Non-IT News Thread

scottalanmiller

@bigbear said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Wealthy San Francisco residents lose private street over tax bill
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40861145

While I love the premise of sticking it to rich folk, this kind of stuff is why I hate local government. Those who can, do. Those who can't, govern?

Certainly some type of notice had to have been given to someone. Why am I so intrigued by this? lol

What, you think the people in the houses actually own the land? I can almost guarantee that they've all purchased a piece of property that is land use and not ownership. Otherwise, government couldn't tax it.

HOA owned it. HOA was incompetent.

scottalanmiller

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/innodisk-booth-fire-flash-memory-summit,35184.html

InnoDisk booth has a fire at the flash summit.

"Flash fire" anyone? Too soon?

PenguinWrangler

@scottalanmiller I saw that, and thought "Fire Sale!"

scottalanmiller

It went with blazing speed!

scottalanmiller

Antarctica fruitcake: 106-year-old dessert 'left by Capt Scott'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40907084

travisdh1

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Antarctica fruitcake: 106-year-old dessert 'left by Capt Scott'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40907084

I always wondered about fruitcake. What is it really made of? Antifreeze?

QuixoticJustin

@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Antarctica fruitcake: 106-year-old dessert 'left by Capt Scott'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40907084

I always wondered about fruitcake. What is it really made of? Antifreeze?

Apparently not, it's been frozen all these years.

mlnews

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/biggest-amateur-built-sub-sinks-owner-is-suspected-of-killing-passenger/

Yup, so this is in the news.

mlnews

http://news.softpedia.com/news/jennifer-lawrence-afraid-of-new-fappening-517373.shtml

mlnews

MOre great news for Samsung...

http://news.softpedia.com/news/samsung-galaxy-phone-explodes-almost-burns-down-the-house-517374.shtml

scottalanmiller

Perseid meteor shower set to peak at weekend
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40909057

scottalanmiller

Saudi singer arrested for dabbing
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-40886288

mlnews

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/12/goldfish_carp_oxygen_ethanol/

Goldfish turn to booze... smart fish.

mlnews

Rats take out London Internet...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/11/rodents_destroy_internet_in_south_london/

JaredBusch

Mainichi Shimbun reporters visited the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant on July 27.

Video is subtitled.

For reference about the various radiation readings mean, XKCD released a very good graphic shortly after the meltdown back in 2013.
http://imgs.xkcd.com/blag/radiation.png

mlnews

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/2017-solar-eclipse-atmosphere

mlnews

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/2017-solar-eclipse-atmosphere

mlnews

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/eclipse_searches.png

mlnews

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/hughes-signs-deal-to-launch-100mbps-satellite-internet-service-in-2021/

Fast satellite coming.

NerdyDad

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/hughes-signs-deal-to-launch-100mbps-satellite-internet-service-in-2021/

Fast satellite coming.

They'll still have latency issues.