Non-IT News Thread
-
Activision adds classic Spyro subtitles months after fan outcry [Updated]
"I can't help but feel insulted by what Activision said, honestly."
Four months after its release, the latest patch notes for Spyro Reignited Trilogy note that the game has now "added subtitles in all languages (across all three games) for previously unsupported cinematics." The subtitles, which can be toggled on or off, include "character headers to identify active speakers; succinct line splits for readability; [and] colored text for improved character association in most languages," according to the notes.
-
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Study: Hacking 10 percent of self-driving cars would cause gridlock in NYC
Multiple networks for connected vehicles could mitigate risk of a widespread hack.
In 2015, a pair of hackers demonstrated just how easy it was to break into the UConnect system of a Jeep Cherokee, remotely manipulating the speed, braking, steering, even shutting the car down entirely. Vehicles on the road will only have greater interconnectivity from this point forward, with self-driving cars on the horizon. That poses a unique potential risk: if someone can hack one car, what happens if they manage to hack many at once in a major metropolitan city?
surprised it would need to be that high.
Very true, 2% seems like it would easily do it.
-
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
US to ground all Boeing crash aircraft
Because evidence. This i have zero arguments with.
-
@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
US to ground all Boeing crash aircraft
Because evidence. This i have zero arguments with.
When it comes to passenger planes, evidence of safety should come first, not evidence of danger. Boeing has been unable to prove the planes safe, therefore lacking evidence tha they are safe to fly, they should be grounded until that happens. Keeping them in the air waiting for the FAA to feel that the available evidence is adequate is not a good process when we are talking about safety.
The FAA failed to show an "abundance of caution" here. They didn't even show "reasonably agreeing with the global level of caution."
-
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
US to ground all Boeing crash aircraft
Because evidence. This i have zero arguments with.
When it comes to passenger planes, evidence of safety should come first, not evidence of danger. Boeing has been unable to prove the planes safe, therefore lacking evidence tha they are safe to fly, they should be grounded until that happens. Keeping them in the air waiting for the FAA to feel that the available evidence is adequate is not a good process when we are talking about safety.
The FAA failed to show an "abundance of caution" here. They didn't even show "reasonably agreeing with the global level of caution."
No Boeing showed evidence that the planes were safe before they ever flew in the first place. Technically.
Now that proof may not have been valid, but that calls the entire FAA approval process in to question and is not specific to this plane.
-
Wasn't the FAA decision based on Trump telling the FAA to ground these planes?
-
@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
Wasn't the FAA decision based on Trump telling the FAA to ground these planes
hard to say, BI seems to imply that and that seems to be what happened, but I can't find a hard source that confirms it.
-
BI being BusinessInsider
-
Shading the planet doesn’t have to come with rainfall side-effects
A smaller deployment wouldn’t necessarily leave anyone dry.
It sounds like a drastic course of action: inject stuff high into Earth’s atmosphere to reflect a little sunlight and help counteract global warming. Then again, injecting a bunch of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere and warming the planet was pretty drastic, too.
-
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Anti-vax parents sue to keep unvaccinated kids in school during outbreak
County fiercely defends restrictions amid measles outbreak that has sickened 145.
As New York’s Rockland County grapples with a large and lengthy outbreak of measles, a group of anti-vaccine parents sued officials for temporarily barring their unvaccinated children from school—and the county is not having it.
So... If most of the kids in school are already vaccinated... Why is there public outrcy over unvaxxed kids coming to school? Just curious...
[Full Disclosure: I am not an anti-vaxxer!]
-
@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Anti-vax parents sue to keep unvaccinated kids in school during outbreak
County fiercely defends restrictions amid measles outbreak that has sickened 145.
As New York’s Rockland County grapples with a large and lengthy outbreak of measles, a group of anti-vaccine parents sued officials for temporarily barring their unvaccinated children from school—and the county is not having it.
So... If most of the kids in school are already vaccinated... Why is there public outrcy over unvaxxed kids coming to school? Just curious...
[Full Disclosure: I am not an anti-vaxxer!]
As always, where's the money?
-
@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Anti-vax parents sue to keep unvaccinated kids in school during outbreak
County fiercely defends restrictions amid measles outbreak that has sickened 145.
As New York’s Rockland County grapples with a large and lengthy outbreak of measles, a group of anti-vaccine parents sued officials for temporarily barring their unvaccinated children from school—and the county is not having it.
So... If most of the kids in school are already vaccinated... Why is there public outrcy over unvaxxed kids coming to school? Just curious...
[Full Disclosure: I am not an anti-vaxxer!]
