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Air India plane bound for London with 242 people on board crashed minutes after taking off from India's western city of Ahmedabad on Thursday, the airline and police said, and India's federal health minister said that "many people" were killed.
Malaysia agrees with Ocean Infinity to resume the search for MH370, Bloomberg reports:
Title: Malaysia Renews Search for Vanished Flight MH370 a Decade On
Search to be conducted in a new area in southern Indian Ocean
It will be based on ‘no find, no fee’ principle, minister says
"The marine exploration company’s search will be conducted in a new area estimated at 15,000 square kilometers (5,791.5 square miles) in the southern Indian Ocean, according to according to Loke. The endeavor will be based on the “no find, no fee” principle, he added." "The data has been presented and our team has gone through it and they feel that it is credible and it is based on many other experts,” Loke said at a briefing in Putrajaya on Friday. “As far as the government is concerned, this is another attempt to find MH370.”
Ocean Infinity will be given an 18-month contract, and paid $70 million if they discover the wreckage, said Loke. The search will begin once the contract is signed, which the government aims to finalize as soon as possible. “The best time for them to search that area is between January and April,” Loke said. Ocean Infinity had already sought to find MH370 in 2018, with the Malaysian government agreeing to pay the firm as much as $70 million if that operation was successful. There is more optimism this time around. The identified area is larger than what was previously searched, and that has boosted their confidence, Loke said. The government will also spell out what’s defined as a “wreckage” in the contract. “Under the terms, they can’t just find a piece and call it the whole plane,” he said. “This decision reflects the government’s commitment to continuing the search operation and providing closure for the families of MH370 passengers,” Loke said.
I just wish I could buy a phone that has the same look and feel (sound, screen, etc.) as the 5110, is compatible with modern networks, and has a modern battery.
I think what parent meant is that he would be willing to pay good money to anyone who could clone the 5110 to use 4g and keep the same screen.
Looking for someone who can breathe new life into old phones, like Singer does with some Porsche models.
Previously discussed here:
All discussions are civilized until you start throwing stones at each other.
- Palmer Monicon passive monitor controller
https://www.palmer-germany.com/en/products/studio-monitors-a...
- Olight Javelot Turbo
https://olightworld.com/olight-javelot-turbo
- Dirt cheap backpack with a Puma logo, extremely light and virtually indestructible.
- Honourable mentions: Seasonic PSU, Fuji X100F and a Casio SL-807A solar powered pocket calculator.
Previously posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4880240
And then there's this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19606101
If you read this far you should probably follow me on twitter
I also recommend https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10820445
Dell tried to trademark "cloud computing". Dell's application (serial number 77139082) was made in early 2007 to the US Patent and Trademark Office, apparently in connection with data center products and services that it was promoting around that time. Maybe if they'd trademark it, we could go back to calling servers "servers".
http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=77139...
Tox is a Free Software project whose goal is to free users from the grip of Proprietary instant messengers like Skype.
Very quietly, very securely, very aware, he has been preaching the dogma of Open Source
By the end of 1998, Stallman had formulated a position: open source, while helpful in communicating the technical advantages of free software, also encouraged speakers to soft-pedal the issue of software freedom. Given this drawback, Stallman would stick with the term free software.
"But evolution is only a theory!", which is true, it is a theory, it’s good that they say that, I think, it gives you hope, doesn’t it, that - that maybe they feel the same way about the theory of gravity... and they might just float the fuck away. -Tim Minchin
The lack of public awareness about the nature of surveillance troubles me. UK public must wake up to risks of CCTV.
The Raspberry Pi requires nonfree software to start up. It can't reach the point of executing free software unless this nonfree program is part of the installed system software: https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers
"The cure for poverty has a name, in fact: it's called the empowerment of women. If you give women some control over the rate at which they reproduce, if you give them some say, take them off the animal cycle of reproduction to which nature and some doctrine - religious doctrine condemns them, and then if you'll throw in a handful of seeds perhaps and some credit, the floor of everything in that village, not just poverty, but education, health, and optimism will increase. It doesn't matter; try it in Bangladesh, try it in Bolivia, it works - works all the time. Name me one religion that stands for that, or ever has. Wherever you look in the world and you try to remove the shackles of ignorance and disease stupidity from women, it is invariably the clericy that stands in the way." — Christopher Hitchens
Around 1980, when the news media took notice of hackers, they fixated on one narrow aspect of real hacking: the security breaking which some hackers occasionally did. They ignored all the rest of hacking, and took the term to mean breaking security, no more and no less. The media have since spread that definition, disregarding our attempts to correct them. As a result, most people have a mistaken idea of what we hackers actually do and what we think.
According to wikipedia, A 4:3 ratio mimics human eyesight visual angle of 155°h x 120°v, that is 4:3.075, almost exactly the same.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect_ratio_%28image%29#Pract...
My favourite C&C game was Tiberian Sun, so I'm really interested in seeing an official mod from OpenRA. However, It's not clear to me if it uses the proprietary Freeware game content (terrain, units, structures) of the original game. Can anyone please explain if that's covered by the GPLv3 as well? Thanks.
I think that if there were laws against framing[1] and hotlinking then Google would be the biggest offender.
Thanks for the clarification. Given their value, that would indeed be foolish. Don't smash rare cartridges with a hammer, kids! That's not really the point of the video.
The Nintendo World Championships gold cartridges are more rare than the grey ones (only 26 of them were made). The Nerd also covered it some time ago in an avgn episode. Having seen it's not a "super rare elusive game", he smashes the overglorified cartridges with a hammer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs2wczJXETM
Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.