dcroley
Re:Bird with GPS flies into typhoon, carried 700 miles, reaching 15000...
on Thursday October 26, 2023 @04:14PM (#38031127)
Like in Dune, once you are in the storm, you have to go with the flow to survive.
Re:“Wind-Powered” Cargo Ships Are the Future
on Monday February 20, 2023 @10:01AM (#34868684)
While wind is nice for new ships, may a first step would be to stop using awful bunker fuel in the ships that already exist.
Re:Equium: Acoustic Heat Pumps
on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @05:20PM (#34238965)
Equium claims that the heat pump system is completely silent, despite the use of a speaker to generate the acoustic wave. The level of noise is reportedly lower than 30 dB – the equivalent of a whisper.
“The sound our system produces stays confined inside the core, so you cannot hear it from outside,” said Loyer.
Re:Siting Bank Branches
on Friday September 16, 2022 @03:56PM (#32871222)
I wonder how this idea will age. I haven't been to a bank branch in so long. Hell, I've written 5 checks in the last 2 years. I deposit the rare check with my phone or ATM. Why would I want to go to a branch? I took out my last mortgage with my credit union and still never when in the branch. My 20-something daughter never considered branch locations at all when picking her new bank.
Re:Guidance to make federally funded research freely available without...
on Thursday August 25, 2022 @01:41PM (#32597222)
About damn time.
Re:3D printed mirror array
on Thursday November 11, 2021 @03:55PM (#29193046)
This idea looks like something you could commercialize!
Re:Spain will ban selling fruit and vegetables in plastic containers s...
on Thursday September 23, 2021 @10:49AM (#28629970)
What about berries?
Re:Phones containing magnets inhibit implantable cardioverter defibril...
on Monday August 23, 2021 @10:24AM (#28276208)
I guess those $10 magnetically attached name tags are bad too then.
Re:The controversial plan to rewild death
on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @10:58AM (#28221934)
I guess I am confused a little. Are park rangers or maintainers actually going through "wild" areas and removing the carcasses? Why? I am not sure I would even think of such an area as "wild" then. Heck, I'm not sure how you would even keep up with doing that.
Re:Abandoned Motorola Headquarters (2020)
on Friday August 13, 2021 @02:31PM (#28172529)
I remember touring the museum there during a visit as a new employee in the early 90s. Only time I ever visited HQ.
Re:Slack launches Huddles, Discord-like audio calls you can hop in and...
on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @01:53PM (#27691526)
So basically, it's just a slack call with the video off?
Re:Identifying banknote fingerprints can stop counterfeits on streets
on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @05:03PM (#26572876)
They would keep a DB of the note fingerprints and look them up in that. Thus, this would only work if online or something.
Re:Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t have a Facebo...
on Thursday March 26, 2020 @02:52PM (#22696620)
under CCPA, yes.
Re:New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support
on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @09:23AM (#22616327)
I wonder if the "floating" display thing is going to wobble a lot. Looks like design over function.
Re:Google’s Project Soli radar is sensitive enough to count sheets of ...
on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @02:08PM (#18858484)
If a sheet of paper is roughly .1 mm, then this must be running over 300GHz, or what is more commonly called infrared light, no?
Re:Boeing 737 Passenger Jet Damaged in Possible Midair Drone Hit
on Friday December 14, 2018 @05:02PM (#18685250)
are you trying to suggest a drone is flies significantly faster than a goose?
Re:Boeing 737 Passenger Jet Damaged in Possible Midair Drone Hit
on Friday December 14, 2018 @02:00PM (#18683516)
Which has more mass, a goose or a drone? My bet is on the goose.
Re:Decline of Rural Lending Crimps Small-Town Business
on Friday December 29, 2017 @10:13AM (#16029799)
Can't seem to find a non-paywalled version.
Re:Dynamism in Retreat: Consequences for Regions, Markets and Workers
on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @01:27PM (#14754484)
So a group with Innovation in its name says that decreasing innovation is the "core economic problem America faces today." Hmmm. Color me skeptical.
Re:America’s opioid epidemic is worsening
on Monday March 06, 2017 @04:46PM (#13806334)
There is something obviously wrong or at least strange with the data that backs that map. Look at the contrast across the border between Tennessee and Georgia or between West Virginia and Virginia. I think some states must be under-reporting things or reporting them differently. I would expect such a map to track poverty maps or unemployment maps, but it does not.
Re:Douglas Lenat's Cyc is now being commercialized
on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @05:44PM (#11300925)
Wow. I did not realize it was time for the yearly Cyc article again. Cycorp has been a thing for a long time, but I think history has shown that the path Doug and Cyc have taken is not the way forward.
Re:Google says self-driving car hits municipal bus in minor crash
on Monday February 29, 2016 @03:30PM (#11198208)
I guess I was dreaming last Friday when I saw the Google self-driving car pass by twice on the same route, at 10:30pm. I even handled a stop with very limited visibility on one side like a champ. If anything, I think self-driving cars will end up driving like my Grandma, but probably safer.
Re:Young Saudis See Cushy Jobs Vanish Along with Nation’s Oil Wealth
on Sunday February 21, 2016 @09:17PM (#11147964)
Read in John Cleese's voice.
Re:Open-sourcing Facebook Infer: Identify bugs before you ship
on Thursday June 11, 2015 @12:35PM (#9700691)
At least for Java, this does not look as powerful as FindBugs.
Re:W. H. Auden's syllabus will make your college courses look like a p...
on Thursday January 29, 2015 @06:15PM (#8969510)
A lot of that would presumably have already been read by students taking this class, especially the Shakespearian tragedies and Moby Dick and perhaps Dante's Inferno.