In other news today...
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
I’d just prefer if the menu contained the actual price.
What? You want them to include taxes in the listed price? What is this customer friendly heresy that you are proposing?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Yelisey Boguslavskiy, head of research at the cyber risk prevention firm Advanced Intelligence, said in a LinkedIn update on Monday that the backdoor also enabled REvil operators to decrypt workstations and files.
"Boguslavskiy"?
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A February survey by Japan's Consumer Affairs Agency found that 8.1 per cent of 5,000 respondents would hesitate to buy agricultural products from Fukushima due to continuing fears of radioactive contamination.
Thats a surprisingly small number considering
much of it now dominated by apparently indestructible radioactive boar/pig hybrids
It seems to me that almost 92% of respondents are expecting indestructible radioactive Japanese hybrids. I'm still waiting for my human cat hybrid Japan. Concentrate on that!
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I'm still waiting for my human cat hybrid
Hopefully with more human than cat personality.
Depending on how much you want to have unbittten, unscratched skin and stuff on tables and shelves.
There's also a joke here somewhere about where to go to dinner.
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Prolific, a tool for scientists conducting behavioral research, had no screening tools in place to make sure that it delivered representative population samples to each study.
Science™
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
Dozens of chips found in everything from electronic brake systems to airbag control units tend to rely on obsolete technology often well over a decade old.
Do they seriously expect us to redesign parts every few years for no benefit? Go through all the testing, debugging, safety analysis, etc...? There's not enough competent engineers on Earth for that.
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@acrow Yeah, totally self serving bullshit.
I bet China will have no problem to build "unprofitale" non-cutting edge fabs
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Do they seriously expect us to redesign parts every few years for no benefit?
It’s MODERN!!!!
Just wait ’til they hear about all those backwards barbarians still using 300 000 nm transistors with discrete 5000 000 nm packages.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Do they seriously expect us to redesign parts every few years for no benefit? Go through all the testing, debugging, safety analysis, etc...? There's not enough competent engineers on Earth for that.
What do you mean no benefit? The chip manufacturers can sell new shit and save money on not having to maintain old fabrication processes. That's all benefit!
Oh, did you mean for anyone other than the chip companies?
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Oh, did you mean for anyone other than the chip companies?
Well, the problem for the car manufacturers is that their supply chain doesn't give a shit they can't sell $50k cars because they can't source a $.50 chip for it. So there are potential benefits to be had.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
She was asked to empty her pockets and fanny pack — which had CO2 cartridges, a cigarette lighter and an item “containing a green, leafy substance she admitted to smoking that day,”
It all makes sense, now...
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I don't think we've had a witchcraft headline all year so I'll take it.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Oh, did you mean for anyone other than the chip companies?
Well, the problem for the car manufacturers is that their supply chain doesn't give a shit they can't sell $50k cars because they can't source a $.50 chip for it. So there are potential benefits to be had.
Oh, believe me, they do care. My company's order from NXP got pushed back by 12 months ( after waiting a 12 month lead time already ), while they serve the car manufacturers first.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
[...] and fanny pack — which had CO2 cartridges, a cigarette lighter [...]
What was she doing with CO2? No mention of an airgun. And cyclists probably don't carry more than 1 or 2. And she'd reportedly already tossed a couple.
Seriously, do youngsters try to get high on CO2 now, or something?
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
[...] and fanny pack — which had CO2 cartridges, a cigarette lighter [...]
What was she doing with CO2? No mention of an airgun. And cyclists probably don't carry more than 1 or 2. And she'd reportedly already tossed a couple.
Seriously, do youngsters try to get high on CO2 now, or something?
It's for breath play, I believe. A lot quicker for induce asphyxiation?
Just a guess though....
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
get high on CO2
"Dry ice" is really cold solid CO2. If you get the chance, take a deep breath of it. But make sure that you stand such that you won't fall (or injure when falling).
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
get high on CO2
"Dry ice" is really cold solid CO2. If you get the chance, take a deep breath of it. But make sure that you stand such that you won't fall (or injure when falling).
Or I could, y'know, poke a hole in a CO2 cartridge and take a sniff. (I've got plenty in stock for some airguns.) If I were that curious, that is.
But no, thanks, I have no desire whatsoever to either get CO2 narcosis or to freeze my lungs.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Oh, believe me, they do care. My company's order from NXP got pushed back by
1236 months ( after waiting a 12 month lead time already ), while they serve the car manufacturers first.FTFMe
**** my life in the ********** with a rusty **** ********.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
**** my life in the ********** with a rusty **** ********.
The Kink thread is
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Yay!
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@boomzilla Do they also have fist-fights at the gas stations?
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Yay!
The climate Malthusians get one step closer to starving us all back to the Stone Ages!
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LEAVE HIM THERE!
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THE BLOBS ARE MUSHY AND FILLED WITH GAS
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Of course I will not pay it back," he said. "The work is that I took the money and I will not give it back."
There's no reason for this to be as funny as it is.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Of course I will not pay it back," he said. "The work is that I took the money and I will not give it back."
There's no reason for this to be as funny as it is.
He's stealing my act. Not funny at all.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
under the title, Take the Money and Run.
