Comment Awesome monetization (Score 1) 41
Awesome monetization of half-baked opinions and less-well-baked Domino's pizza. JFC, how low the bar is set theses days.
Comment Suicide parameter (Score 2) 41
If the goal of Reddit is the suicide of its residents, then yes, by all means, cripple Reddit with AI.
Comment Damn I! Do you know how much planning (Score 1) 54
Damn I! Do you know how long and how much planning was involved!?!?!?!?
Comment OPSEC (Score 2) 64
It won't take long to convince her - or him - to be debriefed then cooperate. There are a few needs for an individual and huge dividends to the Ukraine...well, at least until this prisoner...er, perhaps an asset...comes down with a fatal case of Vx, leaping from a 15th floor balcony in despair, or shooting themselves in the back of the head a few times.
***/rant on/***
Why can't people STFU and keep information like this out of the news? GI Joes, Crayon eaters, Squids, Coasties, Space Cadets, and Chair Force folks understand. Their dependent families understand. Veterans, spouses, and certain other professionals understand.
If you're some dipshit Air Force Sergeant, who sends his brother a photo via Apple Messenger, embedded with GPS data, saying where you (and your unit, etc.) are located, you're a fucknut who needs to be investigated-interrogated by the OSI.
***/rant off/***
Comment Re: Russian Hacker In Ukraine? (Score 1) 64
LMFAO!!! What?
Comment One *Trillion* Dollars (Score 1) 233
I would pay (pinkie to lip) ONE TRILLION DOLLARS!
Comment No way ;) (Score 1) 1
No way
Herr TrumpenFührer and spawn wouldn't *lie* about their commitment to manufacturing the TrumpenFührer 1 (T1) phone in the United States.
*Clutching at my pearls.* In any other company, I'd say the principals made the decision to announce manufacturing in Los Estados Unidos de Norte America, completely failed to listen to their experts that it's impossible to manufacture mobile phones in the United States of North America without losing money on every handset.
Comment Re:What am I missing? (Score 1) 82
You agree to an audit, as part of the license agreement.
Comment Cool (Score 1) 273
Sure, if they implement an $800 ICE tax simultaneously, I'm good.
My 1969 Mustang Grandé with an Edelbrock intake and a Holley double-pumper drinks a bit more than the original 4 barrel carb and factory intake. It takes Premium only, but hey - build a viable EV infrastructure and I'll drive a slot-car too.
Submission + - Another large Black hole in "our" Galaxy (arxiv.org)
RockDoctor writes: A recent paper on ArXiv reports a novel idea about the central regions of "our" galaxy.
Remember the hoopla a few years ago about radio-astronomical observations producing an "image" of our central black hole — or rather, an image of the accretion disc around the black hole — long designated by astronomers as "Sagittarius A*" (or SGR-A*)? If you remember the image published then, one thing should be striking — it's not very symmetrical. If you think about viewing a spinning object, then you'd expect to see something with a "mirror" symmetry plane where we would see the rotation axis (if someone had marked it). If anything, that published image has three bright spots on a fainter ring. And the spots are not even approximately the same brightness.
This paper suggests that the image we see is the result of the light (radio waves) from SGR-A* being "lensed" by another black hole, near (but not quite on) the line of sight between SGR-A* and us. By various modelling approaches, they then refine this idea to a "best-fit" of a black hole with mass around 1000 times the Sun, orbiting between the distance of the closest-observed star to SGR-A* ("S2" — most imaginative name, ever!), and around 10 times that distance. That's far enough to make a strong interaction with "S2" unlikely within the lifetime of S2 before it's accretion onto SGR-A*.)
The region around SGR-A* is crowded. Within 25 parsecs (~80 light years, the distance to Regulus [in the constellation Leo] or Merak [in the Great Bear]) there is around 4 times more mass in several millions of "normal" stars than in the SGR-A* black hole. Finding a large (not "super massive") black hole in such a concentration of matter shouldn't surprise anyone.
