This is completely inaccurate. Fuchsia is a new kernel, a micro-kernel to be exact, developed by Google because they always have to reinvent the wheel every time they develop anything because the average age of their developers is 24 and they don't have the wisdom to stop re-inventing the wheel.
And like every attempt to reinvent the wheel with yet another micro-kernel it will be a total failure. They think by narrowing it down it will be easier to support but they will have to scale it up from phones to laptops to desktops and in doing so they will need to reinvent everything that Linux has already done.
Linux is where Google should be investing their dollars because they get more bang for their buck if they actually try to get their changes into the vanilla kernel. Googles always had a NIH syndrome. They are constantly reinventing the wheel and doing the same programming over and over again.
That is not how the courts have decided this is. Much like many other things, what you think it "should" be is not what the court precedent says it is. The precedents on the record since the early days of the cellphone and computer make it entirely legal for the judge to do what she did.
70% of the populace in the US lives paycheck to paycheck. Unless you are going to support them they can't strike. That's just the way the wealthy want it, you try to oppose their oligarchy and you starve and become homeless.
General strikes rarely work. Just like the idea that the 2nd amendment is a protection against government. The heavy weapons the military can wield would invalidate any attempt to use small arms. The only protection against government using the military against the citizenry isn't the 2nd amendment, it's a military that swears loyalty to the people instead of the leaders.
Your release isn't a release to search your car, it's a release to search your breath and blood in the event they suspect you are driving under the influence.
If they do their physical tests (walk the line, recite the alphabet, touch the nose, etc) and believe you are under the influence your signature obligates you to blow in the breathalizer or submit to a blood test, if you refuse your license is automatically revoked in most states. There are some states that can forcibly remove a blood sample if you refuse the breathalizer.
Under no circumstance does that signature obligate you to a vehicle search.
They can detain you as long as it takes to write the ticket for the dog to arrive. His best bet was to challenge the detention until the dog arrived. Either the dog arrived within the few minutes it took to write a ticket or he didn't have a good lawyer. Even detaining you five minutes for a dog to arrive generally invalidates the dog's evidence.
If this ever happens to you challenge the detention for the dog to arrive if it takes longer than a few minutes. Challenge the cop on the scene and challenge it in court later. If you fail to bring it up at trial you can't bring it up on appeal.
Meltdown is a specific attack, none of these new ones are Meltdown. Spectre is an entire class of attacks and it's going to have a ton of variants. There was a report about a month in a German magazine that they've already numbered Spectre out to 11 variants and counting that will eventually be divulged.
There were broad warnings when Spectre was revealed that this would be the exploit that would keep on giving because it used a new line of attack that's been known about for years but was finally shown with a working exploit for the first time with the Spectre release. As this line of attacks is central to how modern processors are built there could be 30 or 40 variants by the time this all sorted out.
The only thing going for us in this case is that these timing attacks are difficult to execute, but it won't be long before a clever coder has found a way to automate them and put them into a drive by exploit like Javascript attached to a advertisement.
If you use a browser and visit websites you are running random code you didn't purchase and probably have no idea what it does. The average website these days executes around 30 scripts from at least 8 different sources but possibly as many as 20 different sources. I've seen websites that had as many as 50 scripts running from upwards of 20 different sources.
There's a reason people use NoScript in Firefox, all those scripts are potential exploits. Even running in a sandbox they are capable of exploiting Spectre/Meltdown. That should scare the daylights out of you.
That was an interesting post by the founder of MPEG. He assumes that the rise of AOM will mean the end of video codec advancement because no on will be making money on codecs. He's completely and horribly wrong on that assumption. There is no longer a need to make money on the codec, the major content providers that provide video to the public have a massive incentive to continue to improve codecs because it literally costs them money. Google, Netflix, Apple, Facebook etc all save money if the Codec improves, and those savings can be multiples more than the licensing fees MPEG-LA collects.
