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Comment Re:But but but... (Score 1) 48

Huh. I thought these guys were all about States Rights.

Apparently that only extends to telling women what they can do with their own bodies?

Well ... Blanche assures anti-abortion supporters that Dobbs will be ‘permanent in every single state’

Blanche lamented that the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict abortion are “taking longer than we want” but said the Justice Department was “working hand in hand” with federal health agencies and the White House “so that the Dobbs decision becomes permanent in every single state.”

“We don’t have complete victory yet, but we will have victory, and victory will be soon, and and and it will be permanent,” Blanche vowed.

Comment Okay, but ... (Score 1) 87

US Hires Over 2,000 Video Gamers As Air Traffic Controllers

Aren't many (most?) video games about destroying things? How much of their training will be about *not* crashing or shooting down planes? I guess it could work if scores are based on successful landings and course changes? Not as exciting, but maybe just as satisfying? They will know that there's no save, restore or reset functions - right? :-)

Comment Re:NOAA will be defunded (Score 1) 95

And that crowd ignores that the other Noah was involved in the biggest climate / sea-level change event in "history." :-)

Not to mention he was a stable genius, able to somehow collect and pack two of all the species on earth into a small (by modern standards) ship, then feed and transport them all around the world without mishap.

Obviously, Noah was a Timelord with a TARDIS.

Comment Re:correlation? (Score 1) 62

I worked in an office for years and never had a Windows PC.

I've had a mix on my desk for day-to-day use over the years: DOS / Windows PCs. BSDi / 386BSD PCs, Sun 3/4 Workstations, SGI Indigo Workstation, various Linux PCs. The last two places provided Windows PCs for Office and Outlook, with X11 software for Unix/Linux server connections.

Comment Re:1 billion users or victims? (Score 2) 76

Google Gemini Hits 1 Billion Users In Record Time

Is that willing users? Users who are happy about Gemini being forced on them? Users who have an easy way to avoid/disable this (while using google products)? I'm guessing all no.

Oops, re-read TFS, my bad.

These 1 billion users may also be encountering Gemini in all those places, but that's not the MAU metric. Pichai is talking only about people who are opening the Gemini app or visiting the Gemini web interface to enter a prompt or access Gemini Live.

Comment Re:Great (Score 5, Informative) 169

Oh no! $500 million dollars taken away from the $275 BILLION collected in taxes. What ever will CA do without that $500 million?!?

Guessing California will still be the 4th largest economy in the world.

2024 Nominal GDP
- United States: $29.18T (I think this excludes CA GDP, below)
- China: $18.64T
- Germany: $4.65T
- California: $4.10T
- Japan: $4.02T
- India: $3.90T
- United Kingdom: $3.64T

California is followed by Texas is at $2.9T and New York is at $2.4T.

Submission + - New flapping robot swims and flies like a diving bird (mit.edu)

fahrbot-bot writes: Loons, gulls, puffins, and petrels are some of the 100 species of birds that can both fly and swim. These diving birds can plunge in water to swim after prey, and leap back into the air to fly away.

Inspired by these naturally aquatic aviators, engineers at MIT and EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, have designed a robot that can swim underwater, then flap out of the water to continue flying through air, much like diving birds, reports MIT News.

The “flapping-wing aerial-aquatic vehicle,” or FAAV, weighs less than 300 grams (about half a pound) and is designed to help scientists study the mechanics that enable diving birds to fly through air and water.

The new robot roughly resembles a bird, with a body, two wings, and a tail. The body contains a battery and waterproof electric motor that drives a crankshaft, which in turn pumps the wings up and down at preset frequencies. The wings are made of thin membranes that are coated with hydrophobic nanoparticles to help wick away water. And the tail is motorized, enabling it to change its angle to help the robot fly up or dive down.

The paper appears in the journal Science, and, more accessibly, from MIT Libraries.

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