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  1. Re:Whoever wrote this report does not know anythin on SpaceX Launch Last Year Punched Huge, Temporary Hole In the Ionosphere (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Surely a straight launch puts much less stress on a vehicle, since it spends less time/distance in the atmosphere. Also, the Falcon 9 is far from a new rocket.

  2. Re:Convinces me Uber is at fault because of 1/R^4 on Police Release First Video From Inside the Uber Self-Driving Car That Killed a Pedestrian (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    It's Uber: a company literally built on cutting corners, ignoring regulations and deceiving employees and customers and investors to win the next round of funding. Hardly tinfoil hat to think they'd do some illegal manipulation if they felt it was important to their future ability to raise money.

  3. The safest way to drive is to drive at 0 mph

    Not true. Given recent news of people hurling their bodies at self-driving cars which are stopped at lights, we need a car which actively evades people who are chasing it.

  4. Re:Not secure against physical attack - duh! on A 15-Year-Old Hacked the Secure Ledger Crypto Wallet (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    So if you buy one of these things, how do you know your device has not been tampered with?

    It says right in the summary: "In both cases, a successful firmware update is the proof that your device has never been compromised."

  5. Re:This is why it doesn't matter who you vote for on Senate Passes Controversial Online Sex Trafficking Bill (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    There are more than two choices. The problem is that this kind of bill is wildly popular with voters, so nobody will vote for the kind of candidate who opposes it.

  6. Re:"Trafficking" on Senate Passes Controversial Online Sex Trafficking Bill (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    The bill has nothing to do with ISPs. It repeatedly talks about websites, and it also talks about deliberate intent to facilitate sex trafficking.

    The question is, can intentionally setting up an unmoderated forum be seen as deliberately facilitating crimes that may be discussed there? Is there an obligation to attempt to moderate content?

  7. The left wants to bring in cheap labor from other countries and let them integrate. The people in power on the right want to bring in cheap labor from other countries from other countries and employ every power of government to keep them from gaining any rights that might make them more expensive or uppity, and keep their children and their children's children in a legal gray area for maximum exploitation. The voters on the right don't want to allow cheap labor in, and stupidly think that letting the cheap labor be abused brings them closer to that goal, when in reality it's used to pressure the native workforce down closer to those conditions.

  8. I think there is always some crop ready to go.

    No, not nearly enough, which is why most farm workers are on seasonal permits and go home to Mexico the rest of the year.

  9. A significant fraction of commuters who have to drive after not getting enough sleep last night will experience random seconds of microsleep. Computers are much easier to make fail deterministic into a shut down and stop moving state instead of a foot on the gas state.

  10. How many times a year does your computer freeze and need to be power-cycled, versus your brain doing the same.

    I can't remember when I last had to power-cycle my PC, but it certainly wasn't this year. Could easily go a decade on cheap commodity hardware if you're running a stable operating system and not installing random buggy proprietary drivers.

    And of course, just about any car made since the early 90s has a computer running an essential part of it (fuel injection).

  11. Re:Or not on The Road to Deep Decarbonization (bnef.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    That only ever sounded reasonable to the very few people who live in Canada, Siberia and Alaska. It never sounded reasonable to the billion people who've build their cities at sea level, who would much rather deal with the lowering sea levels of an ice age (which is an economic problem to be sure but one they can expand the city to adapt to) than rising sea level (a much much bigger economic problem).

  12. Re:Refueling system? on NASA's Planet-Hunting Kepler Space Telescope Is Running Out of Fuel (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    The difference between 250,000 miles up and 95,000,000 miles actually isn't much at all. In fact you'll need considerably less fuel to reach Kepler at 95M than to land on the moon.

  13. There's really no sense in designing a refuelable planet-hunting space telescope, because by the end of the primary mission the technology has moved on to better readings on smaller planets.

  14. Re:You Can't Have It Both Ways! on For the First Time, a US City Has Banned Cryptocurrency Mining (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Cars are extremely useful, cryptocurrencies provide nothing of value to the economy. Cars charge mostly at night when other use is low, mining rigs usually run all day. It's not hard to see the difference in value.

  15. The trouble with banning people who haven't paid a fine from trains is that preventing them from getting to their job certainly isn't going to help them pay off the fine any faster.

  16. Re:He IS the Guide Mark II in the new HHGTTG on Stephen Hawking, Who Examined the Universe and Explained Black Holes, Dies at 76 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Coincidentally, I was listening to him count down the seconds to his battery depletion death as the guide mark II at nearly the exact time he died in real life.

  17. Re:There may not be a heaven. But we engineered he on A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is '100 Percent Fatal' (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have the magic tech to raise the dead, you can also have separate real or virtual planets for them to inhabit which will suit their particular outdated desires. And there's certainly no need to give the undead the right to vote on Earth.

  18. Re:How does it handle weather? on Larry Page's Flying Taxis, Now Exiting Stealth Mode (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Southern California actually has all of those forms of weather, just not in the big cities. Plenty of mountains and deserts to test on if they wish. Regardless, though, it would make far more sense to handle easier conditions first. A flying car doesn't have to deliver emergency supplies to a siberian research team in a blizzard to be useful... and it doesn't have to be useful for you to be useful.

  19. Re:I don't believe anything Elon says on Elon Musk: SpaceX's Mars Rocket Could Fly Short Flights By Next Year · · Score: 2

    There are no likely LEO payloads for Falcon Heavy. It's meant for geosynchronous orbits, namely being able to deliver satellites to GTO the size of ones previously only possible in LEO.

  20. Re:We can't even keep obvious sociopaths like Trum on Elon Musk: The Danger of AI is Much Greater Than Nuclear Warheads. We Need Regulatory Oversight Of AI Development. (youtube.com) · · Score: 1

    Paul Ryan isn't a sociopath by any stretch of the imagination. He's simply an intelligent person who probably means well most of the time but has very different goals from mine. Don't conflate him with someone like Trump who's entirely about himself.

  21. Re:A comparison on Elon Musk: SpaceX's Mars Rocket Could Fly Short Flights By Next Year · · Score: 2

    Trump canceled the Mars program and is aiming for the moon. And personally I don't remember when Obama talked about trains, so it clearly wasn't a big deal -- California voters and Jerry Brown are the ones who pushed for trains.

  22. Re:"short flights" on Elon Musk: SpaceX's Mars Rocket Could Fly Short Flights By Next Year · · Score: 5, Informative

    He already owns the most powerful rocket on the planet, so he's won a marathon. This is about plans for the next one.

  23. It's effectively a fast train with more privacy. Expect it to be priced accordingly.

  24. He's speaking specifically about his plan for Los Angeles, a city infamously devoid of non-car transit options. But yes, even there many people are unable or unwilling to drive for reasons other than cost.

  25. Servers have large attack surfaces, especially when they're hosting third party scripts for thousands of people who don't care about your security. Call me when a linux desktop is infected.