The need for MPEG and MPEG-LA is over. HEVC should be a dead standard. The rise of AOM and AVC1 is a blessing to all of humanity. A free codec, developed and supported by the very people broadcasting and producing all the video. The very people with the largest incentive to continue to improve the codec because every byte saved saves them money.
MPEG and MPEG-LA should wander off into the night, they simply aren't needed anymore and have been destroyed by the same patents they sought to exploit.
He did mention direct advertising as well. You should read the text of the interview, it's horrifying how out of touch with the HBO audience this guy is.
Did anyone not expect this? A cellular company bought HBO and their first thought is episodes are too long and everyone wants to watch them on their phone. Oh and they want to add advertising, forgetting of course that most of HBO's subscribers do so because it DOESN'T have advertising.
They'll kill HBO with these plans before they ever evolve them to compete with Netflix. AT&T will slaughter the goose.
Bezos and Amazon are setup as Vertical Integrators like the Robber Barrons of the 19th Century. Not content to own a simple steel mill Carnegie realized he could drive costs down by owning the coal mines, the railroad and everything else that supplied his steel empire. Bezo's is following the tradition, not content with a marketplace of goods he's moving into delivery of those goods and production of the goods themselves. He will continue to expand these things just like he'll expand the digital side of the business by moving into advertising and all kinds of other services.
Operating frequency, ie 3ghz is not the same thing as faster. Processor speed at completing tasks is a complicated mix of frequency, IPC and several other factors. Even at 200mhz faster the Qualacomm chip could still be significantly faster.
Congress delegated to the FCC broad authority to regulate Title II communications in the 1950's, at the time this was basically telephone service because the public had come to believe this was an essential life saving service which it obviously was. But Congress also delegated to the FCC the ability to decide what constituted Title II service offerings because they understood they couldn't vote on every little new thing that came out.
During the Clinton administration the FCC voted to provide light regulations protections for "data services" as part of the 1996 deregulation of data services as the internet came into being. GW Bush's FCC went a step further in the early 00's and voted to remove all Title II protections. During the remaining years of the Bush administration and comments from leaders in the telecom sector (particularly the head of ATT) it because apparent that the new no-regulation stance gave these companies the legal ability to essentially blackmail services operating via the internet by threatening to slow down their service if they didn't pay the telecom provider a fee. This would be the death of an open internet with the Telecoms and Cable companies deciding the winners and loosers in the market. In particular it would give them the ability to "tax" into oblivion any service that competed against their own offerings. Comcast immediately took advantage of this to try to blackmail Netflix.
This birthed the net-neutrality movement and during the first years of the Obama administration they tried to implement policies to stop this blackmail with light handed regulations while not declaring the service Title II again. The FCC was then immediately sued by all the telecoms as they are almost every time they do anything and lost in court, with the final court ruling saying that without a designation that data services were Title II that congress had never given the FCC authority to regulate these services. So as a regulatory action in the final years of the Obama administration they voted to redesignate Data services as Title II and implemented the lightest regulation they could, giving them authority to review and revoke agreements like those between Netflix and Comcast where Comcast was using last mile access to toll competing services. They required a minimal amount of reporting by companies with more than 100K subscribers and took the position of not acting unless a complaint was received.
Trump upon entry immediately undid the Title II designation but then as the last sentence in the order tried to claim that this new regulation blocks state level regulation in direct contradiction to the previous court ruling. Were the FCC to try to challenge the California law they would immediately lose based on that ruling because the FCC has no authority unless it's Title II.
One of the purposes of federal regulation is to offer a level playing field across the US, when you eliminate all regulation you give the states authority to regulate it themselves. This is what the Trump administration is finding out, by trying to undo the Title II designation they opened up the pathway for States to regulate it themselves. The same has happened with EPA's attempts to undo minimum CAFE and pollution requirements put in place during the Obama administration, regulations that were heavily supported by numerous states. The result has been a dozen states passing their own and conflicting requirements creating a regulatory patchwork that makes it harder for car manufacturers.
