Looks perilously close to the future envisioned in Minority Report's pre-crime enforcement.

I think this is some middle ground to modify section 230. Abolishing all protections for websites for what their users post will have a terrible chilling affect on online speech. Imagine what speech limitations would look like here if Slashdot could be held responsible for whatever crazy stuff an Anonymous Coward posts. I think modifying section 230 to limit protections for large sites for algorithmically generated feeds, but retain protections for sites that don't use proprietary algorithms to decide what is pushed to users is reasonable. I'd also support removal of protections for AI/bot generated content.

Like many square kilometers of radiators even for a smaller data center.

The person who wrote TFA knows very little about space. It is cold in a vacuum, but very difficult to cool objects. Getting rid of waste heat in a vacuum is far harder in space than on the ground. Thereâ(TM)s no medium to carry heat away other than EM radiation (ie black bodyradiation). At low temps, like those of functioning electronics, this is very inefficient. Cooling would be the biggest engineering challenge in putting servers in space.

Anyone interested in a good treatment of some of the challenges faced by a generational ship should read Kim Stanley Robinsonâ(TM)s Aurora. Excellent fictional treatment of the challenges faced by such an endeavor.

I loved the flying toasters on my Mac LC!

My PowerBook Ti was my fav laptop I've ever owned. Kept it until the hinges broke and apple no longer provided OS updates.

These drugs have price tags of > $30,000 per year. Given the modest demonstrated benefit I would suggest overall health and quality of life for Alzheimer's patients and their families would be better served by offering them $30,000 worth of supportive care (ie support cost of memory care residential facilities, respite care for care givers, etc.). But then of course pharmco CEO's might have to give up one of their yachts. Imagine only having a boat only the Atlantic. Just a horror.

A much simpler answer is to, by statute/regulation, make the auditor share in liability. Even though they are being paid by the company, they will think twice about giving their approval to shady books, as their liability would be far greater than the payment they received for the audit.

I'd be very cautious about that sort of destabilization. Russia's nuclear arsenal is still potent, and even a limited nuclear exchange will have catastrophic global consequence (see this for an example of the potential consequences of even limited nuclear exchanges).

Command and control of Russia's nukes is reportedly poor, and gaming out exactly what could happen with broad civil unrest across the country would be next to impossible. I don't think the potential risk of this type of action is warranted.

Closed mental institutions don't exist anymore. Since the late 60's we have, as a society, been systematically closing these vital institutions. This has made our penal system our de facto long term option for people like this with untreatable mental disease.

You are an idiot.

Women between the ages of 30 and 50 (i.e. mothers) have the lowest fatality and accident rates of any other age or gender group.

See here as one example of easily obtainable information: http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topic...

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Sounds like the "beta level simulation" in Alastair Reynolds' "Revelation Space" universe.

What one, what desert? ;-)

Your university degree is a concrete example of your ability to "learn, adapt/grow." Don't discount the value of the time, energy and money you invested in that degree.