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@TimeBandit Maybe he has a TV in his bathroom?
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@TimeBandit If I watch TV at all, it's usually a DVD.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat Then I hope that when you watch TV, you make sure to stay in front of it for every commercial break.
Going to the bathroom is theft !
I watch the BBC. Checkmate
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit If I watch TV at all, it's usually a DVD.
Skipping the previews is theft.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
The robots are not armed.
Whew!
They don't need to be:
Last year, one of [them] knocked over a 16-month-old child at a Silicon Valley shopping center. The robot ran over the boy's right foot, causing bruising but not breaking it.
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
Knightscope, which is based in Mountain View, charges $7 per hour for the robots
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This one goes up to 400,000,000.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla I wanted to upvote your post, but have this instead:
There are certainly those who would think that upvoting a post by boomzilla is an invalid data error.
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@boomzilla I'd be sceptical if the studio claimed it made $179 in 22 minutes, let alone 22 years, given how popular that film became.
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In old news years ago that I just read today...
Coworkers testified that the younger man was extremely drunk and inhaling nitrous oxide, known as Whip-Its, outside the building. When he switched Michael Jackson’s Wanna Be Startin‘ Somethin to a dubstep track and proceeded to dance, Magisa, who was pouring himself champagne, decided something had to be done.
Not only that, but also
On the stand, the younger man denied being violent. However, he was contradicted by witnesses who testified he engaged in a spree of violence months earlier at the office Christmas party, including sneaking up behind two men separately as each used a urinal, poking his finger in one man’s eye and smacking the other man’s head against the wall. The complaining witness, when questioned on the stand about the urinal incidents, characterized his conduct as “utterly hilarious.”
Magisa had been friendly to the young man previous to the Christmas party, including inviting him to his home for Thanksgiving. At that gathering, witnesses testified, the younger man offered to go on a beer run, only to get into a wrestling match with a homeless person on the way to the liquor store.
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@hungrier The story doesn't say, but I'll bet the defense made the jury listen to some dubstep, too.
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
As the article points out:
The problem (aside from this being illegal and destructive) is that the type of person that's likely to go out and purchase a poorly-secured "gee whiz" IOT device or router without considering security -- is the same type of person that's not going to understand why that device just stopped working for no coherent reason. As a result, they're likely to rush out and buy another, poorly-secured device, bringing the incompetence full circle with a zero net gain.
But actually it's worse than merely a zero net gain, because it means the poorly secured devices get artificially inflated sales, creating even more of an incentive for manufacturers to not give a rat's arse about security.
@dcon said in In other news today...:
Isn't that pretty much the definition of how an arms race works? Next up would be ads that are so sneaky that this can't block them... (The article does make the point that regulations requiring ads to be labelled as such can be exploited for this purpose, so this may be an arms race with one side handicapped. But I can imagine admakers finding sneakier ways to get the required text up there.)
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
If it's using computer vision to detect the ad, isn't it already too late to block it?
It sounds like it's not actually computer vision as such (unsurprisingly). More to the point, nothing says it has to show an ad to the user before deciding whether to block it. In fact:
Another technique that was not used but was proposed to hide the ad blockers' activities is even more impressive. They are able to "create two copies of the page, one which the user sees (and to which ad-blocking will be applied) and one which the publisher code interacts with, and to ensure that information propagates between these copies in one direction but not the other."
Certainly an interesting concept.
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
Skipping the previews is
theftimpossible on an annoyingly large number of DVDs.Particularly annoying when it's a preview of another DVD that you already own.
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in In other news today...:
As the article points out:
The problem (aside from this being illegal and destructive) is that the type of person that's likely to go out and purchase a poorly-secured "gee whiz" IOT device or router without considering security -- is the same type of person that's not going to understand why that device just stopped working for no coherent reason. As a result, they're likely to rush out and buy another, poorly-secured device, bringing the incompetence full circle with a zero net gain.
But actually it's worse than merely a zero net gain, because it means the poorly secured devices get artificially inflated sales, creating even more of an incentive for manufacturers to not give a rat's arse about security.
More likely the "broken" devices would be returned as defective, for refund or replacement.
