Many x86 CPUs aren't required to run 24/7 for the entire life of the system they are installed in. And if hardware 'bugs' cause failure, the machine is rebooted and 'software' is blamed.
If the conditions you describe cause a 'tanker spill' they were hardly the only factors. In fact, if that were all it took, it would be time to land all the tankers permanently.
I'm sure that in their day, lighthouses spoiled all kinds of coastline views. They were probably seen as a blight for all sorts of aesthetic reasons when first built.
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"here, buy our doors.. oh, and our locks too"
Right. Because everybody knows that without those dastardly door makers, we wouldn't have to spend any money at all on locks.
What was your point again?
Because you can troll random Linux zealots?
Many x86 CPUs aren't required to run 24/7 for the entire life of the system they are installed in. And if hardware 'bugs' cause failure, the machine is rebooted and 'software' is blamed.
Are you suggesting that the kind of portable GPS unit that typically gets used on small craft should cease to be produced to be waterproof?
Would it really save that much money to stop putting them in waterproof cases?
The only reason why Europe has GPS service is that the US military wants the ability to accuratly blow up any location on the planet.
It sucks when the military can't do it accurately and has to blow up all kinds of extra stuff to get the job done.
Now, we can argue wether the job 'needs doing' but are you really a carpet bombing enthusiast?
If the conditions you describe cause a 'tanker spill' they were hardly the only factors. In fact, if that were all it took, it would be time to land all the tankers permanently.
And lighthouses can fail. A heavy fog can set in over the water. Etc. etc.
I'm sure that in their day, lighthouses spoiled all kinds of coastline views. They were probably seen as a blight for all sorts of aesthetic reasons when first built.
'wipe out humanity' is a concept based in androcentric conceit.
The human race cannot live outside our biosphere, and can not live outside complex symbiotic relationships with other living organisms.
IOW- we can't pull ourselves into a glass tank and say 'whew! we're safe!' nor can we run a 'backup' by storing half our population on another planet.
It's possible the complex web of life that we are a part of could spread to other biospheres. This Mars idea would be a first such attempt.
But it's far more complicated than writers of Speculative Fiction have described in the past.
New Scientist is widely known as a biased and highly politicized magazine. Perhaps suggest another article. One worth reading.
Lenin and other communists openly embraced terrorism as a legitimate tactic in waging revolution.
This is not just hearsay, there are documents that any good Marxist-Leninist studies that say this.