There are no realistic alternatives. Opportunistic IPSEC never got started, and I am not aware of any other attempts which might actually work. You can replace the CA system with DNSSEC, but that does not solve the entire problem.
As a logical positivist, I'm ready to reject all questions about consciousness, including claims that humans do or don't have it.
Are you ready to reject claims that you have consciousness?
They cheated. They did nothing of the sort, unfortunately.
Individual neurons can make quite complex calculations. Their I/O just sucks.
I am not so sure. Sometimes I even get lens-flare!
You can trivially make large events depend on nuclear decay, thereby breaking macro world determinism.
If you follow 1-3) with US police, they will use the Reid Technique to abuse your compliance and extract a false statement. Then you better have the resources of a (no-longer) well-off family and the help of the foreign office of a small nation in order to eventually get freed, like Malthe Thomsen. (I hate linking to the Daily Mail, but the case has not been well-covered internationally.)
The newspaper Politiken has in-depth coverage of the case in Danish.
Yes, it is really strange that they do not do that. You have to wonder why they did not just do that with the Shuttle, just a parachute instead of those ceramic tiles. What could possibly be the problem with a parachute going MACH 20? Or more likely MACH 100+, in the case of an incoming asteroid?
Power supplies are inefficient at low load. If you care about them kicking out heat, you should buy them as small as you can get away with.
Rosetta/Philae returned to Earth three times for gravity boosts. Each time it was going at speeds which would guarantee its destruction if it hit the deeper parts of the atmosphere. Had this happened and Philae had carried an RTG, it would have been the end of ESA due to the public outcry, and NASA would likely be in public relations trouble too.
There are places for RTGs, but Rosetta was not it. Philae may have died prematurely, but ESA is alive to try again.
Fuel cell basically is a sponge of certain minerals which chemically absorbs hydrogen so that it is not that volatile.
No. A fuel cell is a device which turns chemical energy into electrical energy without having to turn it into heat first.
Still, when the NSA wanted access to Google's information, they went for tapping fiber optic cables instead of hitting them with National Security Letters.
The solution is encryption of course, but IPSEC is a royal pain and MACSEC is too limited.
Line of sight. Sorry, it's a pet peeve.
Fiber optic is trivial to tap. Almost as easy as analog phone lines.
Zimbabwes loans are primarily in foreign currencies. Never do that.
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
