Comment Re:Not Capitalists (Score 1) 37
The Republican Party has abandoned Capitalism for Plutocracy long ago. So has the Democratic party. You're incredibly naive to be voting for the uniparty, either side of it.
Comment Re:Anyone with common sense (Score 1) 82
Your hypocrisy is palpable.
Comment Re:Naysayers don't accomplish anything. (Score 1) 117
This. There's a big group of /. moderators who just downvote anything that supports Musk, but the man has accomplished amazing things, and this petty, sour grapes nay saying is kind of pathetic.
Comment Re:Not a bright idea (Score 1) 204
The press pretends the whole "no kings" thing was anti-Trump, but many were conservative, and protesting the authoritarian aspects of it.
Submission + - DOT announces "Return of Supersonic Flight" for commercial airlines (faa.gov)
schwit1 writes: Gemini summarized ...
The FAA’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), released on June 30, 2026, marks the first formal regulatory step toward lifting the 53-year-old ban on civil supersonic flight over the continental United States.
Core Objectives of the Proposal
The FAA’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), released on June 30, 2026, marks the first formal regulatory step toward lifting the 53-year-old ban on civil supersonic flight over the continental United States.
Core Objectives of the Proposal
- Replacing Speed Limits with Noise Standards: The proposal would replace the current, blanket speed-based ban (dating to 1973) with a performance-based noise standard. Aircraft would be permitted to fly at speeds exceeding Mach 1 over land, provided they do not generate surface-level noise (sonic boom overpressure) exceeding a specific threshold of 0.11 pounds per square foot (psf).
- En-Route Focus: This specific proposal addresses en-route cruise noise. It does not set standards for takeoff and landing, which the FAA plans to address in a separate proposal later this year.
- Implementation of Executive Order 14304: This action fulfills part of the June 2025 Executive Order signed by President Trump, which directed the FAA to modernize aviation standards to ensure the U.S. remains a leader in aerospace innovation.
Why Now?
The FAA is citing significant technological advancements as
the justification for this shift, specifically:
- Aerodynamic Innovation: New airframe designs and propulsion systems—exemplified by testing of NASA’s X-59 "quiet" demonstrator—can now break the sound barrier while reducing the sonic boom to a low-intensity "thump" that is manageable for ground-level communities.
- Operational Techniques: The use of "Mach cutoff" flight techniques, where speed, altitude, and atmospheric conditions are synchronized to ensure sonic booms refract back into the atmosphere rather than reaching the ground.
Next Steps
- Public Comment: The proposal (Docket FAA-2026-6935) is now open for a 45-day public comment period.
- Future Regulations: The FAA intends to finalize both the en-route noise standards and the upcoming takeoff/landing noise standards by mid-2027.
- International Alignment: The FAA is working alongside the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and foreign aviation authorities to ensure that these domestic standards eventually align with global frameworks for international supersonic operations.
By establishing these metrics, the FAA aims to provide
manufacturers—such as those developing next-generation supersonic
transports—with the clear regulatory guidance needed to finalize aircraft
designs and move toward commercial certification.
Comment Re:Read the Legislative Analysis (Score 1) 18
12 months? So really, they just have to reduce the game price to $1 for 12 months, let the servers grind into the dirt, then set up a page for people to apply for their $1 refund.
Comment Re:Not a bright idea (Score 0, Troll) 204
>If the gun nuts and "don't tread on me" crowd actually cared they would be out protesting.
They are. Your news agency doesn't cover it. They're protesting against the many losses of liberties. You should join them. Don't wait, just make a sign and get out there.
They are. Your news agency doesn't cover it. They're protesting against the many losses of liberties. You should join them. Don't wait, just make a sign and get out there.
Comment The jokes write themselves (Score 2) 51
The man of the hour is so high on his own farts he's building a pipeline to import dinosaur farts. Not that he's a dinosaur, after all those makeovers, he even almost looks human. No wonder he wants to leave earth, we're running out of his favorite fuel in only a few hundred years. His fleet of methane-thirsty sky leviathans need to be ready to get him to his moon lair before he's stranded down here with the apes. The engineers keep insisting methane is an efficient rocket propellant, but that is exactly the sort of cover story one would expect from a man whose personal energy policy consists of huffing his own press releases.
If optimism were a construction material, there would already be beachfront property on Mars complete with valet parking and a frozen-yogurt franchise. His companies are powered by a management philosophy best described as "What if a caffeine overdose became a corporate structure?" Deadlines arrive, explode, and are immediately replaced by even more ambitious deadlines.The good news is we're meeting one deadline: His head will be big enough to shield Earth from the sun before it's really a problem.
If optimism were a construction material, there would already be beachfront property on Mars complete with valet parking and a frozen-yogurt franchise. His companies are powered by a management philosophy best described as "What if a caffeine overdose became a corporate structure?" Deadlines arrive, explode, and are immediately replaced by even more ambitious deadlines.The good news is we're meeting one deadline: His head will be big enough to shield Earth from the sun before it's really a problem.
Comment Re:Sanger's Wikipedia page (Score 1) 214
The problem is "right wing" references are thrown out, where they're even created or permitted in liberal academia.
Comment Re: The purpose of a factory is not to provide job (Score 2) 197
> Finish a two year program and you'll be better off than all your buddies with bachelor's and many with masters.
incorrect. The starting wage for a machinist is very low, relatively.
incorrect. The starting wage for a machinist is very low, relatively.
Comment Re:The purpose of a factory is not to provide jobs (Score 1) 197
Most unions are led more by their leadership than votes. And the leadership isn't as interested in what the worker wants as you think.
Comment Re:The purpose of a factory is not to provide jobs (Score 1) 197
You're absolutely right. But we need one jimmy of a social welfare system, quicklike.
Comment Re:retards (Score 1) 41
>All it'd take is about half of you having the actual balls to march on washington and shut it down for a week
That was attempted. It took them two weeks to dilute, lie about, and refuse to report the message, another week to dilute it, and a fourth to make it yesterday's news.
That was attempted. It took them two weeks to dilute, lie about, and refuse to report the message, another week to dilute it, and a fourth to make it yesterday's news.
Comment Re: Attempting to prevent China... (Score 2) 51
History is full of examples of governments trying and failing to restrict technology. The Venetian Republic attempted to guard glassmaking secrets. European states tried to restrict textile machinery exports during the Industrial Revolution. The Soviet Union acquired Western technology despite extensive Cold War controls. Barriers sometimes slowed diffusion, but they cannot stop it. The advancement of knowledge depends on openness, criticism, and exchange. Scientific progress is cumulative. Every generation builds on discoveries made by others, often across political and cultural boundaries. Patents and copyright were designed to encourage innovation by TEMPORARILY rewarding the innovator, not by becoming a moat. They certainly weren't designed to protect massive global corporations from competition.
China has hundreds of thousands of engineers, world-class universities, substantial domestic semiconductor investment, and access to global scientific literature. America can lock down its own tech and lose in the long run or each side can learn from the other. Either way the American tech hegemony only lives in the imaginations of overindulged national chauvinists.
tldr: Information wants to be free. Screw your IP laws.
China has hundreds of thousands of engineers, world-class universities, substantial domestic semiconductor investment, and access to global scientific literature. America can lock down its own tech and lose in the long run or each side can learn from the other. Either way the American tech hegemony only lives in the imaginations of overindulged national chauvinists.
tldr: Information wants to be free. Screw your IP laws.
Comment The power and the money (Score 2) 41
...the money and the power. Minute after minute, hour after hour. This is a thinly veiled attempt to give the government more power over AI companies, the end goal being an extra tool to take control of AI models, including open source.
