accelerators, emerged last week: the company's forthcoming “Vampire V4” can work as a standalone Amiga or an accelerator for older Amigas.
Submission + - High-density flash storage coming to the data center (theinquirer.net)
Guy Smiley writes: Intel is planning to deliver high-density flash "rulers" to allow up to a petabyte of storage in a 1U enclosure.
Submission + - Chrome Extension Developers Under a Barrage of Phishing Attacks (bleepingcomputer.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Google's security team has sent out warnings via email to Chrome extension developers after many of them have been the targets of phishing attacks, some of which have been successful and resulted in crooks taking over extensions. These phishing attacks have come into the limelight this past week when phishers managed to compromise the developer accounts for two very popular Chrome extensions — Copyfish and Web Developer.
The phishers used access to these developer accounts to insert adware code inside the extensions and push out a malicious update that overlaid ads on top of web pages users were navigating. Initially, this looked like a passing problem, but new evidence reveals these attacks have been going on for the past 2 months, since mid-June. Last week, after the hijacking of the Web Developer Chrome extension, Google's security team sent warnings via email to all Chrome extension developers to be on the lookout for this new tactic.
The phishers used access to these developer accounts to insert adware code inside the extensions and push out a malicious update that overlaid ads on top of web pages users were navigating. Initially, this looked like a passing problem, but new evidence reveals these attacks have been going on for the past 2 months, since mid-June. Last week, after the hijacking of the Web Developer Chrome extension, Google's security team sent warnings via email to all Chrome extension developers to be on the lookout for this new tactic.
Comment Re:MPC-BE (Score 4, Informative) 139
MPC-BE is still under active development, you can see some minor updates from 15 hours ago (new version of libpng)
https://sourceforge.net/p/mpcb...
The Doom9 support thread is still active
https://forum.doom9.org/showth...
V0lt is still active on the MPC-BE support forum (need google translate unless you can read Russian):
http://mpc-be.org/forum/index....
Submission + - CNN critic who posted on Reddit may have been threated with revealing identity (theintercept.com) 16
evolutionary writes: CNN appears to be giving veiled threats at a Reddit user who posted critical comments about the media giant. After an apology was given by the Reddit user (possibly under fear upon discovering CNN had his identity) CNN stated "CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change."
Comment Vanity Sizing - now in men's clothes (Score 2) 105
Used to be Vanity Sizing only messed up the woman's clothing market. But now it's infected men's clothing as well.
Phrases like "relaxed fit" are only the first clue. There are now all kinds of tricks to telling what the actual size will be. If you see any kind of adjustments or elastic you can be sure they will be super oversized to make men feel better about their growing girth.
All this makes it brutally hard to buy clothes that fit based on measurements!
The sad part is, I don't think we can turn back. Consumers love the idea of wearing a smaller size than their real measurement, so like the marching morons with their speedometers that lie, we keep buying the vanity sizing.
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