Clouds will depend on the frequency.
X-Ray lasers are extremely difficult but they exist. Stepping down from extremely difficult to merely difficult may have some merit.
Whether it's worth the cost will be interesting. Microsats is curious - geostationary would be an easier place to start without the steering complexity.
An interesting project for sure.
Remember when they ported VAX/VMS to PC architecture and put a Windows 3 GUI on top?
That evolved.
"Watch this space."
> pay the Chinese to host our fucking military servers
no, but that's literally what they were doing.
DC doesn't run a serious country.
We had a vote on that. Your proposal lost. Deal with it.
yeah, people have been calling out specific trades on Twitter for months.
This is just an excuse for the Establishment's AI Control Grid.
"We must completely destroy your Liberty for your Safety."
People better wake up fast.
"Jailbreak" definitely implied something illicit in 1974 when AC/DC performed the song, but in 2026?! No. Jailbreaking is totally legit 99 times out of a hundred.
Jails were once respected because they were a product of society's consensus. When DRM appeared, jails became anyone's restrictions, with no societal inputs and no claims to legitimacy.
If you break out of the county jail or federal prison, that's a whole other thing than breaking out of your neighbor's sex dungeon. And almost all the time we talk about "jailbreaking" now, it's analogous to the neighbor's sex dungeon. Nearly everyone would agree it's legit to leave, and any illicitness is on the part of the captor!
[I]t's important to note that jailbreaking a Kindle might violate Amazon's terms of service.
Isn't the context here, that there is no service? I suspect that whatever terms the two parties came to agree upon, Amazon is the one who has initiated the violation of those terms, by ceasing to provide service!
Slashdot is a website for the elderly.
Correct.
The current war and upcoming $1000/mo typical residential utility bills is what's driving me. And the math on a Carrington Event.
I know of three other people who are off-grid capable in my network of high hundreds of households.
But also he doesn't really age, or at lesst he deages on occasion.
Maybe we'll get James Bond and the Philosopher's Stone.
> All that stuff has to react rapidly
Just to add color
Now imagine you need to start a few dozen air conditioners simultaneously. The startup energy can be 10x the operating energy.
I've been doing the math on some of this for home solar. In my case I can ramp up the voltage over a few seconds but AIUI rockets still need instant action in many cases.
It's possible future reusable spacecraft could be more proactive, lowering costs and necessary chassis strength. Most of our technology starts off brute force and gets refined with more elegance but also more complexity over time. We're still early days in spaceflight.
How "bout those removable phone batteries?
Yeah, taxes are generally unavoidable for most people.
Hosting a blog on Substack is just a market choice among so many.
Apple and Google stores are a bit more grey; I'd allow it.
It's like those guys who find a Civil War chest with a hundred gold coins in it and call the FBI.
Clout is far too expensive.
This is the one where they investigate Office on Antitrust grounds and wind up settling for not bundling Edge.
I've seen it in reruns....
As of next week, passwords will be entered in Morse code.
