Comment Pick-up gold (Score 1) 71
The potential to work this result into an icebreaking conversation is strong..
Comment History rhymes (Score 1) 162
Evil, and banal at that.
Comment phone number leak (Score 4, Informative) 35
There is also no option to hide your phone number from your profile if you used your phone's Zoom app to log in once. This is very disturbing since now my private phone number is displayed for my students. I contacted Zoom about this twice already, but they didn't even bother to reply.
Comment online radios, virtual dance halls (Score 1) 42
Or, you can just listen to online radios, such as Argentine Tango Radio.
Social dancers are also making an attempt to utilize large video conferencing apps such as Zoom to connect members of the dancing community, who are dancing at their home while being quarantined. Here you can read about experiences from the world's first live virtual Argentine tango milonga, but I'm sure similar attempts will also pop up in the salsa, bachata etc communities.
Comment Not as new as suggested... (Score 1) 82
Of course this idea is not as new as it had been suggested; the physical plausibility of sending observers into Kerr black hole so that they survive the trip have already been thoroughly investigated by other authors in peer reviewed journals (i.e. "Relativistic computers and the Turing barrier" by István Németi and Gyula Dávid, https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1016%2Fj.amc.... ) in the, I shall say thoroughly sci-fi movie worth, context of general relativistic hypercomputation.
Comment Hungarian Academy of Sciences... (Score 5, Interesting) 86
... no more, unfortunately. The fascist Orban regime just ripped the research institutes out from under the Hungarian Academy of Sciences three months ago. The livelihood of researchers, such as Attila Krasznahorkay, under a new umbrella organization with more direct political control, is now in a limbo. Thanks European Union, by the way, for letting this (and similar moves, such as kicking out Central European University from Budapest) happen without any sanctions.
Comment Hopefully replacement performs core functionality (Score 1) 51
Let's hope the replacement will not skip in the middle of the tracks anymore, a major bug Apple is unwilling to address in iTunes for years (and removes apple discussion board forum posts if someone brings it up)!
Comment If only Apple also got rid of key bugs in iTunes.. (Score 3, Insightful) 163
High-Power Thermoelectric Generator Utilizes Thermal Difference of Only 5C (newelectronics.co.uk) 100
A silicon-nanowire thermoelectric generator has been developed by a team of researchers from Waseda University, Osaka University, and Shizuoka University. From a report: According to the Japanese researchers, this experimentally demonstrated a high-power density of 12 microwatts per 1cm2, enough to drive sensors or realise intermittent wireless communication, at a small thermal difference of only 5C. Silicon-based thermoelectric generators conventionally employed long, silicon nanowires of about 10-100nm, which were suspended on a cavity to cut off the bypass of the heat current and secure the temperature difference across the silicon nanowires. However, the cavity structure weakened the mechanical strength of the devices and increased the fabrication cost. The team says their generator has overcome this issue.
"Because our generator uses the same technology to manufacture semiconductor integrated circuits, its processing cost could be largely cut through mass production," says Professor Takanobu Watanabe of Waseda University. "Also, it could open up a pathway to various, autonomously-driven IoT devices utilising environmental and body heats. For instance, it may be possible to charge your smartwatch during your morning jog someday."
"Because our generator uses the same technology to manufacture semiconductor integrated circuits, its processing cost could be largely cut through mass production," says Professor Takanobu Watanabe of Waseda University. "Also, it could open up a pathway to various, autonomously-driven IoT devices utilising environmental and body heats. For instance, it may be possible to charge your smartwatch during your morning jog someday."
Comment no individual brand is as predictive... yeah (Score 5, Insightful) 497
"no individual brand is as predictive of being high-income as owning an Apple iPhone in 2016,"
Seriously? Owning a Bentley is a worse predictor of being high-income than owning an Apple iPhone? Are we sure there are no further qualifications here?
Seriously? Owning a Bentley is a worse predictor of being high-income than owning an Apple iPhone? Are we sure there are no further qualifications here?
Comment Quarter pounder's new name (Score 1) 440
[...] a McDonald's Quarter Pounder might be known as the McDonald's 113-Grammer, [...]
No, it would be called "Royal with cheese".
No, it would be called "Royal with cheese".
Comment The real issues are with functionality, not design (Score 1) 366
With iTunes, for instance, they have been unable to fix the most mind-boggling problem with its core functionality - playing music - that on occasion it stops playing music in the middle of a track and skips to the next one. Screencast evidence.
Comment It's time.. (Score 4, Insightful) 342
... to challenge the constitutionality of the Espionage act, and hope that, for the right reasons, the Supreme Court will ultimately strike it down. Unfortunately this implies several years of legal battle for a Winner... but she may not have another choice anyway.
Comment Re:Leaker caught and arrested (Score 1) 456
Reality is the victim of journalistic sloppiness.
Submission + - Gov't contractor charged with leaking classified info to media (thehill.com)
schwit1 writes: The Department of Justice charged 25-year-old government contractor Reality Leigh Winner with sharing top secret material with a media outlet, prosecutors announced in a press release Monday.
The DOJ press release don't specify which media outlet received the materials allegedly leaked by Winner, but NBC News reported that the material went to the Intercept online news outlet.
The Intercept published a top secret NSA report Monday that alleged Russian military intelligence launched a 2016 cyberattack on a voting software company.
Details on the report published by The Intercept suggest that it was created on May 5, 2017 — the same day prosecutors say the materials Winner is charged with sharing were created. A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment on whether Winner is accused of sharing the report published by the Intercept.
Last month, Winner allegedly “printed and improperly removed classified intelligence reporting, which contained classified national defense information” before mailing the materials to an unnamed online news outlet a few days later, according to prosecutors.
The DOJ press release don't specify which media outlet received the materials allegedly leaked by Winner, but NBC News reported that the material went to the Intercept online news outlet.
The Intercept published a top secret NSA report Monday that alleged Russian military intelligence launched a 2016 cyberattack on a voting software company.
Details on the report published by The Intercept suggest that it was created on May 5, 2017 — the same day prosecutors say the materials Winner is charged with sharing were created. A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment on whether Winner is accused of sharing the report published by the Intercept.
Last month, Winner allegedly “printed and improperly removed classified intelligence reporting, which contained classified national defense information” before mailing the materials to an unnamed online news outlet a few days later, according to prosecutors.
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