This proposed black hole is larger than anything which has been detected by gravitational waves (yet) ; but not immensely larger — only a factor of 15 or so. (The authors also anticipate the "what about these big black holes spiralling together?" question : quote "and the amplitude of gravitational waves generated by the binary black holes is negligible.")
Being so close to SGR-A*, the proposed black hole is likely to be moving rapidly across our line of sight. At the distance of "S2" it's orbital period would be around 26 years (but the "new" black hole is probably further out than than that). Which might be an explanation for some of the variability and "flickering" reported for SGR-A* ever since it's discovery.
As always, more observations are needed. Which, for SGR-A* are frequently being taken, so improving (or ruling out) this explanation should happen fairly quickly. But it's a very interesting, and fun, idea.
Remember the hoopla a few years ago about radio-astronomical observations producing an "image" of our central black hole — or rather, an image of the accretion disc around the black hole — long designated by astronomers as "Sagittarius A*" (or SGR-A*)? If you remember the image published then, one thing should be striking — it's not very symmetrical. If you think about viewing a spinning object, then you'd expect to see something with a "mirror" symmetry plane where we would see the rotation axis (if someone had marked it). If anything, that published image has three bright spots on a fainter ring. And the spots are not even approximately the same brightness.
This paper suggests that the image we see is the result of the light (radio waves) from SGR-A* being "lensed" by another black hole, near (but not quite on) the line of sight between SGR-A* and us. By various modelling approaches, they then refine this idea to a "best-fit" of a black hole with mass around 1000 times the Sun, orbiting between the distance of the closest-observed star to SGR-A* ("S2" — most imaginative name, ever!), and around 10 times that distance. That's far enough to make a strong interaction with "S2" unlikely within the lifetime of S2 before it's accretion onto SGR-A*.)
The region around SGR-A* is crowded. Within 25 parsecs (~80 light years, the distance to Regulus [in the constellation Leo] or Merak [in the Great Bear]) there is around 4 times more mass in several millions of "normal" stars than in the SGR-A* black hole. Finding a large (not "super massive") black hole in such a concentration of matter shouldn't surprise anyone.
This proposed black hole is larger than anything which has been detected by gravitational waves (yet) ; but not immensely larger — only a factor of 15 or so. (The authors also anticipate the "what about these big black holes spiralling together?" question : quote "and the amplitude of gravitational waves generated by the binary black holes is negligible.")
Being so close to SGR-A*, the proposed black hole is likely to be moving rapidly across our line of sight. At the distance of "S2" it's orbital period would be around 26 years (but the "new" black hole is probably further out than than that). Which might be an explanation for some of the variability and "flickering" reported for SGR-A* ever since it's discovery.
As always, more observations are needed. Which, for SGR-A* are frequently being taken, so improving (or ruling out) this explanation should happen fairly quickly. But it's a very interesting, and fun, idea.
Submission + - Surado, formerly Slashdot Japan, is closing at the end of the month. (srad.jp) 1
AmiMoJo writes: Slashdot Japan was launched on May 28, 2001. On 2025/03/31, it will finally close. Since starting the site separated from the main Slashdot one, and eventually rebranded as "Surado", which was it's Japanese nickname.
Last year the site stopped posting new stories, and was subsequently unable to find a buyer. In a final story announcing the end, many users expressed their sadness and gratitude for all the years of service.
Last year the site stopped posting new stories, and was subsequently unable to find a buyer. In a final story announcing the end, many users expressed their sadness and gratitude for all the years of service.
Comment Re:Good Vibes (Score 1) 96
Gail: "I didn't know there were robot sympathizers."
Hari: "There are always sympathizers."
Comment Re:Sister Wives (Score 0) 50
More than 0.
Comment Sister Wives (Score -1, Offtopic) 50
Does this law also apply to sister-wives under the age of consent?
That hasn't bothered Utahans que estan Mormon previoso.
Comment Improvement (Score 1) 42
Better than no cloud captioning or dubbing at all....mostly for those blancos ricos que no tienenen un corazon. Y que no hablan otro idiomas pero Ingles. Bastardos ricos.
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