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Comment Power Vacuum (Score 2, Interesting) 191

by Mazzella! (#64183643) Attached to: Alaska Air CEO Says Loose Bolts Found in 'Many' Boeing Jets

This is a direct result of Republican de-regulation and budget cuts at the governmental level. It is time for the pendulum to swing back and have more regulation from our government. We've slid down the slippery slope too damn far the deregulation route, and the corporations are the ones filling the vacuum left by the government stepping aside. I, for one, would much RATHER have government regulations and accountable and electable officials at the helm than some voodoo-economic corporation accountable to no-one.

Comment Russian cosmonauts are now back (Score 2) 27

Russian cosmonauts are now back after a long time in space, the commander updates them on the latest events:

Commander -As per President Putin we are conducting a special military operation in Ukraine. In fact, it's a conflict between Russia and NATO to determine who will dominate the world for the next hundred years.

Cosmonaut-What's the situation now?

Commander-We have lost more than 15,000 soldiers, 6 generals, 500 tanks, 3 ships, 100 planes and 1,000 trucks and armoured personnel carriers.

The shaken Cosmonauts ask: -And NATO? How much did it lose?

Commander- NATO has not yet arrived

Comment Why should they? (Score 0) 65

by Mazzella! (#61281872) Attached to: Nobody is Flying To Join Google's FLoC

In addition, Google has a piss poor record of keeping a project or technology alive if it isn't:
Search
Gmail
Maps
Chrome
GCP

Most other technologies they introduce they leave in the gutter.
I've been burned a fair number of time when adopting a google technology, only for it to be end of life and yanked way before it should have.

Comment Non Network-centic Corporations in the list? (Score 1) 312

by Mazzella! (#35068840) Attached to: Last Available IPv4 Blocks Allocated

Why do companies like Ford Motor Company, Eli Lily & Company, Halliburton Company, Merck and Co., Inc. still each have a */8 allocation again? I can understand they may have been forward thinking back in the early 90's when the internet was just opening up, but within a few years most major organizations implemented firewalls and NAT so all they really needed was a few class C's at best.

Why do those companies listed above in particular still have such a large allocation?
Space

Black Hole Emits a 1,000-Light-Year-Wide Gas Bubble 145

Posted by Soulskill from the reminds-me-of-a-buddy-of-mine dept.
PhrostyMcByte writes "12 million light-years away, in the outer spiral of galaxy NGC 7793, a bubble of hot gas approximately 1,000 light-years in diameter can be found shooting out of a black hole — one of the most powerful jets of energy ever seen. (Abstract available at Nature.) The bubble has been growing for approximately 200,000 years, and is expanding at around 1,000,000 kilometers per hour."
Biotech

A Genetically Engineered Fly That Can Smell Light 111

Posted by timothy from the lsd-way-cheaper dept.
An anonymous reader writes "It sounds like a cool — if somewhat pointless — super-powered insect: a fly that can smell light! Researchers added a light-sensitive protein to a fruit fly's olfactory neurons, which caused the neurons to fire when the fly was exposed to a certain wavelength of blue light. Adding the protein specifically to neurons that respond to good smells, like bananas, makes for a light-seeking fly."
Medicine

High Fructose Corn Syrup Causes Bigger Weight Gain In Rats 542

Posted by timothy from the subsidies-cause-fatter-corn-farmers dept.
krou writes "In an experiment conducted by a Princeton University team, 'Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same.' Long-term consumption also 'led to abnormal increases in body fat, especially in the abdomen, and a rise in circulating blood fats called triglycerides.' Psychology professor Bart Hoebel commented that 'When rats are drinking high-fructose corn syrup at levels well below those in soda pop, they're becoming obese — every single one, across the board. Even when rats are fed a high-fat diet, you don't see this; they don't all gain extra weight.'"

Comment Startup (Score 1) 613

by sean23007 (#25200381) Attached to: The Stigma of a Tech Support Background
Start a startup. It doesn't matter if it succeeds or fails.

Seriously. While I was in college, I started one of my own -- a development shop. We got one contract, executed it nicely and got some good scratch with which to buy booze and pay a few months of rent. Then we realized that you can't really run a company and do your homework at the same time, and the company fell apart.

I then worked as a sysadmin / tech-support for a little over a year to pay the bills (sounds similar to your situation), before deciding that I couldn't handle doing something I hated any more.

That's when I joined another startup as the lead developer. It seemed like it was going well, then we launched one day after what turned out was a major competitor that kind of blindsided us (Google Groups). After flailing around for a while (and writing a whole lot more software for the company that they didn't feel like releasing), the company was in its death throes and I left.

This was about three months after I'd graduated, and it was remarkably easy to get a job. All the recruiters and interviewers I talked to were very impressed by the company I'd started, less impressed by the startup I'd joined, and not at all impressed by the sysadmin job or the programming job I'd had in high school.

So if you have a few months of living expenses saved up, quit your job and start a startup company. 99% chance it'll fail, but it seems to me that afterwards you'll have a much better chance at getting a job.

What do you have to lose? With two years of tech support experience you'll have no trouble getting another tech support job.
The Media

Submission + - Congress Creates Copyright Cops (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes: "Not satisfied with pitiful potential penalties of $150,000 for infringing upon a $0.99 song, Congress is proposing new copyright cops in the "PRO IP" Act of 2007, specifically the creation of the Office of the United States Intellectual Property Enforcement Representative (USIPER). They also feel that the authorities need the authority to seize any computers used for infringement and to send copyright cops abroad to help other countries enforce US laws. MPAA boss Dan Glickman praised the bill saying that, "films left costs foreign and domestic distributors, retailers and others $18 billion a year," though Ars points out that it allegedly costs the studios only $6 billion. However, even with the support of most of the top members of the House Judiciary Committee, the bill may require more work before it passes: USIPER needs a cooler acronym that doesn't sound like a combination of usurper and Lucifer."
Security

Submission + - Spam reaches all-time high of 95% of all email (net-security.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Commtouch released its Email Threats Trend Report based on the automated analysis of billions of email messages weekly. The report examines the appearance of new kinds of attachment spam such as PDF spam and Excel spam together with the decline of image spam, as well as the growing threat of innocent appearing spam containing links to malicious web sites. Image spam declined to a level of less than 5% of all spam, down from 30% in the first quarter of 2007; also, image pump-and-dump spam has all but disappeared, with pornographic images taking its place.
Google

Google De-indexes Talk.Origins, Won't Say Why UPDATED 575

Posted by kdawson from the honest-webmasters-go-fish dept.
J. J. Ramsey writes "Talk.Origins is an archive with thousands of pages exposing creationist pseudoscience. Rather mysteriously, Google pulled the plug on its search engine, giving only the vague reason: 'No pages from your site are currently included in Google's index due to violations of the webmaster guidelines.' This was apparently triggered by a recent cracking of the site that added 'hidden links to non-topical sites,' but Google won't say just what the violations were. Talk.Origins webmaster Wesley R. Elsberry believes that this Google policy harms honest webmasters." From the article: "My mission, whether I liked it or not, was to find and fix whatever problem the [Talk.Origins Archive] might have, with no guidance as to what the problem was and nothing at all about where to start looking... I was extremely lucky. The damage to my site was limited and in the first place that I happened to look. Other honest webmasters might not be so lucky. They may have to undertake an arduous process of vetting pages, essentially having to second-guess the mind of the cracker in trying to locate a problem that Google knows the exact location of." Thanks to an alert reader who sent in Matt's blog posting about how Google handles hacked sites.

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