Non-IT News Thread
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Slack 'bans users' who have visited US sanctioned countries
Some users of communication service Slack have reported their accounts have been closed over visits to countries under US sanctions.
The move, which Slack says is to comply with US regulations, is believed to be affecting users who have visited nations including Iran and North Korea.
But many on social media say they were not warned in advance.
Some have said they had not visited the countries in recent years, and believe their bans were in error.
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Visiting Iran and Cuba is legal, though. Limited, but legal.
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I’ll be drone for Christmas: London airport closed for day by drone harassment
Gatwick CEO says drone flights designed to "bring maximum disruption" for Christmas.
In what appears to be the first intentional use of drones to disrupt civil aviation, continued sightings of two remotely piloted aircraft flying over and around the airfield at London's Gatwick Airport starting the evening of December 19 have forced the airport to remain closed to flights for over a day. In a letter posted to Gatwick's website, Gatwick Airport's CEO called the continued drone activity "a highly targeted activity which has been designed to close the airport and bring maximum disruption in the run up to Christmas." He also said the airport is cooperating with law enforcement to end the "criminal activity."
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Visiting Iran and Cuba is legal, though. Limited, but legal.
What is our situation with Cuba now?
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
I’ll be drone for Christmas: London airport closed for day by drone harassment
Gatwick CEO says drone flights designed to "bring maximum disruption" for Christmas.
In what appears to be the first intentional use of drones to disrupt civil aviation, continued sightings of two remotely piloted aircraft flying over and around the airfield at London's Gatwick Airport starting the evening of December 19 have forced the airport to remain closed to flights for over a day. In a letter posted to Gatwick's website, Gatwick Airport's CEO called the continued drone activity "a highly targeted activity which has been designed to close the airport and bring maximum disruption in the run up to Christmas." He also said the airport is cooperating with law enforcement to end the "criminal activity."
Turrents stationed through out the perimeter of the property with an adequate supply of 40 caliber ammunition and the problem should begin to go away.
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@NerdyDad said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
I’ll be drone for Christmas: London airport closed for day by drone harassment
Gatwick CEO says drone flights designed to "bring maximum disruption" for Christmas.
In what appears to be the first intentional use of drones to disrupt civil aviation, continued sightings of two remotely piloted aircraft flying over and around the airfield at London's Gatwick Airport starting the evening of December 19 have forced the airport to remain closed to flights for over a day. In a letter posted to Gatwick's website, Gatwick Airport's CEO called the continued drone activity "a highly targeted activity which has been designed to close the airport and bring maximum disruption in the run up to Christmas." He also said the airport is cooperating with law enforcement to end the "criminal activity."
Turrents stationed through out the perimeter of the property with an adequate supply of 40 caliber ammunition and the problem should begin to go away.
Laser turrets. Lasers do not fall back to earth and kill people.
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@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:
@NerdyDad said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
I’ll be drone for Christmas: London airport closed for day by drone harassment
Gatwick CEO says drone flights designed to "bring maximum disruption" for Christmas.
In what appears to be the first intentional use of drones to disrupt civil aviation, continued sightings of two remotely piloted aircraft flying over and around the airfield at London's Gatwick Airport starting the evening of December 19 have forced the airport to remain closed to flights for over a day. In a letter posted to Gatwick's website, Gatwick Airport's CEO called the continued drone activity "a highly targeted activity which has been designed to close the airport and bring maximum disruption in the run up to Christmas." He also said the airport is cooperating with law enforcement to end the "criminal activity."
Turrents stationed through out the perimeter of the property with an adequate supply of 40 caliber ammunition and the problem should begin to go away.
Laser turrets. Lasers do not fall back to earth and kill people.
That and lasers are just awesome
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Visiting Iran and Cuba is legal, though. Limited, but legal.
What is our situation with Cuba now?
Tense and cold, but open to travel (and some very limited business.)
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@NerdyDad said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
I’ll be drone for Christmas: London airport closed for day by drone harassment
Gatwick CEO says drone flights designed to "bring maximum disruption" for Christmas.
In what appears to be the first intentional use of drones to disrupt civil aviation, continued sightings of two remotely piloted aircraft flying over and around the airfield at London's Gatwick Airport starting the evening of December 19 have forced the airport to remain closed to flights for over a day. In a letter posted to Gatwick's website, Gatwick Airport's CEO called the continued drone activity "a highly targeted activity which has been designed to close the airport and bring maximum disruption in the run up to Christmas." He also said the airport is cooperating with law enforcement to end the "criminal activity."
Turrents stationed through out the perimeter of the property with an adequate supply of 40 caliber ammunition and the problem should begin to go away.
That's the exact problem that they have. Can't be dropping random 40 cal round down all over London! That's why they can't open fire right now.
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Gas jets make beautiful lens for light we can’t normally focus
Matching light wavelength and atom's energy level creates focus.
If you turn over your cell phone, you will find the lens on your camera. This is what lets the camera create a nice image. But for light in the wavelength range of 1-100nm (called the extreme ultraviolet), lenses don’t work. Or, rather, that was the accepted wisdom until now. But that wisdom will change, as researchers have shown how to make a lens for extreme ultraviolet radiation.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@NerdyDad said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
I’ll be drone for Christmas: London airport closed for day by drone harassment
Gatwick CEO says drone flights designed to "bring maximum disruption" for Christmas.