But this is what happens when you put inexperienced nitwits or idealouges in place at these government agencies. You destroy the regulatory framework that protected these business from state level regulation. That's not a win, the problem is the right's come to believe that simply eliminating the regulation is a better idea that providing a legitimate process and negotiation with the stakeholders (businesses, state and local governments and activists) on sensible regulations that the entire country can live with that protect the business and the people.
Be quiet you, all blue areas of the countries run huge deficits every good conservative knows that and any information to the contrary is just fake news like any other facts they don't like.
California is 1/4 of the US economy, they have broad ability to affect the entire US, as seen with their automobile pollution rules. Used properly this will have deep effects all the way down the internet, even to companies without operations in California because their traffic may cross California. On top of that most of the major telecoms/cable companies have a presence in California and will be required to abide this law. And the FCC can't do squat about it because they took internet services off class 2 regulation baring them from regulating any of this including state laws.
The case against him is honestly a bit trumped up, they are basically trying to prosecute him for offering a legitimate service a-la Google Drive, DropBox, icloud, etc and the government is going to be faced with trying to prove his service only offered infringing services (because valid uses for the service mean it's legal, just like the government can't ban ownership of crowbars). Providing he's already funded some good lawyers with prepaid retainers before he's extradited he's got pretty good odds of beating the Government in court. Hopefully he's used the delay in this extradition well.
The government case against him was always built on a quick extradition, seizure of his assets so he couldn't' retain good counsel and a quick plea deal. By delaying the extradition he put himself in position to beat this charge if he was smart and put those retainers in place ASAP. If he's got retainers in place when he's extradited I wouldn't be surprised to see the government drop the case because they know they can't beat him for offering services that hundreds of other companies offer.
This was a prosecution put forward by entertainment companies as a threat to others using federal prosecutors with connections to hollywood and the music industry, they destroyed a valid business with it and my hope is the delay in extradition allows him to stomp the prosecution then go after the return of assets the government seized, particularly the $100's of millions in dollars they siezed. Don't get me wrong, Dot-com is a dickhead grifter, but what he did didn't deserve what he got. This was a total railroading butffuck that they hoped would scare him into a plea deal by getting NZ to disregard it's own laws.
The judge is outside his element. Almost 99.99% of all copyright decisions have been made by the 9th circuit. Essentially the entire court findings on copyright were made by the 9th circuit. These judges in the Virginia circuit likely never see copyright cases and are simply not experienced in its legalities and he tried to find a way for the local defendant to win. The judge found the supreme court test for fair use and misapplied it with several bad assumptions.
If the artist appeals, the decision will be tossed on appeal. As others have pointed out the use wasn't transformation per the supreme court description of transformation and the judges decision on what constitutes commercial use doesn't comply with past supreme court guidelines. My bet is a bunch of the stock photo companies will jump in and help pay the legal fees to appeal this to get this judgement pulled from the records. This might still be fair use, but the analysis was flawed and the finding needs to be appealed to prevent such inappropriate use of copyright law to remain on the books as precedent in the Virginia circuit.
If the artist appeals this judge will be overturned on federal appeal, he'll be forced to assume it's copyrighted and then reevaluate if it's fair use based on the current criteria (which he might have made a mistake on as well). It may well be fair use, but his comments about not knowing it was copyrighted biased the decision so it will be handed back to him to re-review based on the very criteria listed, it's copyrighted from birth, as everything is automatically. All registration does is by you statutory damages.
It's not much different than ATT deciding that Google should pay them money so their users can access it uninterrupted. Or in other words the business policy of "it'd be a shame if something happened to your business" line of attack. This isn't any different it's just the copyright companies, in this case newspapers and such that are trying to troll Google for billions, even though Google provides these businesses a HUGE service.
