MI5's reason appears to have been to help stifle an investigation into police corruption, which could have looked bad for some important people.

Unfortunately they are known to have done this kind of work in other cases too. They aren't particularly good at it either.

Sounds like it's more likely an issue with the engines. Engine oil is getting into the cabin air, which is outside air that comes into the engine, gets heated, and a small amount of siphoned off to the cabin. The leak is in the engine somewhere.

There will be filters for that air, and it sounds like airlines have been pressuring Airbus to reduce the maintenance on them, which now and then means they fail to stop the vaporized oil getting through.

Simply increasing the maintenance should be enough to resolve the issue.

It'd probably illegal in the UK. That kind of constant monitoring would need a very strong justification.

Who has been arrested in the UK over saying there are only two sexes?

Linehan was arrested for a sustained campaign of harassment and doxing against a child.

Are you talking about the actions taken against people not showing sufficient sorrow for the death of Charlie Kirk? Very North Korean, if you ask me.

Libraries have quite good protections in some parts of Europe.

It legitimizes seizing foreign owned businesses, the very thing that Americans keep accusing China of doing.

As usual, Trump has been played like a cheap fiddle.

IA is in a bad place right now. Not enough staff, ancient and brittle code base that frequently breaks, very poor connectivity outside parts of the US, and of course huge legal problems due to a combination of bad decisions and apparently ignoring legal advice (if they ever took it).

It's unfortunately very difficult to build an archive like that, but it should be a priority. Located in Europe somewhere.

The school administrators, unlike the people who actually make the schools work, such as it is, tend to be paid pretty well.

I get so tired of hearing the school systems stress technology so much, because they are inevitably 20-30 years behind in their understanding of how to best utilize it, leave alone secure their systems. I always fantasized about teaching a computer class that didn't even touch a keyboard for the first half year...

I recall Windows 3.51 was quite secure for the time. But once they merged the DOS branch of the OS with the NT branch, things got a lot worse for several years.

It's good to hear AWS has never been hacked because just about every other company with data has been. A lot of people rely on AWS, and what you are saying is accurate and if they are running their systems correctly, there can be a reasonable expectation that they will be secure. That's nice to know.

> What I learned is that teachers have literally no time for anything.

The school system in the U.S. is notorious for this. Teachers get so much stuff dumped on them, much of which has little to do with actual teaching. It's a truly thankless job that cannot be fixed by dumping more money into the system. It's fundamentally broken. There are plenty of good teachers, but their effectiveness becomes more and more fettered every year.

Source: father of 4, and husband to a school teacher

In my experience the two worst things to combine are "education system" and "technology".

If the script kiddies are hacking your system, you've got bigger problems.

Is "script kiddies" still a thing?

I'm so old.

US wind tech is quite primitive anyway. Chinese companies are already deploying blades twice this long. When you see photos of them at the factory they look photoshopped because the scale is hard to wrap your head around.

Airships and windy areas don't mix well.

Chinese companies solved this by being able to build factories really fast, close to where the blades are being used. They are great for large projects where a factory can produce about 1000 blades/year, enough for ~333 turbines. They are much bigger blades too, over 130m each, nearly double what these guys are hoping to move.

They will need to scale up though. SANY has been installing 131m blades for over a year now, and the next generation will be even bigger.

SANY has also developed a system for setting up a new blade factory very quickly and reliably, so they can simply build one near to where the blades are needed.

It demonstrates the issue though. You have to get the reactor up into orbit, and make sure that if and when it comes down it doesn't pollute. There isn't enough research on non-nuclear satellites re-entering the Earth's atmosphere and burning up to really be sure what the environmental impact of that is, especially with the new mega constellations.

It's probably doable, but

1) The cost will be high.
2) The tech will take time to develop and prove safe.
3) Maybe your country can do it safely, but do you trust every country with a glorified ballistic missile to do it safely too?