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There's already some virtual surround technology available, but I guess this is a more advanced version. Or maybe just an Apple-ified one
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
There's already some virtual surround technology available, but I guess this is a more advanced version. Or maybe just an Apple-ified one
where have i seen this before with apple stealing some tech and claiming they invented it before......? I wonder.........
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
I don't want to have to check labels for elevated estrogen levels, in addition to all the other crap food has already.
Sugar thread is
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@hungrier virtual_haircut.mp3
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
steer clear or any and all things "vegan".
That shouldn't be necessary. Many perfectly normal things, like fresh fruit and vegetables, are vegan. However, avoiding things labelled vegan is highly advisable.
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@Vixen I wish the Supreme Court stretched their Alice decision about patent ineligibility to cover not just "X, but in software" and "X, but on a computer", but also things like this: "Holosonics, but on a laptop".
Who wants to bring the patent examiner's attention to the patent the US military filed in the 1960's, the research papers from the 1980's, or the products that came out in the 2000's and are still being sold today? If they have even half a brain they might decide "on a laptop" isn't so innovative after all.
(Fake edit: The patent (10,524,080) has already issued. And it's basically "put sound sources in 3D space" and "mix sounds from 3D space into one stereo output, using a computer." Like QSound did in the early '90's or Creative had been doing forever until like Windows 7. Damn it to hell...)
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
steer clear or any and all things "vegan".
That shouldn't be necessary. Many perfectly normal things, like fresh fruit and vegetables, are vegan. However, avoiding things labelled vegan is highly advisable.
Hence the quotes.
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@boomzilla there’s parking spots in NYC?! Didn’t see any.
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@Buddy said in In other news today...:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/29/world/middleeast/shah-iran-chase-papers.html
Conspiracy theorists are going to go nuts about this one, they've been saying the Rockefellers conspired with the Shah to advantage Reagan for ages.
Big 48 hours in Iran news, eh?
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An Arkansas-based telemarketing firm sent home more than 300 employees and told them to find new jobs after IT recovery efforts didn't go according to plan following a ransomware incident that took place at the start of October 2019.
Yay for ransomware!
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@ChaosTheEternal said in In other news today...:
That's a pretty old trick.
- Give stuff for free.
- Charge people for it.
- Say 'oops, sorry' and give money back, but only to those that complain.
There's also optional step 3a:
Keep the money for a time before giving it back, keep interest gained.With subscription service you can do it perpetually, just charge random people twice a month from time to time.
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
Keep the money for a time before giving it back, keep interest gained.
They're still getting interest?
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@ChaosTheEternal
Except...“We’ve identified a billing error where some wireless customers may see a line item for Media & Apps reflected on their bill,” David Weissmann, a Verizon spokesperson, said. “This amount is not being charged to the customer’s bill total. No customer action is needed; we are working to remove the incorrect line item.”
And if you look at the screenshot in TFOB/TFA, that's literally what's happening - the total is the monthly charge plus the late fee, with no actual billing for Disney+
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
Keep the money for a time before giving it back, keep interest gained.
They're still getting interest?
Sure, put money on some account, give it back after a month, interest stays.
It may be pennies, but if you do it on a large scale it amounts to something. Doesn't really matter how little, it's free money.
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
Keep the money for a time before giving it back, keep interest gained.
They're still getting interest?
Sure, put money on some account, give it back after a month, interest stays.
It may be pennies, but if you do it on a large scale it amounts to something. Doesn't really matter how little, it's free money.It also improves their cash flow, which has other benefits that aren't as obvious as earned interest, which is after all what someone pays you for being able to use your money.
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What could possibly go wrong?
Longer article:
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
The company promises its Preventive Health tool is private. Should users trust it?
are the users PAYING for the service?
If yes, then
if no, then
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@Vixen said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
The company promises its Preventive Health tool is private. Should users trust it?
are the users PAYING for the service?
If yes, then
It's still FaceBook, so the best option remains
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
@Vixen said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
The company promises its Preventive Health tool is private. Should users trust it?
are the users PAYING for the service?
If yes, then
It's still FaceBook, so the best option remains
Pssssst! I was being "diplomatic"......
also it's facebook anyway so really we're in the second branch of that decision tree, not the first.
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Did someone say "revolutionary new battery technology" for the hundred and fiftieth time?
