There *is* a heck of a lot .. on 16 Psyche.

I dunno about you, but the idea of shipping off in a space ship for a year or two, to mine my fortune in space minerals, sounds kinda .. fun ..

>>> reviewed by actual humans. .. Max Headroom!

Set up IceComm on a web site that only you and your kids can access, and give them the Chrome browser with a bookmark to go there at scheduled times .. https://icecomm.io/

Very easy to set up server less video conferencing. Add a bit of TogetherJS to the mix and you've got realtime chat as well - without needing to install anything on any local computers besides the Chrome browser.

I use IceComm on my main server as the 'front door' to my business - I have a browser sitting on my front door all day, and whenever clients visit I'm ready for them. Its just like having a virtual front door to the business .. very handy and very care-free for the customers.

I agree: Lua is absolutely one of the best things to be teaching high school students. You can either sit entirely in the Lua language itself, or you can learn to extend the capabilities of the VM and interface with outside libraries and frameworks.

I think the big elephant in the room is more to be found further upstream, in the area of manufacturing. Worrying about software hacks is one thing - not having the faintest absolute clue exactly *what* is inside the chip package is something else entirely. Think its an accumulator bank? Oh sorry, maybe we forgot to mention the harmonic bundles associated with wave guidance within the interstitial distances of the rapidly blinking transistors .. yeah, those can be read from space. With a satellite (or 12).

The game is over folks, or rather .. the game is on, depending on how you look at it. Until you are capable of investigating and participating, directly, in the sub-assemblies, you will always have a weak back door. Either we, ultimately, become able to assemble our own chips on the desktop, or there will always be a power class: those who can build such devices, and those who can only be ruled by them.

We need to evolve to adapt to this new threat to the species, and instead of seriously *resisting* its effects on our being, we - the true power - direct the feature to our favour. If, out of the NSA catastrophe, we gain a "New Internet" wherein *everything, everywhere* for 15 years, was available to everyone, then we'd have indeed a new era in the human species. A truly evolutionary step, made by mistake - perhaps.

Wow, am I unique in my views of automated driving? First, I think it will completely change things as we know it. 1) Wouldn't all cars go to be the same or even provided by the state? What incentive would there be to have a nice car if all have to drive the same? Maybe nice interior, but handling, performance, and the notion of "youness" in the car is gone if you are not driving it. Its just a box. 2) I would expect car pooling to increase. Why would the 1 person per car be needed if they can go around and pick up neighbors and pick up your kids for you and so on. Right now a husband and wife work at the same place and drive separate (gas guzzling) cars where I work. This silliness will end with automatic cars. 3) Kids. No driving licensense or anything anymore. No DUI, no checkpoints. None of the "routine traffic stops" gone bad. 4) Odds are better speeds and throughput. Traffic lights will be better optimized. Tailgating will be normal.

I look forward to this. The changes will be immense, and the transition will be interesting. I would love to not drive and do other things while commute in safety and not have to worry about my car and just have a car.

And I like it that way. Email can involve other people. Its offline communication and works in multiple timezones and odd hours. It can be referenced later. It is clear because it is written. I think email is the best thing ever invented. I've never worked without it, and I could not imagine work without it. You could throw away my phone, and I would hardly notice. Take email away, and I honestly could not function. I don't know how work worked before email. Could not imagine. The only thing negative about email is when you need constant back and forth, and then I switch to IM or phone, but email is and will always be #1 in my book.

Taking the best thing from a normal computer and using the worst things about android and what do you get???? hopefully they are not using swipe and having it crash all the time.

news at 12

Preface: I'm a white dude, arguably a pig.

Yes, I've found it strange that the lower intelligence/class people breed more than those in the opposite stance. But, doesn't it work out? Its almost like the latter group are a sub-species. To support my lifestyle, I have people in China and all over the world making stuff for me. Convenience store people, gas attendants, people that built my house, etc, etc. I need these people to continue breeding to keep my lifestyle going.

As an aside and on topic, I find the recent rise in things like autism to be interesting. I would say its more environment than genetics because evolution is usually a pretty slow process.

Its ugly enough and almost big enough that the wealthy Americans might buy it.

The largest filesystem I admin is just shy of 1/2 petabyte. And its one in number. Backing up everything on that filesystem is simply not feasible. To put it in perspective 1 stream @ 200 MiB/s would take almost 28 days to backup the whole thing. I would imagine a restore would take about the same order. Telling hundreds of users their files are unavailable for reading or writing for 30 days is not really an option, so I run fsck.

Backups simply are not really an option past 20+ terabytes of storage, and simply not feasible if the storage is volatile in nature. AFAIK everyone has gone to redundancy over backups at scale.

My point was that I didn't vote for Facebook, Google or Wikipedia nor for the MPIAA, et al that proposed such a thing. Who can I vote for? US government is not about the people. I have no problem with the opposition, but the position was not posited by a government official, but rather private enterprise, and this is not how I learned that the US government worked.