In related news, wall street and similar places are considering suing the artist for infringing on their IP.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
The Star Trek star, 90, could soon become the oldest man to head into space,
At age 90, the physical stress of the launch could make it his final frontier.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
To save y'all the trouble of clicking-through, I suspect the intent was that the turn lights resemble the horizontal and diagonal elements of the flag. However, regardless of intentions, what they actually look like are arrows pointing the wrong direction. I.e., the left indicator is an arrow pointing right, and the right indicator is an arrow pointing left.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
To save y'all the trouble of clicking-through, I suspect the intent was that the turn lights resemble the horizontal and diagonal elements of the flag. However, regardless of intentions, what they actually look like are arrows pointing the wrong direction. I.e., the left indicator is an arrow pointing right, and the right indicator is an arrow pointing left.
It's also not how they work in the UK, as the article points out.
It makes me wonder if the rear lights on the car in the video are actually as they came from the factory.Nevermind I read to the bottom where Mini actually defend the design
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
I read to the bottom
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
To save y'all the trouble of clicking-through, I suspect the intent was that the turn lights resemble the horizontal and diagonal elements of the flag. However, regardless of intentions, what they actually look like are arrows pointing the wrong direction. I.e., the left indicator is an arrow pointing right, and the right indicator is an arrow pointing left.
I've seen several of these already and the impression I got is indeed that it's the flag. It has never even occurred to me they could be interpreted as arrows.
I don't think I've ever seen them lit up though.
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Today in Apple innovation, the XSS attack!
-posted from iPhone
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But it seems that cut isn't enough for those behind REvil: it was recently disclosed that there's a secret backdoor coded into their product, which allows REvil to restore the encrypted files without the involvement of the affiliate.
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Great Inventions are approaching us. Just imagine: your phone's battery is empty, and you can fill it by ... peeing:
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Yay!
Why, actually, do people believe Chinese propaganda?
Those power cuts are a show only. They are implemented to divert your thoughts from the real problem: Chinese Lung AIDS is wreaking havoc in China.When that ophthalmologist tweeted about a new infectious respiratory disease in Dec 19, Wuhan hospitals were full of Covid patients already. A new disease able to spread from human to human, from animal to animal, from human to animal, from animal to human.
Of course, China managed to fight it perfectly. In contrast to far away isolated island like Australia and New Zealand. Of course, China can do!If a singular case of Covid is detected somewhere in China, it always resulted from contact with Dirty Westerners. Remember those cases imported via Norwegian salmon in summer 2020? Norwegian propaganda has it that they had hardly any Covid cases back then. You cannot believe Norwegian propaganda, so why do you?
Now, China still tries hard to fight the rampant Covid epidemic. They shut down factories when some cases get detected. That disrupts the supply chain. If a factory is held by some western company, they will officially find ONE singular case, and shut it down. There were dirty westerners in that factory, anyway, so they can admit that one case.
But else where? They struggle to hide the facts. Better say "power shortage". And in order to make westerners believe, they will apply power shortages to western held factories, too.
Oh, yes, now you'll say that I am conspirationist. The Chinese minitrue will like you.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
Oh, yes, now you'll say that I am conspirationist.
Meh, the mistake you're making is that one "reason" doesn't have to exclude the other. So, the power crunch might have come in handy in some way, but this doesn't mean that it's "fake". If you have two (or more problems) at hand, you might as well use one to distract from the other.
Besides, out of all of the places on the Internet, I kinda think people here might be taking news coming out of China with a slight serving of salt.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
I kinda think people here might be taking news coming out of China with a slight serving of salt.
aka Don't Trust A Goddamn Thing Out Of Official China. If they say the sun is out, bring your umbrella.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
I kinda think people here might be taking news coming out of China with a slight serving of salt.
aka Don't Trust A Goddamn Thing Out Of Official China. If they say the sun is out, bring your
umbrellaneutrino detector.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
Great Inventions are approaching us. Just imagine: your phone's battery is empty, and you can fill it by ... peeing:
Worse. All this time we've had this energy reserve and we've just been pissing it away.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
this energy reserve
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
pissing it away
.... No! Do not drink that!
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
Great Inventions are approaching us. Just imagine: your phone's battery is empty, and you can fill it by ... peeing:
Explains why the local mall went all waterless urinals in their toilets. They're trying to avoid diluting the mixture prematurely.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
Oh, yes, now you'll say that I am conspirationist.
Meh, the mistake you're making is that one "reason" doesn't have to exclude the other. So, the power crunch might have come in handy in some way, but this doesn't mean that it's "fake". If you have two (or more problems) at hand, you might as well use one to distract from the other.
Basically, if you need to divert attention from problem A, you just stop covering-up the problem B. It's much more efficient than completely inventing a fake problem.
OTOH, inventing fake problem creates an illusion that there are no hidden problems available and the current cover-up is just a glitch. So,
Besides, out of all of the places on the Internet, I kinda think people here might be taking news coming out of China with a slight serving of salt.
The problem with "conspirationist" approach is that there is no point in trying to deduce the "current conspiration". Everything in a totalitarian state is a conspiracy. Always. That's actually what the term "totalitarian" means (many people use it as a replacement of "dictatorship" - but that is wrong).