I'm just picturing "comic book guy" from The Simpsons as the stereotype nerd putting his back just trying to lift the server, never mind throwing any distance at all other than maybe dropping it on his toes!
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Olympic-level server tossing contest seeks entrants – warranty voiding guaranteed
Russia plans to put a nuclear reactor on the Moon – with China's help
The final paragraph of the article says it.
Just why would the Chinese want to share with the Russians? Their space program seems to be doing fairly well as it is. Whether it's simply "standing on the shoulders of giants" or stealing what they want to help kickstart the technology doesn't really matter, they are doing it. I'd much rather hope they stop the sabre rattling though. I do worry they might decide to "do a Putin" if or when they feel the time is right. Xi seems to be going against Chinese tradition and be in a hurry to immortalise himself.
Re: A sample of what now?
"Rockets aren't exactly the bee's knees for reliability."
A production rocket blowing up before reaching orbit is pretty rare these days. There's only been one human rated/crewed failure during launch and only two human rated/crewed failures during re-entry. (Soyuz 11 may count as a 3rd, but that happened during undocking).
IP address X-posure now a feature on Musk's social media thing
Re: Peer to peer works this way
The news to me was that there may be video calling going via a host provider is is masking the IP addresses of the participants! Although thinking about it, that would be the easy way to intercept data for building profiles etc. Now I'm envisioning Google/Facebook/X data centres with masses of servers doing voice and facial recognition on live video calls, all in the name of "privacy".
Personally, I've never assumed privacy on the Internet ever since I first looked into how email worked and realised it was the equivalent of sending a message through the public mail system on a postcard, ie pretty much since I first got an internet connection.
World-plus-dog booted out of Facebook, Instagram, Threads
YouTube workers laid off mid-plea at city hall meeting
Re: Reality
"Employer: Don't like what's on offer? Look at the long line of people behind you, maybe one of them will like it....
Applicant: I'll take it."
Yes, Victorian England was very much like that too. But in the last 150 years, things have moved on rather a lot. It's been a struggle, and there have been conflicts, problems and suffering along the way, but overall we are in a much better place in terms of employment law, health & safety in the workplace etc. It's no longer acceptable to factor in employee deaths as "part of doing business".
Re: These were CONTRACTORS on the Day their Contracts Expired.
"Employers suddenly remembering why they wanted to offshore all the jobs in the first place. If your employer wants you to work from an office, you either do it, or you get another job. Or you be a whiny, entitled bitch about it and get the sack. Seems fair."
This would be the same employers who took "advantage" of work from home to employ people from a much wider catchment area, vastly increasing the competition for jobs and almost certainly in many cases depressing the salary levels at the same time, and now want those remote workers to commute 100's or even 1000's of miles to "the office". For those employees took on during covid when WFH was "here to stay", there is no "return" to the office. They never were based there. It's a considerable and significant change to their contract of employment which they are being forced to accept. In the UK and EU, that would be grounds for a "constructive dismissal" case, ie unrealistic and unreasonable contract changes.
Much of the above may or may not apply in this case, but it's part of the pattern, which is especially common under US employment laws where there is little to no protection on either side, but certainly far less so for the worker. The lack of protection, unfair employment contracts and "at will" is probably not great for small employers too since a worker can just walk out at any time and might be hard to replace to short notice.
Re: These were CONTRACTORS on the Day their Contracts Expired.
"Did they choose to be contractors (exchanging more money for less benefits) or was it their only option?"
If the article and video is to be believed, they were on $19/Hr, so I doubt that was a pay increase/benefit loss as contractors over employees.
And likewise, they already won court cases where Google was declared a joint employer due to the level of control Google had over the employees day to day activities.
Watchdog calls for more plugs, less monopoly in EV charging network
Re: Home charging is worse
"If the meter isn't going to be in charge of all this then I fail to understand what we are spending billions rolling them out for."
Because while it's currently cheaper to charge at home and a very few energy providers offer methods to make it even cheaper, at some stage the governemnt is going to want to replace all that lost fuel duty currently paid on petrol and diesel.
