While it is an enormous problem, possibly the most significant, we know how to shield against radiation, but it's going to take mass in the form of hydrogen-rich molecules like water or polyethylene (as examples). To solve that problem we are either going to have to make launches a lot cheaper, or figure out how to do it all in orbit.

It's at the edge of our technological capacity to produce such a spacecraft now, so the barrier is economic. That's a massive barrier, but in theory we definitely could, if we put a significant percentage of GDP of the wealthiest nations towards the project, produce a spacecraft that keep astronauts alive and relatively protected from ionizing radiation both on the journey and while on Mars.

As to your general assholery, I guess everyone has to have an outlet, though why Slashdot is a bit mysterious.

Most lack the mental fortitude to stop paying/using over this

It's also possible that Dolby is twisting logic into a pretzel in order to make this claim. It wouldn't be the first far-fetched theory of infringement to go through court.

Damn... that is sad. Another one bites the dust...

With all the space travel in star trek, haven't they cleaned up the galaxy with their Bussard collectors? Asking for a friend. Weirdo. Loves star trek.

Bussard collectors!

Bussard... does not sound English.

The first thing I do on installing Linux is nuke NetworkManager and it's ilk.

And he is a known idiot so there is good reason to doubt anything and everything he says and by extension the FBI.

If you look at the credentials of the people in charge of the country right now it's a who's who of has been bloggers and TV show hosts. This was on purpose. The voters gave us Trump and Trump wanted yes men.

Privately every single person in Trump's administration is terrified he's not going to get a third term because if he doesn't then they don't have any of that sweet sweet supreme Court granted presidential immunity and they're all wrong prison.

It's one of the things that makes the right wing so effective. The centrists are really just looking to put a feather in their cap and run some committee meetings. Keep things going smoothly. The right wing is so full crooks and lairs every single one of them is fighting for their freedom because if we ever start enforcing laws again they're all going to prison. Steve Bannon for example has been bailed out twice now by Trump and the Republican party.

Other half of the dual boot: Linux hasn't crashed, although it has had random issues with starting up slowly, up to 2 minutes sometimes, or random dialog boxes and windows in KDE will lock up for 10 - 20 seconds and I can't interact with them. All kind of applications.

I've had a bunch of crashes in Windows this year when gaming, I suspect nVidia drivers, because the crashes stopped after an update.

These were hard crashes that rebooted the computer all the way back to BIOS immediately after the game locked up.

Honestly Windows 7 and 10 are fine. Windows 11 is an absolute shit show. I don't care how fast your hardware is it is so painfully slow

Damn, Windows has really improved in the last 25 years. Wouldn't know since my last Windows was Win2k and my computers only run macOS or Linux and have crashed less that 10 times combined in the last 20 years or so. A well, whatever. Good for people still using Windows, I guess.

I'm guessing it's mostly just him complaining about getting shot down for dates and forcing his way into locker rooms to drink beer.

Last time Trump was President famously they kept him from having access to classified information as much as possible because he kept leaking it and so did everyone around him. Trump didn't like that so this time all the adults in the room are gone and it's all toddlers. It must really suck to be an American intelligence officer or asset right now. I mean we had people restraining the stupidity back in 2016 and they are all gone now and the last time the number of dead intelligence officers and assets shot through the roof. These days I suspect they have a life expectancy comparable to a drain fly.

Otherwise systems won't automatically treat the clean release as newer and replace the contaminated ones.

"So deepfake porn of people without their consent, and without adequate regard of age."

Without regard for age would be illegal content so that would be blocked. As for deepfakes... they are fake and therefore the person they look similar to has no more claim than to images of any of the thousands of similar looking people walking around. I see no reason they need to have an 'erotic mode' but for adult users adult content and other perfectly legal content should not be blocked. In fact, generally speaking the company shouldn't be liable for what people do with the service anyway but also required to operate as a common carriers without imposing THEIR interpretations of morality or law upon the third parties using the service.

This technology is about 0.0001% technology and the rest is data which doesn't belong to these tech companies. I actually think that is fine as long as the models are open and have at least two unrestricted implementations available [or can be readily run by consumers] and their output is exempt from copyright on its own [the output is considered a format shift of the prompt(s)].