This is just the next round by trying to make it a tax rather than a per copyright fee so that Google can't negotiate their way out of it. I suspect they haven't fully realized how Google can counter this quickly and easily and turn it back around on the news providers by simply not linking to them at all, thereby negating the tax. I'm sure there will be news services that will spring up outside the EU and not subject to the tax that will be happy to take all the internet traffic the big news providers used to get.
Not much different than the US government deciding that the way to have the best competitive launches was to allow the only two launch providers to combine and offer their launches at twice the price. And the funniest part is the ULA rockets use the Soviet designed Proton engines!
SpaceX and the other commercial launch operators are the future, Congress and NASA should kill the SLA lauch vehicle pork project and move to low bid launch services by commercial providers. SpaceX has already more than halved launch costs worldwide. Arianne, Chinese and even Indian launch vehicles are all more expensive than the US designed and built SpaceX rocket.
Why do you think that if we share our technology with China that the reverse would also occur and China would share the other direction? Your arguement is it may lock the US out not to share but assume they would share and some would consider it highly likely that they wouldn't.
Part of the problem and things that people are concerned about is that China appears to see economy not as something that brings people together and creates interdependence but something that can be "won". That their end goal is to acquire all this technology and then shut out foreign competition. They've already done it in too many industries to count where expertise was sold then the Chinese company displaced the American company with copies of their product.
The problem is Trump approached this completely the wrong direction. He started a war with everyone instead of working with out allies. He could have arranged an agreement with every Western country to take China on in this area and demand change. He could have united the world and forced China to stop the unfair trade practices at the threat of losing all market access in the west, instead Trump started a trade war with all our allies and drove them to make deals with Russia and China at our expense. China and Russia are laughing all the way to the bank while we've destroyed the goodwill and soft power it took this country a century and millions of lives to build and one guy trashed it in 18 months. It's a staggering achievement.
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This is completely inaccurate. Fuchsia is a new kernel, a micro-kernel to be exact, developed by Google because they always have to reinvent the wheel every time they develop anything because the average age of their developers is 24 and they don't have the wisdom to stop re-inventing the wheel.
And like every attempt to reinvent the wheel with yet another micro-kernel it will be a total failure. They think by narrowing it down it will be easier to support but they will have to scale it up from phones to laptops to desktops and in doing so they will need to reinvent everything that Linux has already done.
Linux is where Google should be investing their dollars because they get more bang for their buck if they actually try to get their changes into the vanilla kernel. Googles always had a NIH syndrome. They are constantly reinventing the wheel and doing the same programming over and over again.
That is not how the courts have decided this is. Much like many other things, what you think it "should" be is not what the court precedent says it is. The precedents on the record since the early days of the cellphone and computer make it entirely legal for the judge to do what she did.
70% of the populace in the US lives paycheck to paycheck. Unless you are going to support them they can't strike. That's just the way the wealthy want it, you try to oppose their oligarchy and you starve and become homeless.
General strikes rarely work. Just like the idea that the 2nd amendment is a protection against government. The heavy weapons the military can wield would invalidate any attempt to use small arms. The only protection against government using the military against the citizenry isn't the 2nd amendment, it's a military that swears loyalty to the people instead of the leaders.
Your release isn't a release to search your car, it's a release to search your breath and blood in the event they suspect you are driving under the influence.
If they do their physical tests (walk the line, recite the alphabet, touch the nose, etc) and believe you are under the influence your signature obligates you to blow in the breathalizer or submit to a blood test, if you refuse your license is automatically revoked in most states. There are some states that can forcibly remove a blood sample if you refuse the breathalizer.
Under no circumstance does that signature obligate you to a vehicle search.
They can detain you as long as it takes to write the ticket for the dog to arrive. His best bet was to challenge the detention until the dog arrived. Either the dog arrived within the few minutes it took to write a ticket or he didn't have a good lawyer. Even detaining you five minutes for a dog to arrive generally invalidates the dog's evidence.
