Is this project meant to be low-cost alternative to ground-based adaptive optics observatories or is there another good reason for using a balloon to look at a pulsar?
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Japanese astro-boffins race to recover pulsar-spotting balloon basket
What the BLEEP? BitTorrent's secure messaging app arrives
El Reg knocks a fiver off 16GB USB stick
SHOCK! Robot cars do CRASH. Because other cars have human drivers
All-Russian 'Elbrus' PCs and servers go on sale
Re: That's not the point
The US restricts what models of Intel and AMD CPUs can be exported to various countries for various purposes. With the Elbrus, the Russians can ignore the American "chip blockade" and do whatever they want. This is the same reason the Chinese are building their own CPUs based on MIPs designs.
Russian supercomputers will continue to use American chips:
http://top500.org/site/50104 http://top500.org/site/50548
There is no chip blockade for most, and 65nm 800 MHz chips aren't going to cut it for most users (supercomputers, military, or even school laptops).
I expect we will hear more about the Chinese blockade by June.
Google cloud: rubbish at updates, world-class at rapid rollbacks
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Traumatised Reg SPB team barely survives movie unwatchablathon
Spooks BUSTED: 27,000 profiles reveal new intel ops, home addresses
Sally Beauty Supply breached AGAIN
How Groucho Marx lost his voice and found his funny bone
ICANN's bill for clawing global DNS from Uncle Sam: $7m and counting
Whither the PC? Mobes, slabs drive majority of traffic for top news sites
Snapdragon 810 chip doesn't overheat, jilted Qualcomm sniffs at LG
Rand Paul is trying to murder net neutrality. Is there a US presidential election, or something?
3. 2. 1...
Rand Paul Is Setting Up Shop In Silicon Valley
Rand Paul’s courtship of Silicon Valley paying off in donations
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And the Silicon Gold EVAPORATES IN A VIOLENTLY EXPLOSIVE *POOF*
Apple Watch HATES tattoos: Inky pink sinks rinky-dink sensor
Oz media belatedly realises 'spook's charter' is bad (for) news
The Apple Watch: Throbbing strap-on with a knurled knob
Junk in your trunk is Amazon Germany's new delivery plan
Spotty dwarf Ceres BARES ALL in NASA's SHINY CLOSEUPS
the good stuff
I've been confused about when the good pictures will appear. Here's when:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_(spacecraft)#Ceres_orbit
Orbit...Dates...........Altitude..Orbital....vs. Hubble
RC3.....April 23–May 9..13,500km..15 days....24×
Survey..June 6–30.......4,400km...3.1 days...72×
HAMO....Aug 4–Oct 15....1,450km...19 hours...215×
LAMO....Dec 8–end.......375km.....5.5 hours..850×
You ain't seen nothing yet.
BuzzFeed: We don't pull 'articles' due to advertiser pressure VERY OFTEN
BLAM! Valve slams brakes on Steam flimflam with $5 spam scram plan
it's foolproof
It costs money for an employee/mechanical turk to look at and ban a spammer. Steam gets $1.50 when the spammers have to buy a $5 copy of Barbie Princess Equestrian Fairies or whatever. If the anti-spam crusader can ban 10+ spammers in an hour, they can get a $15!!! minimum wage and everyone goes home happy. Except the spammers, who might eventually have to quit.
US Navy's LOCUST DRONE CANNON is like death SWARMED up
Gwyneth Paltrow flubs $29 food stamp dare, swallows pride instead
Re: eat this
You can meet the $10 challenge (quid a day) using tortillas... especially if you cheat by using bulk rice and beans and dividing the cost. If you can afford to bring in kale and eggs, you can have a breakfast tortilla. I am also a big fan of the chickpeas.
Anybody with the tools necessary to cook, the patience to look for deals, and a larger budget can eat reasonably well. The savings can go directly to beer.
eat this
I think she had a good start. Ditch the kale, peas, 3 of the limes, eggs. Get 5 lbs of rice, not 2. Get more beans. Combine the wettened beans, rice, and flour tortillas (corn won't hold up). Add flavor (pick 2 of sour cream, lime, hot sauce, cilantro, cumin, or lemon pepper). Just keep eating that for 7 days. If you run out of tortillas, eat it out of a bowl. Add a daily multivitamin (expired, 10 years old, found in the neighbor's trash).
Here's another top shelf idea: Soylent Hummus. Just make your standard hummus in bulk, add some groundup multivitamins (that's a thing, right?) and slather it on crackers for a week (you can't afford pita).
ICANN banked $60m from dot-word auctions. Just what exactly is it going to spend it all on?
Slack raises $160m from investors, gets mega $2.8bn valuation
Google: Go ahead, XP stalwarts, keep on using Chrome safely all YEAR
Samsung's PCIe flash card: Slim, speedy, and just nibbling power
Revealed: The AMAZING technology behind Apple's $1299 Retina MacBooks – a lot of glue
Google’s plan for WORLD DOMINATION takes shape. And it begins with a patent
Microsoft cramming free stuff into Galaxy S6es? Not so fast – US telcos
Google research bods hope to lick battery life limits – report
Videogame publishers to fans: Oi, stop resurrecting our dead titles online
ICANN urges US, Canada: Help us stop the 'predatory' monster we created ... dot-sucks!
Google wants Marvin the Paranoid Android's personality in the cloud
Comcast: Google, we'll see your 1Gbps fiber and DOUBLE IT
Re: sarcastic comment...
Ok, so CERN, Square Kilometer Array etc. have their own big traffic numbers, clearly not counted in Cisco's numbers. It still seems like the backbone can't take on too many gigabit users anytime soon.
And if you manage to saturate your gigabit connection, you're temporarily representing 1/50,000 of the global IP traffic circa 2018 (key word being temporarily).
Re: sarcastic comment...
Am I doing the math wrong or is there a lot less throughput for traffic than we think?
Cisco: By 2018, global IP traffic will reach 131.6 exabytes per month.
131.6 EB / (30.4375 * 24 * 60 * 60) = ~50.04 TB per second.
Which is ~40 million saturated 10 Mbps connections.
Or ~4 million @ 100 Mbps, or 400k @ 1 Gbps.
So in 2018, about 40 million people globally can get 1.25 MB (roughly a floppy) in one second. That's an average for the whole month (actually derived from 1.6 zettabytes a year) so it could be higher at times, but it still seems very constrained.
Also, there will be about 3.6 billion Internet users and 7.47 billion global population in 2018, so 40 million is ~1% of the world's Internet users. If 25% or 900 million are online, they are using 55.6 KB per second average.
Cybercrim told to cough up £1m or spend years in chokey
Found guilty last April, Oshodi is serving an eight-year prison sentence for his part in a phishing attack which netted a gang of eight cybercrims almost £1m of a woman's life savings. According to the Met Police, the gang blew the stolen savings on items from "cheeseburgers to high-end computers and gold". As George Best might say, the rest they just frittered away.
I don't get the feeling Oshodi has £1m sitting somewhere.
Netflix teams with AWS to launch VHS-as-a-service
Firefox hits prime time as version 37 manifests
Re: Even more phoning home?
I'm running the developer edition, 38.0a2.
about:preferences#advanced
I'm assuming it's the checkbox labeled "Enable Firefox Developer Edition Health Report". It seems to be unchecked by default, so it could be opt-in (I don't recall changing any defaults since I installed this version). If you check that, you can also check "Share additional data (i.e., Telemetry)". Under that is "Enable Crash Reporter".
The links in this post are the "Learn More" links in the browser's preferences.