Japan's response
Japan's NHK World tv went beyond the usual warning crawl and replaced normal programming with a full screen "take cover" page for something like 40 minutes.
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North Korean spy satellite launch ends in sea smash
Lenovo Thinkpad Z13 just has this certain Macbook Air about it...
Russia-pushed UN Cybercrime Treaty may rewrite global law. It's ... not great
US chip sanctions may push Brazil, others right into China's arms
Defunct comms link connected to nothing at a fire station – for 15 years
Toshiba board supports – without recommending – $15 billion takeover bid
Electronics market shows US-China decoupling will hike inflation and slow growth
Humanoid robot takes a retail job, but not one any store clerk wants to do
Thursday 9th March 2023 00:44 GMT
I thought I knew the location of this trial but my suspected choice is just inside Vancouver, a Canadian Tire store with a Mark's underneath off a lower parking level. What made this interesting for me is that I won't use this CT store. instead driving further to one in North Van. The Vancouver store has put many items off regular shelves and out of view behind a service counter and has few staff in the public areas to provide directions or assistance. The North Van store is well staffed and well run. People matter and good employees and good management pay off. A robot can't fix this.
OpenAI CEO heralds AGI no one in their right mind wants
Tuesday 28th February 2023 19:29 GMT
I think the important issue with AI is how and where it's used. To use the example of driving aids I fear the reliance of the current younger drivers on those aids diminishes both their skills and the necessary attention driving requires. The broader use of AI comes with the same risks. Be careful what you wish for.
PC tech turns doctor to diagnose PC's constant crashes as a case of arthritis
Telus source code, staff info for sale on dark web forum
China's spy balloon barrage earns six of its companies a spot on US entity list
Realizing this is getting out of hand, Coq mulls new name for programming language
Self-driving car computers may be 'as bad' for emissions as datacenters
Saturday 14th January 2023 02:04 GMT
Wrong target
The research and expenditure is going at the wrong target at this stage. It should be focused on traffic controls at this point instead of the cars. This may already be the case in areas of freeways and carriageways but my experience and intent is on city driving. My route to work and shopping goes through an urban area with a mix of traffic light intersections and pedestrian lights (also with cross-traffic induction loops). During rush hours the pedestrian lights should be synced to the intersection lights in the main direction of travel and the pedestrian and loops disabled. But this would mean expenditure by the city rather than a venture capital self-driving outfit so it does not happen.
in general work on making the cars communicate with the traffic control systems would yield more immediate results at this point in development.
Apple just cut Tim Cook's pay by 40%. How ever will he get by on that $50m?
Sizewell C nuclear plant up for review as UK faces financial black hole
Liz Truss ousted as UK prime minister, outlived by online lettuce
China could use Digital Yuan to swerve Russia-style sanctions
Wednesday 12th October 2022 05:12 GMT
Re: Last week the cheers this week the Tears
Try learning from history. Chamberlain negotiated with Hitler. How did that work out? Putin is using the same playbook --- I want a piece of that country where they speak our language. Then he wants the reset of it.Then it's more countries.
The daunting lesson from WWII was the total defeat necessary over Germany and Japan to reform them into the democracies they are today. Russia is a vast country. Not a simple task.
NASA's Lunar Orbiter spots comfortably warm 'pits' all over the Moon
Canadian ISP Rogers falls over for hours, takes out broadband, cable, cellphones
Friday 8th July 2022 22:04 GMT
Re: FSB
Today NHK (Japan) had a report on the cyber war launched against Ukraine and the continuing war with white hat hackers and friends of Russia contributing back and forth. One does wonder if Canada as a major friend of Ukraine was targeted.
It also shows the danger of the vast majority of Canada's IT connectivity in the hands of only three giants and the unresolved issue of the Rogers-Shaw buyout which would make it worse.