By the time the manufacturer figured out that they were, in fact, being maliciously destroyed, they'd already be out a pretty sizeable chunk of money, and the customers could still argue that the damage was in fact the result of a manufacturer's defect; it happened because the devices had defective security protocols.
In any case, some good samaritan hacking devices to fix them definitely does not create incentive for either the manufacturers producing shitty devices or the customers buying them to give a rat's arse about security. Why should they care, if someone's going behind them and fixing their shit for free?!!
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
some good samaritan hacking devices to fix them definitely does not create incentive
I agree with you there. We need to find some way of setting up the correct incentives but I don't know what that would be.
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
Skipping the previews is
theftimpossible on an annoyingly large number of DVDs.Particularly annoying when it's a preview of another DVD that you already own.
Some of us have devices that let us do what we want with content that we've paid for. There's no such thing as "unskippable" previews when I'm playing DVDs in my laptop using VLC.
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
some good samaritan hacking devices to fix them definitely does not create incentive
I agree with you there. We need to find some way of setting up the correct incentives but I don't know what that would be.
Bricking the devices actually is a pretty good incentive.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
There's no such thing as "unskippable" previews when I'm playing DVDs in my laptop using VLC.
You're a thief !
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
There's no such thing as "unskippable" previews when I'm playing DVDs in my laptop using VLC.
You're a thief !
No, I prefer the term "pirate".
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@Rhywden Perhaps. I'm not so confident. In particular, at best I see it resulting in adding security to the precise extent of "what's the cheapest and fastest thing we can do to mitigate whatever exploit is current now". This might still be better than what we have now, but I don't see any way to drive it towards devices that are actually designed with security in mind. Furthermore, I expect any devices that are designed with security in mind to be driven out of the market in a rush to the bottom.
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@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@RaceProUK I'd love to see an analysis of that by someone who understands the QM behind it. The abstract in the paper goes over my head completely
Lemme take a whack at it. (Because I like doing stuff like this, not because I understand what they're talking about.)
@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
A negative effective mass can be realized in quantum systems by engineering the dispersion relation. A powerful method is provided by spin-orbit coupling, which is currently at the center of intense research efforts. Here we measure an expanding spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate whose dispersion features a region of negative effective mass. We observe a range of dynamical phenomena, including the breaking of parity and of Galilean covariance, dynamical instabilities, and self-trapping. The experimental findings are reproduced by a single-band Gross-Pitaevskii simulation, demonstrating that the emerging features—shock waves, soliton trains, self-trapping, etc.—originate from a modified dispersion. Our work also sheds new light on related phenomena in optical lattices, where the underlying periodic structure often complicates their interpretation.
Bold is up to the point I got lost
We can make stuff appear to have negative mass by controlling how the stuff is spread out. We do this by linking two subatomic qualities together, which is being researched a lot right now. If we do that linkage in a super-mega-ultra-
lightnin' babecold material that is spreading out in a certain way, part of it looks like it has negative mass. We saw a bunch of stuff when we did this, including a change in how the "spin" and motion of the particles seem to relate, an irregular change in the frames of reference so that things didn't correspond or change in a way that we thought they would, an end to the actions that we expected to continue, and the number of particles across different areas that were separated by insulators did not appear to change via quantum tunneling. We could reproduce what we thought we saw or didn't see by doing a lot of math that works out and shows that the new stuff we saw (a pile-up of waves, sequences of self-sustaining waves, and static regional particle populations) had to have come from a different structure than what we started with. What we did also helps simplify the explanation of how particles that are held stationary by the super-complicated patterns created by lasers that cross each other can still be affected by quantum interactions, like tunneling (but we wanted to use a light pun to say it).The stuff in
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Did someone say NEWS
http://www.fox26houston.com/home/249593291-storyAIUI, biting a dog's folded ear is an effective way to teach an aggressive canine that you're bigger and stronger then he is, IOW, that you're the 'alpha'.
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@chozang said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla I wanted to upvote your post, but have this instead:
There are certainly those who would think that upvoting a post by boomzilla is an invalid data error.
After all, you can't vote for yourself...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@chozang said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla I wanted to upvote your post, but have this instead:
There are certainly those who would think that upvoting a post by boomzilla is an invalid data error.
