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Comment Re: at the very lest ban forced TV and ban hardwar (Score 1) 64

i meant to edit not post... ", and tenants who have an area where they have exclusive use, such as a balcony or patio, in which to install the antenna. " So this rule still precludes many rental structures and I have legally stopped the install of the antenna on my property roofs. The tenant must be willing to have the dish placed on a pole/post not on the housing unit.

Submission + - China Harassing Americans in World's Largest Disinformation Campaign (cnn.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Chinese government is engaged in the world's largest known online disinformation campain to harass US residents, politicians and businessness. Targets have been threateneted with violence and called racist and homophobic slurs. The campaign has been identified as an effort to drive the vitctims into a state of constant fear and paranoia.

Victims of this online harassment have spoken to law enforcement, to include the FBI, but little has been done. Social media companies have shut down thousands of accounts related to the harassment campaign, but the efforts of these compaines have been outpaced by new accounts emergening almost every day.

This type of online harassment is known as "spamouflage" or "dragonbridge" and has spread across every major social media platform. Victims of this harassment include critics of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as well as policitics who are at odds with China's interests and that portray the CCP in a negative light.

Submission + - CubeSat Rocket Thruster Is So Small It Has To Be Made Like Microchips (newatlas.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Imperial College is developing a rocket thruster called the Iridium Catalysed Electrolysis CubeSat Thruster (ICE-Cube Thruster) that is so small that it can only be fabricated using techniques originally designed for making silicon chips. The entire thruster chip is about the length of a fingernail, with the combustion chamber and nozzle only measuring 1 mm long. It also requires only 20 watts of electric current to operate and in a test campaign generated 1.25 millinewtons of thrust at a specific impulse of 185 seconds on a sustained basis. To put that into perspective, that's half a billion times less thrust than the engines used on the Space Shuttle.

However, the party trick of the ICE-Cube Thruster is that it uses ordinary water as its propellant, which is about as non-explosive and non-flammable as you can get. Onboard electric current creates electrolysis to break down the water into hydrogen and oxygen, which is fed into the combustion chamber to ignite, generating thrust to maneuver the CubeSat. Using water is not only very green, it also reduces payload because no pressurization is needed to store it, so storage and handling systems can be lighter and simpler. However, fabricating the combustion chamber and nozzle for the thruster in what is essentially two dimensions required taking a page from microelectronics by using the Micro-Electrical Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technique normally employed for machining silicon wafers for processors to sub-micrometer tolerances.

Comment So did everyone gloss over the UL listing? (Score 4, Interesting) 86

by schivvers (#62144673) Attached to: New Solar Shingles Can Be Nailed In Place
These things are actually rated as SHINGLES! I do a lot of home renovation and building (2nd business) I can say the UL listing for the shingles themselves is worth something. No more..install a roof then puncture said roof to install the solar...then wait to see if there are leaks...then repair. This is fantastic. only my 2 cents.

Submission + - End of Open-Source (techcrunch.com)

Submitted by joshuark
joshuark writes: Shaun O’Meara on TechCrunch is foreseeing the end of open source from the attempts to "sneak" in malicious code into open source projects.

The end of open-source? Or more turning the page to the next chapter in open-source; the issues of contributing, review, and integrating into open-source code base.

JoshK.

Submission + - Biden Says Platforms Like Facebook Are 'Killing People' With COVID-19 Misinforma (theverge.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The White House escalated its fight against vaccine misinformation on Friday, with President Biden directly criticizing Facebook and other platforms for allowing vaccine misinformation to spread — and consequently raising the ongoing death toll from the deadly pandemic. Asked for a message to platforms like Facebook, Biden replied, “They’re killing people ... the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated, and they’re killing people.” The White House did not immediately respond to a request for clarification of the president’s comments. The full exchange is embedded [here].

Submission + - Huawei ex-director on trial in Poland on China spying charge (apnews.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: "According to the Gazeta Wyborcza daily, the indictment is partly classified, but its public section alleges that Wang is a Chinese intelligence agent and from 2011-2019 sought high-ranking contracts for Huawei that would give the Chinese company insight into, and influence over, state and local government data systems in Poland.”

Submission + - I need suggestions for rugged ARM systems 7

Submitted by pecosdave
pecosdave writes: I need suggestions for commercially made ARM systems that will work in temperature ranges from -35F to 140F (-37C to 60C) for an engineering project. These things are going to be in metal boxes on the side of Texas Highways. The existing Intel systems we're using in other areas are all fan-less, but I'm not going to rule out systems with fans. Considering the extremes of Texas temperatures I'm actually contemplating putting fans on top of our fan-less systems anyways.

Almost everything I can find pre-made with ARM is a bare board, or something not nearly as temperature tolerant as some Intel systems I can find. The very nature of an ARM processors should be more tolerant simply because they produce less heat, but I can't seem to find any manufacturers exploiting that fact.

Comment Re:Hope they don't walk to public school (Score 1) 784

by schivvers (#48829401) Attached to: Parents Investigated For Neglect For Letting Kids Walk Home Alone
came to reply with something along these lines...but got side tracked whilst logging in. Thanks for trying to remind someone that diversity is a word that has many different meanings depending upon the context that it is used. Take for example: "I have diversity in my portfolio." This could mean I hold many different types of investments or properties. Or I could have many different pictures of different types of animals or people in a portfolio. Or it could mean I have a huge folder with many different people in it....if i were warped. Knee jerk responses like the race fueled tripe above reveal more about the responding individual than they do of the original post. In lay terms....jump off a bridge swilden.

Comment Another reason to fire up the shredder (Score 3, Interesting) 264

by schivvers (#46115983) Attached to: Federal Agency Data-Mining Hundreds of Millions of Credit Card Accounts
You are not required to carry a credit card. I am currently working on achieving a FICO score of 0. Life can and will go on without debt for me. Yes, I can get a mortgage without a FICO score...it requires manual underwriting, go to a smallish bank and you can do it. meh...another reason do remove myself from that plastic run economy.

Comment I forgot the chart from the article/pdf above (Score 1) 189

by schivvers (#44333699) Attached to: Collision Between Water and Energy Is Underway, and Worsening
The Numbers 96% of corn used for ethanol production is not irrigated 785 gallons water per gallon of ethanol (average crop irrigation) 3-4 gallons water per gallon ethanol (dry grind production) 1.9-6 gallons water per gallon ethanol (conceptual cellulosic production) 2-2.5 gallons water per gallon gasoline (petroleum refining) 0.6 gallons water per kilowatt-hour (coal-fired power plant) ds

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