If this ever happens to you challenge the detention for the dog to arrive if it takes longer than a few minutes. Challenge the cop on the scene and challenge it in court later. If you fail to bring it up at trial you can't bring it up on appeal.
Funny, I see the right doing the exact same thing.
Meltdown is a specific attack, none of these new ones are Meltdown. Spectre is an entire class of attacks and it's going to have a ton of variants. There was a report about a month in a German magazine that they've already numbered Spectre out to 11 variants and counting that will eventually be divulged.
There were broad warnings when Spectre was revealed that this would be the exploit that would keep on giving because it used a new line of attack that's been known about for years but was finally shown with a working exploit for the first time with the Spectre release. As this line of attacks is central to how modern processors are built there could be 30 or 40 variants by the time this all sorted out.
The only thing going for us in this case is that these timing attacks are difficult to execute, but it won't be long before a clever coder has found a way to automate them and put them into a drive by exploit like Javascript attached to a advertisement.
If you use a browser and visit websites you are running random code you didn't purchase and probably have no idea what it does. The average website these days executes around 30 scripts from at least 8 different sources but possibly as many as 20 different sources. I've seen websites that had as many as 50 scripts running from upwards of 20 different sources.
There's a reason people use NoScript in Firefox, all those scripts are potential exploits. Even running in a sandbox they are capable of exploiting Spectre/Meltdown. That should scare the daylights out of you.
It's probably not listed because it's unknown because no one bothered to look due to the size of the market.
That was an interesting post by the founder of MPEG. He assumes that the rise of AOM will mean the end of video codec advancement because no on will be making money on codecs. He's completely and horribly wrong on that assumption. There is no longer a need to make money on the codec, the major content providers that provide video to the public have a massive incentive to continue to improve codecs because it literally costs them money. Google, Netflix, Apple, Facebook etc all save money if the Codec improves, and those savings can be multiples more than the licensing fees MPEG-LA collects.
The need for MPEG and MPEG-LA is over. HEVC should be a dead standard. The rise of AOM and AVC1 is a blessing to all of humanity. A free codec, developed and supported by the very people broadcasting and producing all the video. The very people with the largest incentive to continue to improve the codec because every byte saved saves them money.
MPEG and MPEG-LA should wander off into the night, they simply aren't needed anymore and have been destroyed by the same patents they sought to exploit.
He did mention direct advertising as well. You should read the text of the interview, it's horrifying how out of touch with the HBO audience this guy is.
Did anyone not expect this? A cellular company bought HBO and their first thought is episodes are too long and everyone wants to watch them on their phone. Oh and they want to add advertising, forgetting of course that most of HBO's subscribers do so because it DOESN'T have advertising.
They'll kill HBO with these plans before they ever evolve them to compete with Netflix. AT&T will slaughter the goose.
Bezos and Amazon are setup as Vertical Integrators like the Robber Barrons of the 19th Century. Not content to own a simple steel mill Carnegie realized he could drive costs down by owning the coal mines, the railroad and everything else that supplied his steel empire. Bezo's is following the tradition, not content with a marketplace of goods he's moving into delivery of those goods and production of the goods themselves. He will continue to expand these things just like he'll expand the digital side of the business by moving into advertising and all kinds of other services.
Operating frequency, ie 3ghz is not the same thing as faster. Processor speed at completing tasks is a complicated mix of frequency, IPC and several other factors. Even at 200mhz faster the Qualacomm chip could still be significantly faster.
Congress delegated to the FCC broad authority to regulate Title II communications in the 1950's, at the time this was basically telephone service because the public had come to believe this was an essential life saving service which it obviously was. But Congress also delegated to the FCC the ability to decide what constituted Title II service offerings because they understood they couldn't vote on every little new thing that came out.
