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Comment Re:Which 60 countries? (Score 2) 12

From TFA: "Countries signed their first UN treaty targeting cybercrime in Hanoi [...]" - Vietnam I suppose? Could not find any official list, but there's the list of statements here: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhanoiconvention.org%2Fst..., US seem to be missing?

Comment Re:Excuse my ignorance ... (Score 1) 66

I agree that there are probably a lot of profiteers that launder drugs money, but still ... I will assume the rest of 97% are just young people - as someone said below between 18-24 which is student life ... Even if you're dumb - how can throw parent's money or any hard-earned money on these things? You still need to eat, no?

Too many distraction, ~40 years ago people threw money on things like drink, smoke, women etc. But nowadays everything is so distracting, difficult to keep a straight bearing. Everyone and everywhere wants a piece of your wallet.

One thing is clear - education and its ecosystem is going down in flames. And probably this is a proof of that.

Comment Re: Regress? (Score 3, Insightful) 90

by cristiroma (#65718076) Attached to: Bose SoundTouch Home Theater Systems Regress Into Dumb Speakers

Your opinion is quite normal. What bose does here is a shitty marketing shitty called planned obsolescence.

People should educate themselves to find workarounds. You can buy a pair of 40 years Technics speakers for 100 bucks on ebay, hook them to a raspberry pi and link to your home media server. Spend some time and learn something in the process. You get for 150$ something bose is selling for 1000+ and get rid of the monthly spotify subscription. Listen whatever you want whenever you want, wherever you are. On your phone, home speakers etc.

Comment Re:Tempest in a teapot. (Score 3, Informative) 103

by cristiroma (#65713366) Attached to: PC Sales Explode In Q3 As Windows 11 Deadlines Force Millions To Upgrade

My 10-year Intel i7-6700K w/ NVME, 32GB RAM is not rusty at all. It's actually running containers, VMs and IDEs - all at the same time! Capacitors are also doing fine, btw. It also running fine on Linux.

Wonder why M$ does not mention some people might be able to install a TPM 2.0 module on their MB? Windows/M$ are crap.

Comment Re:Enshittification continues (Score 2) 69

by cristiroma (#65623786) Attached to: Microsoft's Copilot AI is Now Inside Samsung TVs and Monitors

"AI assistant is DEFINITELY what everyone wants in a fucking tv." ... No one appears to want a PC in the home anymore.

Quote please?

The last thing I want in a "Smart TV" and in particular Samsung - which snoops on me. But I need to admin I have a Samsung Smart TV, because:
1. You cannot but non-smart TVs - they're all garbage quality
2. Samsung does great displays

I don't need cable, I want to watch whatever I want, whenever I want. And it's such a great display for a media server.

Submission + - Florida Deploys Robot Rabbits To Control Invasive Burmese Python Population (cbsnews.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat. But these bunnies are robots meant to lure the giant invasive snakes out of their hiding spots. It's the latest effort by the South Florida Water Management District to eliminate as many pythons as possible from the Everglades, where they are decimating native species with their voracious appetites. In Everglades National Park, officials say the snakes have eliminated 95% of small mammals as well as thousands of birds. "Removing them is fairly simple. It's detection. We're having a really hard time finding them," said Mike Kirkland, lead invasive animal biologist for the water district. "They're so well camouflaged in the field."

The water district and University of Florida researchers deployed 120 robot rabbits this summer as an experiment. Previously, there was an effort to use live rabbits as snake lures but that became too expensive and time-consuming, Kirkland said. The robots are simple toy rabbits, but retrofitted to emit heat, a smell and to make natural movements to appear like any other regular rabbit. "They look like a real rabbit," Kirkland said. They are solar powered and can be switched on and off remotely. They are placed in small pens monitored by a video camera that sends out a signal when a python is nearby. "Then I can deploy one of our many contractors to go out and remove the python," Kirkland said. The total cost per robot rabbit is about $4,000, financed by the water district, he added.

Submission + - Nanoparticles turn houseplants into night lights (newatlas.com)

Submitted by cristiroma
cristiroma writes: Wouldn't it be great if the plants in your home could do more than just sit there looking pretty? Researchers at South China Agricultural University in the city of Guangzhou have found a way to upgrade them into soft glowing night lights in a range of hues, with the use of nanoparticles.

The team developed a light-emitting phosphor compound that enabled succulents with fleshy leaves to charge in sunlight or indoor LED light in just a couple of minutes, and then emit a soft uniform glow that lasts up to two hours.

The afterglow phosphor compound – which is similar to those found in glow-in-the-dark toys – is inexpensive, biocompatible, and negates the need for more complex methods of infusing bioluminescence in plants, like genetic modification. It simply gets injected into the leaves.

This isn't the first time plants have been modified to glow. A team at MIT used enzymes seen in fireflies to achieve this back in 2017, and there was also a collaborative effort in 2020 that saw DNA from bioluminescent mushrooms injected into tobacco plants to make them light up. A 2021 MIT project featured a similar approach to this latest work out of China, but saw plants like watercress, tobacco, basil, and daisies glow for only half as long.

Beyond modifying a commercial compound for this project, the team also had to figure out the right size for the phosphor particles so they'd work as intended inside plants. Shuting Liu, first author on the study that appeared in Matter this week, noted, "Smaller, nano-sized particles move easily within the plant but are dimmer. Larger particles glowed brighter but couldn’t travel far inside the plant.”

Comment Re: Can't use this due to confidentiality issues (Score 1) 132

I've got burned already last year as I've prepared a presentation in PowerPoint on my Windows desktop then I went to present it to customer on my laptop with Linux. When I've opened it on LibreOffice on the projector all headings and spacings were shifted, bullet points changed character etc. - it was readable but awful. Not to mention all fonts changed (due to Linux). Luckily they were techies and understood the challenge.

Submission + - TransUnion Says Hackers Stole 4.4 Million Customers' Personal Information (techcrunch.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Credit reporting giant TransUnion has disclosed a data breach affecting more than 4.4 million customers’ personal information. In a filing with Maine’s attorney general’s office on Thursday, TransUnion attributed the July 28 breach to unauthorized access of a third-party application storing customers’ personal data for its U.S. consumer support operations.

TransUnion claimed “no credit information was accessed,” but provided no immediate evidence for its claim. The data breach notice did not specify what specific types of personal data were stolen. In a separate data breach disclosure filed later on Thursday with Texas’ attorney general’s office, TransUnion confirmed that the stolen personal information includes customers’ names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers. [...] It’s not clear who is behind the breach at TransUnion, or if the hackers made any demands to the company.

Comment Re:Legislation Not Needed (Score 1) 67

by cristiroma (#65621712) Attached to: A Proposal to Ban Ghost Jobs

How is this different than those applying to a job and fill their resume with bullshit? You invest time, schedule an interview and minutes after that you realize it's a disaster. Would the applicant be fined? Who's paying for my time? And after so many years, I saw tons of bullshit.

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