double2helix
Re:T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good ...
on Monday October 21, 2024 @05:11PM (#41908563)
Well said.
Re:Why thousands of board games are buried beneath Mankato
on Saturday June 24, 2023 @12:16AM (#36455511)
I just assumed they were buried cause they were sucking kids into a jungle world and Robin Williams isn't here to save them.
Re:Rarbg Is No More
on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @07:18PM (#36145782)
For those questioning how websites can still illegally operate torrenting movies, the answer is very simple. It costs a lot of money and resources for the FBI and/or other federal agency to prosecute someone, let alone post adjudication costs ie: probation officers. The feds just don't care to waste time with search warrants over a menial crime.
They tried a few years back just simply mailing fines to people. But quickly realized they couldn't prove guilt without spending more money than it's worth.
Also movie makers don't care to push the issue with law enforcement anymore. They (unfortunately for law abiding folks) just inflate the price to make up for lost, just like stores do to combat shoplifting.
Re:Building telescopes on the Moon could transform astronomy
on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @06:10PM (#35633967)
The catch-22 is the influx of lunar traffic will create some noise interference on the "dark side" of the moon. Still less than that on earth though.
Re:What Archaeology Is Telling Us About the Real Jesus
on Friday April 07, 2023 @04:40PM (#35486693)
Thanks. I didn't realize that.
Re:What Archaeology Is Telling Us About the Real Jesus
on Friday April 07, 2023 @12:31PM (#35483562)
I hate it when stuff gets posted on here that you have to buy a subscription to read the story.
Re:UK backs Rolls-Royce project to build a nuclear reactor on the moon
on Sunday March 19, 2023 @01:22AM (#35216288)
$3.5 million sounds like a drop in a bucket for a nuclear reactor.
Re:UK backs Rolls-Royce project to build a nuclear reactor on the moon
on Sunday March 19, 2023 @01:19AM (#35216279)
Yea I loved that book, and not even a huge fan of sci-fi.
Re:The Security Camera Shy Hoodie
on Monday February 27, 2023 @11:57PM (#34965802)
All digital cameras are in "ir mode" point your TV remote at your cell phone camera and press a button on your remote it will light up on your screen.
Re:Hundreds of changes made to latest editions of Roald Dahl's books
on Sunday February 19, 2023 @01:09AM (#34854984)
I'm a gay man and I think we are going to far with this PC nonsense. I had a hard time growing up in the 90s knowing I was different and being tormented by my peers, so I'm happy to see gay "normalized" in current pop culture more because I think it teaches the younger generation to accept themselves and others. However I feel that it's going to far, for example I started reading a novel the other day but gave up a third of the way through because every character was some form of LGBT or interracial or something. It made the story seem fake and unrealistic. I think editing classic books is wrong even if it is covering up something like hate or bigotry. History forgotten is history bound to repeat itself.
Re:Stop the proposal on mass surveillance of the EU
on Thursday February 02, 2023 @04:39PM (#34633513)
It's 1984 for real. I read Edward Snowdens biography a couple weeks ago and one thing that floors me is people's lackadaisical response to the gross violation of laws our government was violating.
I think people are afraid to stand up for there right to privacy, because they feel unpatriotic or that it may make them look like a criminal with something to hide.
I do belive with proper due process and warranting the government should be able to carry out covert surveillance of those suspected of MAJOR terrorism only. But who draws that line? And how do you trust them?
Re:NYC Jails Want to Ban Physical Mail, Then Privatize Scanning of Dig...
on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @02:18PM (#34508658)
I was locked up in the feds, and the last two years I was there they went to this policy. Let me assure you if did absolutely nothing to stymie the flow of drugs. There are a hundred different ways people get stuff on the inside, and even if those hundred different ways were stopped there would be a new hundred in no time.
The quality of the mail scans were terrible. Problems like missing portions of letters and B&W scans of greetings cards (which BTW is against copyright laws).
I can't speak for the state level, but as far as the federal level the prison system is 0% rehabilitation. It is a profit mongering machine if you follow the money. For example the judge that sentenced me has a stake in the unicor federal prison industries factory I worked at, as well as the halfway house I was required to stay at when I got out even though I had a job and home immediately upon release.
Re:The Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spacefl...
on Sunday January 22, 2023 @05:35PM (#34482978)
It was very recent actually, around 2018 is about the time we were getting in the Russian stuff. I saw alot of very interesting antique items from various government agencies in the three years I was there, plus all the brand new and still usable equipment the government throws away due to the "use it or lose it" budget policy. Lots of waste.
Re:The Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spacefl...
on Saturday January 21, 2023 @10:55PM (#34474077)
When I was locked up in the feds I worked at an electronics recycling facility in the prison and we would get old Russian space program stuff like this all the time from NASA to tear down and recycle. The coolest thing was something the tag from NASA said was a "Russian Piano Console" not sure exactly what it was and can't find any info on the net today about it.