Comment Can't lose what you never had. (Score 3, Insightful) 10
There never was any luster. Not something I've ever heard anyone discuss in any context.
Comment Re:"made public" (Score 2) 196
Extreme right wing content - instant admission!
Comment Re:Here we go again! (Score 1) 38
Nah, I bet that giant alien ship disguised as a comet got to it first.
Comment Re:How? (Score 2) 38
Interesting. Apparently the space network has an antenna located in a football field but strangely enough, they don't specify which one:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...
Comment Re: Economic terrorism (Score 1) 198
I can only speak from my viewpoint in Eugene, Oregon area, but two of the three you name are each the third most expensive in their respective areas.
Half the stores in the area were closed in the Kroger/Albersons/Safeway merger. There is now no competition between them in any neighborhood. You get one or the other.
ATT owns all communication infrastructure in Oregon (going back to the Ma Bell break-up and the acquisition of some Internet backbone), they license to Verizon, who sell licenses to anyone else. T-Mobile has a nice pre-pay plan, but their regular service wasn't cheaper, you just got a better free phone.
There is one tower where I live, it belongs to Verizon. There is one cable company (under many names, but all are equal to Comcast, who leases hanging wire space from ATT, or WiFi/Satellite from Verizon) and it's not cheap.
And before someone tries to blame the big corps here, Oregon as a State issues all these exclusive licenses, and is 95 percent Democrat and has been since 1982.
Mergers are never for the consumer.
Unless they own stock.
Comment Re:You said "cheap" and "Wifi", but... (Score 1) 142
That wasn't a really feasible solution in this case since the camera was already mounted and I would have needed a boom lift to reach it, in general I lost two workdays on that junk.
Comment Re:You said "cheap" and "Wifi", but... (Score 1) 142
Sorry, the only thing I ended up with all the time was that it needed to download the support package for the camera over the internet, didn't matter what I did.
And having to use an app is also a bonehead solution, all that shall be needed is a web browser on a local net to configure what's needed.
Comment Re:Use DisplayPort (Score 2) 117
There are TVs with DisplayPort connectors, but they are expensive and sold more as presentation screens for computers.
Please can't someone kill HDMI, it's just causing headaches with no benefits when we have the DisplayPort now.
Submission + - Sperm donor with cancer-causing gene fathered nearly 200 children across Europe (cbsnews.com)
schwit1 writes: A joint investigation by 14 European public service broadcasters has exposed a major scandal in the fertility industry: an anonymous Dutch sperm donor, who carried a mutated TP53 gene linked to Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS)—a rare condition conferring a 90% lifetime cancer risk, often striking in childhood—fathered nearly 200 children through the European Sperm Bank since 2005. Unbeknownst to the donor, a former student who passed initial screenings, the mutation affected up to 20% of his sperm, which was distributed to 67 clinics across 14 countries without adequate international oversight.
The revelation, uncovered via the European Society of Human Genetics conference where doctors flagged unusual cancer clusters in donor-conceived children, highlights systemic failures. National regulations, such as Belgium's limit of 6-12 children per donor (or 25 in the UK), were routinely violated, with one donor exceeding caps by over 10-fold. Of 67 genetically traced offspring, 23 inherited the mutation; 10 have developed cancers, including multiple tumors in some, and several died young. "We have some children that have developed already two different cancers and some of them have already died at a very early age," said cancer geneticist Edwige Kasper.
Geneticists Clare Turnbull and Edwige Kasper described LFS as a "dreadful diagnosis," imposing lifelong surveillance and emotional strain on families. The European Sperm Bank acknowledged the breach but noted no shipments to the U.S., though it operates in Canada and Mexico. No global regulatory framework exists to prevent recurrence, raising urgent calls for reform. Additional cases may surface as more children are tested, underscoring the ethical perils of unregulated sperm donation.
The revelation, uncovered via the European Society of Human Genetics conference where doctors flagged unusual cancer clusters in donor-conceived children, highlights systemic failures. National regulations, such as Belgium's limit of 6-12 children per donor (or 25 in the UK), were routinely violated, with one donor exceeding caps by over 10-fold. Of 67 genetically traced offspring, 23 inherited the mutation; 10 have developed cancers, including multiple tumors in some, and several died young. "We have some children that have developed already two different cancers and some of them have already died at a very early age," said cancer geneticist Edwige Kasper.
Geneticists Clare Turnbull and Edwige Kasper described LFS as a "dreadful diagnosis," imposing lifelong surveillance and emotional strain on families. The European Sperm Bank acknowledged the breach but noted no shipments to the U.S., though it operates in Canada and Mexico. No global regulatory framework exists to prevent recurrence, raising urgent calls for reform. Additional cases may surface as more children are tested, underscoring the ethical perils of unregulated sperm donation.
Submission + - Traveling to the US will require you to reveal your social media for 5 years. (federalregister.gov)
Z00L00K writes: Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision; Arrival and Departure
Record
3. Mandatory Social Media: In order to comply with the January 2025 Executive Order 14161 (Protecting the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats), CBP is adding social media as a mandatory data element for an ESTA application. The data element will require ESTA applicants to provide their social media from the last 5 years.
3. Mandatory Social Media: In order to comply with the January 2025 Executive Order 14161 (Protecting the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats), CBP is adding social media as a mandatory data element for an ESTA application. The data element will require ESTA applicants to provide their social media from the last 5 years.
Comment Re:You said "cheap" and "Wifi", but... (Score 1) 142
I needed to have an internet connection for the camera to be installed, something that wasn't easy at the location it was needed.
So Ubiquiti is a no go for me after that.
Comment Re:Out of patent? (Score 1) 42
Bayer/Monsanto is constantly being sued. Litigation is part of their budget.
Sure. But the suggestion here is that they were specifically inviting it, ostensibly because it would harm competitors.
They are not going to support the idea that "glyphosate causes cancer" for some short-term market advantage.
Comment Re:You said "cheap" and "Wifi", but... (Score 1) 142
I have been working with Ubiquiti equipment and it needs cloud connection to be set up, and it's in general not the best equipment if you mix it with other equipment or even in some cases build a too complex network with their equipment.
Comment Re:You said "cheap" and "Wifi", but... (Score 1) 142
Combine them with iSpy and you'll have a good solution.
Comment Re:Fukushima Volume 2? (Score 1) 28
This one magnitude 7.6 ; 2011 was a 9.2, 9.1 thereabouts (I can't be bothered looking it up).
That's 2.5 or so orders of magnitude lower which, for earthquakes is a 10^(1.5*diff.magnitude) factor of difference in energy release. Which, for those who can't do mental maths (see "dollar store" rant) is 10^-(3.6 to 3.7) or between 4 and 6 THOUSAND times less energy release.
You didn't need to wake up fully. I saw the alert on my phone, did the maths, and went back to sleep.
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