After all, you can't vote for yourself...
Let's see if I remember I posted this screenshot a year from now.
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@Tsaukpaetra No, bookmarks are for remembering where things you're already thinking about are.
You're thinking of scheduled alerts.
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Dates are hard
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Casteel succeeded in returning to his home, where he grabbed two cans of Bud Ice Premium, cops say.
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A police spokesperson charitably described Casteel’s devotion to his suds as “poor judgment.”Indeed.
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The suit can currently fly uninterrupted for around 10 minutes.
Meaning it's already leaps ahead of the more traditional jetpack, which can typically manage about a minute at best.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
http://mississippiherald.com/jackson-husband-wife-shocked-dna-test-reveals-biological-twins/
Technically, the dna test reveals they are biological siblings. The fact they are twins is based on the dna in combination with knowledge of their birthdates.
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Nick Troller‽ Hahahaha!
"For basically the entirety of this country's history, indigenous peoples have been forcibly assimilated through extremely destructive ways," said Moran. "The residential schools forcibly assimilated indigenous peoples, the 60s Scoop. Assimilation has dramatically impacted indigenous ways of life and being in this country."
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
http://mississippiherald.com/jackson-husband-wife-shocked-dna-test-reveals-biological-twins/
At the bottom of the article:
(pasted image because the wankers disabled text selection - and I'm too lazy to try tweaking that)
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Nick Troller‽ Hahahaha!
"For basically the entirety of this country's history, indigenous peoples have been forcibly assimilated through extremely destructive ways," said Moran. "The residential schools forcibly assimilated indigenous peoples, the 60s Scoop. Assimilation has dramatically impacted indigenous ways of life and being in this country."
And another such story at the end:
In Nova Scotia, a man named Lorne Grabher lost his plate with his last name on it, after a person complained, the government saying some people could interpret it as promoting violence against women.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Casteel succeeded in returning to his home, where he grabbed two cans of Bud Ice Premium, cops say.
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A police spokesperson charitably described Casteel’s devotion to his suds as “poor judgment.”Indeed.
As a general rule of thumb, taking action based on a song from the Dr. Demento Show isn't the best idea in real life.
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And this is why broadband modems should be bridges, and use a purpose built router for managing your connection tables.
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From this fortnight's Private Eye
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
http://mississippiherald.com/jackson-husband-wife-shocked-dna-test-reveals-biological-twins/
Fake news
TLDR: there's no source except for an online only paper with no contact information and no stories before the 10th of April
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@Jaloopa That Mirror link leads to a 404 page
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@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
http://mississippiherald.com/jackson-husband-wife-shocked-dna-test-reveals-biological-twins/
Fake news
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/viral-story-married-couple-who
TLDR: there's no source except for an online only paper with no contact information and no stories before the 10th of April
Do fraternal twins even have more similar DNA than ordinary brother/sister?
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
Do fraternal twins even have more similar DNA than ordinary brother/sister?
No, because they are just an ordinary pair of siblings. Fraternal twins happen when a woman's ovaries accidentally release two eggs at once, and both get fertilized. (Identical twins happen when a single fertilized egg's early-stage cell division screws up and it splits into two completely distinct fetuses with identical DNA.)
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@masonwheeler Yeah, that's what I thought.
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
@Jaloopa That Mirror link leads to a 404 page
Don't know what you're talking about...
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@Jaloopa What I find truly sad about this is this sentence:
However, suspicions were quickly raised by readers online who could find no evidence of a newspaper called the Mississippi Herald.
In other words, the Mirror openly admits they didn't bother fact-checking the story before publishing.
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@loopback0 That's already covered under UCMJ art 133 (for officers) or 134 (basic catchall for enlisteds...)
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@masonwheeler To be fair, you can be certain without testing that the same milkman fertilized both eggs in the case of fraternal twins
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@Yamikuronue OK, not gonna touch that one with a ten-inch pole...
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@Yamikuronue said in In other news today...:
@masonwheeler To be fair, you can be certain without testing that the same milkman fertilized both eggs in the case of fraternal twins
You might think so, but no...