forget the number of cars on the road, think of all of the wasted energy from having headlights on during the day to prevent the careless/stupid from not seeing a 2 ton piece of steel/aluminium/plastic/rubber coming at you.
Posts by stiine
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Third time is almost the charm for SpaceX's Starship
Attacks on UK fiber networks mount: Operators beg govt to step in
Rancher faces prison for trying to breed absolute unit of a sheep
How do you lot feel about Pay or say OK to ads model, asks ICO
Re: Great Idea!
Where on the page is the *ucking ToS? Its at the f*cking bottom of the fu*king page, which, even if its displayed first, slips fuc*ing downward as more bullshit is downloaded to fill the page above it. By the time you've read and agreed to the ToS, its too late. In fact, by the time the ToS opens to your click, its too late.
UK and US lack regulation to protect space tourists from cosmic ray dangers
I'm not sure what they thing is going to happen.
Its not like their organisation is going to pony up the cost of a single flight on either Blue Origin or SpaceX rockets, to say nothing of paying for enough flights to generate enough non-astronaut data for it to make a difference. Besides, many, if not most of worlds astronauts are pilots, so how are they going to control for flight time?
BOFH: I get locked out, but I get in again
World-plus-dog booted out of Facebook, Instagram, Threads
Tesla Berlin gigafactory goes dark after alleged eco-sabotage
Uncle Sam tells nosy nations to keep their hands off Americans' personal data
FAA gives SpaceX a bunch of homework to do before Starship flies again
'How do I reset my router' isn't in LLM corpuses. An alliance of telcos wants to change that
The successor to Research Unix was Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Cutting kids off from the dark web – the solution can only ever be social
JetBrains' unremovable AI assistant meets irresistible outcry
Cory Doctorow has a plan to wipe away the enshittification of tech
FBI recruits Amazon Rekognition AI to hunt down 'nudity, weapons, explosives'
Standards-obsessed boss ignored one, and suffered all night for his sin
We put salt in our tea so you don't have to
BOFH: Looks like you're writing an email. Fancy telling your colleague to #$%^ off?
Musk lashes out at Biden administration over rural broadband
David Mills, the internet's Father Time, dies at 85
YouTube video lag wrongly blamed on its ad-blocking animus
Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse
Re: The only real test for AI
I wish.
Last week, my better half and I were discussing purchasing something and I ran a google search for the item (whatever it was) and the first page of results were all for the same domain, but several different websites. The problem was that they were all https://$RandomEnglishWord.wasedfrnplokmjinhubji.com/$TheSameRandomEnglishWord and the text blurb was a damn word salad. And they were behind CloudFlare.
Google should start ignoring domains, not by domain name, but by network addresses. Start with /24 and see if that helps. If it doesn't; up it to a /20. If enough collatterally damaged companies complain.
Thousands of Juniper Networks devices vulnerable to critical RCE bug
Disease X fever infects Davos: WEF to plan response to whatever big pandemic is next
Re: Obligatory masks when coughing
No, no they don't. In fact, prior to March 2019, there was an FAQ on the US NIH.gov website that discussed the effects of N95 masks on the transmission of viruses, and, to put it mildly, there was no measurable impact. I'd love to be able to provide you with a URL, but that article no longer exists.
If the MMR and polio vaccines were as useless as the covid-19 vaccine, the earth's population would be around 95000, and I wouldn't be one of them...
RIP: Software design pioneer and Pascal creator Niklaus Wirth
As lawmakers mull outlawing poor security, what can they really do to tackle online gangs?
Programmable or 'purpose-bound' money is coming, probably as a feature in central bank digital currencies
Well that's one way to do it.
WIll I have to fly to Reno, Nevada and then drive out of the city to get brothel-bucks, or will I be able to get brothel-bucks in Atlanta before I travel to Nevada? Where will I be able to use any that I don't spend in rural Nevada? Will this make prostitution legal across the US If not, why not?
We need that Paris icon back.
How the tech toy century has troubled Santa's sack
BOFH: The Christmas party was so good, an independent inquiry is required
Something nasty injected login-stealing JavaScript into 50K online banking sessions
UK officials caught napping ahead of 2G and 3G doomsday
Re: Lychford Road
Don't feel special. The city I lived in in 1979 repaved a main 4-lane road and less than a month after that project was completed, they dug it up to replace the storm drain pipe down the middle of the southbound lanes... Yes, both projects were in the budget for that year, and both were on the DoT schedule and NO ONE questioned why they would repave the road just to dig it up again...
As for the smartmeters, do you think they'll replace the entire meters? Or just the electronics package?