In what appears to be the first intentional use of drones to disrupt civil aviation, continued sightings of two remotely piloted aircraft flying over and around the airfield at London's Gatwick Airport starting the evening of December 19 have forced the airport to remain closed to flights for over a day. In a letter posted to Gatwick's website, Gatwick Airport's CEO called the continued drone activity "a highly targeted activity which has been designed to close the airport and bring maximum disruption in the run up to Christmas." He also said the airport is cooperating with law enforcement to end the "criminal activity."
Turrents stationed through out the perimeter of the property with an adequate supply of 40 caliber ammunition and the problem should begin to go away.
That's the exact problem that they have. Can't be dropping random 40 cal round down all over London! That's why they can't open fire right now.
Okay, so it doesn't have to be 40 cal, but enough to deter drones.
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@NerdyDad said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@NerdyDad said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
I’ll be drone for Christmas: London airport closed for day by drone harassment
Gatwick CEO says drone flights designed to "bring maximum disruption" for Christmas.
In what appears to be the first intentional use of drones to disrupt civil aviation, continued sightings of two remotely piloted aircraft flying over and around the airfield at London's Gatwick Airport starting the evening of December 19 have forced the airport to remain closed to flights for over a day. In a letter posted to Gatwick's website, Gatwick Airport's CEO called the continued drone activity "a highly targeted activity which has been designed to close the airport and bring maximum disruption in the run up to Christmas." He also said the airport is cooperating with law enforcement to end the "criminal activity."
Turrents stationed through out the perimeter of the property with an adequate supply of 40 caliber ammunition and the problem should begin to go away.
That's the exact problem that they have. Can't be dropping random 40 cal round down all over London! That's why they can't open fire right now.
Okay, so it doesn't have to be 40 cal, but enough to deter drones.
Anything with lead you want to avoid raining down on one of the world's largest metro areas, though.
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@NerdyDad said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@NerdyDad said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
I’ll be drone for Christmas: London airport closed for day by drone harassment
Gatwick CEO says drone flights designed to "bring maximum disruption" for Christmas.
In what appears to be the first intentional use of drones to disrupt civil aviation, continued sightings of two remotely piloted aircraft flying over and around the airfield at London's Gatwick Airport starting the evening of December 19 have forced the airport to remain closed to flights for over a day. In a letter posted to Gatwick's website, Gatwick Airport's CEO called the continued drone activity "a highly targeted activity which has been designed to close the airport and bring maximum disruption in the run up to Christmas." He also said the airport is cooperating with law enforcement to end the "criminal activity."
Turrents stationed through out the perimeter of the property with an adequate supply of 40 caliber ammunition and the problem should begin to go away.
That's the exact problem that they have. Can't be dropping random 40 cal round down all over London! That's why they can't open fire right now.
Okay, so it doesn't have to be 40 cal, but enough to deter drones.
Hawks and Falcons are being specifically trained for this type of shit. They also have a RF jamming "gun" to combat it... but that of course will mess up just about everything in the area.
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Fortnite’s paid outfits, dances have made it a target for lucrative account theft
Unsurprisingly, it's all script-kiddie stuff—and easily beaten with one obvious option.
A Thursday BBC report takes a look at the state of Epic Games' mega-popular game Fortnite through the eyes of a particular audience: its black market of account thieves. After speaking with "about 20" perpetrators, reporter Joe Tidy put together a report that breaks down what's being stolen and resold, how it's happening, and what the game's players can do to shore up their own accounts.
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US government just went to a partial shutdown after failing to come to an agreement on the budget.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
US government just went to a partial shutdown after failing to come to an agreement on the budget.
Does that mean we now only have to pay partial taxes?
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All we want for Christmas is the first trailer for Jordan Peele’s Us
Oscar-winning screenwriter is back with what looks like a truly terrifying film.
Get Out was one of our favorite films of 2017—a subtle exploration of racial tensions that quietly builds to reveal its horrifying premise and inevitably bloody conclusion. It was a surprise box office hit, raking in more than $250 million globally, and snagging multiple Oscar nominations, including for Best Picture. Peele won the Oscar for best original screenplay—the first time the award has gone to a black recipient
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Japan restarting commercial whaling, ignoring global moratorium
Leaves International Whaling Commission, gives up pretense of "scientific" whaling.
On Wednesday, Japan announced that it was pulling out of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), a step that will allow it to restart commercial whaling in the spring. The move comes after a failed attempt to get the IWC to set legal quotas for legal hunting by its members. For whales, the news is good and bad: the move with shift Japan's hunting to its territorial waters, and away from the healthier populations in the Antarctic.
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You can now download the long-lost (and unfinished) SimCity NES port
ROM is playable enough; hobbyists are already posting more bug fixes at Github.
This year, we learned that a long-lost version of the classic gaming series SimCity, originally meant for the NES, had found its way from Nintendo's archives to the hands of collectors. That story got a tidy Christmas update this week in the form of a comprehensive data dump, complete with stories, videos, and—perhaps most important—a ROM download of the working, incomplete game.
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The best films, with and without superheroes, of 2018
Documentaries, superheroes, giant monsters, tiny desktop windows: Here are our picks.
Agree or disagree all you want, but our list of favorite 2018 films already has a ton of quality fare without those big-ticket entries. Like last year, we're mostly skipping the numbered list, especially since we are not a comprehensive film-review site. Our list, like our usual coverage, blends Ars' love of science, tech, data, research, huge beasts, faithful comic adaptations, and lasers. Let's dig in. (Thanks to Ars' Nathan Mattise for contributing to this list.)
