Never heard of this distro either.

I just looked it up on distrowatch.

It's ranked around 20, depending if you check within the last week, last 6 months or last 12 months. Wonder which is the top distro used by 1P's userbase as well the number 3.

And the % for the top 3, to get an idea of whats the difference like. And does 1P sponsor the top distro which uses their software?

China is probably very happy with this development.

Good way to kneecap all your industries in one go. Pretty much every new modern microwave to your TV to your automobile have at least 1 or more chips in them.

Only things which may not have a chip are things which dont use power. Maybe your bed (assuming not one of the "smart beds"), chair, baseball bat, etc.

I got a bunch of Hikvision cameras with SD cards connected to the net to enable remote access and have stored videos for a couple of days if I need to download something. This is for some cameras facing public places.

And if you dont trust hikvision, you can always firewall it so that it can only do limited things on the internet.

Or restrict whatever(hikvision or otherwise) cameras you get to record to a local NAS without internet access. Thats what I do for cameras in more sensitive locations.

So all those paying large sums of money to preserve their heads or bodies in the hope of reviving in the future, maybe this can be a cheaper way to do it?

Especially if it can work throughout the body and not just the brain. Assume there will be some work done to see if its possible for the whole body.

Let me rephrase that.

There are many of us who know better and will take appropriate actions. Those who should know better but decide to ignore it, hey, thats not my problem.

That can just be Darwin in action.

50 million deaths when people were less prepared or know what to do.

We know better now. Stay hydrated, seek shelter when needed.

And many people have access to aircon/fans/showers, either at home, at work, at shopping malls, etc.

Summary says
"capable of hosting hundreds of researchers and facilitating international conferences and workshops" and I thought alot of international conferences, etc is moving out of the US cos of the problems of visiting US.

https://www.scidev.net/global/...

So, good luck with getting international events held within the US.

It could be the cost of the various CPUs, DSPs etc (basically anything made from a chip fab) is going up as well, and not just ram.

But then again, I understand most chips in cars tend to use older nodes, so maybe they are not affected too much. Unless it's packaging related.

Am not in the car industry, so am just speculating.

Your car has a top speed of 180km/h but you usually travel at 120 km/h, so you dont really notice the top speed.

But on the rare occasions when you need to travel faster (and the law allows), it's always good to have the extra speed.

Same for me, I got 1gbps up/down, most of the time my household is barely using 100mbps. But on occasions I want to download something large / do a bunch of data transfer, the 1gbps is always nice to have.

Other social media companies may want to limit the addictive functionalities (like the "infinite scroll") if they see Meta get hit very hard.

Maybe even hard enough to bankrupt it.

First one to get there and setup a settlement can take the best spot.

Best resources? Best location for power generation? Best place to communicate with earth easily? Best something else?

Thats assuming anyone knows what is the absolute best spot by the time the settlement is made.

Not so much "sentient" but a form of malware / system which decides humans are not needed to carry out instructions given by whoever / whatever. And if humans are seen as a hindrance to carry out the instructions .......

Will it be fine if Paramount churns out a bunch of cheap films with no name actors / director etc?

Not saying those films can't do well (some indie films have done well), but is that sufficient to meet the 30 films a year commitment? Or does the commitment contains a minimum budget for each of the 30 films (not to mention hollywood accounting tricks to make the budget of a film basically any number you want it to be).

Problem with deterrence through the US alliance is, you never know what Trump thinks of the Islamic Republic of Japan when Japan really needs the help.

As someone currently in South East Asia, and having visited S Korea, Japan, etc before, I have no issues with Japan, N Korea and Taiwan getting nukes.

We know what happens if you have no nukes and a larger country wants what you have (Ukraine and Russia). And we know the UN is toothless when a belligerent nation is a perm member of the UN Sec Council (or a close friend of a perm member).

I can even understand Iran wanting a nuke now after the attack by US and Israel. Prior to this attack, I was leaning towards Iran not having a nuke. Now I can understand Iran wanting it at the least to make a belligerent nation think twice in the future. Did you know that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of Iran (the guy who got killed by the US) declared the production and use of nuclear weapons haram (forbidden). The new guy (who happens to be the son) is probably wanting nukes cos of what happened to his dad.

In conclusion, I can understand many more nations wanting nukes cos of the state of the current world. Sort of Atomics owned by the Great Houses in Dune. Deterrence against the others.

It's supposed to leave the solar system.

And hopefully get to another star or something in the far future.

Thats why there is the disc with the details about us in them.

Bringing them back, regardless we can technically do it (sending a ship, match their speed, drop to zero speed, reverse, etc will probably be very difficult with current tech, even if it's feasible) or not is not what they are designed for.