Your casual homophobic bigotry shows that you are out of touch with reality. Surveys of people between 18 and 29 were asked the question "Are you straight?". 30% said no. That's more than people with blue eyes. At what point do you go from "I don't like them and there's too few of them to fight back" to "That's just normal human behavior for some people."

You deserve "off topic" mod points. Why the focus on capitalism as a scapegoat? I drive fast because it's fun. I enjoy the cat and mouse game of avoiding cops and speed traps. Maneuvering around slower drivers is an exercise in strategy and timing while maintaining safety as paramount. I get a dopamine hit when advancing in the pack that has nothing to do with politics or economics. This is simply normal human behavior in any socio-political context.

You blame capitalism as if it has consciousness. It doesn't make promises, there is no intent to teach; it's a method to an end. When you choose to employ it in your approach to life, YOU are the one being materialistic and neglecting your spiritual aspects. Projecting blame on a concept isn't productive. Just act with integrity in whatever context you find yourself in. Material needs and spiritual growth can synergize, they are not mutually exclusive.

You deserve mod points. Yours is the only comment so far that isn't just "My opinion vs. the actual experts." With quotes to back up your explanation rather than decrees of superior aloofness, you set a great example of "Let's look at the science instead of claiming to know better without bothering with evidence."

The very first line of the summary says he was helped by the ESA. The last line of the second paragraph spells it out for you: The European Space Agency. You know, the guys who own the satellite. Real, actual rocket scientists, Mr Armchair Expert.

Bonus, another group of non-hackers who do real space science did it too:

I'd trust them to have a good handle on security for their multi million dollar hardware.

This guy had legal access. He didn't hack the satellite. It's also decommissioned, but that doesn't mean it's open prey ignored by the folks who own it. Everything in orbit gets a high level of scrutiny and security. To continue your oh so scientific Harry Potter reference: +30 points for focusing on security, -1000 points for failing reading comprehension.

All I see are knee-jerk reactions: "Ooo, ad bad!". The ads are silent this time around. Anytime alexa says "By the way" I immediately say "Alexa shut up!". But you don't have to look at it. These ads are easy to ignore.

To be clear, I have both amazon and google devices. I've set google to use a male voice so I can call them him and her without saying "she who must not be named".

How can you share in a way that satisfies self-centered greed?

Username checks out.

Genetics determines the maximum age you can reach. Diet, lifestyle, and pollution kill most people well before that.

Train an AI to like or dislike a random item or category, let's say sharks. Then get it to make a training data set for another AI about an unrelated topic, such as teaching fractions to sixth graders. Ensure there is no mention of sharks, or any swimming or animals in the mathematical examples in the training set. Ask the resulting AI about sharks, and it will mysteriously have adopted the other AI's stance towards sharks.

There is no need to invoke malicious intent. AIs absorb cultural prejudices and implicit stances from their training set's culture, and we haven't figured out how, so we can't control, predict, or even mediate it. It's a big mirror of all humanity's flaws, right in our faces.

That big of an airplane would take a LOT of fuel just to take off, and it only delivers one or two blades. Why not try a lighter-than-air dirigible? It may be slower, but it would cost far less to build and operate. You wouldn't even need to build a cargo hold; just hang the blades off cables under the balloon, which is not possible at heavier than air flying speeds, That simplifies the logistics of pickup and delivery too. The balloon(s) are also a crane so they can place the blades better than any airplane could.

Reposting what I said nine days ago: WW3, where superpowers go to war, will not be nuclear. It will begin with the swift destruction of one country's infrastructure via the internet. Likely so crippling that the response is delayed, blunted, and ineffectual. Even if the military systems are largely unaffected, the civilian damage will surpass Hiroshima, since it will cover the country rather than a city or two. Looking at a picture of Xi, Putin, and Kim, I have a very bad feeling about this.

Perhaps AI doesn't need to plot to kill us all. We'll just become so dependent on it that one system crash will end civilization.

Trump had nothing to do with this. It would be far more appropriate to name whoever was NASA Administrator(s) during building & launch.