At least they acknowledge how it sounds:
If you follow tech news a lot, you may be looking at this new battery tech with a healthy dose of skepticism. Crazy new battery technologies turn up all the time but never seem to get to market.
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@Dragoon INB4 Jon Deere suing them for
copyright violationendangering their tractor-as-a-service business.
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Imagine only having to charge your phone once every five days, or an electric vehicle (EV) with a 999km range.
I know, I am so sick of having to recharge my electric car every 500km like a chump.
Also couldn't they make that battery 0.1% bigger and make it an even 1000km?
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
Imagine only having to charge your phone once every five days, or an electric vehicle (EV) with a 999km range.
I know, I am so sick of having to recharge my electric car every 500km like a chump.
Also couldn't they make that battery 0.1% bigger and make it an even 1000km?
Just wait for Apple to make the car 0.1mm thinner.
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@remi said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Boeing builds the best flying machines
At a briefing, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said it was too early to know if another test flight would be needed before flying astronauts.
“I’m not ruling it out,” Bridenstine said on whether the next Starliner might carry crew or go empty.Had astronauts been on board, they may have been able to take over, correct the problem, and get the capsule to the space station, he said.
Yes, because Boeing has a sterling record of building machines where pilots can easily take back control and make sure the machine flies in the right direction.
:sarkmark:
"Because our cheap-ass flight control system fucked up bigtime and killed a couple hundred people, we must increase the number of things on a plane that are controlled by our cheap-ass flight control system" is apparently considered perfectly cromulent reasoning at BoeingBoeing HQ:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/max-crashes-strengthen-resolve-of-boeing-to-automate-flight-11577816304
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Psychics at work for Lockeed-Martin:
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
Also couldn't they make that battery 0.1% bigger and make it an even 1000km?
If they could to the first they could probably do the second.
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
PsychicsBad graphing at work for Lockeed-Martin:AFAICT the last actual data point used for the graph before the red line is at the "low" level, and the first data point at an elevated level is just about where the red line is; the slope is just an artifact of using straight lines to connect these points. So some people simply got the news very quickly and acted on it immediately, which is just business as usual for stock markets.
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@ixvedeusi said in In other news today...:
@LaoC said in In other news today...:
PsychicsBad graphing at work for Lockeed-Martin:AFAICT the last actual data point used for the graph before the red line is at the "low" level, and the first data point at an elevated level is just about where the red line is; the slope is just an artifact of using straight lines to connect these points. So some people simply got the news very quickly and acted on it immediately, which is just business as usual for stock markets.
And probably a feedback effect from stock market bots making it an even faster reaction.
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@JBert
and something something GDPR
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
"Because our cheap-ass flight control system fucked up bigtime and killed a couple hundred people, we must increase the number of things on a plane that are controlled by our cheap-ass flight control system" is apparently considered perfectly cromulent reasoning at BoeingBoeing HQ:
Actually sort of yes¹. The planes crashed because of an ugly hacky computer kludge haphazardly slapped into the system late in the design to mask² differences in aerodynamic behaviour compared to the previous variant in a rather strange way. While their aircraft that are controlled completely by computer designed from the start as a coherent system (777, and 787) are flying well and have excellent safety record.
So adapting the system already tested on 777 to the new 737 would improve safety, and quite likely also maintenance cost. It just probably wouldn't get common type rating, which was an important goal, and which is why they added the ill-fated MCAS so semi-secretly, because if the risk analysis was done really honestly, it should have prevented the common rating too.
¹ I didn't check their exact argument, because the article is paywalled.
² Because it does not actually compensate for it, just counter it with a different effect. At high angle of attack the larger engines cause shift of centre of pressure and pitch-up moment, so the system ads some nose-down trim to counter it. However the pitch-up moment goes away when the angle of attack decreases again, but the trim does not return to the initial position. The more correct way would be to add some nose-down force to the feel and centering unit, but that would have been a bigger redesign, because that is purely hydromechanical system, so a new valve would have to be added, while the trim already has electric motor, so adding a switch to the power line there was easy.
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@ixvedeusi said in In other news today...:
@LaoC said in In other news today...:
PsychicsBad graphing at work for Lockeed-Martin:AFAICT the last actual data point used for the graph before the red line is at the "low" level, and the first data point at an elevated level is just about where the red line is; the slope is just an artifact of using straight lines to connect these points. So some people simply got the news very quickly and acted on it immediately, which is just business as usual for stock markets.
