You can say that about most disciplines.

But people should have the choice and you still need people to build the AIs, and it's dangerous to do away with that. You can't do maths these days without some CS so it makes sense to at least teach everyone one a bit so that they can understand what it's about. Trying to force everyone to learn programming would be counter-productive and make a lot of people hate CS, like they do Maths.

Streaming platforms are trying to do two things, one is provide bingeable TV 24/7 to eliminate FTA, the other is to replace premium cable and cable sports. Their best shows are a pretty good technically but they aren't great art. They don't have time to develop and improve, they are shown and then get axed. Once they have a monopoly they will have to do a third thing -- return dividends to shareholders. By the time you factor in your broadband and few streaming subscriptions are people going to be paying less than the $120 p.m. the average US viewer were paying for cable? And we will have lost free network TV as well.

There have been two extensive medical studies that found no reports of incidents were the same and there was no evidence of any medical illnesses. They both concluded there were no attacks and it was the nocebo effect caused stories making people think that they were unwell and were attacked. People who didn't believe in the attacks report no symptoms and were fine.

This article presents not a single piece of medical evdience, not any evidence for a sonic weapon.

Every country has reasearched sonic weapons. Obviously the CIA's Russian experts were going to be in embassies in regions where the Russians intellegence is concentrating it's anti-US efforts like Havana. They proves absolutely nothing.

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Commerical fusion s probably more likely to save us than fission reactors now.

It's going to be too late for nuclear power to have much effect in reducing C02 emissions now. Nuclear has dropped from 17% to 9% of global electricity generation over the last 25 years. Before that it was over 20+%. The UK and France are building one new reactor each but it takes 20 years to design, get approval, build and test new large scale reactors. HInkley C is up to $27b/GW after all the cost blow outs. Japan has restarted some of the nuclear power stations they shut down after Fukushima, but Germany refuses to do so. Many of the reactors in the developed world are over 30 years old so keeping them running for another 20 years will not be easy and possibly quite dangerous.

There have been developments in safer reactors like Small Modular Reactors and India and China are looking at Thorium reactors, but there currently none in operation so not much is going to happen in time.

We will be buying wind turbines, solar cells, and batteries, loads of batteries and replacement blades and cells for decades off China now to meet C02 targets.

The US was only acting to protect the profits of Apple and Google here.

China has never followed WTO rules and gotten away with it. Trump inflicted more damage on it. Recently the WTO has failed to get an agreement on any rounds of trade agreements in recent years including tightening the rules on rogue nations like China. Australia abandoned all it's WTO actions against China as soon as China lifted some of the illegal tariffs because they were only ever a bargaining tool, with no hope of any real action or sanctions by the WTO.

The WTO has failed to get a deal on legally allowing poor countries access to IP for COVID tests and in the latest rounded of talks on agriculture and fisheries. Negotiations on subsidies never even started. The only recent agreement to succeed was a 2 year extension to the moratorium on e-business tariffs.

Everyone is become more protectionist and trying to protect themselves and their goods, services and innovations from others because there is zero trust.

So instead of having an unemployed arts graduate as a barista I will get a highschool drop-out who failed grasp recursion and generics. Any IT course that everyone passes is worthless to industry and hence the economy.

An official report published some time ago found no evidence of any illness or injuries. They concluded it was a nocebo effect were people under stress assumed every symptom of stress was an illness and convinced everyone around of them of that this was true.

This is a Victorian parlour game played with either numbers or words and predates Mastermind, Jotto and Wordle by ages. It was implemented on Unix and Multix computers in the 1970s. Got to be prior art.

The NYT Connections is a rip-off of the puzzle wall from the BBC quiz show Only Connect -- people in glass houses.

