IIRC Kennedy originally wanted to do something spectacular to show the world how advanced the US was, and things like desalinating water were considered. But he also wanted to improve relations with the USSR, and when he proposed going to the moon he then started putting forward the idea of a joint mission.

It was still in the early stages when he was assassinated, so the mission profile hadn't been decided upon and most people were expecting there to be a moon orbit rendezvous between a crew capsule and lander launched separately. So the thought was that the US and USSR could send their own crew capsules, and then both board a joint lander, and go down together. Presumably they would have had to figure out how to have an astronaut and cosmonaut step onto the surface at the same time.

So it was a dick measuring contest, but there was also the possibility of it fostering cooperation. Shame it didn't happen until Apollo/Soyuz.

Trump Hotel.

NASA is already talking about a "perimeter".

I hate to defend the UK, and there have been some serious mistakes made, but nobody is in jail for hate speech. It's always something like harassment or credible threats. In fact, a recent case demonstrated that even criminal damage, throwing someone's phone on the ground, isn't a crime anymore, unless there is very strong evidence that it was damaged by that specific action. That incident was preceded by months of harassment too, and the guy got away with it.

That's how it works.

The browser has two filesystem APIs. The older one just lets it display a file chooser, and then the browser gives it access to that one file that the user picked, sandboxed, and nothing else. Any writes are cached until all security checks are passed, and then the browser copies the data out of the sandbox.

The problem with that is performance. So there is a second API which creates an isolated, sandboxed, quota enforced filesystem just for that one website. The quota counts for everything the site stores, including cookies and other stuff. It gets cleared when th user clears site data, e.g. automatically on closing the browser. The benefit is performance for cached data.

I know you hate it, but a lot of people use web apps. Office apps, CAD apps, games, IDEs, all sorts of things. I'm sure one of the reasons why Linux has been able to make gains lately is because so many popular apps only require a web browser now, not a compatible OS.

It's not that. Junction noise is believed to be truly random, governed by quantum physics, and impossible to predict.

The question is, can you prove it? That's what they have done here - created a system that is provably random, not just strongly suspected to be by our current understanding of quantum physics, and a review of the measurement hardware.

The same claims have been made about lotteries that use physical balls. They wear out, the machines are unbalanced, the painted on numbers make some heavier than others... None of it has ever been proven AFAIK. If there is some bias, it's too small to matter on the scale these things are used for.

An example of where it does matter and has been previously exploited is card deck shuffling. Particularly online or other "virtual" card decks that only exist in the computer's memory. You might think that simply swapping every card with another random one would guarantee a well shuffled deck, but it turns out to quite a difficult problem to solve.

Staking a claim maybe. China is probably headed to the same area, because there are resources there. China has already demonstrated some of the required capability, and has installed relay satellites at key positions to facilitate it.

Maybe. I don't think the EU should just allow US companies to buy limited resources up and prevent domestic companies from competing.

I suppose it depends if the EU has anything better to do with the spectrum. They will have to pay for it, and will be regulated by the EU, and pay tax there. They can always be cut off later if they don't behave.

The main thing is to make sure that it doesn't stifle EU rivals.

AI is different. When machines started to replace manual labour, people moved into clerical jobs where machines couldn't replicate human thinking. Computers came along and some of those went away, starting with low level accounting jobs like payroll processing. But there were always other jobs to move to, things that could not be automated.

We are now getting to the stage where AI can replace a lot of human thinking. At some point there just aren't going to be enough jobs that can't be automated left.

We have to decide. One option is we move to to low employment economy, ideally something like Star Trek's fully automated luxury communism where all the basics are provided and opportunities to develop one's self are abundant, rather than UBI and people with a lot of time and little to fill it with.

Another is that we just decide not to automate a lot of stuff, and have humans do it. That does mean a lot of pointless work, although arguably that's not so different to how things are today.

Depends on the exact wording, but Android Open Source Project (ASOP) is not shipped on many devices. Most ship with Android, which includes Google Play Services and a load of other proprietary, closed source stuff. So presumably they would need to implement these controls, and I'm sure Google will oblige by offering them to vendors. In fact even if they were not mandatory, I expect vendors will market it as a feature and want to include it anyway.

I wonder how practical this is. It appears that the surface features need to be so small that they couldn't be painted over, for example. Paint adds significant weight to an airliner, but is worth it for the protection and performance it provides.

On the basis that all major games get tested on their hardware extensively, because they have in excess of 90% of the market.

They have a card that is competitive with the most common gaming systems in use today. They are improving rapidly. They have a lot of pre-orders because it runs the games that are popular in China well enough, and is competitively priced.

The company that makes it isn't a genocidal totalitarian dictatorship. And even if it was, that isn't an excuse to let them take market share from Western companies.