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NEC to sell the accelerator cards it puts into supercomputers – for about $11,000 a pop
Crooks social-engineer GoDaddy staff into handing over control of crypto-biz domain names
Behold, the Ultimately Large Telescope: A revived proposal for a 100-metre liquid-mirror star scanner on the Moon
Wednesday 18th November 2020 15:40 GMT
Shit Moon Idea
Why don't we railgun all of Earth's shit to terrform the moon? We'd have an abundance of shit, which when added with potatoes and mined moon water, would create an atmosphere we could protect using a magnetic field. We should set it up as a penal colonoscopy I mean colony, until such time the Moon isn't so shitty.
Amazon tells ISPs: I can be your Eero, baby. I can ease your Wi-Fi pain. I will block bad sites forever...
Let's go space truckin': 1970s probe Voyager 1 is now 14 billion miles from home
Vinyl sales top CDs for the first time in decades in America, streaming rules
Monday 14th September 2020 19:25 GMT
Episode 5 of Ridley Scott's "Raised By Wolves" contains 32 seconds of copyright breach
On Episode 5 of "Raised By Wolves", between 9m 53s and 10.25s, Ridley Scott's musicians used 12 notes of my music which was posted on the streaming website Youtube in June 2020, and I have no idea what to do about it.
Despite the very extensive and expensive number they ran on my music, I recognised it from the very first note. I know my sound. The next 31 seconds saw me becoming more and more incredulous as more and more of the notes of my music played out at me. I didn't exhale until the final note had played, they had obscured that note the most with layers of effects, but it was the exact pitch of my final note. I couldn't enjoy the rest of that episode.
I called the Scott Free Los Angeles and left a message asking why they had used my music without my permission, nobody has called me back. I then called the Scott Free London number. The message said that because of Covid-19, I should ring mobile numbers if I have them, because everyone was working from home. It then quoted the office email address. I was very upset and wrote (I regret to say) a very angry email threatening legal action and attached my tune. I guessed at Ridley's email address and sent it to him - it didn't get bounced back therefore it must have gone somewhere. Other guessed email addresses such as "webmaster@", "info@" etc bounced back. Then someone changed the Domain Settings on scottfree.co.uk to forward to nowhere. And it's still down. Perhaps Ridley received an email at his personal email address and panicked, thinking that his website has been hacked. It also has the effect of deleting his email server and any evidence that he received my email notification of a copyright breach. Every subsequent email has been bounced back, including the one quoted on the answering machine at Scott Free London.
They could have simply used different instruments and played my tune, but they sampled it first and stretched the 12 notes out (originally 4 seconds, they simply chopped my tune and spaced them out in Ableton or something) to about 32 seconds. Then they added reverb and atmosphere by playing it through a guitar cab and recording it's output. You can hear the horrendous hiss of a 70s classic guitar cab as my very slowed down tune fades in, unusual in such an otherwise squeaky clean audio presentation. They then kept the order of the played notes but changed the timing to fill 32 seconds. After that, it sounds like they added pre-echo and impulse to some of the notes (because they had lost some attack in the sound, because of it being stretched), then added layer upon layer of reverb to create an atmospheric piece. I recognised my sound despite all of this, from the very first note.
Taking such a huge company to Court costs hundreds of thousands of pounds. The only proof I have is my music on Youtube and the files on my computer hard drive which I am shortly going to put into humidity and temperature controlled storage. Any advice would be appreciated, I have no idea what I can do about it, if anything.
Russian hacker selling how-to vid on exploiting unsupported Magento installations to skim credit card details for $5,000
Who cares what Apple's about to announce? It owes us a macOS x86 virtual appliance for non-Mac computers
Tuesday 15th September 2020 20:24 GMT
I managed to install Mac OS Lion in a VM on a i3 laptop but it was extremely fiddly and ran it so heart-stoppingly slowly, that I deleted it in a fit of frustration. There are many sets of instructions on how to do so, out there on the interwebs. With the newer Intels having much better virtualisation specialisations, it may now even be worth doing. Fiddly but fun project.