The VED or "road tax" starts for EVs next year;
New zero-emission cars registered on or after 1 April 2025 will be liable to pay the lowest first-year rate of VED (which applies to vehicles with CO2 emissions 1 to 50g/km) currently £10 a year.
From the second year of registration onwards, they will move to the standard rate, currently £180 a year
Zero emission cars first registered between 1 April 2017 and 31 March 2025 will also pay the standard rate
So, expect some form of "duty" or surcharge when charging an EV, even at home, and smart meters being mandatory.
Flying car biz Alef claims 3K preorders, still hasn't done a proper demo
Re: Flying car
"The problem is that it clearly isn't a car."
True. On the other hand and to be fair, the limited road speed isn't that relevant since the only places you are going to be road driving is places you can't fly, such as in a city or town where getting as fast as 30mph is a bit optimistic any way :-)
Cruise's valuation halved after its driverless car hit and dragged a woman
Legal eagles demand $6B in Tesla stock after overturning Musk's mega pay package
Re: Just asking for a dear friend .....
If the lawyers get their $6B in shares and the right to sell immediately, isn't that going to cause a dip in the share price and thus "deprive" their clients? And after "discovery" etc, during the case, could these lawyers be wanting that "sell now" caveat because they know something about Tesla and there might well be insider trading?
Meta kills Facebook News in the US and Australia
Re: Jellied TV
"True or False? Obviously it disagrees with the Met Office's own data."
And yet, in your own post from only a short while earlier you personally posted a quote stating:
"England and Wales had their warmest February on record this year, the Met Office said on Friday."
Which clearly shows they were reporting what the Met Office said, not making up a "lie". But, of course, in your post I'm replying to, you conveniently cut the end off your OWN quote to chang the context and reinforce your own "truth".
Re: What is news ?
"If you only get your 'news' from the Bbc,"
And there you go again, selectively quoting and implying I'm only using a single news source and therefore biased so you can build a straw man on a fake assertion when the facts were plainly in my post. Are you a politician or a 'terrorist'?
Re: What is news ?
"Perhaps I look at more news sources than you do,"
I don't see the relevance of that comment. You specifically called out the BBC, hence the reason I quoted you in my reply, and since that is one of the news sources I use and have seen the evidence proving your assertions incorrect, I thought it best to mention it instead of having you post incorrect information and letting it stand uncorrected.
Re: What is news ?
The Bbc has been pointedly ignoring the much larger protests across Europe against the EU's agricultural policies, or the way Polish farmers and truckers are currently blockading Ukraine."
Really? Both have been front page stories on the BBC site I look at. Maybe you're using a VPN and seeing to from the4 perspective of some random country where those stories are less prominent. Or just wilfully bi[blind to anything not fitting your own narrative.
The batteries on Odysseus, the hero private Moon lander, have run out
Re: Well USA, you learned an important lesson didn't you?
No, not really. SpaceX gets a fair bit of government/NASA funding but it's "free money", it's for specific tasks and/or missions, and interestingly, far, far less in most cases than the big incumbents. IIRC Boeing has had at least twice as much funding for Starliner as SpaceX got for Dragon and look where the two projects are now :-)
And yes, SpaceX had/has access to lost of NASA engineering and science research built up over decades. but then so has all of NASAs other partners and contractors. Boeing and the ULA group even have their OWN corporate R&D history going back decades and still manage to be over budget, over time and under performing. It's most likely top-heavy management rather than the engineers who just want to do the best job possible.
Cops visit school of 'wrong person's child,' mix up victims and suspects in epic data fail
I went to school with identical twins who both had the same first initial and no middle names. That caused enough issues even back then, 45 years ago when it was just "human error" and fairly easily fixed. I dread to think how fucked up it must be nowadays with computers involved. As we all know, it takes a computer to truly fuck things up.
Air National Guardsman Teixeira to admit he was Pentagon files leaker
They call me 'Growler'. I don't like you. Let's discuss your pay cut
It's that most wonderful time of the year when tech cannot handle the date
Re: That's just career-ending embarassing!
Not to mention that this must be a fairly new bit of software or at least has a had a major update in the last four years. I suspect the latter since it seems to be being used across a fairly wide range of customers. But either way, someone wrote or updated those date functions in the last four years or they'd have already been hit by it and fixed it in 2020.