During the Clinton administration the FCC voted to provide light regulations protections for "data services" as part of the 1996 deregulation of data services as the internet came into being. GW Bush's FCC went a step further in the early 00's and voted to remove all Title II protections. During the remaining years of the Bush administration and comments from leaders in the telecom sector (particularly the head of ATT) it because apparent that the new no-regulation stance gave these companies the legal ability to essentially blackmail services operating via the internet by threatening to slow down their service if they didn't pay the telecom provider a fee. This would be the death of an open internet with the Telecoms and Cable companies deciding the winners and loosers in the market. In particular it would give them the ability to "tax" into oblivion any service that competed against their own offerings. Comcast immediately took advantage of this to try to blackmail Netflix.
This birthed the net-neutrality movement and during the first years of the Obama administration they tried to implement policies to stop this blackmail with light handed regulations while not declaring the service Title II again. The FCC was then immediately sued by all the telecoms as they are almost every time they do anything and lost in court, with the final court ruling saying that without a designation that data services were Title II that congress had never given the FCC authority to regulate these services. So as a regulatory action in the final years of the Obama administration they voted to redesignate Data services as Title II and implemented the lightest regulation they could, giving them authority to review and revoke agreements like those between Netflix and Comcast where Comcast was using last mile access to toll competing services. They required a minimal amount of reporting by companies with more than 100K subscribers and took the position of not acting unless a complaint was received.
Trump upon entry immediately undid the Title II designation but then as the last sentence in the order tried to claim that this new regulation blocks state level regulation in direct contradiction to the previous court ruling. Were the FCC to try to challenge the California law they would immediately lose based on that ruling because the FCC has no authority unless it's Title II.
One of the purposes of federal regulation is to offer a level playing field across the US, when you eliminate all regulation you give the states authority to regulate it themselves. This is what the Trump administration is finding out, by trying to undo the Title II designation they opened up the pathway for States to regulate it themselves. The same has happened with EPA's attempts to undo minimum CAFE and pollution requirements put in place during the Obama administration, regulations that were heavily supported by numerous states. The result has been a dozen states passing their own and conflicting requirements creating a regulatory patchwork that makes it harder for car manufacturers.
But this is what happens when you put inexperienced nitwits or idealouges in place at these government agencies. You destroy the regulatory framework that protected these business from state level regulation. That's not a win, the problem is the right's come to believe that simply eliminating the regulation is a better idea that providing a legitimate process and negotiation with the stakeholders (businesses, state and local governments and activists) on sensible regulations that the entire country can live with that protect the business and the people.
Be quiet you, all blue areas of the countries run huge deficits every good conservative knows that and any information to the contrary is just fake news like any other facts they don't like.
California is 1/4 of the US economy, they have broad ability to affect the entire US, as seen with their automobile pollution rules. Used properly this will have deep effects all the way down the internet, even to companies without operations in California because their traffic may cross California. On top of that most of the major telecoms/cable companies have a presence in California and will be required to abide this law. And the FCC can't do squat about it because they took internet services off class 2 regulation baring them from regulating any of this including state laws.
The case against him is honestly a bit trumped up, they are basically trying to prosecute him for offering a legitimate service a-la Google Drive, DropBox, icloud, etc and the government is going to be faced with trying to prove his service only offered infringing services (because valid uses for the service mean it's legal, just like the government can't ban ownership of crowbars). Providing he's already funded some good lawyers with prepaid retainers before he's extradited he's got pretty good odds of beating the Government in court. Hopefully he's used the delay in this extradition well.
The government case against him was always built on a quick extradition, seizure of his assets so he couldn't' retain good counsel and a quick plea deal. By delaying the extradition he put himself in position to beat this charge if he was smart and put those retainers in place ASAP. If he's got retainers in place when he's extradited I wouldn't be surprised to see the government drop the case because they know they can't beat him for offering services that hundreds of other companies offer.
