They diverted the funding for AI? AI is already a way for rich crooks to steal and make money off public information, if not an outright hype that grifters employ to attract funding for their devious pursuits. None of this is AI’s fault. But politicians should understand the type of people they are funding, instead of ignorantly falling for buzzwords.

If you want any change in this, you should formally express your concern using A2A missiles. If they protest, formally deny it. This is what they do after all, isn’t it?

I have heard this tape. While it’s distressing, it’s something worth hearing. Not because it’s pleasant to listen to people die. But because it’s worth remembering their pain so that those mistakes are never repeated again.

Remember that the engineers, technicians and other support staff of Apollo 1 didn’t have the option of turning off the audio either (I listened to it to partially feel what they felt). They worked feverishly to save their colleagues who were burning to death only a few inches away from them. And to finally reach them to find out that it was all in vain.

This would have been a horrifyingly painful experience for NASA. And it did have an impact. NASA changed in an instant. No effort was spared in keeping the future astronauts safe. So much so that a deeply crippled Apollo 13 still made it back safely. And no lives were ever again lost on the Apollo missions. That’s the power of a personal connection to a tragedy. I watch a lot of accident investigation documentaries, including rail, aviation and space. Nothing drives the lessons deep like the depiction of human tragedy.

Just imagine. If only the aircraft manufacturers could see the final moments of the passengers that die in their low quality aircrafts. Perhaps they would try hard to avoid such incidents rather than chase profits at any cost.

RIP: Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee, Ed White. The bravehearts of Apollo 1.

Please add a single line of description of the software for those who don’t know. The name gives no clue.

This is exactly what was predicted as the result of corporate surveillance and targeted ads. They are part of schemes to extract more revenue from you. Another example is the rising premium for health insurance. But people apparently had “nothing to hide”!

No. Just people fighting for the Darwin awards.

I wouldn’t call idiocy leading to ER admissions as ‘blown out of proportions’. That aside, I still don’t understand what you prove by consuming something as distasteful as tide pods.

How about religion-backed traditional garlic treatment? Not joking. A lot of pseudoscience is backed by dogma.

Please learn elementary anatomy and physiology. You don’t have to get a medical degree. High school level knowledge will do.

This dangerous misinformation wouldn’t get shared around, if people knew about mucous membranes.

It’s a high end and pricey epaper tablet with pen/stylus for note taking.

How does GDPR mandate a public audit of the code base? Is there such a provision in it? (Not a confrontational question)

Honey, the REAL answer is such tech ALREADY EXISTS! Your cynical snark doesn’t make you smart or right. It just makes you one ignorant fellow. I’m not even going to bother answering you, because you aren’t here for answers. You are here to insult, annoy and pick a fight with strangers. Go look for it elsewhere.

The latter - targeting from ground. While that sounds daunting, it’s already possible. Sats can aim data laser beams at other sats at even higher relative speeds.

Beam decoherence is a pretty big problem when you are lasering through the entire atmosphere, and both scenarios require an astounding degree of precision.

Beam coherence is the only problem with targeting sats from the ground. But remember, these sats come with big telescopes to collect as much light as they can. It may not take a lot of radiative flux to overload their sensors. I wonder how much it will take to completely fry them.

I wonder how much laser power its sensors can withstand.

There are two disturbing tendencies being demonstrated here:

1. Using useless AI to engage and disperse complaining customers. The AI can’t make meaningful solutions to many customer complaints. But companies use it to annoy the customers into giving up, so that they can save the cost of real customer support.
2. Either blaming the AI or insisting that it’s right, when it makes a mistake. AI by nature is biased and unpredictable. But that doesn’t stop the companies from saying ‘the computer says so’.

These companies need a few high profile hefty penalties as a motivation to avoid such dirty tricks.

This is just the first step at making protests illegal.

I don’t like the monarchy either. But I assume you haven’t seen anyone suffer from cancer. If you did, it’s a misery you won’t wish on your worst enemies.

You’re right of course. But just to add - ‘reproducible builds’ is an ongoing attempt to make hash comparisons practical.

I’m aware of FTP. It’s still around in certain circles. But for a moment I thought that there was some sort of integration between ftp and git. I guess not.

No. I mean gitdirectory over FTP.