From the article.

SO only direct connect has been proven.

Remote access has only been shown by similar systems.

Call me when you can actually show a remote exploit through the dongle.

The second you disable another drone in flight you become liable for any damage it does coming down. If someone gets injured or something gets damaged the owner of the attack drone in on the hook. It could also be considered destruction of private property if what the drone was doing was legal.

The only thing I added to the conversation was "winding through mountains" which also adds to the cost of rail transport. Since the subject of the discussion is the cost of rail transport I do no see that as changing the goal posts. You are the one that can not seem to handle additional information. What supported facts have you brought to the discussion? As far as I can see, none.

You can call me a liar all you want. It does not detract from the fact that I have independent information that supports my position while you have opinions based on living next to a rail line. Would living next to CERN make one be qualified to make unsupported claims about particle physics. Even your one claim about not clearing snow is proven to be false. The rest of your claims being "no it isn't".

Again, you have no references to back up your uninformed opinions while I have cited several articles that support mine. How do you dismiss the article about how running CP rail in unseasonably low temperatures costing an extra $61 million? Until you can cite something to support your claims I will not be responding.

Wow, you can't even follow a conversation. The first mention of summer was by you.

How about this?

Those conditions are a normal winter in Alaska. Rail in winter is expensive.

You have no selection bias because you have shown nothing to back up you opinions. Show something that supports your opinion and I may believe you.

Wow what a ad hominem attack. Your facts are so weak that you stoop to attacking me callimg me a liar an psychopath.

Then what are these? Take a look at this video. Not an avalanche in sight.

Because it is not billionaires tat are talking about it. It is the Chinese government.

Because it is easier to show problems in worst case conditions that in conditions that are closer to viable. You still haven't proven anything I have said is a lie. Other than a picture of a snow plow you have shown no references.

Sorry but living next to a rail track and listening to the occasional train does not make you a train and shipping expert. Without references all you are saying is opinion.

Sure a government can fix the price of gold without going to the gold standard but the government can not go to the gold standard without fixing the price of gold. See the difference?

Read the wikipedia article on Bretton Wood. It tells you many reasons why the US abandoned it. The main reason is that the gold standard does not allow for flexibility to deal with economic change.

In 1934 the Gold Reserve Act changed the value of gold from $20.67 per troy ounce to $35. That is government price fixing.

Based on what? Every time it snows the tracks would need to be cleared and that is not a negligible cost.

I never said that summer traffic was cheap either; you did.

Care to show me your data on that?

The point I was trying to make was that Branson has been out of the positive news for a bit and the possibility of the project happening has less importance than Branson's need to be in the news.

Take a look at the Alaska Railway routes Notice that they mention slow speeds due to having to wind through mountains. I didn't say it would be impossible to keep the lines open. I said it would be very expensive compared to a ship in open sea.

Proof of concept is market speak for publicity stunt.

From the article;

Sending 1,747 containers in 11 months is very low capacity. Many large container ships can carry over 7,000 40ft containers, that means that one ship could carry 4 times as much as was transported in 11 months.

Not true. According to this ships beat trains. When comparing of CO2 (in grams) emitted per metric ton of freight and per km of transportation the numbers are modern train 30 to 100 g and modern ship (sea freight) 10 to 40 g . The electric trains may not be much of an advantage if the electricity is produced by burning fossil fuels.

How is that different than fixing the price of gold? To me outlawing private ownership and trading are methods to fix the price of gold. All I have been saying is that a gold standard will not work if gold can be bought and sold on an open market. We seem to agree on that. You just use different terminology.

Notice that the pump you reference has a 2.5 CFM air capacity. The tube will have leaks and the pumps will have to be powerful enough to move enough air.

Is Richard Branson trying to compete with Elon Musk for media exposure? They both seem to be making dubious statements that seem to be designed to garner coverage.

I just thought of another reason. Maybe since the original post had lass than 70 comments they may have thought adding the term 'Rogue WiFi' might garner more attention. If it doesn't get enough traffic then sensationalize it.

Maybe the editors are getting Alzheimer's. Twelve hours is a pretty short time for a dupe though.