Comment Two proposed alternatives (Score 4, Interesting) 127
Two proposed alternatives broke cover today:
https://www.thecvefoundation.org/
https://gcve.eu/news/
https://www.thecvefoundation.org/
https://gcve.eu/news/
Comment Oh, please. (Score 1) 9
You've been flogging this dead horse for almost four years. Shut up or prove it works.
Submission + - Don Bitzer, Creator of Greatest Computer Network You Never Heard Of, Dead at 90 2
theodp writes: No newspaper obit yet, but Brian Dear writes on Mastodon: "Wow...end of an era. Dr. Donald L. Bitzer, creator of the PLATO system, and co-inventor of many key technologies like the AC gas-plasma flat-screen display, passed away yesterday at 90. Don was the main person I wrote about in my book The Friendly Orange Glow. No words. RIP, Don." In a separate email, Dear added, "I never ever met a more generous, supportive, enthusiastic person in the world. [..] He was an inspiration to us all, and to the world, which he made a better place."
The late film critic Roger Ebert reported on PLATO's potential to deliver online learning to homebound students in a 1962 article he wrote for the News-Gazette while still in high school. In a 1981 appearance on the Phil Donahue Show, Bitzer demoed some of PLATO's capabilities to a studio audience, including bit-mapped graphics on a flat-screen plasma panel, back-projected color images for storytelling, touch input (infrared), speech (English and Swedish), computer-generated music with animated notes, texting over the PLATO network, email, screen sharing, and primitive text-to-animation prompting. Bitzer also describes his vision of the future, which included households connected to a "world wide network" ("probably within the next 5-10 years"), autonomous cars (in 30-60 years), AI, digital libraries, and cloud computing.
PLATO, as VIce reported, was the greatest computer network you've never heard of. And that includes the likes of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, who marveled that his kids could code online in 2014, unaware that 650 students were learning programming online with Don Bitzer's PLATO at the Univ. of Illinois during the Spring 1975 semester (Duncan was a 1987 Harvard grad).
The late film critic Roger Ebert reported on PLATO's potential to deliver online learning to homebound students in a 1962 article he wrote for the News-Gazette while still in high school. In a 1981 appearance on the Phil Donahue Show, Bitzer demoed some of PLATO's capabilities to a studio audience, including bit-mapped graphics on a flat-screen plasma panel, back-projected color images for storytelling, touch input (infrared), speech (English and Swedish), computer-generated music with animated notes, texting over the PLATO network, email, screen sharing, and primitive text-to-animation prompting. Bitzer also describes his vision of the future, which included households connected to a "world wide network" ("probably within the next 5-10 years"), autonomous cars (in 30-60 years), AI, digital libraries, and cloud computing.
PLATO, as VIce reported, was the greatest computer network you've never heard of. And that includes the likes of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, who marveled that his kids could code online in 2014, unaware that 650 students were learning programming online with Don Bitzer's PLATO at the Univ. of Illinois during the Spring 1975 semester (Duncan was a 1987 Harvard grad).
Comment Hurry up (Score 2) 1
Erythrosine is restricted as a food additive in the European Union, China, and the United Kingdom.
sauce: Erythrosine
Submission + - FDA may outlaw food dyes 'within weeks': Bombshell move would affect candy, soda (nbcnews.com) 1
schwit1 writes: The Food and Drug Administration will decide on a ban of certain food dyes in the coming weeks after receiving a petition to review the safety of Red 3, NBC News reports.
“With Red 3, we have a petition in front of us to revoke the authorization board, and we’re hopeful that in the next few weeks we’ll be acting on that petition,” Jim Jones, the deputy commissioner for human foods at the FDA, said during a Senate meeting this week, per NBC.
According to the FDA, the agency has reviewed the safety of Red 3 —which is derived from petroleum and found snacks, beverages, candy and more — in food and drugs “multiple times” since it was first approved in 1969, but the petition has requested for the additive to be reviewed once more.
While the FDA has stated that food dyes are safe and do not pose health risks, the dye was banned from topical drugs and cosmetics in 1990.
“With Red 3, we have a petition in front of us to revoke the authorization board, and we’re hopeful that in the next few weeks we’ll be acting on that petition,” Jim Jones, the deputy commissioner for human foods at the FDA, said during a Senate meeting this week, per NBC.
According to the FDA, the agency has reviewed the safety of Red 3 —which is derived from petroleum and found snacks, beverages, candy and more — in food and drugs “multiple times” since it was first approved in 1969, but the petition has requested for the additive to be reviewed once more.
While the FDA has stated that food dyes are safe and do not pose health risks, the dye was banned from topical drugs and cosmetics in 1990.
Comment Re:B*ll*cks. (Score 1) 315
No, they're not. They're to appeal to 13 year olds and the morons that write car reviews devoured by them.
Comment B*ll*cks. (Score 1) 27
B*ll*cks to that overrated blog
Comment B*ll*cks. (Score 3, Insightful) 315
B*ll*cks to fake engine noise. And b*ll*cks to that overrated blog known as The Verge.
Comment Re:Anti Drone Kernel DLL's (Score 1) 45
Literally loud out laughed.
The veal: Try you should.
Comment Re:Anti Drone Kernel DLL's (Score 1) 45
What computer doesn't use the von Neumann architecture?
The Non Veumann ones?
I'll get me coat.
Comment FTFY: (Score 1) 3
WorldÃ(TM)s oldest âoeNews For Nerdsâ website still doesnâ(TM)t understand Unicode.
Comment Torygraph paywall (Score 1) 1
Submission + - CrowdStrike abuses DMCA in attempt to take down parody site (clownstrike.lol)
Subsentient writes: CrowdStrike has attempted a DMCA takedown notice of parody site clownstrike.lol, a site which is clearly and obviously covered by the parody purposes for fair use in United States copyright law.
Submission + - Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to US servers (stackdiary.com)
schwit1 writes: This discovery involves the Linksys Velop Pro 6E and Velop Pro 7 mesh routers. During routine installation checks, Testaankoop detected several data packets being transmitted to an Amazon server in the US. These packets included the configured SSID name and password in clear text, identification tokens for the network within a broader database, and an access token for a user session, potentially paving the way for a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack.
Submission + - Polyfill.io Supply Chain Attack (qualys.com)
protehnica writes:
The polyfill.js is a popular open-source library that supports older browsers. Thousands of sites embed it using the cdn[.]polyfill[.]io domain. In February 2024, a Chinese company (Funnull) bought the domain and the GitHub account. The company has modified Polyfill.js so malicious code would be inserted into websites that embedded scripts from cdn.polyfill[.]io. Any script adopted from cdn.polyfill[.]io would immediately download malicious code from the Chinese company’s site. Some of the known outcomes are:
- user would be redirected to scam sites,
- allows an attacker to steal sensitive data,
- potentially perform code execution.
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