In other news today...
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Oops. Laws of physics not broken after all.
Researchers could control for vibrations, thermal fluctuations, resonances, and other potential sources of thrust, but they weren’t quite able to shield the device against the effects of Earth’s own magnetic field.
The researchers have tentatively concluded that the effect they measured is the result of Earth’s magnetic field interacting with power cables in the chamber, a result that other experts agree with.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/388790-sinkhole-develops-on-white-house-lawn
Hmmm. Someone's digging too deeply into a story?
Or the swamp is actually draining.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/388790-sinkhole-develops-on-white-house-lawn
Hmmm. Someone's digging too deeply into a story?
Or the swamp is actually draining.
Or the Devil is calling in his debts.
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It's Melania's escape tunnel.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
As long as he keeps doing the right thing I can live with that.
Let me know when he does the right thing, since I have yet to see it. I'll wait.
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@twelvebaud said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
As long as he keeps doing the right thing I can live with that.
Let me know when he does the right thing, since I have yet to see it. I'll wait.
I guess you just need to pay attention to the news, then.
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Government having problem complying with order to ditch Kaspersky software because it's in a bunch of hardware like routers, hardware firewalls, etc. which they have no budget to replace.
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https://www.om.nl/actueel/nieuwsberichten/@103183/update-criminal/
They've managed to identify the specific launcher that carried out the attack and the Russian army unit it belongs to and are now looking for witnesses willing to leak additional information about it.
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@boner said in In other news today...:
Not "its litter police," it's "the litter police they've contracted out to a third party." Who aren't interested in those littering, only those smoking but can't find anywhere to dispose of their butts because the council have removed all the ashtrays.
Edit: The B&D mentioned here is the Blackburn/Darwin council mention above.
I fired off an FOI request to B&D council and asked exactly what they had issued [£75] fines for in the last six months.
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Litter – black bag = 2 Litter – cigarette = 4113 Litter – food = 16 Dog fouling = 26 Litter – other = 110 Litter – printed material = 9 Smoke free = 151
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If it was just about litter, if it was only about 'taking back the streets for law abiding citizens', why would Kingdom also be involved in enforcing smoking bans in indoor spaces and vehicles?
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We are taking steps to avoid this from happening in the future.
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Coincidentally enough, a few days ago my phone offered to add my home as a "trusted place".
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Coincidentally enough, a few days ago my phone offered to add my home as a "trusted place".
This feature has never seemed to work for me in the first place.
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@boomzilla I've never used the location feature, but the bluetooth one works for me whenever I connect to my wireless headphones or car.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Coincidentally enough, a few days ago my phone offered to add my home as a "trusted place".
This feature has never seemed to work for me in the first place.
It's worked for me, but not always consistently. I just use finger-print unlock most of the time. I used to have it set to my smart watch, but stopped once I got a fingerprint unlock phone (Pixel 2).
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False alarm people!
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@brisingraerowing that's like, three more letters to type. Fuck that
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
Government having problem complying with order to ditch Kaspersky software because it's in a bunch of hardware like routers, hardware firewalls, etc. which they have no budget to replace.
Why was Russian anti-virus software approved in the first place?
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@gąska Probably because Kaspersky (at least for a time, it's been quite a while since I've dealt with it, and even then I only dealt with the consumer-level stuff) was the least obnoxious and had one of the best detection rates with low enough false positives of anti-virus products.
Either that or they bought hardware with their detection engines and stuff built into it.
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@gąska said in In other news today...:
Why was Russian anti-virus software approved in the first place?
Probably because nobody realised an antivirus software needs security clearance in the first place. Or realised and dismissed it because .
@e4tmyl33t said in In other news today...:
Probably because Kaspersky (at least for a time, it's been quite a while since I've dealt with it, and even then I only dealt with the consumer-level stuff) was the least obnoxious and had one of the best detection rates with low enough false positives of anti-virus products.
Definitely waaaay better than the BitDefender PoS we got instead (the company I subcontract for is not government, but elected to also ditch Kaspersky after that controversy—and has a network-wide policy that all computers require standard antivirus, which applies to subcontractors too).
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@anotherusername That's pretty cool. Although, for consistency, the fine people of the garage should be asking "are we pardoning murderers next?"
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Parent for life
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Good. Let's get these unconstitutional checkpoints shut down forever.
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
Let's get these unconstitutional checkpoints shut down forever.
At least, it's not too hard to ignore them
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@timebandit The guy in the article was thrown in jail with no charges for 3 hours for not complying. Maybe it's an Arizona vs. Texas thing, I dunno.
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Translated to Canadian, that’s a price difference of approximately $59.44. In Canada, the Nintendo Switch costs $399.99, so a Switch that’s $60 is certainly an attractive prospect.
It sure is, even better than a Switch that's only $60 cheaper.
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@hungrier Is Canada on New Math now, too?
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@anotherusername We call it "Common Coure"
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor as if "life of author plus eight thousand years" wasn't bad enough, apparently "public domain" now means "not public domain".
Not really. This isn't actually a new thing: even if a composition is in the public domain, a performance of it generates its own copyright and a recording of that performance isn't in the public domain.
Indeed, not only a performance but even a publisher's specific presentation of the sheet music has its own copyright. For example, I just grabbed some Handel flute sonatas I was looking at the other day (remnants from my school days) and the sheet music carries a 1932 copyright date.
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@scarlet_manuka and that's relevant how?
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@anotherusername The quote under discussion from the article was this:
Archives with recordings of music from the 1930s or 1940s would now have to clear permission before streaming their musical content even if the underlying work was in the public domain.
Just because the underlying work is in the public domain doesn't mean the recording of a performance of it is in the public domain; this is not new.
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@scarlet_manuka when they say "underyling work", they mean "the recording of a performance of it". Congress invented a new "right to control copies of recordings on any digital platform" which would apply even if the work was in the public domain. So to use a public domain recording, they would first need to obtain permission[from whom?].
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@anotherusername If that's true, I certainly agree that it's stupid. I didn't interpret it that way from the Wired article, but I couldn't be bothered reading further, so I'm not going to insist my interpretation is correct.
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
@timebandit The guy in the article was thrown in jail with no charges for 3 hours for not complying. Maybe it's an Arizona vs. Texas thing, I dunno.
And completely unrelated to the constitutionality of the checkpoints.
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Surprised it took this long, frankly.
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Intellivision is coming back
https://venturebeat.com/2018/05/29/intellivsion-lives-tommy-tallarico-will-relaunch-1980s-console/
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@heterodox And in Related Links, from one month ago...
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Not sure if garage-material (or, for that matter, "news"):
https://venturebeat.com/2018/05/29/paypal-game-livestreaming-explodes-but-female-streamers-are-less-likely-to-get-paid/So what? As someone pretty left-wing myself: if that's not a perfect example of "that's the free market, sucks for you" I don't know what is.
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@twelvebaud It's almost as if "Autopilot" is a misleading name that encourages people to think it is a full self-driving system!
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@scarlet_manuka said in In other news today...:
It's almost as if "Autopilot" is a misleading name
They should rename it Autocrashalot
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
They should rename it Autocrashalot
I love that knight in Spamalot.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
So what? As someone pretty left-wing myself: if that's not a perfect example of "that's the free market, sucks for you" I don't know what is.
Considering like 2/3rds of the women doing game streaming are just taking a break from being camwhores, I really have no problem with this. You know any money they're getting is from a horny 14-year-old who's hoping they take their tops off in the next video.