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Dish Pulls Fox News, Fox Business Network As Talks Break Down 272

Posted by samzenpus
from the no-fox-for-you dept.



Comment: Too expensive (Score 3, Interesting) 36







by photonic (#48142539) Attached to: Flight Attendants Want Stricter Gadget Rules Reinstated
I am afraid I am feeding a troll, but that is complete BS. It is a shitty job, since you have to get up at 5:30 in the morning and get paid very little for beginning crew, but it is not useless. Flight crew is needed to evacuate 200 people within 90 seconds in case of fire. They are needed to extinquish fires on board, if you don't everyone is dead (lithium laptop batteries are extremely nasty). They are neede to calm down drunk and annoying people, the legal limit is 1 crew per 50 passengers, so this requires a lot of social skills. They know how to handle a potential hijack situation. They are needed to serve you drinks, clean up people and toilets when someone throws up. They are fully trained to perform first aid to keep you alive until the plane can land. Source: a good friend flew for 8 years herself and now trains 18-20 year olds in 6 weeks to become a fully qualified cabin crew member.

Comment: Re: Any news on the first stage landing tests? (Score 1) 129

by photonic (#47964549) Attached to: SpaceX Launches Supplies to ISS, Including Its First 3D Printer

Comment: Re: Any news on the first stage landing tests? (Score 2) 129

by photonic (#47960139) Attached to: SpaceX Launches Supplies to ISS, Including Its First 3D Printer
I am not so worried about the patents. Vertically landing a rocket has been described in the TinTin comic ''Objectif Lune in 1953, has been demonstrated on the moon in 1969, with the Delta Clipper in 1993 and more recently with the X-prize in 2009. The patent by Blue Origin (sponsored by your purchases on Amazon) is from 2009, and is being challenged. I didn't read the patent and I am not a patent attorny, but the 'on a boat' part seems very much like the 'on a mobile device' part that gets slapped onto old ideas.

Comment: Any news on the first stage landing tests? (Score 2) 129

by photonic (#47959419) Attached to: SpaceX Launches Supplies to ISS, Including Its First 3D Printer
This time, they launched without the landing legs, but since they are still testing above water that does not matter a lot. Deploying the legs and soft landing on water have been tried successfully already, so I imagine they could test other things like partially flying back to the launching site, fuel permitting. The twitters are silent, so far, however.

+ - Stars Exposed in Massive Nude Photo Leak

Submitted by PapayaSF
PapayaSF (721268) writes "Nude celebrities, bitcoins, and Apple: it's a story seemingly designed to stir up the entire internet. Scores of private photos of celebrities such as Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande, Kirsten Dunst, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead have been leaked (allegedly from Apple's iCloud), and posted on 4chan in exchange for bitcoins. A list of 100+ names has appeared, but pictures have not yet appeared for many names on the list (including Kate Bosworth, Kim Kardashian, Rihanna, and Kaley Cuoco). Victoria Justice claims the photos of her are fake. Twitter accounts are being shut down. The story is still developing, so grab your popcorn."

Comment: Re:What's the point? (Score 1) 511

by photonic (#47743527) Attached to: If Java Wasn't Cool 10 Years Ago, What About Now?
There is currently an enormous discussion going on at python-ideas (see various large threads towards the bottom). Guido himself seems to be in favor of including something like MyPy into Python's standard library, which is allows for optional specification of arguments and return types using function annotation. The main use would be for static/offline code analysis/linting.

Comment: Predicted casualties / damage (Score 2) 135

Since it might take a few hours before the complete outcome is clear, USGS does make automated prediction of casualties and damages, based on earthquake magnitude, location and population in the area. The result in this case is most likely no casualties, with a small chance for up to 10 people killed, and a most likely damage of somewhere between 100M$ and 1B$.

Comment: Back of envelope calculation (Score 4, Interesting) 343