The first significant uptick was 24h earlier, and it looks like the graph has 1h resolution.
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@ixvedeusi said in In other news today...:
@LaoC said in In other news today...:
PsychicsBad graphing at work for Lockeed-Martin:AFAICT the last actual data point used for the graph before the red line is at the "low" level, and the first data point at an elevated level is just about where the red line is; the slope is just an artifact of using straight lines to connect these points. So some people simply got the news very quickly and acted on it immediately, which is just business as usual for stock markets.
The interesting movements are those on the day before, not from the minutes at around the time of the event. The previous day's prices are definitely looking to be at a higher level than prior, as if there is an elevated level somehow. Itd be hard to say much more without knowing when the decisions were taken, specifically when the decision to assassinate was taken, and when the decision to go to the president with the option to assassinate was taken. It is the latter that is particularly interesting, though the former might be too (given that the extremity of the action was apparently surprising).
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
I didn't check their exact argument, because the article is paywalled.
this one isn't paywalled, and is actually a fairly good explanation of what MCAS was on the plane to do in the first place, and why it was on the plane at all if it didn't actually need to be there for the plane to be a good and stable flying plane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ1DseELk-I
also he's a great podcast to listen to to fall asleep to. very soothing voice.... unless you're afraid of flying or otherwise prone to flying related nightmares....... >_>
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@LaoC said in In other news today...:
"Because our cheap-ass flight control system fucked up bigtime and killed a couple hundred people, we must increase the number of things on a plane that are controlled by our cheap-ass flight control system" is apparently considered perfectly cromulent reasoning at BoeingBoeing HQ:
Actually sort of yes¹. The planes crashed because of an ugly hacky computer kludge haphazardly slapped into the system late in the design to mask² differences in aerodynamic behaviour compared to the previous variant in a rather strange way. While their aircraft that are controlled completely by computer designed from the start as a coherent system (777, and 787) are flying well and have excellent safety record.
So adapting the system already tested on 777 to the new 737 would improve safety, and quite likely also maintenance cost. It just probably wouldn't get common type rating, which was an important goal, and which is why they added the ill-fated MCAS so semi-secretly, because if the risk analysis was done really honestly, it should have prevented the common rating too.
OK - so I suppose that means that increasing automation for existing old-style models, which airlines keep buying instead of the 777 etc. because they've sunk a lot of money in pilot training and don't feel like re-training the pilots, would be likely another hack, even if we assume they wouldn't try and cut costs by using non-redundant systems. Meanwhile increasing automation in the already highly computer controlled models may well be a win in several respects, but that's completely independent of the 737-MAX disaster, especially if clients are not going for these models because certification.
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Some space news for the day:
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
A trio of escaped pigs wandered into a supermarket
Did they have "1", "2", "4" written on them, to make everyone waste time searching for pig #3?
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
A trio of escaped pigs wandered into a supermarket
Did they have "1", "2", "4" written on them, to make everyone waste time searching for pig #3?
No. There actually were four pigs in the family that featured in the story with the Big Bad Wolf, but since the wolf was defeated by the House of Bricks in chapter three (after first demolishing the House of Straw and the House of Sticks), we never got to see what the fourth little pig considered a suitable building material.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Some space news for the day:
New evidence shows that the key assumption made in the discovery of dark energy is in error
High precision age dating of supernova host galaxies reveals that the luminosity evolution of supernovae is significant enough to question the very existence of dark energy
The text (most of it) at the link is in English.
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Though it should be noted that “make money” in the context of this article appears to be gross revenue, rather than the more traditional “profit”. Then again, I suppose that’s the conventional definition for the 21st century unicorn market
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
Though it should be noted that “make money” in the context of this article appears to be gross revenue, rather than the more traditional “profit”.
That would just look even more lopsided in favor of the airpods, I'm sure.
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@izzion I'm surprised that Shopify is in there. I was under the impression they've been making money hand over fist for years
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The phishing lure starts with a link that leads to the real login page for a cloud email and/or file storage service. Anyone who takes the bait will inadvertently forward a digital token to the attackers that gives them indefinite access to the victim’s email, files and contacts — even after the victim has changed their password.