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@dkf The headline doesn't match the text.
The text says the guy they were giving the "joy ride" to was part of the range staff/crew/whatever, and that it was a necessary job function of his to understand how tank gunnery worked (and thus come along).
In any case it reminds me of a quote from a US tanker I saw awhile back: "Tanks are machines designed to kill people. They don't much care if the people are inside or outside the armor".
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@zecc said in In other news today...:
By using this one simple trick, malware authors can achieve code execution on even the most hardened Windows 10 PCs.
FTFCB
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@topspin The obvious solution is to delete any contacts you don't want to your photos sent to. Why would you have someone in your contact list unless you want to share everything with them?
Filed under: What do you mean, there are some pictures you don't want to share with your mom?
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@boner That'll teach them to attach those trakers with better straps!
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@Boner Stork supper and free distance calling, now that's a deal!
Edit: now I'm on desktop I can fix the damn post.
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@boner TRWTF: "20 hours' worth of phone calls" ... "over 10,000 Polish zloty ($2,700; £2,064)"
$2,700 / 1200 minutes = $2.25 a minute...
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@anotherusername Remember all journalists are lazy hacks.
I bet that includes the data cost of the entire time the SIM card was on the bird too.
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
I bet that includes the data cost of the entire time the SIM card was on the bird too.
And I bet the bird use a lot of data, what with being in the cloud.
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@pjh I mean from just that little image, it looks about right to me. The dumb expression certainly didn't change.
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@hungrier Is it possible to write anything, anything at all, about the 7th planet in our solar system without making a juvenile scatological joke?
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@hardwaregeek
That seems like a shitty, unfun premise. Do you have a stick up your anus?
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@hardwaregeek said in In other news today...:
@hungrier Is it possible to write anything, anything at all, about the 7th planet in our solar system without making a juvenile scatological joke?
You must be forgetting what site you're reading...
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@dcon No, but I was thinking of the purportedly serious journalists there. But then I noticed that three of them were all from Metro and realized "serious journalism" was not applicable.
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They aren't even trying to hide it anymore.
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From reading the headline I assumed that "very specific cases" included "whenever they want", but
According to a July 3rd, 2018 Google blog post written by Google Cloud’s director of security, trust and privacy Suzanne Frey, “no one at Google reads your Gmail, except in very specific cases where you ask us to and give consent, or where we need to for security purposes, such as investigating a bug or abuse.”
The reality seems to be "Whenever users ask us, or give us permission, or whenever we can make up an excuse"
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@hardwaregeek said in In other news today...:
@hungrier Is it possible to write anything, anything at all, about Uranus without making a juvenile scatological joke?
FTFY.
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@cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
Newsflash: Historically, there was no such thing as "Political Correctness". People just said whatever the fuck they wanted.
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
Newsflash: Historically, there was no such thing as "Political Correctness". People just said whatever the fuck they wanted.
I'd like to introduce a country named "Japan" as a counter example.
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@rhywden said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
Newsflash: Historically, there was no such thing as "Political Correctness". People just said whatever the fuck they wanted.
I'd like to introduce a country named "Japan" as a counter example.
Go back in history far enough...
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Go back in history far enough.
Cavemen just told everybody what they thought?
Oempf!
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@luhmann said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Go back in history far enough.
Cavemen just told everybody what they thought?
Oempf!
Whaglbaghlar!!
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Heatwave day 704:
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
Could you or someone explain the significance of the numbers
−1.06828
1969439
142e−19
?
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@tharpa The link to the previous article in the article about the fix explains it:
Try this: Fire up the Windows calculator and ask it to compute √4 − 2. The answer is not zero. It's −1.068281969439142e−19.
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@tharpa said in In other news today...:
Could you or someone explain the significance of the numbers
−1.06828
1969439
142e−19
?They're about one smallest bit of significance in an IEEE double precision float when the MSB is involved in specifying a number on the scale of, say, 2. In other words, the algorithm they've been using to generate the square root of 4 was very slightly out (probably not enough iterations in the newton-raphson convergence sequence). Normally, the default printing options hide those errors, but when you then subtract an exact integer it exposes the inaccuracy…
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@boner From the 3rd picture in the article, it looks like that area had already been patched 2 times.
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breaksselectively reinterprets the law to extend a program authorized for enlisting Resident Aliens so that it also includesillegal invadersDACA "recipients", hopefully providing them with a fast track for citizenship. - DACA enlistees can't pass a background check and thus are ineligible to attend boot camp and thus never become full enlistees, but Obama era Army keeps them on the rolls anyway.
- Trump era Army purges rolls of potential enlistees that can never join the Army due to aforementioned inability to pass a background check.
