How do you do that safely, if the car can at any moment suddenly decide to start moving? Do they have some button under a cover somewhere that first responders and towing agencies can use to immobilize it?

I'm on Linux so psh is not that relevant, however from how you and comment [1] explains it, it's really more of a scripting tool than a "shell" as one would normally call it, i.e. it's more of an API+an interpreter than a tool to launch other tools and pipe data between them. Whats good about it is that it allows you to automate clicky GUIs, and that it allows you to access certain things that isn't available through the GUI.

How is that really different from earlier MS scripting tools, such as *e.g. one I have experience in from long time ago) VB6?

It also sounds extremely microsoft-specific, and not at all relevant for any other OS because it's (as I understand it) mainly a tool to access and to script other Windows-specific tools? Sure, it may have a nice syntax, but still... Couldn't they just as well have made Python module for "Active Directory management" etc., and that would be it? Or implement a few actual shell commands and let people use whatever shell they like? I don't understand why they needed to invent a whole new language for this, because it seems like the main advantage is that it allows you to script things that aren't scriptable from outside of psh.

[1] https://slashdot.org/comments....

Sounds like the fun we had as anonymous cowards on the early internet :)

The year most people decided that always wearing body armour when leaving the house, was also the year where a lot of people died while walking down the street. Clearly the issue is the body armour, it makes people overheat. The great toddler+machinegun extravaganza organized that year had nothing to do with it!

Yeah, I know you are joking, but at some point, jokes are no longer entertaining. Sorry.

You don't actually have to wonder, just lookup what happened to gas prices when Nordstream 2 was almost ready, while everyone was getting more nervous about binding even tighter to Russia for energy. Putin shutoff the valve, presumably trying to create unrest, but also underscoring why depending on Russian gas is a very bad idea and why more nuclear and more renewables are needed, quickly.

Thaks for writing this. My first reaction was also that this must be quack, especially since the article was so light on details about the design of the device (unfortunately, this seems par for the course for medical devices) and how it was supposed to work. I suspected it must have something to do with induction of voltages in the brain, but then just using a resonant electronic device seems easier, more targetable, less power hungry, and more tolerable for the patient...

My mirrorless has the same button. And thanks to high ISO and stabilization, it's very usable.

That may have been true 15 years ago, but not today. I've used m43 cameras for about 10 years, and on my old camera (Panasonic G3) this was indeed the case. However on a much newer (and higher end) Olympus OM-D EM1-2, it's not at all dark and washed out (unless what you're pointing your lens at is darked and washed-out looking).

I would fully support your right to modify your emissions control system IF you pay for the testing to verify that it is compliant afterwards.

Seems like VW scammed you, selling you a car that was drivable and complied with pollution laws, but in reality only did one out of two. And you just accepted it? You should have a case against VW, instead you now have a 10k USD fine waiting for you IF someone finds out...

AFAIK the vaccines are based on the same tech and should be similarly (un-)stable, but Pfitzer played it more safe on the storage and handling part, focussing on showing the efficacy of the drug itself. I think we are likely to see an announcement from Pfitzer that their vaccine works just as fine being shipped at the same temperature as the Moderna vaccine.

I did however also find it funny that within days of Biontec/Pfitzer announcing their early results, several companies were announcing their own preliminary results, each one a few % higher. I guess it's still early days, and definitively way too early to say anything about which of them will be better or worse when they reach people outside of the trials. There may also be a difference between which is better/worse by metric, i.e. some may be more efficient but require better handling -- this would be preferable for denser cities with good infrastructure; some would be cheaper but require strict compliance -- could work well for people that are institutionalized; some may be less sensitive to handling but slightly less efficient -- best for rural areas, etc.

Not so little anymore!

Regarding security, I'm not so sure. While physical theft would be extremely difficult, denial of service would be easy and hard to find who did it. A small boat-anchoring "oops" can take out data and power for a few days, and diver with a explosives could utterly obliterate the thing without anybody seeing it.

Also, server grade hardware presumably have ECC, so it won't notice a bitflip here and there from cosmics.

Except for the parts of your satelite that is exposed to the sun. And with the added problem that cooling is radiative (black body) only.

So yeah, heat management is a pretty major issue in spacecraft design.