Chinese database details 2.4 million influential people, their kids, addresses, and how to press their buttons
You Musk be joking: A mind-reading Neuralink chip in a pig's brain? Downloadable memories? Telepathy? Watch and judge for yourself
US Air Force shows off latest all-electric flying car, says it 'might seem straight out of a Hollywood movie'
Crack this mystery: Something rotated the ice shell around Jupiter's Europa millions of years ago, fracturing it
We've heard some made-up stories but this is ridiculous: Microsoft Flight Simulator, Bing erect huge skyscraper out of bad data
Physical locks are less hackable than digital locks, right? Maybe not: Boffins break in with a microphone
Backup a sec – is hard drive reliability improving? Annual failure rate from Backblaze comes in at its lowest yet
Vivaldi composes sweet ad-blocking symphony for users of browser's Android version
Friday 14th August 2020 00:33 GMT
> "free up precious screen space"
And that's what I fucking hate about phones - no matter how large the screens are the UI is dinky by design and far too limiting in options. There's no room! Consequently everything has to be hidden away within layer upon confusing layer of submenus. "Smart" phones are crap.
Microsoft runs a data centre on hydrogen for 48 whole hours, reckons it could kick hydrocarbon habit by 2030
Mysterious supernova is blasting far-flung galaxy with flashes of UV light – and astroboffins don't know why
Bill Gates debunks 'coronavirus vaccine is my 5G mind control microchip implant' conspiracy theory
Shocked I am. Shocked to find that underground bank-card-trading forums are full of liars, cheats, small-time grifters
SpaceX pulls off an incredible catch, netting both halves of its Falcon fairing as they fell Earthwards after latest launch
Nominet shakes up system for expiring .uk domains, just happens to choose one that will make it £millions. Again
Teardown nerds delve into Dell's new XPS 15 laptop to find – fancy that – screws and user-serviceable parts
Here's why your Samsung Blu-ray player bricked itself: It downloaded an XML config file that broke the firmware
NASA delays James Webb Space Telescope launch date by at least seven months
Finally, made it to the weekend, time to breathe, relax, and... Cloudflare's taken down a chunk of the web
When Apollo met Soyuz: 45 years ago, Americans and Russians played together nicely... IN SPAAAAACE
US military whips out credit card for unmanned low-Earth-orbit outpost prototype (aka a repurposed ISS cargo pod)
The Devil's in the details: Church of Satan forced to clarify that no unholy rituals taking place in SoCal forest
The world's nonsense keeping you awake in middle of the night? Good news. Go outside and see this two-tail comet
Rip and replace is such a long Huawei to go, UK telcos plead, citing 'blackouts' and 'billion pound' costs: Are Vodafone and BT playing 'Project Fear'?
If the Solar System's 'Planet Nine' is actually a small black hole, here's how we could detect it... wait, what?
Cereal Killer Cafe enters hipster heaven, heads online: Coronavirus blamed for shutters being pulled down
Your industry needs you: Database engineers, sysadmins and developer vacancies revealed
We'll pay £400k for a depth charge-proof robot submarine, says UK's Ministry of Defence
Things can't go on like this. You need to get fit for the sake of your health. I'm going to write you a prescription for... an e-bike
Monday 6th July 2020 17:24 GMT
Break the cycle of illness
I agree - I recently tried to get fit by cyling and almost died of a heart attack while wondering what the hell had happened to my body in the 40 years or so since I last rode a bicycle. It takes so much longer to get fit when one ages, and e-bikes would certainly help ill or old people get over the hump. Some pedalling is better than no pedalling.
If there's a lesson to be learned in these torrid times, it's that civilisation is fleeting – but Windows XP is eternal
Monday 6th July 2020 17:24 GMT
I still think that Windows XP is the best OS that Microsoft ever made, which is why I still use it (firewalled thrice, lots of ports and services blocked, many programs disabled, on a PC not used for anything other than sufing with Javascript, Flash and Java disabled or not installed). If I could shoehorn it into my i7 4790 box, I would. XP is so much more usable, easy to navigate and immediate than Win7 or 10.
Never 10.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