- The #Resistance notes how the sky is now falling due to an EVIL RACIST!!!!11eleven
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@izzion The only problem with your narrative is the fact that it doesn't affect only DACA enlistees.
An Iranian citizen who came to the U.S. for a graduate degree in engineering told the AP that he enlisted in the program hoping to gain medical training. He said he had felt proud that he was “pursuing everything legally and living an honorable life.”
Carry on.
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@rhywden said in In other news today...:
@izzion The only problem with your narrative is the fact that it doesn't affect only DACA enlistees.
An Iranian citizen who came to the U.S. for a graduate degree in engineering told the AP that he enlisted in the program hoping to gain medical training. He said he had felt proud that he was “pursuing everything legally and living an honorable life.”
Carry on.
That's not a problem with what he posted at all.
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The picture is of the statue at the NYNY casino in Las Vegas.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
An Iranian citizen [...] enlisted in the program hoping to gain medical training. [...]
,,, but not to gain US citizenship?
It's inherently a security violation to have non-US citizens in the US military. And the US military is not (and should not) be in the business of subsidizing the college educations of the rest of the world. Even the relatively wealthy US of A doesn't have that much money.
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@rhywden
It doesn't really surprise me that there are other people getting caught up in works once a re-evaluation was forced by operating the program outside of the parameters it was designed for.Same reason that you don't ever do anything untoward with that really nice server in the back that you've had running Quake for a while... gotta make sure the boss never has a reason to wonder what's under that pile of cobwebs...
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@rhywden
It doesn't really surprise me that there are other people getting caught up in works once a re-evaluation was forced by operating the program outside of the parameters it was designed for.There's also the issue that the DoD itself states that there were no changes since 2017.
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Good news for once:
I'm not the only freak who enjoyed this weird-ass cartoon about a death metal red panda accountant.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
In other words, the algorithm they've been using to generate the square root of 4 was very slightly out (probably not enough iterations in the newton-raphson convergence sequence).
They were using
exp(½ ln x)
.@dkf said in In other news today...:
They're about one smallest bit of significance in an IEEE double precision float when the MSB is involved in specifying a number on the scale of, say, 2.
It's actually strange, because the binary values for the next double-precision float larger than 2 should be
0 10000000000 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001
and the next float less than 2 should be
0 01111111111 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
However, those produce 2.0000000000000004 and 1.9999999999999998 (respectively), and subtracting 2 produces 4.440892098500626e-16 and -2.220446049250313e-16.
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
Good news for once:
I'm not the only freak who enjoyed this weird-ass cartoon about a death metal red panda accountant.
You're not. My wife loves it. :P
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
The picture is of the statue at the NYNY casino in Las Vegas.
So the reason it's a $3.5 million mistake is because the sculptor sued the USPS demanding a share of the profits.
First of all, I'd love to know how they figured that the USPS made $70 million in "profit" on the stamp. The stamp itself is a worthless token; what you're really buying is the service which that stamp represents. You pay 50 cents, and you receive a token for 50 cents worth of service; there is no profit in this transaction. Now, you could say that the artist deserves to be paid because the post office makes a profit on the actual service, i.e. mail delivery -- but does it? No, the US post office operates at a loss.
But anyway, I would think the USPS would have a pretty solid case to counter-sue the stock photography site where they bought the photo, since apparently the stock photo site sold them a photo that it didn't actually have the rights to.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
It's inherently a security violation to have non-US citizens in the US military.
I wouldn't go that far. There are services foreign nationals provide to the military that are difficult to impossible to source inside the United States (for many reasons, pay probably being one of them, but that's a whole different discussion). And there are some cases in which all potentially disqualifying conditions are or can be mitigated. There are some exceptional and loyal foreign nationals serving our country without issue.
So it's not inherently a security violation. But as the adjudicative guidelines say, "Any doubt as to whether access to classified information is clearly consistent with national security will be resolved in favor of the national security" (emphasis added). Any findings of fact regarding foreign influence or preference (the first of which I believe was used as an example in the article) that aren't sufficiently mitigated are absolutely grounds for an unfavorable determination; unfortunately, for MAVNI recruits, that means they're grounds for a discharge as well.
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@heterodox I think that distinction might be the difference between working in the military versus working for the military.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
But anyway, I would think the USPS would have a pretty solid case to counter-sue the stock photography site where they bought the photo, since apparently the stock photo site sold them a photo that it didn't actually have the rights to.
What if they didn't buy it but just cropped out the watermark?
You know it makes sense because it explains the extreme close-up.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@heterodox I think that distinction might be the difference between working in the military versus working for the military.
That's where I start getting out of my depth. I'm unsure if the MAVNI program extended to civilians and I'm sure there are reasons they're enlisted rather than hired (such as needing them to be subject to the UCMJ) but I'm not privy to those.