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Comment Re:ELI5... why is this bad? (Score 4, Insightful) 43

Are your garbage bins not precisely in the location required by your home owners' association? Lawn a trifle too long, or maybe cut with an unapproved pattern?

Do you live in a "border" city, i.e. one that is within 100 miles of a coast, land border or international airport? Have you been engaging in antisocial behaviour such as gathering in groups and/or protesting outside of designated free speech zones?

Have you carried identifiable literature or membership insignia from a non-state sanctioned organization, or entered or exited a known or suspected meeting place of such an organization or residence of known or suspected members of such an organization?

Comment Re:We're not restricting the technologies... (Score 2) 81

Proton and Standard Notes seem to have gone in together to write their editors.

It's not particularly hard to write a spreadsheet or word processor. It's not even hard to write one that runs in a web browser. Supporting Microsoft's document formats is hard, but that seems like an argument in favour of the EU developing their own standard, not against.

Comment Re:Seems like... (Score 2) 65

Depends who's problem it's trying to solve.

I don't like the telco's box running my network. I really wouldn't like the telco's box with a bunch of processing capability and AI "features" running my network. I doubt they'd pay to install something like that in your house unless it was doing them some good though.

Comment Re:We're not restricting the technologies... (Score 3, Funny) 81

You don't understand. Not using Microsoft's cutting edge super advanced technology chat app or Google's, um, spreadsheet I guess, will clearly cripple any business, country or even a whole continent!

I'm having trouble thinking of any of these irreplaceable software technologies, at least ones that aren't tiny niche things.

Comment Re:So ... (Score 3, Insightful) 115

It happens all the time. In the last ten years the Russians have done it a couple times, Iranians once. Going further back the Americans have done it too. One of the reasons we have civilian access to GPS is because the Russians shot down a Korean 747.

There's a famous video of some carrier personel getting excited about 737s on approach to LAX. More video of the US congress being told they're drones, or UFOs or something.

And those are supposedly trained military types. Well, except for one of the Russian shootdowns, allegedly.

Comment Re:Wut? (Score 2) 115

I expect it went something like this:

Somebody: Hey, FAA, the DOD gave ICE anti-air weapons and they're shooting at something in El Paso!

FAA: Shit. Close the airspace now! We don't need our own Malaysia flight 17, Ukraine flight 752 or Azerbaijan flight 8243!

ICE: It's safe! We got it!

FAA: Jesus. You've got to warn us when you do this stuff. At least everyone's safe. What was it?

ICE: Party balloon.

FAA: !?

Suzie Wiles: Idiots. You can't say that. Let's go with "terrorist cartel drug drone."

Comment Re:So ... (Score 5, Informative) 115

If the border patrol can't tell the difference between a drone and a balloon then it's probably a wise move to make sure there are no planes around where they're playing with their pew pew lasers.

Lasers are famous for doing things you don't expect. Reflecting off a shiny mylar balloon and blinding pilots for example.

Comment Re:Alamy suckers (Score 1) 51

There aren't any people in the photo, unless you mean the ones way the hell in the background. If so, google "perspective."

Wikipedia has pictures of several other models, including one in Paris:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The capsule is covered by the landing bag that cushions it from the only relatively soft landing.

Vostok looks different, including in your link, but here's another:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Re:So let me get this right... (Score 1) 81

The reason the AMOC would shut down is because meltwater from the Greenland ice sheet makes the water less salty and therefore more buoyant. It's a temporary effect while the ice sheet is melting.

While it's stopped, Iceland and western Europe get colder, more befitting their latitude. Places like Florida, where the warm water comes from, get hotter. Of course, that doesn't matter that much because a lot of it is under water.

Once the melting slows down, in a thousand years or so, it starts up again.

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