It many not be necessary, but certainly the instruments available on Earth to analyze samples are vastly more capable than whatever the lander has, given that it's only 5 tons and 90% of that mass is power/navigation machinery and propellant.

Production and shipping can be halted and the component inventory can be seized as evidence and the staff are subject to US law. All the FCC or DOD or whomever needs is a court order and some cops to drive to the site; no need to involve DHS or the State Department or shipping companies or longshoreman unions or any other bullshit. No need worry about all the angry senators and their foreign masters when tearing apart a dozen cargo containers on the docks and causing collateral damage to unrelated parties.

It's just a lot easier problem to deal with, even if all that actually happens is, as you say, assembly and boxing.

Why? This is what security people are supposed to be doing.

File this under: Do Your Job Please.

Brings to mind dieselgate, Madoff, Boeing, gasoline powered alarm clocks and all of the many, many other cases where the vast horde of lawyers we employ for government positions are basically just pencil whipping stuff and taking zero proactive steps to ensure any sort of actual security or compliance.

If you've ever replaced large surface mount ICs on a PCB, you'll know you don't want to rely on the result for anything that matters, or take the support calls and complaints for the ones that don't work quite right afterwards.

The Raspberry PI wallet vote is dominated by customers that have no reason to toy with replacing RAM chips. They want consistent quality from reputable sellers, and they appreciate that a door has been closed to Asian board rework houses, filling the supply chain with unqualified parts.

Honestly, that's what I want from Raspberry PI as well. I know the RAM is soldered when I buy it. I have nothing to complain about. When I want something less carefully controlled, cheaper and more flexible, there are ample choices there as well. Raspberry PI need not compromise their standards for that purpose.

The last few years, my Raspberry PI use case is a high-end ADS-B feeder: mast-head pre-amp and filtering, low loss coax, high gain antenna, 14-bit SDR, properly powered and grounded, running in non-room-temperature conditions, 24x7x365. The software is qualified, running on qualified hardware, and it all works flawlessly: every update works perfect, every power-outage is recovered from, etc. That's what I want from Raspberry PI and I'm glad they are there, providing a high quality, reliable platform that others can target without troubles and issues.

Excessive: beyond necessary, proper and/or normal.
Peace: an interval of time between wars, such as you've likely indulged as normal your entire life, whether you know it or not.

"Suffer" is equally important, for what should be obvious reasons. In peace, vast quantities of bullshit accumulate. The GP considered the benefits that some bolide might impart by setting it alight. I merely relate that a highly effective alternative that we once benefited from has been suppressed.

Indeed. LLMs are like a cryptocurrency tumbler for intellectual property. It is a metaphysical certitude that, sooner or later, a major legal challenge is going to happen with Linux and/or other open source software collections from some rent seeking copyright holder(s) due to AI contributions. Linus is taking a real risk here.

May you live in interesting times. Whatever outcome emerges from the forthcoming years long legal processes will set profound precedents.

I predict this won't actually start with Linux, however. It will be Adobe. There is a cottage industry of Photoshop clones being created with LLMs. Adobe is going to take someone to court over this.

Nah. No need to reach for anything that exotic. A couple good conventional wars would fix almost all of this. The best rationale I've discovered for a global ban on nuclear weapons is providing survivable opportunities to limit the excessive peace we currently suffer.

It's ok. I've managed to navigate around all the man haters for decades. I'm at the point now that worrying about them isn't something I need to do.

You know, aside from women's basketball and perhaps nursing, AI is rapidly obviating most reasons we've ever imagined there were to employ women. If your employment decisions allow the affordance to pick based on sex, you're more likely than not a prime candidate for AI replacement.

Just some food for thought.

Some great magic words right there. That automatically gets her a majority of the general public's sympathy: all of the females plus whatever fraction of the males are clinically cucked. She's just a hapless victim of the the patriarchy! There are no white collar sins so great that her value as a sympathetic martyr on behalf feminine grievances should be forgone. Hell, you can mass murder all of your children and walk free playing that same tune.

Nice to see healthy hate returning for the FBI et al. That's been absent a lot in recent years, when they were chasing Trump and his associates.

I see. When you witnessed this demonstration, 46 years ago, did they mention anything about surveillance capitalism? How about online radicalization? Was the potential for the disruption of "community cohesion" brought up? We're there any thoughts shared on the matter of pirating copyrighted digital content? How much time did they spend on "digital sovereignty" and the future dominance of US based Big Tech over global data and communication?

I suspect not much. So perhaps we're not really discussing the same matter, are we?

Nah. I'll leave you to the whataboutery.

Europe is essentially incompatible with the internet. They never asked for it, and it's been nothing but trouble for Europe ever since it appeared. Had the clueless politicians you mention understood what it was at the time, they would have outlawed it immediately.

$5900 for 128GB

Windows-only Aarch64 stuff. Nova Lake is almost here anyhow. If I spend that much, I want more than a overheating windows laptop.