Comment Re:Panic! Run around with head on fire! B'GAWK! (Score 1) 15
Foxoids just cherry-pick the few wrongbies from the past, and statistical flunkies like YOU fall for it. Grow a brain!
Foxoids just cherry-pick the few wrongbies from the past, and statistical flunkies like YOU fall for it. Grow a brain!
...so what if the humans die, they just screw things up. Good riddance!
-Robert Plant
Mars? It's a great dream, but even in the most optimistic scenarios it will never be profitable.
Collecting contributions to send the most annoying politicians and celebrities there on a one way trip would be very profitable.
...if you just use AI."
...Elon's odd & moody behavior of late is possibly due to more than just ketamine.
Windows is a pile of shit, but it's the devil we know, to be honest. I've learned hundreds of Windows work-around the long hard way over the years. Linux might be a cleaner OS, but still has a learning curve for certain "edge case" things.
Call me lazy, but I'm a creature of familiarity and habit these days. Go ahead and take away my Slashdot Card, but Satya can stay on my lawn for now.
> won't create a nuclear winter
I already corrected that in a followup.
> It also won't irradiate us all.
If roughly 50 or more are hit, yes it will.
If they accidentally forget to put a tower in, they're gimping themselves
Who is "they"? The vendor would set up phones initially and test them. If by chance the phone can't find ANY usable towers, the phone can prompt the user for the option of having their phone ignore the registry (along with a stern warning).
Not a show-stopper, just need a decent Plan B.
not to mention some companies do cross-sharing agreements which would need to sync.
I don't see why that's a problem. Vendors can include all registered towers even if a user's plan won't permit usage of some. The authorization for such towers would simply fail and the phone would try the next one. (A priority ranking for towers can be included, and be based on the user's provider plan so it can make smarter guesses.)
It's a reasonable idea on paper, but cellular networks weren't built with centralized tower authentication in mind -- especially not legacy protocols like 2G and 3G
Okay, but they should require it for new or overhauled towers to start heading in that direction. Maybe give the industry a window of 5 to 10 years to add it.
WW1 and WW2 were not fiction.
Correction, bombing fission plants won't trigger nuclear winter by itself, just irradiate us all.
Fission on a large scale is too risky. During a big war many of those nuke plants will get either bombed into radioactive dust/rivers or neglected, triggering a nuclear winter, killing off 95% of humanity.
It's not the full solution. I hope fusion pan's out. Stellerators have Yuuuuge potential on paper. (I expect computing power will eventually make Tokomaks obsolete compared to stellerators.)
Such actions are not mutually exclusive.
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