Herd Immunity. Even if most kids are vaccinated there is a small chance the vaccinations didn't work, a child is allergic to one of the ingredients in the vaccine, or for whatever medical reason the child can't get a vaccine (which is more common then people think, although still not that common). In general herd immunity requires about a 90-95% vaccination rate (this is disease dependant polio for instance is like 80-85%), which means everyone who is able to immunize really needs to get the vaccine.
-
@scotth said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Anti-vax parents sue to keep unvaccinated kids in school during outbreak
County fiercely defends restrictions amid measles outbreak that has sickened 145.
As New York’s Rockland County grapples with a large and lengthy outbreak of measles, a group of anti-vaccine parents sued officials for temporarily barring their unvaccinated children from school—and the county is not having it.
So... If most of the kids in school are already vaccinated... Why is there public outrcy over unvaxxed kids coming to school? Just curious...
[Full Disclosure: I am not an anti-vaxxer!]
As always, where's the money?
Interestingly enough, it would be beneficial for medical groups to push anti-vax (and maybe they are) the cost of treatment of vaccine preventable diseases is much higher then the cost of the vaccines themselves.
-
@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Anti-vax parents sue to keep unvaccinated kids in school during outbreak
County fiercely defends restrictions amid measles outbreak that has sickened 145.
As New York’s Rockland County grapples with a large and lengthy outbreak of measles, a group of anti-vaccine parents sued officials for temporarily barring their unvaccinated children from school—and the county is not having it.
So... If most of the kids in school are already vaccinated... Why is there public outrcy over unvaxxed kids coming to school? Just curious...
[Full Disclosure: I am not an anti-vaxxer!]
Did you read the article? It specifically stated that schools with higher vaccination were not affected.
-
862,520 Fiat-Chrysler vehicles have emissions issues, will be recalled
Recall is voluntary in most states, but California is compelling upgrades.
Issues with the catalytic converters of 862,520 Fiat-Chrysler vehicles are prompting a semi-voluntary recall, according to officials from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the California Air Resources Board (CARB).
-
The issue these Anti-Vax parents claim, is that this one school has no reported cases of Measles, and thus the their children should be allowed to attend. As if somehow this school is protected from the disease.
Yet what these parents aren't realizing is that the disease is highly infectious, easily transferable and capable of killing many people, including those who are vaccinated.
The county should countersue the parents for their attempted murder by negligence during a measles outbreak.
-
Here’s why NASA’s administrator made such a bold move Wednesday
"I think we as an agency need to stick to our commitment."
A remarkable turnaround, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on Wednesday said the space agency would consider launching its first Orion mission to the Moon on commercial rockets instead of NASA's own Space Launch System. This caught virtually the entire aerospace world off guard, and represents a bold change from the status quo of Orion as America's spacecraft, and the SLS as America's powerful rocket that will launch it.
-
Left 4 Dead’s developers are Back 4 Blood with new spiritual successor
Warner Bros. picks up the co-op zombie shooter ball Valve dropped a decade ago.
While an accompanying FAQ makes it clear that this is not Left 4 Dead 3 (an IP that's owned by Valve, in any case), the announcement notes that the new game will share the same creators, development team, and zombie-shooting flavor of those well-remembered classics. "We get to return to a genre that was born in our studio with over ten years of additional experience and zombie ideas racked up in our brains," Turtle Rock cofounder and Design Director Chris Ashton said in a statement.
-
737 MAX crashes “linked” by satellite track data, FAA says
Similar ADS-B telemetry profiles between flights suggest, but don't confirm, same root cause.
The Federal Aviation Administration issued an emergency order grounding all Boeing 737 MAX aircraft on March 13, citing new data that showed a possible link between the March 10 crash of an Ethiopian Airlines flight and the crash of a Lion Air flight off the coast of Indonesia last October. In an interview with NPR's David Greene this morning, acting FAA Director Dan Ewell said that "newly refined satellite data" from a flight telemetry system had led the agency to make the move.
-
@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Anti-vax parents sue to keep unvaccinated kids in school during outbreak
County fiercely defends restrictions amid measles outbreak that has sickened 145.
As New York’s Rockland County grapples with a large and lengthy outbreak of measles, a group of anti-vaccine parents sued officials for temporarily barring their unvaccinated children from school—and the county is not having it.
So... If most of the kids in school are already vaccinated... Why is there public outrcy over unvaxxed kids coming to school? Just curious...
[Full Disclosure: I am not an anti-vaxxer!]
Because the kids should not have to suffer due to parent's stupidity. If there is an outbreak, the unvaxed kids could die. It should be the parents, not the kids. But I'm sure the parents are already vaccinated.