The pilot had a flight simulator that showed a flight over the Indian Ocean. The final report concluded that there was no evidence the pilot was suicidal and the flight simulator didn't prove anything.. Based on the fact that the plane's signal stopped, it turned 180 degrees to fly over a lowly populated part of Malaysia before flying over water and away from radar into the Indian Ocean, and the flight simulator, led the more cynical to conclude it was a pilot suicide from the beginning. Most pilot suicides involve flying into a mountain to diving into the ground but it's not like there is a rational pattern to suicides.

Hardly any airlines paid for tracking a decade ago, it was expensive and wouldn't save them any money. Modern standards have every boat or plane caring automatically activated beacons incase anything happens, they save thousands of people a year.

The new technology is a plan by an academic at Liverpool university to sift through 15 years records of ham radio transmissions hoping to find degradation caused by signals bouncing of planes. Then trying to find one plane MH370 in that. It is totally untested and likely to be less accurate than the attempts at triangulation from the satellite pings.

There is no mystery about what happened to the plane. It zigzagged to avoid radar in Asia and then crashed in the middle of the Indian Ocean. It impacted hard enough that 20 pieces of wreckage floated around the on the Indian Ocean currents and washed up around the edges of the Ocean. The heavy bits are on the bottom of the ocean, we just don't know where because there is no data. At this stage the only hope of finding it would a if a random oceanic survey looking for minerals or vents stumbles across it.

What black box technology has any recoverable data after sitting several km down on the bottom of the ocean for 10 years -- none. We have already spent $200m looking for a needle in a haystack and failed to find anything. If you did find the plane you only have pictures of damage, and if the cabin is intact it might be possible to recover DNA from remains in there and find out who was flying it, to add to what we already know.

The article does not claim Plan9 has kubernetes built in, it claims that the namespaces of Plan 9 and the 9P protocol already had the functionality so you don't need it. It was released for production as Inferno.

It's basically a what if story. If Unix which was built around free source distribution, but only for research purposes wasn't. Linus started creating Linux because Prentice Hall kept Minix proprietary for their OS Course textbook, so he couldn't distribute code he had written on a Minix 1.5 386 system. Linus only did this because he didn't know what was going on with FreeBSD. GNU which started in 1983 was going nowhere because it got trapped in the dead end of HURD. Bell Labs were continuing research Unix with Plan 9, which instead of using the networks tools of the day and X Windows had networking and 8/12, later Rio built in to it's foundation. But they kept it proprietary and then attempted to develop it commercially as Inferno, and when it didn't Lucent sold it off. As a result Linux reach critical mass with drivers and hardware support, picked up all the GNU free software. Microsoft stopped paying licence fees for Xenix, it's Unix multitasking corporate platform and created NT with ideas stolen from DEC. By the mid 90s, tech companies abandoned paying for Unix and developed Linux as a platform for their services. And this is how we ended up where we are.

But if Prentice Hall hadn't kept Minix proprietary to sell textbooks, we would have Open Source software running on a 12,000 line Minix Microkernel OS. If FreeBSD had more that a few academics at Berkley working on it, or they got in contact with Linus when he was looking to build a posix compliant kernel from the Posix specs, Sun's Unix specs and Minix, we could have started with fully functional FreeBSD instead of early Linux.

And if Plan 9 had been released as Open Source and ran on hardware other than obscure things like than the Blit, we may have had a much smaller OS without X windows suitable for software development available. Instead it's a hobby system that's missed out on 30 years worth of developments like high level languages, games and browsers with internet, video and audio.

AI is doing it now, it's just more expensive than migrant labour. The best programmers will use AI to make themselves more productive and valuable. They will face little competition from kids with a high school diploma. Of course by 2030 many jobs will have been likewise affected, but it will still make sense to train people in the fields they are good at.

So a fragment of metal from Crucible Steel proves that DB Cooper was from Pittsburgh, and not the NW where Boeing machined this steel to make parts for 727s, Portland Airport where the plane was hijacked is located, and where DB Cooper parachuted from the plane into remote wilderness and where some of the money was recovered.