"But I know why there are leap years and we cannot get rid of them. Most societies two millennia ago understood that and had figured out some method of handling it, so it should be pretty obvious how necessary it is."
Not really. In a strictly agricultural society without an easily accessible technology telling you what time of year to plant, some form of regular calendar that didn't slowly get out of synch with the seasons across the generations was vital, likewise where certain organised religions needed to exert control, but today, not so much. Without leap years, it would take ~700 years for the June/December seasons to entirely switch. Most people would barely notice the difference across their natural lifespan :-)
"Unless we alter the Earths orbit we are stuck with having to make periodic adjustments to keep the year aligned."
That's only because some of us care about it, usually for historical reasons Other calendar systems don't worry so much about when the "new year" starts in relation to the Earths position around the sun and a weird fixation on specific religious things happening on certain dates in relation to the seasons.. After all, Easter is pretty variable in when it happens already :-)
There's no real reason why we should not just decide that a "year" is 365 days and allow the calendar to slowly change such that "new year" moves in terms of our orbital position. Does it matter if December is in Winter or Summer[1]?
[1] No matter which hemisphere you are in :-)
Apple's Titan(ic) iCar project is dead as self-driving dream fails to materialize
FAA gives SpaceX a bunch of homework to do before Starship flies again
Re: They'll make it boring soon.
"the first train ride from Stockton to Darlington" was after many attempts to make a reliable steam locomotive, many of which previously exploded. They were pretty confident by the time the started letting people on, having run freight first since that was the primary objective. Carrying people was a "nice to have". And even then, life was cheap and a fair number of people died because steam locomotives exploded.
Living, and having been born, within a few miles of Stevensons locomotive works and only about 35-40 miles from the Stockton Darling railway, we learned a LOT about the invention of the steam locomotive at school, including the failures, explosions and disasters along the way. It was nothing like plain sailing or NASA-like development processes leading to a first time success.
Work for you? Again? After you lied about the job and stole my stuff? No thanks
Yes, the "doing" part of training is a very important stage. Much of the "training" we get these days is online presentations, only very rarely even "live" (by Teams/Zoom) with an actual person presenting, and then a multi-choice question/answer at the end. Mostly it's a case of rushing through the presentation as quickly as possible then completing the questionnaire while it's still fresh in the short term memory.
I came across a saying many years ago;
What I see, I forget.
What I read, I remember.
What I do, I understand.
Google co-founder Brin named a defendant in wrongful death complaint
Re: So, let me see if I get this
"a makeshift fuel bladder thingy that is not properly tested"
Adding "a [makeshift] fuel bladder thingy" is fairly common practice with standard kits. "I'll certainly grant you "not properly tested" through since that seems to be the primary cause of this sad accident.
Re: More than surprising
"Brin playing fast and loose with aviation safety for the sake of a few thousand bucks, at most? That's why this story strikes me as strange."
I'd not think he had all that much involvement other than to say "Someone arrange to have my aircraft flown over here". Assuming he owns and not leases the aircraft, the buck stops with him, but where aircraft maintenance and modifications are concerned, he'd not be expected to know or understand the minutia of what was done and/or needed to be done. I'm not defending him here, just saying I think if there is blame and fines/damages to be spread around, little of it is probably on him and mostly on the operators/contractors and "experts". On the other hand, if was putting pressure on people to get the aircraft there ASAP, then he'll have to take more of the blame/responsibility.
Nokia brainwave turns cell towers into cash cows with backup batteries
Dear Nokia...
...How about you take this a step further and offer your own backup infrastructure out for rent to 3rd parties? You know, all those servers and hard disks just sitting there costing money in depreciation and maintenance that you don't actually need 100% of the time? I'm sure you could take a quick backup just in time before a fire or other disaster hits. After all, when did you last need to restore from backup? Once or less per year? Think how much extra profit you could make by just backing up once per year and letting other people use the space the rest of the time.
Firefly software snafu sends Lockheed satellite on short-lived space safari
ChatGPT starts spouting nonsense in 'unexpected responses' shocker
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