https://www.taipeitimes.com/Ne...

They x-ray your phone already. That's far more accurate than having a high school graduate eyeball it's innards.

Could be. Apple lets you turn theirs off. But "commercially available location data" usually refers to cell company tracking data, and you can't turn off your IMEI and still use your phone. Sometimes it refers to Strava runs, and what's the point of posting your run if it's not attached to your username?

If you're going to use a standard cell phone it's going to be tracked by at least one private company. Or maybe a government organization, depending on the country you're in. That's how they work.

Is soldiers having cell phones stupid? Maybe. I wouldn't be surprised if someone has pretty carefully worked out the benefits and risks. I also wouldn't be surprised if someone just assumed it would be fine.

There's no such thing as a US Army smartphone. They use Samsung Galaxies and iPhones. Those have IMEIs, MAC addresses, IMSIs, MSISDNs, Android Identifiers, and Google Advertising IDs, just like any other phone.

Half the posts: AI is dumb, do not want, is anybody actually asking for this?

Other half: Siri is dumb, it's Apple's worst product, it's why I use Android.

They probably were. Every single thing cranks say isn't necessarily wrong, especially with enough retrospective eye squinting. The very best cranks take a grain of truth, inflate it out of proportion and use it to sell you their expensive vitamin C pills and blueberry powder.

how fast does a fire have to be to become an explosion?

Greater than zero, but not by much.

https://knowledge.gexcon.com/d...

Yes. It's not really comparable to high explosive detonations. It's kind of like that data centre that made the news for releasing a Hiroshima of energy every day!!

Trump Loses More Control Over AI Regulation As Illinois Passes Landmark Law

Not really

The headline you disputed is that Trump, the president of the United States, has lost more control over AI regultation. Your evidence was that federal law supercedes the state law the article is talking about. Since the president doesn't make federal law, your objection is irrelevant.

You may wish to refresh your knowledge of what a straw man is, review your own argument, or stop and think for more than thirty nanoseconds before replying.

It is.

https://www.nasa.gov/history/n...

National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958:

DECLARATION OF POLICY AND PURPOSE
Sec. 102. (a) The Congress hereby declares that it is the policy of the United States that activities in space should be devoted to peaceful purposes for the benefit of all mankind.

(c) The aeronautical and space activities of the United States shall be conducted so as to contribute materially to one or more of the following objectives:

(7) Cooperation by the United States with other nations and groups of nations in work done pursuant to this Act and in the peaceful application of the results, thereof; and

Manned spacecraft came from ICBMs, not the other way around. Mercury is properly called Mercury-Redstone after the Redstone ICBM.

It does seem like a contradiction, but Sodium batteries are safer than Lithium.

Neither sodium nor lithium batteries have elemental sodium or lithium in them. The flammable part is the electrolyte, which is usually an organic oil. Lithium batteries today are much safer than they used to be because electrolytes evolved to be less flammable.

One of the reasons sodium batteries are generally less flammable is because they can't discharge as fast. That's not necessarily a good thing.

There's a lot of papers, many which appear here on /., talking up alternative non lithium battery chemistries because "they're cheaper". The assumption often is that lithium is somehow rare.

The thing is that's it's just not lithium cheaply accessible

I'm not quite sure what you're going for here. It sounds like you're the one making the assumption.

The president of the United States does not (at this time) have the authority to pass laws. An actual law in a jurisdiction willing to enforce it does indeed decrease the amount of control exerted by an executive acting on its own, particularly when that executive wants there to be no law.

Unless he invades. And then, well....