Intel moved to LGA, what, 15 years ago? I don't remember seeing any LGA chips getting soldered down by anyone.

Also if OEMs want soldered down chips AMD will happily sell them BGA chips to use.

Hmm, is that 8 billion people spread evenly over the planet, or does that take into account high density cities? Because everything I've heard about Starlink is that it won't work in cities where the population density is too high for the number of satellites that can serve a single area, so that's ~50% of the world's population ruled out straight away.

Yes Stallman has done something wrong. He puts his foot in it and then refuses to learn from it every single time. And then his whinging and blaming everyone else makes other people behave worse. The amount of tech posters I've seen falling over themselves to defend him by coming up with the most tortured straw-men arguments, and even outright lying about the situation, is completely embarrassing.

Stallman is a grown man, if he's going to refuse to learn how to make statements in public then he can face the consequences of his posts.

That is not the statement the triggered the controversy. That is him doubling down on it.

This is his statement:

Call Epstein's victims a "harem" is nasty. Trying to excuse the victimization of a trafficking victim because they were forced to present themselves as "willing" is nasty. The argument that there is nothing wrong with a 70 year old man having sex with an underage girl who just happens to be at his friend's private island is fine as long as they don't ask any awkward questions like who this underage girl is, is nasty. Then doubling down by whinging about the legal definition of rape in the Virgin islands is nasty.

Stallman is a grown man, he's done this kind of thing enough times and if he is not willing to learn how to make the tech industry not sound so bloody nasty then he should not be putting himself in such a public position.

Probably one of these little exposed die buggers. The heatsink retention mechanism on the socket was horrible too.

Maybe if the Boring Company had actually lowered the cost of tunneling then the cost of CAHSR's mountain crossings would be much lower? Maybe if Musk had heralded the need for high-speed rail instead of hyperloop there would be more public interest creating higher potential ridership and thus more interest in commercial sponsorship of high speed rail projects? Maybe if Musk had held high-speed rail competitions instead of hyperloop competitions we would have got something useful out of it?

All Musk has done on public transit so far is to distract from actual solutions.

Hey! That flamethrowers is a perfectly good $60^H^H^H $500 roofing torch!

Yeah, but the problem is now it's turned out to be complete garbage people are going to be like "Hur hur we told you public transit SUCKS! Just build moar roads DUH!". And that is going to stick in a lot of people's minds.

Underground mass transit technology is over 150 years old. If your first commercial project is worse than something from the late 1800's then that's not a visionary move to push technology forward, it's an arrogant move that is holding progress on actual solutions back.

It's the same with hyperloop, in the same time that Musk has been going on about how easy it is China has covered their entire country in high speed rail. Musk's clearly unrealistic pet projects are holding public transit back by distracting from the solutions we have right now.

Here's your velociraptors. You're welcome.

Ingenuity is just the copter, Perseverance is the main rover. So the copter didn't move, Perseverance did. Solar panel is indeed on top.

Given the rotor turns at 2400 rpm I think they want it to be as far away from Perseverance as possible in case they've got their calculations on powered flight on Mars wrong and it loses control, those carbon fiber blades could easily shred important cables on the rover.

It's only really a tech demonstrator with no real function in the mission beyond seeing if a drone on Mars is a practical idea, no doubt if it works a future mission will have something more like a quadcopter with ducted blades that can safely dock with a main rover and take off when needed to perform surveys or other scientific studies.

In implementations like NBA Top Shots they can also be loot boxes.

Yay.

The thing is though, Stallman argued that it should not be called assault as long as the victim "presented herself to him as entirely willing". As Stallman's only alternative to assault or rape is just "they had sex", I can only conclude Stallman thinks in that hypothetical situation Minsky did nothing wrong.

Do you agree that a 70 year old would have no culpability if they victimize a sex trafficking victim by going to their friend's private island and having sex with some random teenager as long as they don't ask any awkward questions like who this teenager is, is she a vulnerable young person or a victim of trafficking, or even if she is above the age of consent?

To say sorry for causing hurt is to say "Sorry I caused hurt". The I bit is the real apology because it shows you understand you did something wrong, not the other person is wrong for misunderstanding, or being hurt etc.

He is by far the highest profile person on the board, a powerful and privileged position to be. If he wasn't on the board or other formal positions of power than even with his name all over the original documents the FSF would have some distance from him when he continues to mouth off stupid comments. Instead they brought him back and now he's again perceived as leading the organization.

He's been told for decades yet still makes the same screw-ups over and over. If he doesn't want to try to change then that's fine, but then he has to accept that makes him terrible at the job of being a public figurehead for an organization that is growing ever more important now that mass tech consumership is mainstream, and move to a behind the scene's role so someone else who is better at that job can fill that role.

Ok, do you agree with Stallman that if a 70 year old went to Epstein's private island and had sex with one of his underaged sex trafficking victims it's not assault or rape as long as Epstein made her present herself as willing?