UK Home Office signs order to extradite Julian Assange to US
Meteoroid hits main mirror on James Webb Space Telescope
Mozilla browser Firefox hits the big 100
Departing Space Force chief architect likens Pentagon's tech acquisition to a BSoD
Hooking up to Starlink might be pricier than you thought
Intel reveals GPU roadmap with hybrid integrated discrete graphics
Full-time internet surveillance comes to Cambodia this week
KDE Community releases Plasma 5.24: It's eccentric, just like many old-timers
You've stolen the antiglare shield on that monitor you've fixed – they say the screen is completely unreadable now
Tuesday 4th January 2022 02:39 GMT
Re: I'm glad I'm not old enough
Decades ago I was stopped at a red light and saw a woman ahead of me in the adjacent lane toss a cigarette butt out the window. I don't know what came over me because I'm usually pretty meek but I got out of my car, picked up the butt and offered it back to her, "I think you dropped something." She just gave me dirty look so I threw it back inside her car.
Assange psychiatrist misled judge over parentage of his kids, US tells High Court
How to keep a support contract: Make the user think they solved the problem
Toyota needs more than its Cheer Squad to deal with chip shortages, as five more home factories forced into idleness
Microsoft's problem child, Windows 11, is here. Will you run it? Can you run it? Do you even WANT to run it?
Texas law banning platforms from social media moderation challenged in lawsuit
When everyone else is on vacation, it's time to whip out the tiny screwdrivers
Friday 3rd September 2021 21:09 GMT
Re: Holding those small screws
I always had difficulties fitting the screws correctly into the back cover of older Thinkpads because there were always at least one missing originally and one hole stripped. I eventually hit on white foam trays from my breakfast sausages. Turn upside down, use a Sharpie to mark features of the cover and then push the screws into the foam in the same place as on the cover. Screws don't get lost and you know where they go.
Facebook sat on report that reveals most-shared post for months was questionable COVID story
Right to repair shouldn't exist – not because it's wrong but because it's so obviously right
Thursday 5th August 2021 02:44 GMT
Re: What about waterproofing?
Blackberry Q10 lost on the drive to work in a rainstorm. I must have got out of the car to do something with a wiper. Found it over 12 hours later soaking wet on the road (luckily ir was a side street) and dried it out for several days. Used it for several more years. Clip off back and replaceable battery. Survivability does not require glue.
Dell won't ship energy-hungry PCs to California and five other US states due to power regulations
Firefox to adopt Chrome's new approach to extensions – sans the part that threatens ad blockers
Chinese rocket plunges into Indian Ocean, still lands sharp rebuke from NASA
You can listen right here to the whir of a robot helicopter flying on an alien world
Börk returns to its spiritual home of Sweden as duff disks take down Stockholm signage
Five years after US promised crackdown on ticket-snaffling bots, the first prosecutions are in... and are a slap on the wrist
Parler games: Social network for internet rejects sues Amazon Web Services for pulling plug on hosting
United States Congress stormed by violent followers of defeated president, Biden win confirmation halted
Thursday 7th January 2021 05:53 GMT
Having recently watched a detailed doc on Hitler/s rise to power I was waiting for the Reichstag fire, but Trump couldn't even get that right. You burn or blow up Congress at night and blame it on the opposition, not incite a bunch of losers to invade it. Thankfully Trumpolini can preen like Il Duce, but he's neither as smart or as capable as his predecessors.
Chuck Yeager, sound barrier pioneer pilot, dies at 97
Wednesday 9th December 2020 05:50 GMT
from the PBS documentary “Chasing The Moon”:
”Chasing the Moon’s discussions of astronaut selection and early PR campaigns for Apollo highlight the overlooked story of Ed Dwight, a fighter pilot who nearly became the first African American astronaut. Dwight had an outstanding military record, and the Kennedy administration was keen for NASA to have an African American astronaut. After passing his medical exam, Dwight was sent to Chuck Yeager’s flight school, the testing ground for potential astronauts. According to Dwight and a later investigation from the White House, Yeager pulled all the instructors into a room and ordered them not to speak to Dwight, not to interact or provide advice to him, and not to socialize with him outside of the base. Yeager’s reason was that he didn’t want ‘a colored guy’ to be an astronaut.”
Biting the hand that feeds IT
