You do realize there is a lot more exposure to electromagnetic radiation at 40,000 feet then there is at 1000 feet, yeah?

And you know that we've observed solar bursts causing bit-flips in RAM and SSD? Like, a lot?

So a solar flare causing additional EM and ionizing radiation, and increased exposure to it due to higher altitude might increase the probability of getting a few bit-flips in the systems, yeah?

No, they don't know for sure. But they have operational records that show higher exposure does cause these issues from time to time, and they correlate a higher blast of radiation at the time of the failure.

Producting plutonium isn't as much of a concerns as what particular isotope of plutonium they produce.

Produce Plutonium 240 or 241? No problem, 241 contaminates weapons because it spontaneously fissions and will cause a weapon with more than a single-digit percent of 241 to "fissile" and just make a localized mess.

Produce Plutonium 239 and no other Pu isotope? Weapons proliferation concerns, won't ever get built in the US.

For what it's worth, all commercial power reactors produce plutonium as part of their operation. That plutonium continues to capture neutrons the longer it's in the reactor and turns from what you want for weapons into something you really do not. The longer it's in there, the less suitable it is for weapons.

And there is no known way to perform isotope separation on Plutonium. Whatever you get, you get. And if the non-239 percentage is too high, you have just made more mixed-oxide reactor fuel.

Perhaps the board thinks the linear cable assets are worth more than the valuation that Paramount Skydance have given it, and the Netflix deal was accepted because they think they can get more for it as a separate entity?

Also busses, tractors and combines and all sorts of farm equipment, everything that could be looted from businesses and homes was looted. Hundreds of thousands of children were kidnapped.

ruzzia is a scourge, always was always will be, unfit to exist on this planet.

Every time I say it here, I am moded down as a troll, doesn't change the reality.

Worked for NASA... *yawn*. Holds 140 patents... yeah, so what?

But this dude also invented the Super Soaker - now THAT's legit guy cred!

So, buy the DVD.

With Netflix, I'm afraid we'll have to pause the movie to put the kids to bed. Then come back and discover that Netflix has dropped it from their catalog.

As far as I can tell, the Netflix business plan has been about erasing the archives so people will have to watch their new stuff. And if you aren't fast, even their new stuff becomes archival. Then, "Poof!"

Pssst! Hey kid. Wanna buy some vacuum tubes?

That seems like a ludicrously specious argument. Bash is pretty much always available on any of these platforms - and exactly how "up-to-date" would it need to be to run a script?

Besides, you know what's not available on pretty much any brand new system? Homebrew.

Your conditions warrant medical (mental health) treatment and education. Which should be aimed at enabling you to handle the university, employment and the world with the tools that enable you to deal with life. From that point on, a university should treat you as any other student. You either can or can not handle the work given you. Either with the abilities you were born with or those tools our health care system should provide you with.

It is unreaonable for every institution to have to maintain (at their expense) duplicated programs to handle every case that comes along. Where I went to public school, the district had excellent, off campus programs for special needs students. Where they could concentrate the care resources to efficiently handle cases. Instead of expecting the general school faculty to dedicate any extra time to handle them. With the hit or miss skill set that would result. The problem with this approach is that parents of little Beavis would be appaled by the neighbors noticing him loading onto the short bus every morning. Other school districts, unable to deal with this parental pressure just mainstreamed everyone. To the disadvantage of those in need of special help.

Why?

Odds are that, if I'm building a flat pack on my system, I've built the application from source. So the dependency issue doesn't exist. Because they were checked by the build scripts (in any competent source distribution I've ever seen). Or the binary was downloaded through a package manager which also handles dependencies.

For some small s/w house or within a company for enterprise apps, maybe. But there are already tools for this.

It made me think of an old Monty Python skit - although I mis-remembered the "sensible" party, originally thinking they'd called it "serious".

Many businesses have a check endorsement printer that also reads the MICR code and performs an electronic transfer on the spot. I can't even get home and log on to my bank account before the withdrawl is made.

Bookkeeping?

I mean, both Mac App Store packages and Flatpaks are already self-contained... so there's no dependency management you have to think about with those "apps". And WSL already supports numerous Linux distros, each of which already has its own package manager (e.g. dnf, apt).

If I'd known ahead of time that it was gonna take me so long to find my checkbook, I might've done that! But I do that for bills - most of them are electronic transfers, but for a couple the bank actually mails a check. It's certainly easier.

As I said, ruzzia is a scourge https://slashdot.org/comments.... unfit to exist on this planet. It akways was a scourge, always will be. Same with islam, by the way, muslim brotherhood is coming for all of us, not just ruzzian zombies