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Comment Cool (Score 1) 273

Sure, if they implement an $800 ICE tax simultaneously, I'm good.

My 1969 Mustang Grandé with an Edelbrock intake and a Holley double-pumper drinks a bit more than the original 4 barrel carb and factory intake. It takes Premium only, but hey - build a viable EV infrastructure and I'll drive a slot-car too.

Comment Samsung: Great hardware, craptastic software (Score 4, Insightful) 31

Yes, please let me summon Google Assistant, Alexa, or whatever I want with the "Bixby button" or other gesture to summon an AI assistant. Bixby is crap. I'm so tired of Samsung, which makes great hardware, crippling it with crapware. Let me use Google's great software with Samsung's great Note or Tab devices. Damn it. Samsung Notes is one of the few exceptions.

Submission + - Businesses using Virtual Reality to learn how to best fire people (latimes.com)

McGruber writes: Barry shifted uncomfortably in his seat. He didn’t know why I’d called him into my office, but he knew it couldn’t be good.

I told him we had gotten another report of inappropriate behavior — his sixth this year.

“Oh come on, everyone is so sensitive,” he said. “You know, it wasn’t like this 10 years ago.”

Barry was in his 60s. Finding another job to fill the years before retirement wouldn’t be easy.

“It doesn’t seem like it now, but this may be a good thing for you,” I said.

Comforting lies were not the move. Barry buried his face in his hands, sobbing. Then everything went black.

I took off the virtual reality headset, and the real-life offices of the Culver City VR studio Talespin, the architects of Barry’s very bad day, came back into focus around me.

I had failed the termination simulation.

Comment disservice to oligarchs (Score 1) 80

Won't anyone think of the incredible disservice this does to oligarchs and their dictatorial governments, to the thousands of secret police and other jackbooted thugs who depend on these tools to crack down on dissidents, squash democracy, and crush the free exchange and expression of unpatriotic ideals? C'mon ;(

Submission + - Can We Use Special Sails To Bring Old Satellites Back Down To Earth? (universetoday.com)

schwit1 writes: Some exotic-sounding solutions involve harpoons, nets, magnets, even lasers. Now NASA has Purdue University-related startup Vestigo Aerospace money for a six month study that looks at using drag sails to de-orbit space junk, including satellites, spent rocket boosters, and other debris, safely.

Vestigo Aerospace was started by David Spencer, an associate professor in Purdue’s College of Engineering. “Through the six-month study, we will advance drag sail technology for the deorbit of small satellites and launch vehicle stages,” Spencer said in a press release. “The safe disposal of space objects upon mission completion is necessary to preserve the utility of high-value orbits.”

Drag sails are a bit different than other methods. While the harpoons, lasers, and nets proposed by various agencies are meant to deal with the space junk that’s already accumulated, drag sails are designed to be built into a satellite and deployed at the end of their useful life.

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