The article wasn't quite clear? Made it sound like it was all, already taken care of... but didn't quite specify when that patch was released?

Did you hold a monocle over your eye while you typed that? And then walk out to lunch with your top hat on?

I could see getting a number of people transported there and living in a small bubble community. Maybe 500 at the most by then.

But something on the scale of thousands and beyond is a distant goal and would almost certainly first require true self sufficiency without supplies from Earth to pull off.

That might be an exaggeration... but seriously. After 15 years of reading amazing stuff on Slashdot, the amount of that stuff that actually becomes something beyond "University discovery" even 5+ years out from the initial story is depressingly tiny.

... and get to be possibly the last generation to be able to own a car with a V8 roar and manual transmission.

By the time my kids get to the point of responsibly buying anything more than a simple commuter car everything will be electric.

Which isnâ(TM)t bad. Just different. But I really enjoy a big combustion engine. Too much Dukes of Hazard as a kid?

After reading this story I realized I had been in my local Sprint shop just 3 days ago and did not see a single poster/mention of this 'special' device. If no one knows about it, how can they be expected to purchase one?

I'm starting to think Putin probably dances to that classic youtube sensation every night before bed. His government spy agencies have manipulated the US population through our permeation with big tech beyond what I would have thought possible a couple of years ago.

Once again the topic of piracy and an article's implied reasoning that each illegal stream took directly away from revenue. It's been discussed for well over a decade now, and I'm still convinced that true fans and people who can pay for some form of entertainment do so, even considering illegal alternatives.

Likewise, those with merely a passing interest in a form of entertainment and only participate in that form of entertainment if they can do so free, would not pay ever, even if there were no other way to participate. They would just go without because they don't care enough.

Digital piracy is not a 1 to 1 loss. Not even close.

As I've got older my lust for head to head competition in video games - and effort to become competitive - has diminished greatly.

I'm finding I enjoy single player games more now that have some real depth to yhier story or solid strategy. Witcher 3 and Stellaris are recent gems. Fallout 4 was fun exploration even if story was weak.

Not quite as drastic as it sounds. In 2010 or so Xerox bought a service company called ACS in a multi billion dollar deal. Trying to stay in competition with with Dell and HP as they bought up big service companies. Turned out to not be as profitable as they hoped among other problems.

The "split" or spin off company is nothing more than the old ACS being made it's own company again, with a name change. Very little of it ever had anything to do with the Xerox printer portion of the company.

The biggest problem with not raising the minimum wage, imo, is that if it's low enough that a full time employee on minimum wage qualifies for state assistance then the reality is that the tax payers are footing part of the paycheck for the company involved.

To few comprehend the enormous amount of corporate welfare going on as tax payers fund the lives of minimum wage workers, while the corporation reaps the profit.

The minimum wage should always be set high enough that someone working full time earning it would not qualify for government assistance.

That's like someone having terminal cancer and just taking pain killers to 'fix' it. You have the fix the root of the problem, if you really want things to be fixed. That means halting global warming. And that means drastic action to limit Carbon and Methane emissions by humanity's machines and realistically a healthy dose of atmosphere engineering at this point to pull those molecules out of the air.

While the space would be amazing for backups, if a single head can only write to the media within similar speed ranges of modern tape drives then this tech would be severely limited in actual day to day use in a data center. Large, static data. Which don't get me wrong there is plenty of need for backups for - but it couldn't replace your entire data center's backup strategy with a few drives. At least not without very high write speeds.

"We need to ensure the Internet is not used as a dark place for bad people to hide their criminal activities from the law"

vs.

  "We need to ensure the Internet is not used as a dark place for government organizations to abuse and violate citizens privacy by those who are above the law"

For men shall be... Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.