Comment Well now (Score 2) 27
Analyzing 47,000 ChatGPT Conversations Shows Echo Chambers, Sensitive Data - and Unpredictable Medical Advice
I never would have expected THAT. No sirree Bob.
Comment Re:Look and feel (Score 1) 68
Could you end up with trying to install a not-so-great distro on a machine that has some unusual hardware? And have to take a dive into stuff? Sure. But that is the exception, not the rule, at least not in 2025.
And, to be fair, I've had friends and co-workers run into that sort of thing on Windows. Quite a lot.
Comment Re:Congratulations! (Score 1) 41
Somewhere out there a guy is getting a tattoo with the name of a girl he met in the last five hours while coked out if his mind.
Yeah - a smart guy waits at least seven hours...
Comment Re:Should have just used "password123"... (Score 2) 49
Jokes on you - the password was "Hunter2"!
Comment Re:In (Inevitable) future news ... (Score 1) 49
I'm pretty sure this was part of a Get Smart episode I saw back when I was a wee lad...
Comment Congratulations! (Score 3, Funny) 41
You've won "dumbest idea of the week"!
Comment Re:Wait - November is after September (Score 1) 305
So maybe they're planning to announce Acetaminophen will be considered a vaccine, going forward...
Comment Re:Bringing the Pain? (Score 1) 104
It sounds like Nokia, once a great company,
There's yet another thing we should "thank" Microsoft for...
Submission + - Newest Starship booster is significantly damaged during testing early Friday (arstechnica.com)
schwit1 writes: During the pre-dawn hours in South Texas on Friday morning, SpaceX’s next-generation Starship first stage suffered some sort of major damage during pre-launch testing.
The company had only rolled the massive rocket out of the factory a day earlier, noting the beginning of its test campaign said on the social media site X: “The first operations will test the booster’s redesigned propellant systems and its structural strength.”
That testing commenced on Thursday night at the Massey’s Test Site, a couple of miles down the road from the company’s main production site at Starbase Texas. However an independent video showed the rocket’s lower half undergo an explosive (or possibly implosive) event at 4:04 am CT (10:04 UTC) Friday.
Post-incident images showed significant damage, perhaps a crumpling of sorts, to the lower half of the booster where the vehicle’s large liquid oxygen tank is housed. Neither SpaceX, nor company founder Elon Musk, had commented on the failure within a couple of hours of its occurrence on Friday morning.
The likely loss of this vehicle, “Booster 18,” is significant for SpaceX. Although the company is hardware rich—indeed it has built a massive factory in South Texas to churn out such vehicles—it nonetheless had a lot riding on this rocket. This is the first Starship Version 3, which was intended to have many design fixes and upgrades from the previous iterations of Starship vehicles to improve the reliability and performance of the massive rocket.
The company had only rolled the massive rocket out of the factory a day earlier, noting the beginning of its test campaign said on the social media site X: “The first operations will test the booster’s redesigned propellant systems and its structural strength.”
That testing commenced on Thursday night at the Massey’s Test Site, a couple of miles down the road from the company’s main production site at Starbase Texas. However an independent video showed the rocket’s lower half undergo an explosive (or possibly implosive) event at 4:04 am CT (10:04 UTC) Friday.
Post-incident images showed significant damage, perhaps a crumpling of sorts, to the lower half of the booster where the vehicle’s large liquid oxygen tank is housed. Neither SpaceX, nor company founder Elon Musk, had commented on the failure within a couple of hours of its occurrence on Friday morning.
The likely loss of this vehicle, “Booster 18,” is significant for SpaceX. Although the company is hardware rich—indeed it has built a massive factory in South Texas to churn out such vehicles—it nonetheless had a lot riding on this rocket. This is the first Starship Version 3, which was intended to have many design fixes and upgrades from the previous iterations of Starship vehicles to improve the reliability and performance of the massive rocket.
Comment I wonder (Score 1) 34
Will the moss spores get gigantic and dangerous next, like the tardigrade did in Discovery?
Comment Re:Headline is wrong (Score 1) 31
Yup. My Samsung TV remote has this feature, and it works pretty well (as long as you don't lose the remote under the couch cushions for too long).
Comment Re:This is the end game (Score 3, Interesting) 305
You're wrong... in thinking Trump is the actual boss. In truth, Trump is basically just another "useful idiot", for the billionaires above him - some of whom serve on his cabinet.
Comment Wait - November is after September (Score 1) 305
Trump and RFK told us they were gonna announce the cause of autism "in September"... what's the hold-up? Is it listed in the Epstein Files?
Comment Re:Americans are stupid. (Score 1) 256
On the contrary, New York City has a new mayor.
There are plans afoot to indoctrinate young children with base-10
Comment Re:Too Simplistic (Score 1) 83
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