I value them but I also value human expertise also. You don't seem to. Voyagers have been on borrowed time for a long time. They will likely fail in the near future anyway, although I suspect funding cuts will end the mission in the next year before the hardware does completely fail.

The science they've accomplished is awesome, no doubt about it, and it's amazing they're still getting readings that are expanding our understanding of the universe. Obviously the crew will do their best to keep voyagers going as as long as possible, as they have done before, and did during the crisis caused by human error. Absolutely no criticism here. They are geniuses that you and I simply aren't. I say keep em funded as long as possible.

This has been a trite phrase uttered by republicans for decades to excuse the fact that they don't believe in democracy at all and that voting is a privilege reserved only for them, as the god-appointed ruling class. The phrase is meaningless in every way and designed to shut down discussion and debate. They often utter it when they are rationalizing the rollout of an unpopular policy such as restricting voting rights, or when rolling back supreme court rulings from the past.

I can see evidence that the founding fathers feared democracy and as such designed a system that would mitigate popular voting somewhat (electoral college for one). But to say "we're not a democracy" is ignorant and malicious on their part.

They're talking about LineageOS. Think Graphene but it doesn't just run on Google hardware. Over a hundred devices and they just added mainline kernel and qemu support so it potentially runs on thousands of devices.

Sadly with less hardening. I wish Lineage would take some Graphene patches. The crazy thing is Lineage descended from Cyanogenmod which had many of these patches!

Logging in on the web to my bank requires generating a security code using the app.

What laptop is this that won't allow enabling USB boot? I want to know so I can avoid buying it or recommending it to others.

There's one if you consider all the variants of Windows 11 to be one OS, which they kind of are. But there's at least the IOT version, the home version, the pro version, the enterprise version. Then there is are the ARM variants as well.

The Trump Department of Justice is looking for men of his caliber and outstanding integrity. Remember children, no one except Trump and his cronies are above the law.

AIs are getting a lot better. The current generation of "AI" support I get on the phone or an online chat can barely make sense of my question, usually responds with "can you word that in a different way to help me understand". I'm already happy if they understand the phrase "I would like to talk to a person" and put me through to one, and that's a pretty low bar. But the latest AI support systems that are beginning to be rolled out are surprisingly helpful.

The newer ones promise something new: they can act as 1st and 2nd line of support at the same time, solving more complex issues without having to kick it up the support chain. That's probably why SalesForce claim such a large reduction in ticket resolution time. And offering a similar service with human support staff would probably be way too expensive.

China has always used its resources to further its own power and influence in the world. While the trade war is a big part of this, it's more that Trump has played right into their hands and accelerated what they already were doing.

10-15 years ago there was such a split for web engineering. They wanted to make everything on the web look like an app, and a lot of backend guys hate anything looking like UI, so lets have an amicable divorce and do everything through these god awful endpoints, so the backend folks don't have to touch UI and the frontend folks can think they're "more real" engineers by making stuff that looks like it's a black box app vs enjoying the natural versatility and iterability of the old web.

I'm sure I'll never get hired for it, but good ol PHP (hell for most things I skip the MySQL; poor mans no-SQL w/ JSON files on the file system works and scales well for so many things)... vanilla Javascript can even be beautifully declerative when you want it to, with string templates building up whatever new DOM you didn't get from the server. I have these sites that last for decades, and when it comes time to add something, they're easy to figure out and adapt and there's no library hell (browsers have gotten so GOOD yet still so backwards compatibile over the years)

So I look for like minded souls using terms like "buildless" and "evergreen". But it's like an underground movement...

No. I assume nothing. I'm telling you that the bill doesn't purport to solve the problem you're accusing it of not solving.

Here's your firearm analogy: The state requires gun locks to reduce the risk of unintentional discharges-- particularly in the hands of children. That doesn't prevent the firearm from being stolen and used in a crime, but it's not supposed it. It's to REDUCE THE LIKELIHOOD that a kid will harm himself.

But the OP says the 32GB was "Not used. Not allocated. Leaked." It's a little hard to parse, but if true, then maybe the actual effect is truly negligible.

Seriously? Of all the mistakes NASA has made over the years this most certainly is not one worthy of anyone's scorn. The same genius probably assisted in working magic to restore contact. Sorry but I have nothing but admiration for everyone involved and sorry that these budget cuts likely spell the end of a very over-achieving mission that was planned to last a few years.

+1 informative. If slashdot could pin comments the parent post should be pinned at the top.

Just to be clear this was in the works during the Biden administration. It was as questionable then as it is now.