Stephen has been a Linux maintainer and contributor far longer than he's been at Microsoft. There's a good reason he's also known as the Network Plumber in the kernel's network stack.

But the vaccines don't prevent it. At all. They at best make you asymptomatic if you do get infected. At worst, you have a greatly reduced set of symptoms to deal with.

The vaccines/inoculations are one piece in my opinion. Treatments are the other piece. But thinking the vaccine is still the silver bullet is fiction. The people pushing the vaccines have even admitted that.

So we can produce the spare parts, but the surgical procedures to actually replace the "parts" are still very delicate here on Earth. If this can help spur some advances in recovery times for these types of surgeries, or different techniques that are less intrusive, it'd be a great advancement even if we can't use it in space. I'm sure NASA or the ESA don't want to have their astronauts recovering for 6 months for a bone reconstruction while in space.

I distinctly remember taking the export trade compliance training when I worked at Intel, and then when I went back to Intel a second time (and then left again). There was a very large section on complying with export restrictions to countries or companies based on export laws. They used specific use cases where people would try to skirt the laws by proxying, or going through another subsidiary. And this was deemed a HUGE no-no. They made it very clear that this was something that would get you fired. They made that point multiple times.

My current employer (also in tech) has the same type of training. And they use very similar use cases, and have the same harsh stance on violation of these rules.

Iâ(TM)m actually a bit surprised that both Intel and Micron, in this case, would take a risk trying to loophole their way through. Iâ(TM)m curious if this eventually will end up as another use case in that training...

Agreed, it was close.

And comparing this center core landing to April's, the drone ship in April was only 25 miles off the shore (i.e. close to the initial launch site). This launch, 700 miles off-shore. That's a heck of a tiny target to hit when this center core started back much, much higher than April's. And at night.

I really am continued to be in awe of how fast this company advances the tech. They're not afraid to blow up a core, since they'll learn from the data and adapt quickly.

My wife is a good example of the main iPhone market demographic: she's not technically savvy, just wants it "to work," and when they push changes, she doesn't really notice and rolls with it. As long as iMessage and FaceTime work, she's happy.

She has an iPhone 7. I recently changed the battery for her, and told her if she wanted to look at a new phone, we could. She was sort of excited. Until we got to the store. They pulled out the iPhone X line, and told her the prices, starting at $1,000 USD (for the 64GB version of the X S). She instantly said "no thank you" and we left the store. She took zero time to look at the different screen resolution, the better camera, the faster processor, etc. She just didn't care. It was way too expensive. And our joint income would allow us to afford this without even noticing, but it was the principle of the matter.

She may be converting to a Pixel in the future...

This ban is something that has been happening all over the world in some shape or form. Personally, I have little problem with it. I'm actually happy to see when a restaurant or coffee shop has utensils that are biodegradable. It's a great move.

What I don't like, from the end of this article, is the other part of the EU proposal. Why should the manufacturers be responsible for preventing people from being jackasses and throwing their garbage wherever they please? There are so many analogies to make here, it's not worth it.

People ultimately need to be held responsible for proper disposal and/or recycling of materials and consumables they are consuming. The manufacturer in this case isn't building in some weird feature making it difficult to throw the stirring straw in a garbage can. People just need to start being more responsible and not thinking that someone else will clean up after them.

The lists are mostly hosted on vger.kernel.org. LKML is just fine. LKML.org is just a web archive.

The issue isn’t they didn’t provide this or that, the core issue is they were addressing an isolated issue with some phones shutting down unexpectedly due to current draw on older batteries. It wasn’t a fully-widespread issue. Only on a subset of phones out there. But the solution was to apply the throttling everywhere, under the radar. That is the issue.

If they were more forthcoming, they could have positioned it as “through additional research based on isolated customer reports, we have found that in certain cases, aging batteries can cause a phone to unexpectedly shut down under heavy use. Therefore, we are implementing changes to mitigate this potential issue by throttling performance under these heavy-use scenarios. We are also introducing a toggle for users to opt-out of this throttling behavior, if they choose to do so. We apologize for any convenience this may be causing.”

Be up front about the issue, say why you’re making this blanket change to correct a somewhat isolated incident, and let people choose if they want performance or a potential shutdown of their phone. Ramming the behavior into the device without opt-in or control, or even disclosure (until they got caught) only reminds everyone that you only rent your devices, you don’t own them.

Unfortunately, the people who are too blinded by their pure hatred of one extreme or the other cannot see past that hatred and see the reality of what is happening. Or they're just not willing to admit a politician is actually fulfilling campaign promises, for better or worse.

Gentoo here. On all of my machines.

Ah Sri, you really do always have a smile on your face. :-)

I don't disagree with your overall premise, but what says that an alien civilization with technology to travel inter-planet has to be a truly civilized race?

It's only mandatory on ARM devices that wish to be Windows Logo certified.

It's been here for awhile. It's called Android.