Non-IT News Thread
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Trump will replace Interior Department Secretary next week
Zinke leaves as a number of investigations open up into his spending habits.
Zinke's time in office was marked by a similar effort to stymie the environmental protections put in place by the Obama administration in the name of oil and gas interests. In one of his most controversial moves, Zinke reopened vast tracts of federal waters that had previously been off-limits to offshore oil and gas drilling. The secretary drew sharp criticism for opening up federal waters adjacent to states that didn't want offshore drilling, while exempting Florida from the same treatment after a meeting from the state's Republican governor.
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Apple to bring Charlie Brown and the Peanuts to its streaming service
STEM content with astronaut Snoopy will be an Apple exclusive.
Apple snagged a whole group of stars in its latest get for its upcoming streaming service. According to a report by Variety, Apple signed a deal with Canadian broadcaster DHX Media to produce new content featuring the Peanuts gang, Charles M. Schulz's band of friends including Charlie Brown, Lucy, and the lovable beagle Snoopy.
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California transit agencies have 21 years to build zero-emissions bus fleets
Buying gas or diesel buses after 2029 will be prohibited in the state.
In a press release on Friday, CARB noted that the transportation sector contributes 40 percent of the state's greenhouse gas emissions, and 80 to 90 percent of the state's smog-creating pollutants. "Full implementation of the regulation adopted today is expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 19 million metric tons from 2020 to 2050—the equivalent of taking 4 million cars off the road," CARB wrote.
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Sony inadvertently leaks player counts for PS4 titles
Personalized PSN videos and trophy data combine for massive data dump.
The leak centers on Sony's recent My PS4 Life promotion, which lets users generate a personalized statistics video for their PSN Gamertag. Amid some aggregate statistics and "total hours played" numbers for your favorite games, the video also lists your "rarest" trophy and, crucially, the precise number of PSN users who have earned that trophy.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Sony inadvertently leaks player counts for PS4 titles
Personalized PSN videos and trophy data combine for massive data dump.
The leak centers on Sony's recent My PS4 Life promotion, which lets users generate a personalized statistics video for their PSN Gamertag. Amid some aggregate statistics and "total hours played" numbers for your favorite games, the video also lists your "rarest" trophy and, crucially, the precise number of PSN users who have earned that trophy.
IDK if I really care. Knowing how many people have heard an trophy does what exactly? What PII is exposed here?
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Sony inadvertently leaks player counts for PS4 titles
Personalized PSN videos and trophy data combine for massive data dump.
The leak centers on Sony's recent My PS4 Life promotion, which lets users generate a personalized statistics video for their PSN Gamertag. Amid some aggregate statistics and "total hours played" numbers for your favorite games, the video also lists your "rarest" trophy and, crucially, the precise number of PSN users who have earned that trophy.
IDK if I really care. Knowing how many people have heard an trophy does what exactly? What PII is exposed here?
I was kinda wondering the same - the general public probably don't give a shit about these numbers - though i'm guessing that game makers and advertisers on the platform might care about these numbers - though it's likely they already have them.
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Sony inadvertently leaks player counts for PS4 titles
Personalized PSN videos and trophy data combine for massive data dump.
The leak centers on Sony's recent My PS4 Life promotion, which lets users generate a personalized statistics video for their PSN Gamertag. Amid some aggregate statistics and "total hours played" numbers for your favorite games, the video also lists your "rarest" trophy and, crucially, the precise number of PSN users who have earned that trophy.
IDK if I really care. Knowing how many people have heard an trophy does what exactly? What PII is exposed here?
I was kinda wondering the same - the general public probably don't give a shit about these numbers - though i'm guessing that game makers and advertisers on the platform might care about these numbers - though it's likely they already have them.
If that data is worth anything, they already sold it illegally.
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Sony inadvertently leaks player counts for PS4 titles
Personalized PSN videos and trophy data combine for massive data dump.
The leak centers on Sony's recent My PS4 Life promotion, which lets users generate a personalized statistics video for their PSN Gamertag. Amid some aggregate statistics and "total hours played" numbers for your favorite games, the video also lists your "rarest" trophy and, crucially, the precise number of PSN users who have earned that trophy.
IDK if I really care. Knowing how many people have heard an trophy does what exactly? What PII is exposed here?
I was kinda wondering the same - the general public probably don't give a shit about these numbers - though i'm guessing that game makers and advertisers on the platform might care about these numbers - though it's likely they already have them.
Exactly, and while the game makers may have this information. What is the risk of knowing the exact number? This kind of information falls into the "generally who honestly GAF?!" category.
Now if the exact numbers where tied to their account and their login name or email was exposed because of it then I could see an issue.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Sony inadvertently leaks player counts for PS4 titles
Personalized PSN videos and trophy data combine for massive data dump.
The leak centers on Sony's recent My PS4 Life promotion, which lets users generate a personalized statistics video for their PSN Gamertag. Amid some aggregate statistics and "total hours played" numbers for your favorite games, the video also lists your "rarest" trophy and, crucially, the precise number of PSN users who have earned that trophy.
It’s either Sony’s Film or Gaming that keeps getting leaks.
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Hyundai finally gives us a price for the 2019 Kona EV—$29,995
MSRP is $36,450 before the delivery charge and $7,500 IRS credit are applied.
Based on the internal combustion-powered Kona, it packs in 64kWh of lithium-ion to give it an EPA range of 258 miles (415km). On top of that, the little Kona EV also sported a rather nifty Smart Regeneration System that uses the car's cruise control radar to maximize energy recuperation when following other cars. The one thing we couldn't tell you back then was how much this EV would cost.
