where the avionics had been written by an AI ?

Do not worry - DOGE will identify this as inefficiency and stop it. At least in a sane world this is what would happen, however ...

I moved away from CentOS when RedHat played its packaging games. I had installed RedHat for customers, no more - I will push Debian or Linux Mint - both of which are completely free to use and do not require registration.

When going on duty to a sensitive location all personal mobile 'phoned must be left at home in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.” --- switching them off while on duty is not enough.

To make this work the employer must provide locked down 'phones with minimal apps installed; if this means that the security guard cannot chat with his lover on Instagram/whatever then tough shit - they are well paid to protect someone not to chat on social media while on assignment. This might also make the guards more effective as they will not have social media distractions when they are supposed to be keeping an eye out for assassins/whatever.

Of the money raised it goes to two sorts of artistes:
* The composer of the music and the lyricist (ir there are words)
* The performers, ie band/orchestra and singer
Of the money taken from the venue where the music is played, how much goes to the artistes above ?

Not before some of those involved in the bubble have got away with a lot of cash from the naive.

The Index Librorum Prohibitorum was a list of books deemed heretical. The idea was to stop people from reading things that might give people ideas that the Church did not like. Taking down these web sites is much the same thing: stop people getting ideas that those funding Trump do not like.

You forgot the noise of unwrapping sweets from crinkly bits of cellophane.

I get much better results than you. As a substitute university computer science lecturer, I also get much better results from my students than other lecturers. I'll share my secret.

Expect your subordinates to misinterpret you unless you provide enough details to that it's impossible to provide any result except what you were expecting.

I receive exceptionally good results most every time. It takes extra work to get started, but as with anything you get out what you put in.

I wonder why Slashdot isn't publicizing that. She showed up at the airport, followed directions, boarded the plane, and flew... High up in the air. So high they had to use a plane with a pressurized cabin.

The flight was extra impressive because she's a girl. And it's always more impressive so we can say that "to all the little girls of the world, when you grow up, you can accomplish great things and let the world ignore everything else except that you're a girl. So, it's best to only do easy things like flying on a BO rocket rather than studying hard and working hard because the press doesn't reward hard work. They hype that you're impressive for being a girl".

Is it because she straight and white? Would Slashdot publicize her accomplishment if she was a different skin color or maybe a new and unexplainable sexual orientation?

Wait!!!

Great idea for Bezos. Space hookup trips. There are lots of things that are illegal on earth. He can facilitate those things by bringing rich people to space.

I was thinking precisely this.
Rewriting code in a new language might give better static code analysis, but, it doesn't make it safe.
I have a lot of application code I can translate to Rust, but unless I completely rearchitect all of it, it would be terrible Rust code.

I did however just revisit Rust. I wrote a simple CNC milling code generator. I explicitly told it how I want it structured. Copilot handled it nicely. I could maybe see myself vibe coding a useful tool with it. But I HATE abbreviations like pub, fn, and mut. And f64 feels like single letter naming. The language might be structurally elegant, but it's awkward and tacky... Like as if you're hoping to take with "James Robert Paddington II" and the phone gets answer by "Jim Bob Jr." Or "J.R. Jr.. Junior Junior... Get it?".

So Rust is kind of a language Jeff Foxworthy could make a standup routine out of.

Wouldn't China footing the bill for R&D and proving the tech viable potentially be a major benefit to everyone else?

Companies like Huawei can quickly, reliably and affordably deploy renewables across any country who wants to benefit from China's taking the lead. You should see their data center tech. Trade restrictions forced Huawei to innovate amazingly for power and cooling. They're like, if we need 10 Chinese GPUs to math one NVidia GPU, we'll have to invent data center tech to support it. The have end to end tech solutions from diverting divers to solar and battery and waste heat recycling and carbon capture.

The UK could never do this. The british government sabotages every major project as soon as they find how to line their wallets from it.

Do you believe that anyone exists who is a better fit for the job?

They would
1) Need to control inflation so people can shop
2) Cause inflation so mortgages become more affordable over time which results in equity and retirement funds
3) Strengthen investor faith in American credit so investors will continue to buy bonds and feed the economy. This is done by increasing the interest rate.
4) Lower the interest rate to reduce burdens on the people
5) Strengthen the dollar so the US can avoid issuing too many treasury bonds during trade deficits
6) Weaken the dollar so American inflation remains low while exporting exports remain affordable enough to attract customers.
7) Able to work with the major branches of the US government where generally everyone is hostile because he has to screw voters of both parties daily to keep the economy afloat.
8) Able to work with reserve representatives in 200 countries to maintain the balance of the economies. This includes Russia and even Iran.

But, would I be correct that you know someone ... Maybe even yourself who would be a better fit for the job?

I smoke a pack a day. I haven't looked at a cigarette pack in years because the EU passed laws requiring grotesque images to be printed on the packs, but my guess is that there is a warning somewhere on the pack telling me that if I choose to smoke, it will hurt me.

I believe banning Deepseek from the store is contradiction and a violation of my liberties. I don't believe the government has the right to ban me from harming myself in their eyes.

First, I seriously doubt Meike Kamp is informed enough to make decisions on my behalf. I do feel he has the right to attempt to warn me of the dangers as he perceives them. I also believe his job should make him pressure Deepseek to operate using EU laws while operating in the EU.

That said, if I believe the rewards outweigh the risks, then I want the option to use Deepseek.

Also, privacy is long dead. I also distrust the Chinese government less than the Trump or Modi governments. If you ban Chinese apps, you should also ban Americsn apps and operating systems.