That's what they're doing - they're storing your encryption key on your devices. That's why they can't access it, and nor can they give it to the UK government.

Why not? Some of them could be the next great astronomer.

I donâ(TM)t understand - what better monument to the sky gods could you build than an absolutely fecking mahoosive telescope?

Sully sticking an A320 in the Hudson comes to mind. Thereâ(TM)s also been quite a few uncontained engine failures, but not impacts with the ground.

That regional jet bit is also doing some pretty heavy lifting.

Survivable crashes are the norm. Itâ(TM)s a commonly cited fact that youâ(TM)re far safer in a plane than a car. Whatâ(TM)s much less commonly cited, and even less intuitive is that thatâ(TM)s still true even if you assume youâ(TM)re going to be in a crash.

Letâ(TM)s take a look at this years crashes with more than 20 people on boardâ¦

- May 3. 767 hit light pole on landing, barely counts as a crash.
- Mar 22. Bombardier CRJ-900 hit an ARFF vehicle on the runway. 2 pilots killed, all passengers and cabin crew survived.

I get the wish to avoid changing your process, and Iâ(TM)m sure Linus puts a lot of thought into how he does things, but I think heâ(TM)s very likely yelling and shaking his fist at the clouds here.

I think anyone whoâ(TM)s worked in a professional setting is going to know the value of code review. Having a tool that can easily give you an extra, high quality code review is incredibly useful. No matter how skilled Linus is (and he undoubtedly is), I think heâ(TM)s daft to overlook such powerful tools.

No, that's the pronunciation made up to avoid saying Your-anus. Uranus has been Your-anus for hundreds of years, and only became Yur-uh-nuss relatively recently as people didn't want to be seen recorded on TV forever saying Yur-an-uss.

Both power, and energy are relevant here. The amount of energy the storage can store is one relevant metric, but the rate at which it can supply that energy is another very important metric. For most grid operators it's *far* more relevant to say that a battery bank can provide 100MW for 15 minutes, than to say that it has a capacity of 25MWh.

And most importantly, stop employers looking up your criminal history with the exception of a very few cases, like jobs working with children. Once you've served your time, you've served your time, and shouldn't be locked into a permanent future of being unemployable.

A deliberate attack to knock out as many satellites as possible is a very different thing from Kessler syndrome. The blame for such an act would in no way be on the owner of the satellites that got taken out.

China is a threat when it allows them to game the stock market to get rich quick. China isn't a threat, when it allows them to game the stock market to get rich quick. American companies are a threat when it allows them to game the stock market to get rich quick. Getting the idea here?

There's 10,000 starlink sats, each of which is about 30 m^2. That's 300,000 m^2. Meanwhile, the total area available in that orbit is 510,000,000,000,000 m^2, they take up 0.000,000,05% of the space up there. And that's assuming that they sit flat on the orbital plane, which they don't.

There isn't a political union, only a trade union. All the laws are in the interest of improving trade.

You said what the difference is yourself. Leave, rejoin, leave rejoin, leave rejoin causes chaos and churn. Leave, rejoin can be a populace being tricked by right wing elements into making a dumb decision, and it's very unlikely that a country that's done that is going to re-leave after discovering how badly it turned out for them. Do you really think the UK would be likely to leave again any time in the next 50 years if they rejoined now, having discovered just how wrong the tories were, and just how right the left were? If they were made to join schengen, and the euro to re-join then they lose their border checkpoints, and ability to produce currency, and leaving becomes much harder, adding yet more reasons why it's unlikely that they'd re-leave.

It doesn't make any sense to say "no, we're not going to trade with the 5th biggest economy in the world, that's right next door to us, because this one time, they made a dumb mistake."

Holy shit... I just noticed...

"€, 'blah' £, $!"

Did slashdot finally fix the stupid text encoding bug?