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Sony inadvertently leaks player counts for PS4 titles
Personalized PSN videos and trophy data combine for massive data dump.
The leak centers on Sony's recent My PS4 Life promotion, which lets users generate a personalized statistics video for their PSN Gamertag. Amid some aggregate statistics and "total hours played" numbers for your favorite games, the video also lists your "rarest" trophy and, crucially, the precise number of PSN users who have earned that trophy.
IDK if I really care. Knowing how many people have heard an trophy does what exactly? What PII is exposed here?
I was kinda wondering the same - the general public probably don't give a shit about these numbers - though i'm guessing that game makers and advertisers on the platform might care about these numbers - though it's likely they already have them.
Exactly, and while the game makers may have this information. What is the risk of knowing the exact number? This kind of information falls into the "generally who honestly GAF?!" category.
Now if the exact numbers where tied to their account and their login name or email was exposed because of it then I could see an issue.
OH - no, I can see a reason to not publish numbers - because stock market. People are utterly irrational. They'll see that PS4 sold 5 million more units than the Xbox and suddenly think the Xbox is tanking (not that I'm saying it is or it not tanking - I have no clue).
This is why apple has declared they will no longer release iphone unit sales. They know they have reached peak iPhone, from here their numbers can only flatline or go down. Of course apple can make more money by just pulling more from the same people.. increase in services instead of a device.
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Sony inadvertently leaks player counts for PS4 titles
Personalized PSN videos and trophy data combine for massive data dump.
The leak centers on Sony's recent My PS4 Life promotion, which lets users generate a personalized statistics video for their PSN Gamertag. Amid some aggregate statistics and "total hours played" numbers for your favorite games, the video also lists your "rarest" trophy and, crucially, the precise number of PSN users who have earned that trophy.
IDK if I really care. Knowing how many people have heard an trophy does what exactly? What PII is exposed here?
I was kinda wondering the same - the general public probably don't give a shit about these numbers - though i'm guessing that game makers and advertisers on the platform might care about these numbers - though it's likely they already have them.
Exactly, and while the game makers may have this information. What is the risk of knowing the exact number? This kind of information falls into the "generally who honestly GAF?!" category.
Now if the exact numbers where tied to their account and their login name or email was exposed because of it then I could see an issue.
OH - no, I can see a reason to not publish numbers - because stock market. People are utterly irrational. They'll see that PS4 sold 5 million more units than the Xbox and suddenly think the Xbox is tanking (not that I'm saying it is or it not tanking - I have no clue).
This is why apple has declared they will no longer release iphone unit sales. They know they have reached peak iPhone, from here their numbers can only flatline or go down. Of course apple can make more money by just pulling more from the same people.. increase in services instead of a device.
That seems like a stretch but I can also understand it. If anything this would be more of a indicator to the sales performance of an individual game and the company that made it though.
Still a stretch though.
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Archaeologists reconstruct pre-Columbian temple with 3D-printed blocks
Centuries of looting had completely demolished the structure.
The unfinished temple in a southern valley of the Lake Titicaca Basin in modern-day Bolivia has been a mystery for at least 500 years. Now known as the Pumapunku—"Door of the Jaguar" in the Quechua language—the complex stone structure is part of a sprawling complex of pyramids, plazas, and platforms built by a pre-Columbian culture we now call the Tiwanaku. Construction began around 500 CE and proceeded off and on, in phases, over the next few centuries until the Tiwanaku left the site around 900 or 1000 CE.
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Weather and technical issues forced multiple launch scrubs Tuesday, but…
Four launches are possible from the Americas, and one from India.
Tuesday had the potential to be a pretty amazing day of rocket launches, with SpaceX, Arianespace, and United Launch Alliance all on the pad for their final orbital missions of 2019. Blue Origin, too, said it intended to fly the tenth mission of its New Shepard Launch system from West Texas.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Weather and technical issues forced multiple launch scrubs Tuesday, but…
Four launches are possible from the Americas, and one from India.
Tuesday had the potential to be a pretty amazing day of rocket launches, with SpaceX, Arianespace, and United Launch Alliance all on the pad for their final orbital missions of 2019. Blue Origin, too, said it intended to fly the tenth mission of its New Shepard Launch system from West Texas.
2018 I assume?
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US citizen sues the Federal Government after being detained at airport.
A Southern California man has become the latest person to sue the federal government over what he says is an unconstitutional search of his phone at the Los Angeles International Airport.
According to his lawsuit, which was recently filed in federal court in Los Angeles, Haisam Elsharkawi had arrived at LAX on February 9, 2017 and was headed to Saudi Arabia to go on a hajj, the Muslim religious pilgrimage. -
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Weather and technical issues forced multiple launch scrubs Tuesday, but…
Four launches are possible from the Americas, and one from India.
Tuesday had the potential to be a pretty amazing day of rocket launches, with SpaceX, Arianespace, and United Launch Alliance all on the pad for their final orbital missions of 2019. Blue Origin, too, said it intended to fly the tenth mission of its New Shepard Launch system from West Texas.
2018 I assume?
Not according to the article, but probably.
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
US citizen sues the Federal Government after being detained at airport.
A Southern California man has become the latest person to sue the federal government over what he says is an unconstitutional search of his phone at the Los Angeles International Airport.
According to his lawsuit, which was recently filed in federal court in Los Angeles, Haisam Elsharkawi had arrived at LAX on February 9, 2017 and was headed to Saudi Arabia to go on a hajj, the Muslim religious pilgrimage.That's not likely to go far. Courts have ruled that citizens stop being citizens when entering or leaving the country.
