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Comment Re:What does skype do that webTRC doesn't? (Score 1) 97

I don't know what software package they use, but there's a good chance that they were talking about the great (and FOSS) nothing-to-install* WebRTC group chat solution from Jitsi:

https://meet.jit.si/

* you'll need to install a browser plugin if you want to share your screen, but that's mainly to allow an out-of-sandbox exemption to the browser.

Comment Re:Why are we letting this continue? (Score 1) 54

Well, how long they stay up depends on the orbit you put them in of course. In a cheap LEO or one that is highly eccentric they won't stay up too long, but at 575 km near circular orbit as with this launch they'll be up there for a while. If you put one in high geostationary orbit it will be stable for probably longer than our civilization.

Comment Re: Will it hold in court (Score 0) 57

Ok, fine. Then here's another example: If you translate Harry Potter into Klingon and try to sell it in your popular sci-fi bookstore you can expect to get a nasty letter from JK's lawyers.

Fair Use has its limits just as Derivative Work does. You can not whole-hog rip off another work's implementation or port code line by line to a new language without permission of the owner.

Comment Re:Hams have always been fighting each other (Score 1) 183

Meh, I taught my self Morse on the edge of that era with the aid of some free DOS-based software from a BBS. It really wasn't much more of an effort than learning to touch type, which I assume most of the people reading this at least have a feel for what it takes to learn that. It took some practice but any schmoe could do it if they put the effort in. If you are someone who learned to type Dvorak your mind could easily handle learning Morse.

The great practical advantage of Morse in my mind is that it will get a message through on a poor signal where voice is impossible, and doesn't require any additional modulation equipment beyond what you have on your shoulders to make it work. So I didn't feel the least bit put out that they removed the Morse test soon after I'd put in the work to learn it. I never really understood what the fuss was about really.

Comment Re:Half a million Model 3 this year (Score 2) 126

> Tesla has not yet reached 5000 model 3s per week. It's a false claim.

um, ...
https://electrek.co/2018/07/01/tesla-model-3-production-rate-5000-units-employees-celebrate/

https://electrek.co/2018/07/01/tesla-model-3-production-milestone-record-total-production-elon-musk/

Wait for the SEC report in a few days to be sure if they have reached this completely arbitrary threshold. And as always, it's as much the rate of chance as the instantaneous absolute value that matters.

Comment Unless they also buy one for every student too. (Score 1) 82

They'd be better off sending him one of these, although I'm not sure why this particular kit costs as much as it does and not $45.

https://www.adafruit.com/produ...

Is the OLPC project still active? Haven't heard anything about them in ages.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

Comment Re:Sick of the alarmism (Score 4, Informative) 343

And NYC's elevation is 10m. So it will take 5000 years or so for it to be inundated.

Yeah, no. For one thing the outcrop of Manhattan Schist in the middle of Central Park is not "NYC", and for another a large part of lower Manhattan*, western Brooklyn, and northern Queens was underwater during Hurricane Sandy which had a surge of about 13 feet (4m). Due to rebound of the continental plate since the last glaciation the city is already sinking at a rate of about 1 foot per century, and most of the gravity driven sewers were built more than 100 or 200 years ago when sea level was lower. Most of the subway entrances are staircases down from street level.

NYC has some serious problems. Maybe not as bad as Miami, but there's more infrastructure to deal with.

Stop spreading lies.

* just maybe the financial district has some huge impact on the national GDP, even if it is shut down for one day?

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