Comment Vanity project? (Score 1) 26
I wonder if Virgin Galactic will be anything other than a doomed vanity project to compete with the likes of Blue Origin's tourist capsule?
Comment Time for the CBCDs (Score 1) 13
They'll probably announce that only a British CBDC can trade or validate NFTs
Comment Now that the technology horse is out ... (Score 1) 18
let's close the barn door.
Comment Advanced? (Score 1) 17
The FCC may have just advanced the industrialization of space.
Advanced? LOL, They just created another hoop companies will have to go through. Gov't committee's don't advance anything.
Submission + - Crazy alternatives to batteries for grid energy storage (newyorker.com)
silverjacket writes: A feature in this week's issue of The New Yorker highlights current efforts to use gravity, heat, momentum, air pressure, and other methods to store large amounts of energy for the electricity grid. It's essential for solar and wind power, which are intermittent.
Submission + - Gizmodo publishes massive new leaked trove of internal Facebook papers (gizmodo.com) 1
DevNull127 writes: Big scoop from Gizmodo today: for the first time, "We are publishing the Facebook papers"
As part of an ongoing project to make these once-confidential records accessible to the general public, Gizmodo is today—for the first time—publishing 28 of the documents previously exclusively shared with Congress and the media.
We have undertaken this project to help better inform the public about Facebook’s role in a wide range of controversies, as well as to provide researchers with access to materials that we hope will advance general knowledge of social media’s role in modern history’s most troubling crises...
Today’s release is the first of a series of posts from Gizmodo to be published in tandem with legal and academic partners. Our goal is to minimize any costs to individuals’ privacy and any furtherance of other harms while ensuring the responsible disclosure of the greatest amount of information in the public interest possible...
Future releases will be added to this page, a directory, that will eventually offer our readers links all of the leaked internal documents we have published.... Click here to read all the Facebook papers we've published so far.
As part of an ongoing project to make these once-confidential records accessible to the general public, Gizmodo is today—for the first time—publishing 28 of the documents previously exclusively shared with Congress and the media.
We have undertaken this project to help better inform the public about Facebook’s role in a wide range of controversies, as well as to provide researchers with access to materials that we hope will advance general knowledge of social media’s role in modern history’s most troubling crises...
Today’s release is the first of a series of posts from Gizmodo to be published in tandem with legal and academic partners. Our goal is to minimize any costs to individuals’ privacy and any furtherance of other harms while ensuring the responsible disclosure of the greatest amount of information in the public interest possible...
Future releases will be added to this page, a directory, that will eventually offer our readers links all of the leaked internal documents we have published.... Click here to read all the Facebook papers we've published so far.
Comment Re:Why? (Score 2) 2219
5-digiter here and avid reader since nearly the beginning. Few comments since there are far smarter people in the forum than me.
1. Comments are king. We can get the stories anywhere.
2. See #1. More whitespace = less comments we can get to. Kill the overkill on whitespace.
3. See #1. Eye-candy = more noise-to-signal. To paraphrase James Carville, "It's the commentor's info stupid."
4. See# 1. Keep comments rankable, nestable, and filterable by rank. Don't want to see the trash.
5. To paraphrase God and/or Google "Don't be evil." Slashdot's ancestry is right there with the web itself, and the open source and Linux communities. Selling info and linking logins to FB, Twitter, etc. is an abomination.
Comment Re:just leave (Score 2) 845
Just leave? Love the quote about Google Glass voyeurs: "already facing a preemptively hostile environment"
Some people think secretly filming people is a pre-emptively hostile act.
Comment Re:I Was a Victim of a Series of Accidents ... (Score 1) 1521
I've been a long-term reader and like everyone else, am sad to read about Rob's departure.
Rob's biggest contribution by far is the community he and others created here. I mostly lurk given that I'm by far nowhere near the level of expert you encounter here so often, But I've learned more useful tips and been pointed in the right direction by
Thanks to Rob and the entire community.
BTW, seeing your reference to John Katz made me LOL. That shared history (the good AND the bad) is an integral part of
DOJ Opposes Extending DOJ Copyright Authority 141
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The White House has opposed the bipartisan bill that would create copyright cops on the grounds that it would cause the Department of Justice to end up 'serving as pro bono lawyers for private copyright holders.' And while they do occasionally prosecute criminal copyright infringement, they have no intention of dabbling with civil cases because, 'taxpayer-supported department lawyers would pursue lawsuits for copyright holders, with monetary recovery going to industry.' At this rate, the discovery of winged suiformes would appear to be imminent."
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