What feature would necessitate the owner giving them their driving licence details? All I needed for mine was an email address and the car's VIN.

Oh I didn't say it wasn't really, really bad, just that the main concern with Kessler Syndrome is that it is extremely difficult to clean up.

A lot of her climate action is based around justice. The big emitters are causing huge problems for people in the developing world. The yearly CO2 output of the EU or US is bigger than the total all-time emissions of many African nations, for example.

So naturally, other justice issues like genocide are of interest to her. There is also the fact that Israel is stealing Palestinian oil.

I'm okay with it being buried deep in the settings. It needs to be harder than just a checkbox, because bitter experience has shown that otherwise people just don't install updates. Then they get hacked and become part of a botnet that attacks you.

I can live with an extremely mild annoyance if it means a huge reduction in exploits of people's browsers.

No, the CCP's goal was to leapfrog everyone else. Instead of developing combustion engine tech and hybrids in an attempt to catch up, they went all-in on batteries and EVs. It paid off, they are now years ahead and sustaining that lead.

How is competing hard not operating in good faith? Did the US not bail out its own auto industry multiple times, and subsidize the transition to EVs? Wasn't Tesla part of a government investment scheme?

We should thank China for doing that which we apparently couldn't, but which the world needs. They advanced battery tech rapidly and accelerated the transition away from fossil fuels.

Human beings are fallible, they make mistakes. Designing a system that relies on people not making mistakes is a terrible idea, and doomed to failure.

This seems completely reasonable. 5 seconds to 100 kph is still pretty rapid, but limits the damage that can be done by the classic "carpet stuck on the accelerator" or "pushed the wrong pedal" mistakes. The act of disabling that limit presents an opportunity to display reminders to check the carpet, and for the driver to make sure they are ready for it. 99.9999% of the time it has no baring on the drive, there is no need to disable it.

I do dislike some of the safety features, like the automatic speed limit detection stuff that never works right, but this one seems completely fine and sensible.

And a few years behind Huawei. It will be the same as it was with 4G and 5G. Huawei first to market, each generation the lead extends, and later Western companies come along with their knock-offs and rely on national security concerns to get into the market.

Germans will have to wait for 6G, or maybe Nokia can do a deal to rebadge Huawei gear, stick their own OS on it or something.

It's not just the mass to LEO, it's the size of the payload it can carry. New Glenn has a larger diameter payload bay.

There will be iPhone sockets on AliExpress, hand made, for 10 bucks, within a week.

Better to buy those, because more of the money goes to the person who actually made the sock.

It's probably due to many people not being sure how to pronounce Kuiper.

They are low enough that even if they did cause major pollution, it should mostly clear itself inside a decade.

The bigger worry is pollution. Burning up so many satellites in the upper atmosphere is something that hasn't been studied enough, but the work that has been done suggests that it's bad for greenhouse effect and for general air quality.

If Pictionary doesn't call back to Tim Follin's soundtrack for the 1990 NES game, then it's Pictionary in name only.

The rush is that burning it is buggering up the planet. If the US refuses, it becomes a security issue and we be dealt with appropriately.

I thought I wouldn't use the pen, that it would not recognise my handwriting. It actually works really well. It's a decent way to enter and edit text.