This was a prosecution put forward by entertainment companies as a threat to others using federal prosecutors with connections to hollywood and the music industry, they destroyed a valid business with it and my hope is the delay in extradition allows him to stomp the prosecution then go after the return of assets the government seized, particularly the $100's of millions in dollars they siezed. Don't get me wrong, Dot-com is a dickhead grifter, but what he did didn't deserve what he got. This was a total railroading butffuck that they hoped would scare him into a plea deal by getting NZ to disregard it's own laws.
The judge is outside his element. Almost 99.99% of all copyright decisions have been made by the 9th circuit. Essentially the entire court findings on copyright were made by the 9th circuit. These judges in the Virginia circuit likely never see copyright cases and are simply not experienced in its legalities and he tried to find a way for the local defendant to win. The judge found the supreme court test for fair use and misapplied it with several bad assumptions.
If the artist appeals, the decision will be tossed on appeal. As others have pointed out the use wasn't transformation per the supreme court description of transformation and the judges decision on what constitutes commercial use doesn't comply with past supreme court guidelines. My bet is a bunch of the stock photo companies will jump in and help pay the legal fees to appeal this to get this judgement pulled from the records. This might still be fair use, but the analysis was flawed and the finding needs to be appealed to prevent such inappropriate use of copyright law to remain on the books as precedent in the Virginia circuit.
That's why we have appeals in this country.
If the artist appeals this judge will be overturned on federal appeal, he'll be forced to assume it's copyrighted and then reevaluate if it's fair use based on the current criteria (which he might have made a mistake on as well). It may well be fair use, but his comments about not knowing it was copyrighted biased the decision so it will be handed back to him to re-review based on the very criteria listed, it's copyrighted from birth, as everything is automatically. All registration does is by you statutory damages.
It's not much different than ATT deciding that Google should pay them money so their users can access it uninterrupted. Or in other words the business policy of "it'd be a shame if something happened to your business" line of attack. This isn't any different it's just the copyright companies, in this case newspapers and such that are trying to troll Google for billions, even though Google provides these businesses a HUGE service.
This is just the next round by trying to make it a tax rather than a per copyright fee so that Google can't negotiate their way out of it. I suspect they haven't fully realized how Google can counter this quickly and easily and turn it back around on the news providers by simply not linking to them at all, thereby negating the tax. I'm sure there will be news services that will spring up outside the EU and not subject to the tax that will be happy to take all the internet traffic the big news providers used to get.
Intel should pull a card from Nvidia's playbook and simply rebrand last years processors with a new number.
Not much different than the US government deciding that the way to have the best competitive launches was to allow the only two launch providers to combine and offer their launches at twice the price. And the funniest part is the ULA rockets use the Soviet designed Proton engines!
SpaceX and the other commercial launch operators are the future, Congress and NASA should kill the SLA lauch vehicle pork project and move to low bid launch services by commercial providers. SpaceX has already more than halved launch costs worldwide. Arianne, Chinese and even Indian launch vehicles are all more expensive than the US designed and built SpaceX rocket.
Why do you think that if we share our technology with China that the reverse would also occur and China would share the other direction? Your arguement is it may lock the US out not to share but assume they would share and some would consider it highly likely that they wouldn't.
Part of the problem and things that people are concerned about is that China appears to see economy not as something that brings people together and creates interdependence but something that can be "won". That their end goal is to acquire all this technology and then shut out foreign competition. They've already done it in too many industries to count where expertise was sold then the Chinese company displaced the American company with copies of their product.
The problem is Trump approached this completely the wrong direction. He started a war with everyone instead of working with out allies. He could have arranged an agreement with every Western country to take China on in this area and demand change. He could have united the world and forced China to stop the unfair trade practices at the threat of losing all market access in the west, instead Trump started a trade war with all our allies and drove them to make deals with Russia and China at our expense. China and Russia are laughing all the way to the bank while we've destroyed the goodwill and soft power it took this country a century and millions of lives to build and one guy trashed it in 18 months. It's a staggering achievement.
SpaceX has a higher reliability and cheaper cost than ULA.