White guy goes crazy verbally abuses police, [allegedly] hits the cop while angrily pulling away from curb, is politely arrested. Happened in Alberta, in May.
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Anyone else following this?
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Why is that one odd? Other than that sudo su wasnât working earlier, which youâd think a FreeBSD distro would have down. Hardly the first time that someone has copied macâs look-and-feel.
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Stob treks back across the decades to review the greatest TV sci-fi in the light of recent experience
This. Is. GOLD.
Donât use the condoms? You know these young people have been training for years, often cut off from normal life and socialising, let alone in Covid times, and if your event finishes in the first week say: you are gonna party. Olympic village is stacks of young people away from home, letting their hair down, blowing off steam, boozing, partying, and riding each other like they just got out of jail.
Luck with that Tokyo.
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Japan assembles superteam of aircraft component manufacturers to build supersonic passenger plane
Japan has a assembled a supergroup of aviation, industrial, and space organisations to build a supersonic passenger jet.
The new organisation, Japan Supersonic Research (JSR), quietly signed itself into existence on March 31st. Yesterday, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced that it is a member, alongside Japan Aircraft Development Association, Japan Aerospace Exploration Association, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Kawasaki Heavy Industries), IHI Corporation, and Subaru.
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A team of researchers have detailed a range of techniques which they suggest could one day lead to a genuine cloak of invisibility - although, thanks to Toyotaâs involvement, theyâre looking to start by making the windscreen pillars disappear from your next car.
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The paper is available under open access terms in the Journal of Applied Physics.
What job title would YOU want carved on your gravestone? âBeloved father, Slayer of Dragons, Register of Domainsâ
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nothing prepares you for the experience of hearing Justin Bieber through your teeth
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BOFH: When the Sun rises in the West and sets in the East, only then will the UPS cease to supply uninterrupted voltage
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His list of technologies ânot wanted in this projectâ includes: touch interfaces; the btrfs file system; Gnome and KDE (considered too complex); Wayland, which âmakes things more complicatedâ; Pipewire audio; and package managers for end-user applications.
âEverything that is to be managed on our system can be managed in the file manager and/or other GUI elements,â he wrote.
He also argued that building in security âmakes the system more complex, cumbersome, and less fun to use, while the benefit is questionable in many cases.â
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Important safety tip: Donât eat touch racoon poop! Itâs Evil!
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Yes, I went ahead and put âracoon poopâ into a search engine.
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Facebook, academics think theyâve cracked spotting deepfakes by spotting how theyâre generated
Computer scientists have built prototype software capable of not only detecting fake images forged by neural networks but also estimating the properties of the model used to generate these so-called deepfakes.
The project is a collaboration between academics at Michigan State University (MSU) in America and Facebook AI Research (FAIR), the aim being to make a tool that can tackle campaigns of coordinated disinformation and the like.
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According to Paula Smith, who is familiar with all kinds of poop, Raccoon droppings are âradioactive.â
Iâll keep that in mind.
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âGraphics cards from companies including Nvidia and Asus saw prices fall by as much as two-thirds on e-commerce platforms amid Chinaâs sweeping bitcoin crackdownâ
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