Had I not replied elsewhere, I would have modded you up. NSA getting this tech is NOT about taking our citizen's rights. However, the more that they push to have open access to ENCRYPTED DATA, the more that America will see destruction of our real strength; economic.

Do note that China already said that all businesses must give access to encrypted data. Russia has always insisted on it. And France is saying that they want access to encrypted data (they, like ALL GOVs., access public comm). Shortly, all of the western govs. will be insisting on access to ENCRYPTED data.

Idiots like you are everywhere.
You think that America is the ONLY one that has loads of backdoors? You are a REAL idiot, or work for the Chinese gov.

terrorists? Spies? Foreign gov. interventions? Yes, that is what the NSA and the intel world is concerned with.
Child Molesters? Nope. NSA does not do civilian issues.

However, there are ppl that want to kill the NSA, and turn over this kind of technology to FBI.
THAT IS WHAT YOU SHOULD FEAR. If the FBI, or groups like DEA, WHO HAVE REAL POWER, should get this kind of power, then you should fear.
And what is needed with this, is to not allow congress to ever again remove the oversight, like the GOP did in 2005.

Yes, on lead acid batteries and no doubt on any batteries that do not have safety gear, while in the precense of gas/diesel. BUT, LI-ION battery all by themselves with safety gear? Nope.

Hmmm. I worked on USA PAT act in 2005-6. I was born in 1959, and had neighbors that had numbers tattooed on their arms. I heard stories from 1 family, while the other would never talk about: his eyes just got a dead look on them when I asked.

The fact is, that there is a difference between spying on your own citizens in general, vs. spying on terrorists and traitors. It is a hard fine line to walk.

And who in the west, considers their own citizens to be enemies?

No, the idiots are the ones that do not realize that this has been going on since the 1800s, or that it will stop.
What is needed is not to stop the spying on the digital comm, but to make sure that it is not abused.
The NSA has GENERALLY, not abused things. However, when I worked on the PAT act back in 2005-6, and I saw the CONgress GOP stop the oversight, I KNEW that issues were going to come.
The NSA has NO power. As such, they are not capable of abusing things.
The real problem comes in when I hear fools say that NSA should be killed off, or that govs should not have the right to spy on digital comm. Nothing could be more foolish and is typically spoken by those that do not have a grasp of what is going on.

They are NOT considering it. They are considering putting it on the books. There is a difference there. French gov already spies on everything that they can.

because batteries do not blow up. They can catch fire, but not the same thing. Gas and diesel CAN AND DO blow up like TNT.

They should be investing into the new nuclear reactors, (thorium, etc) along with stationary batteries for large corps and utilities . This is where the west is NOT investing into.

run WHERE? To Russia? Or China? Yeah, no monitoring going on there.

All nation's gov are monitoring the net. So many idiots scream about America, but the fact is, that all of Europe, China, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, India, etc have been caught monitoring data and lines. There are LOADS of enemies out there, and every nation's gov wants to know what is going on.

If these host providers move anywhere on ANY LAND, they will be monitored. The ONLY way to avoid it, is to put your own sat network up there and beam down to others.

F1 ALMOST killed SpaceX. Musk has talked about how SpaceX and Tesla almost died in the same timeframes.

And as I said, what will happen IFF he has a failure AT THIS MOMENT? Look, in a year's time, if he has a major failure, I think that SpaceX will be OK. However, at this moment, if one of the F9's blow, then I think that it could set back their work quite a bit.

I will say that with their design, I do not think that they will lose an F9. They have it loaded with sensors and we have already seen that losing an engine was not a killer. Still, nothing is perfect.

good luck getting FAA to approve that on a continual basis.

is that the same can be said of alcohol. If the students are not able to get drunk or high, they will likely study more and do better.
BUT, the real issue is, can society stop drugs? The answer is no. As such, it is better for all if the drugs are legalized, only allowed to be manufactured locally (with tight regulations), and then sold locally only. By removing the real money from it, it will make students focus on going after their degrees.