Because this is now you get Space Termites!!

The entire reason a "Business" needs to be defined as such is because the government requires it to be so, for whatever reasons it deems fit.

The government issues you a business license and taxes you. As it is the license granting entity, it can legally force a business to close (at least in its eyes), in every jurisdiction that a "Business" needs to be defined by the government.

Whether you agree that a government should be in the "business" of regulating what you do to make money is a different question. The answer may well be "no" but then the question becomes "Should the government regulate money-making activities?"

The answer to the original question is "yes" in every jurisdiction that forces a business to be registered by the government.

One obvious advantage of this system is the âoewaste coldâ that will be generated when the air is expanded and absorbs heat from the environment.

If designed intelligently, this can be used to freeze things, air condition nearby buildings (perhaps via a cold water circulation system), or keep a data center VERY cold for free.

This may not be a huge need for the UK, but may prove very useful in places like Texas or the Middle East where cooling is a major energy expenditure.

In the Post Truth world, it's inevitable that a car company will shamelessly claim something like "we never told you it had a motor or steering capability."

Next: McDonalds releases burgers for everyone. (The cows were vegetarian ...)

Because this is how we get Snow Crash!!!

I work remotely and manage remote teams a LOT. My situation is that often Iâ(TM)m remote and the entire team is in one place, working on something physical.

I generally use a combination of TeamViewer for screen sharing/control and a FaceTime session on a cell phone where I can see the team.

There are two major setbacks which slow me down: the ability to control my own viewpoint (someone is always off-screen, I have to have then point the camera at a physical device, etc.) and the ability to physically point at things.

I have prototyped many rotating phone docks with attached laser pointers but nothing is quite ready for prime time yet.

A somewhat acceptable solution is to have several video sessions going at once along with TeamViewer.

What he really wants is an accountability system for thoughtcrime. In todayâ(TM)s toxic environment where having had the _wrong_ opinion at any point in your life is grounds for dismissal or worse, I would like a shred of anonymity to exist.

In an ironic twist, Slashdot itself has turned off posting without logging in ...

No one in the USA answers calls from unknown numbers anymore. When I exchange phone numbers, I make sure the person calls me so I can record his/her number.

This is unfortunate, because there are a lot of legitimate cases where you want to be able to call someone from a phone thatâ(TM)s not your own, or receive a call from an unknown number (youâ(TM)re someoneâ(TM)s emergency contact, you lose your phone, etc.) â" so the smug âoeI already whitelist every numberâ approach is counterproductive.

I hope they can fix this and the culture can change back to where calls are useful again. Not hopeful.

So .. Facebook actually created and deployed a tool, which deployed people to a location 3500 times. The journalist who wrote this article is questioning its usefulness, but you would think there would be some way to reach people whose suicides were prevented by these deployments -- or some way to reach the responders whose time was wasted by them.

It appears that the article hasn't even bothered to gather anecdotal evidence on the topic ...

So ... you don't see anything changing

Boeing is a giant machine where airplane parts are flown in and planes fly out. Everyone seems to know their job very well but all the interconnections seem to be managed by âoeprocessâ. The process itself is managed by other processes, including a âoeProcess Improvement Processâ.

Itâ(TM)s not at all surprising that the CEO would say âoebut we followed process!!â The process (or collections of processes) is the emergent intelligence of a company like Boeing. And, to its credit, most of the airplanes produced are safe most of the time. (I donâ(TM)t necessarily know how to do it better â" the operation is mind-bogglingly huge).

I was kind of hoping that at the top, someone sees all the interconnections and manages them. If such people exist, they were apparently no the people answering the questions ...

And the switch should be in a transparent enclosure so that we causally _see_ the electrical contact being broken

NASA is part of the executive branch. Theoretically, they've been planning to put a man on Mars by 2020 in the 1990s. There is no shortage of mission plans, both grandiose and mundane.

He should have said yes. Gotten the funding -- bipartisan congressional support might have existed to do something other than appease the illiterate racists masses. And maybe in a decade this would have happened. Otherwise NASA is going to keep reorganizing various projects into each other and buying staplers until the public gets tired of funding it.

For the record: I do not for a second believe that he understood the complexities. But what NASA needs more than an increase in funding is direction and for the direction not to change drastically every 2-4 years. We could have had multiple cities on various heavenly bodies by now if it wasn't for politicians fear or ACTUALLY telling NASA to go to space.

Some day, analog long range multicast technology will allow live video to be broadcast to an _unlimited_ number of devices without any additional load on the server.

This may even happen wirelessly.

Will we see the day? Who knows ...

Here's the patent by Philo T. Farnsworth:

https://patentimages.storage.g...

Windows is installing update 17/67. Please do not reboot your pacemaker or die during this process ...