That's too bad. It would have been nicer if it were able to turn down the volume on the speakers.

The problem is that the houthis do not stay in military installations separate from the rest of the population. You can't kill lots of houthis at one fell swoop without also killing a lot of non-combatants. To destroy the houthis would require the use of ground troops, which means taking good-guy casualties and risking collateral damage to the civilians among whom the houthis are embedded. The problem is similar to what Israel has faced in Gaza, though easier since the houthis apparently don't have extensive networks of fortified tunnels like Hamas does.

Hmm. So maybe the dark matter is in invisible pdf objects.

It would be a shame for the museum to deal exclusively with the internet. I'd rather see that as a part of a broader museum covering the many areas in which Bell Labs did important work.

I wonder how much would have to be done to make it safe for museum or educational use. Some of the Murray Hill buildings have, or had when I was there, not only natural gas lines but hydrogen lines in the walls. Some labs used very nasty chemicals, such as hydrofluoric acid.

If the problem with the exemption would be that pilots might forget to turn off the deicing system, how hard would it be to add a reminder? Say, every so many minutes a message pops up asking if deicing is still needed? Or How about monitoring the temperature and turning the deicing off and issuing a message if it gets too high? It seems like these would not be difficult.

My understanding is that there is much less technology devoted to controlling the location of aircraft on the ground than there is to controlling where they are in the air. There are no automated warnings when pilots mistakenly enter a runway they shouldn''t be one nor are planes in the process of landing alerted to the presence of aircraft or other obstructions. Monitoring this is all left to the air traffic controllers, who do it manually. It seems likely that this situation could be improved if there were better software systems for monitoring what is happening on the ground.

In any case, I don't see how it broke anything. It wouldn't be hard to clean up.

It might also not be a legal problem if the cameras only operate outside of business hours.

The way the digital ad industry talks, you'd think that advertisers had a god-given right to target people.

I've come up with one scenario where the use of such a camera might not be nefarious. Suppose you run a gym or swimming pool, someplace where there are showers or a locker room used by the public. You feel a need to monitor the area in case of assault (sexual or otherwise) or theft. You place cameras of this type that record to an encrypted drive not accessible from the net. Only a top manager has access. Footage is deleted after, say, a week. Nobody ever looks at it unless there is an allegation of a crime, in which case the police are given access to the footage for the relevant period. Whether this would comply with legislation probably depends on the jurisdiction, but it might be ethical.

This is a good reason not to use a teleprompter. I understand that some people inexperienced at public speaking may need one, as might people not presenting their own material, but someone like de Niro giving his own speech should be able to do just fine without one.

Chaucer postdates the Norman Conquest so the differences between his English and present-day English have nothing to do with the conquest. Homer's Greek is, to begin with, a different dialect from the Attic dialect with which the most familiar Classical Greek materials are written. There were some substantial changes too, but they are not enormous. The Greek of the New Testament is what is known as Koine, a somewhat simplified version of Classical Attic that had become the lingua franca of much of the Eastern Mediterranean. (The language in which Pontius Pilate and Jesus conversed, assuming that was a historical event, was almost certainly Greek, as Jesus (the man) would not likely have spoken Latin, and Pontius Pilate would not have spoken Hebrew or Aramaic but would have known Greek.)

I don't know about sports, but elsewhere important measurements are typically made multiple times by more than one person. Delegating the task to one person, who did it just once as apparently happened here, doesn't seem responsible.

Two things I think are frequently lost in these discussions:

1. When Fauci made his statement about people not needing to wear masks, people tend to forget the context of the situation. At the time, mask manufacturers were caught off-guard and there was a huge run on masks. They were extremely hard to find to buy. Hospitals were running out and having a very hard time procuring the masks that they needed to perform operations. They were actively trying to discourage people from hoarding masks so that medical providers could have "dibs" on acquiring them first.

Once the supply line caught up with demand and they were more easily obtainable, they changed their position—but not because the facts or evidence of their effectiveness changed.

It wasn't just masks to which this flawed logic was applied. When the COVID vaccines first became available, people who were over the age of 65 were given priority on getting them. A bunch of people willfully ignorantly took that to mean that people who were younger just plain didn't benefit from having the vaccine. Nothing could be further from the truth; it benefits them greatly. But with a highly limited supply, we necessarily had to prioritize who got the shots first.

2. When you wear a mask, it isn't particularly effective in protecting you from COVID. Its purpose is to protect everyone else if you have COVID, especially since in the initial stage of infection many people were asymptomatic. As mentioned in comments above, it prevents a 10-foot plume of aerosolized infected saliva from projecting forth from your sneezes, coughs, and even just breathing. The idea is that if everyone is wearing a mask to protect everyone else, then you'll have a much higher level of protection also.

Living in the South of the US, I can't count the number of times I heard chuckleheads explain to me how those masks still let particles through. They couldn't wrap their brains around the point being that those particles for the most part won't be there if everyone is wearing masks. And it's not just COVID that controlled by masks. Did anyone notice that cases of the flu dropped to a fraction of its normal rate of infection where people consistently masked up?

The show was apparently a big disappointment, with fewer viewers than anticipated on the basis of his previous show. But, even if it did well, Apple may be sufficiently interested in sucking up to China that it would be willing to forgo the revenue from the show.