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Comment Re:AM is history (Score 1) 264

I hate to say this, but you are very wrong about AM radio. VHF, UHF, and Satellite can all be rendered useless. There was infrastructure put in place for AM Broadcast for the emergency broadcast system. AM Radios being widespread and easily accessed by the masses allows for important information to be sent out en masse.

As a ham myself, I am somewhat disappointed in what you have stated.

Submission + - U.S. Gov Issues Hacking Alert for Small Planes

wiredmikey writes: The DHS has issued a security alert for small planes, warning that modern flight systems are vulnerable to hacking if someone manages to gain physical access to the aircraft. The alert stems from research done by security firm Rapid7, which found that an attacker could potentially disrupt electronic messages transmitted across a small plane's network, for example by attaching a small device to its wiring, that would affect aircraft systems. Engine readings, compass data, altitude and other readings "could all be manipulated to provide false measurements to the pilot," according to the DHS alert.

Comment Re:Wait, shouldn't we be blaming the Millennials? (Score 1) 271

What USA Today fails to point out is that most boomers were out of the house at 18 either learned a trade or finished college in four years. Millenials are living in their parents basements until they are nearly 30 and thanks to greedy colleges, it's taking more than 4 years to complete a degree. You can't start a race late and then complain that those who started earlier are ahead of you.

Comment The pollution still happens (Score 0) 248

but where it happens is just relocated.

Mining materials for batteries = pollution
The manufacturing of batteries = pollution
Recharging those batteries from the grid = pollution
Old non-recyclable batteries = pollution

I am not sure why people don't get this. I guess as long as they don't see the pollution in their back yard, they don't think it exists.

I think they'd be better off converting the buses to run on LNG or some other alternative fuel that has lower emissions.

Submission + - Logitech USB Mouse Dongles can be hacked to hijack systems (zdnet.com)

raikoseagle writes: It has been reported via a Zero Day that Logitech Unifying dongles and Dongles for the MX2S series mice can be hacked to hijack systems. Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported, which include ones that enable keystroke injection, keylogging, mouse-jacking, Logitech has only announced that they will address some of these vulnerabilities. As reported via CNet https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zdnet.com%2Farticle%2F...

Submission + - Bitcoin mining on an Apollo Guidance Computer: 10.3 seconds per hash (righto.com)

volvox_voxel writes: We've been restoring an Apollo Guidance Computer1. Now that we have the world's only working AGC, I decided to write some code for it. Trying to mine Bitcoin on this 1960s computer seemed both pointless and anachronistic, so I had to give it a shot. Implementing the Bitcoin hash algorithm in assembly code on this 15-bit computer was challenging, but I got it to work. Unfortunately, the computer is so slow that it would take about a billion times the age of the universe to successfully mine a Bitcoin block.

Comment Re:Argh. It’s ONE GUY (Score 2) 495

In this day of political correct verbiage, one is not allowed to use gender specific terms such as he, him, her and she. The English language currently has no other alternatives for singular references other than "it", so they and their has come in to use. I myself cringe when I see it used and hate that I am forced to employ that usage, but there are no real alternatives unless one was to get overly wordy in describing an individual.

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