Rockets are really cool. They are our one major way of getting off this planet and even without humans involved are the way we send things to space so we can understand the universe around us. You shouldn't have to like any of the people involved or can even actively dislike them for other reasons, and still get that.

The restrictions are a mix of reasonable nuisance management and paranoia about who is flying drones, what they can do, and chain of custody.

Beijing proper is a city with a population density of over 21,000 / km^2 -- so you can imagine the chaos if any tech enthusiast resident could fly a drone without a permit. Except for a couple of free zones in the outer boroughs, New York City restricts drone launcing and landings within the city to flights with a permit and flight plan, because otherwise the sky would be black with drones. Many cities -- both red and blue -- have zone restrictions for drone flights, and those currently hosting World Cup matches have tightened them for the duration of the tournament.

In Gaza, those "civilians" participated in the October 7th massacres, which drinkypoo endorses. If one recalls, when Hamas agreed to return the first batch of hostages, those hostages had to be protected by Hamas from the Gazan public, most of whom are goons. So Israel has the right to expel them anywhere, given that they've proven incapable of living peacefully in what was practically a "Palestinian" state

Judea & Samaria too, Jewish settlers have the right to be there. The demand that these territories be Judenrein is ridiculous, given that 20% of Israel's population is Arab

Nothing weird. Israel was founded as a home for Jews, who it was proven couldn't live in Europe bcos Nazis, Commies and other haters. It then became a battlefield b'cos muslims, who themselves never had compunctions about stealing other people's lands - from the East Indies to West Africa - decided that they'd be in a perennial war w/ them

Fast forward to today, and antisemtism - not mere opposition to Israel/Netanyahu - has made a comeback! You see that in the US - the demonstrations at Columbia U were not against Israel: Jewish students were targeted for bullying and harassment, and antisemitism has made its debut here on a largescale basis for the first time in history. Same thing is happening in Europe. All this started on October 8th, long before the Israeli operations against Gaza began

Given all that, Jews worldwide have a right to seek refuge in the single country that was founded explicitly for them. They have nothing to apologize for: there are some 20 Christian and muslim countries each where Christianity and islam are the official religions of the state. While Israel may describe itself as a Jewish state, every Gentile there has religious freedom. Far more than in any islamic country, such as an Afghanistan or a Bangladesh - and I'm not even touching a Saudi Arabia

As for trying to expand into Judea and Samaria, the Palis have proven that they are incapable of living alongside them in peace. No sympathy for them if they get expelled. I'll take those jihadists seriously when they start a jihad against Beijing, who has been doing a genocide of the Uyghurs and Hui there

No, what Israel did was in response to the terrorist attack in question. Hamas could have lived pretty well had they simply ended their jihad.

But then, they wouldn't be Hamas, would they?

No need for excuses. Those who want to buy that phone can - it's that simple!

You forgot Edge, which may have its own ad-blocker-blockers, but certainly won't take cues from Chrome

Also, does Brave depend on Chromium for its updates? The same way, say Debian derivatives depend on Debian, or Redhat derivatives on RedHat?

I was under the impression that Brave was a complete fork of Chromium, just like OpenBSD was of NetBSD

Of course, democratic governments have done a bang-up job protecting our interests, haven't they? I'll take your bridges and sell you others!

Reinstate him where?

Sounds like the precise argument why governments shouldn't be the ones regulating these things. Maybe private industry consortiums

For the same reasons that any internet standard goes through the IETF, not the FTC. Maybe there needs to be a SIG group that consists of all the major AI players, that can come up w/ the various conventions, best practices & so on. They can include in their coverage issues like Net Zero, privacy protection and the entire gamut

In other words, did they create this intrusion mechanism on a Kali Linux bed, w/ all its hacking utilities?

No, companies just have to guarantee what they say in the spec. Take, for instance, overclocking! Some chips may run fine when overclocked some, but if they malfunction, it's the user who did that who should be SOL, not the manufacturer

A lot of chips have internal test vectors that are only supposed to be used in the factory for testing, not guaranteed to the customer for daily usage. So if something exists but has not been publicized, consumers have nothing to gripe about. Also, market segmentation is a thing: it's perfectly legitimate for AMD to have a feature enabled for one set of users who pay a premium for their CPUs - such as AI datacenters, while not enabling it for the penny-pinching consumer sector. If the latter wants it, they can pay the datacenter prices

Only one commencement speech about AI is going to get applause: https://www.smbc-comics.com/co... .