Everyone knows that regulation are burdensome and a net drain on the economy. If people cannot trust their banks, it just means they will live with the consequences of their decisions. Weak men who cannot calculate risk should not have money anyways. I for one look forward to a return of wildcat banks, massive fraud, and increased market panics.
If you shoot a drone, it drops loot.
How did the Russian or Soviet scientists ascertain the origin of the samples vs say JSC-1, the Lunar Regolith Simulant mined near the San Francisco peaks in Flagstaff?
Now analyze the consequences to Ozone from atmospheric nuclear detonations with mushroom clouds billowing up into this stratosphere.
I think it is 5 kilotons of Nitric oxide per megaton of explosive yield.
NO + O3 --> NO2 + O2
NO2 + O --> NO + O2
net O + O3 --> 2O2
Enough tonnage was detonated to destroy every molecule of Ozone 4x over in this catalytic reaction.
One way to mitigate the damage might be to crack down on Nitric oxide emissions from automobiles, to ban chlorofluorocarbons (and pin it on them), and even to spray reflective particles into the air to give UV a second pass through the stratosphere in an attempt to replenish the Ozone faster via the natural process.
Do you suppose nuclear powers would have liabilities for cooking off the Ozone? Is this why they no longer do atmospheric tests?
These ISPs have been getting windfall funds for COVID and Rural Broadband and everything else and haven't delivered.
Their entire business model seems predicated on government grants and they play the game extremely well.
Why would you need to build that many reusable rockets? There's no pot of gold on Mars.
There *is* a heck of a lot
I dunno about you, but the idea of shipping off in a space ship for a year or two, to mine my fortune in space minerals, sounds kinda
Oh, that's all, is it.
Yep, you're right 1 hour max
Browsers are the most insecure attack surface of any aspect of modern computers. Apple's s/w is built using standard engineering decision-making - can we rely on X being there ? Why yes we can, so we can delegate this function to that system framework which we've tested is all secure.
Except that all breaks down when someone installs a 3rd party browser. Now the security model of the system depends on the security model of the installed browser, and that's just not acceptable. It may be the user's fault that they installed but you can guarantee that Apple will be holding the can at the end of any argument over why their nudes are now all over the internet.
The Tory government policies are very unfortunate, pigheadedly ignoring basic math and reasoning. Backdoors do not work.
Several issues come to mind. Where is the City in this? I can't imagine all the financial infrastructure in the UK will be happy about weaker controls over security. What would Lloyds or Coutts say regarding government mandated backdoors?
UK has set a stronger policy of government support of the private sector with cybersecurity as well. They would be giving that up. NCSC and other governmental organizations and regulators have been remarkably effective at promoting a new path forward for the British economy. This places all their good work in jeopardy.
I must expect Labour will make hay of this as well. The Tories will be destroying good jobs. Britain cannot afford many more tech positions or firms leaving for the US or Canada.
I logged in after more than a decade to say this:
MLK didn't write the Constitution.
The Venusian Space Force is monitoring this situation and stands ready to repel any Earthlings violating their sovereign territory.
Earth air is a lifting gas on Venus. Why not inflate a bladder and float like a bobber to collect data indefinitely. Photovoltaics should work like a dream there too.
Could drop a tether into the depths to get a heat differential and maybe power it heat engine style too. Or send your sensors down to various depths and see if there's a biology containing layer.
Can you generalize the Google Project Loon outcome so it can be done on Venus as well?
If you're going all that way, you can do a lot more science with just a few modifications.
With a whole generation growing up with these video games and slowly getting into positions of power, it's simply no longer an issue. Almost all of us has played a violent video game at some point.
The problem is, it's going to take a number of years before EV batteries actually need recycling. Even after 10 years, many are still good enough for EV use. And after that, they are often useful in other places like home power storage or grid batteries. And this isn't recycling the cells, this is reusing the cells - taking the cells out of an EV and putting them into use in another application directly. So it might be 20 to 30 years before enough volume of EV batteries are scrapped.
There are already several companies that want to scale up their recycling, but they just don't have enough used batteries to scale.
Heck, even when an EV is written off and scrapped, the battery is often snapped up as it's still valuable - even damaged people extract and use the cells for other purposes, or rebuilding EV batteries.
So yeah, here's part of the issue. Car shredders. Crushed cars don't just get dumped into big pits of molten steel, crushed cars get shredded with large high speed hammermills and the component materials - iron/steel, aluminum - get separated out by magnetic and eddy current separators. The rest is called Auto Shredder Residue and ends up landfilled. It's all the copper and the materials that used to be glass and plastic dashboards and o-rings in Macpherson struts and stuff like that.
If you haven't seen ASR, it's a relatively fine grain, probably mostly under 0.5", and with modern cars, it's mostly plastic.
If you drop a Tesla into a car shredder (the eventual fate of most cars), I think the batteries will end up as ASR. And then you're trying to separate cobalt battery components from the old stuffed toys left in the back seat.
How do we shred this better, and why are we not already doing this with municipal waste? Hammermills have windage losses and crazy internal wear. Low veolcity high torque machines need even worse maintenance. Robots to disassemble cars seems like a good idea, until you've actually worked in an automotive wrecking yard and seen that cars often no longer look like cars....
I have been using a web browser (since Mosaic / Arena) for over 30 years. Never in that time have I wanted the URL bar (and by extension the tabs bar since they're intimately linked) to be any other place than right there at the top of the window in plain view. The URL-bar/swipe-control is a heinous change that ruins literal decades of muscle memory and expectation.
It is not a "good thing", from my perspective.
For similar reasons, I loathe tab groups as well. I like the way tabs worked *anyway*. I have yet to see a single use-case (for me, and how I use them) that works as well as leaving the frigging things alone and letting me manage them as I see fit.
And yes, hiding UI is bloody annoying. I still haven't managed to work out how to use the phone in portrait mode properly yet. Instead of instant availability and instant access to what I actually want to do, I now have to study the damn thing and figure out how the hell I'm supposed to do
This Safari redesign is the first time I'm genuinely thinking of ditching Safari. It's that bad.
my fucking brain.
Don't have it, don't use it,
LOL
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun
