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Comment Re:Donald Trump is above the Law (Score 1) 690

I think this is currently under litigation.
On November 2019, federal Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson ordered former White House counsel Don McGahn to speak to House Rep. He stated this with a phrase that made headlines: 'Presidents are not kings'

Currently there is an appeal in progress by the Department of Justice. Once this is completed this would define the precedent for future subpoenas.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2019%2F11%2F26...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fnews%2F...

Comment Re:But they so skeevy (Score 2) 121

whipslash have you thought on including some monetization options for the developers in SourceForge?
Some ideas:
1. An end user wants a new feature in a project in SourceForge. If they could send the request to the developer via SourceForge and end user and developer be able to arrange a price paid (SF charging a fee/percent for the service) would be great!
2. Paid Support plans. Even simple support plans out of the box would be interesting: the developer offers to be in a SourceForge chat room each Friday from 5 pm to 7 pm for their paid support subscribers. SF charges a fee/percent.
3. Core project model. Be able to offer in SourceForge two versions: a) their Official (paid) version with the classic year updates included and yearly renewals; and b) their in-develpement/unstable/core (unpaid) version. SF charges a fee/percent for the official version.

It is risky but i think SF has still a good position to try something like this. If you can help to have sustainable opensource projects where the developers can get economical retribution from them it will be a game changer.

Submission + - New Type of Star Can Emerge From Inside Black Holes, Say Cosmologists (medium.com)

KentuckyFC writes: Black holes form when a large star runs out of fuel and collapses under its own weight. Since there is no known force that can stop this collapse, astrophysicists have always assumed that it forms a singularity, a region of space that is infinitely dense. Now cosmologists think quantum gravity might prevent this complete collapse after all. They say that the same force that stops an electron spiralling into a nucleus might also cause the collapsing star to "bounce" at scales of around 10^-14cm. They're calling this new state a "Planck star" and say it's lifetime would match that of the black hole itself as it evaporates. That raises the possibility that the shrinking event horizon would eventually meet the expanding Planck star, which emerges with a sudden blast of gamma rays. That radiation would allow any information trapped in the black hole to escape, solving the infamous information paradox. If they're right, these gamma rays may already have been detected by space-based telescopes meaning that the evidence is already there for any enterprising astronomer to tease apart.

Comment Chromecast as a dashboard display (Score 1) 104

I think that another use for Chromecast is for dashboard displays. Usually you put a computer + monitor for each station where you want to display dashboards showing the current status of production line/sales/promotions/news/donations/etc. With chromecast you can point it to the website that will display the info and you are set.

Chromecast is a Wifi device with a chrome browser/js engine so this use case can be cheap and interesting because you don't need a computer, just a monitor and a working wifi signal.

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