(Disclaimer: I build space electronics for astrophysical research.)

Idiotic. Reminds me of Sci-Fi novels where computer circuits used positrons instead of electrons. As if that were of any advantage.

In space you have to deal with cooling in vacuum without thermal convection but being exposed to sunlight for energy harvesting, triple redundancy to counter radiation (charged particles) induced malfunction, and slow data links compared to ground based communications, just to name a few of the challenges. And that is supposed to be advantageous somehow, while low earth orbits get fuller and fuller, and malicious countries demonstrate satellite hunting satellites?

if you store an electron for a month this way or a positron makes exactly no difference. Yeah, antiparticle. Duh.

White House Mandates AI Companies Report Security Incidents. Uh-huh.

I mandate AI companies prevent security incidents, by employing proper network security standards and physically isolating test environments. No network connections to the outside world whatsoever. You also don't run biological or nuclear hazard experiments without entirely isolating everything from the environment.

So they are either clueless, in which case someone should step on their feet real hard, or they do it on purpose, in which case someone should step on their feet real real real hard, Or they think they can get away with it – in which case a couple of good slaps might actually do them some good.

He isn't even a boomer.

And by the way: boomers pretty much built most of what is today the internet.

When he can't sleep at night and thinks he knows everything better.

If he continues like this, chances are he lays ground for Skynet.

Time to dismiss him. Congress needs to pull the budget strings tight.

n/t

The finding simply means that there are accreting objects where the accreted matter is heated up less, i.e. it is somewhat cooler. This results in the Boltzmann spectrum being shifted towards longer wavelenghts. These are harder to detect because X-Ray sensors are only that sensitive, and there are many other UV sources around. That's all.

Just asking. I am sure Amazon asked all publishers and all authors for permission and pays adequate royalties.
Or maybe not?

When will governments finally understand the implications of adding back doors to encryption systems? I don't know for how long we've been riding this dead horse over and over again.

When a brute force crack again nst AES128 or AES256 takes somewhere between 10^20 to 10^50 years (do the math!), then a factor of 200 to 1000 is irrelevant. Grover's algorithm is much more interesting, should sufficiently large quantum computers ever be feasible. And even if, using longer keys raises the effort exponentially. Rijndael can easily be expanded to longer keys, say, 512 bit. Case closed for now.

The solar constant is roughly 1361 Watts per square meter. The mirror is 60x60 feet or A_mirror = 335 mÂ. The target area is about 3 miles wide or 5.8 km (assuming a square) or A_target = 5.8 mn mÂ. The mirror will be tilted at 45 degrees give or take, so we need to take the cosine of 45 degrees = 0.7071 into account. The earth's atmosphere has a transparency of estimated 80 percent in clear weather conditions. Taken together, the energy flux on the ground will be solar constant x A_mirror / A_target x 0.7071 x 0.8 which is approximately 0.45 watts per square meter. What in the world does anybody think it is good for - except burning investor money?

This report is about the effects of global warming, and we're suddenly in a debate about race and religion. What's wrong with some people?

Same like preparing food. Many people never learned or forgot how to prepare meals from scratch (from their basic ingredients) since the food industry came up with preprocessed industry food. They make a fortune while making everyone depends on their products, in particular those who cannot afford e.g. organic food. AI is the preprocessed food (literally!) of software development. And not only software development. If AI companies have their way, manyâ"or even allâ"aspects of life will be affected. They promise a better life with more spare time because machines take over the boring tasks, and what do we do with the additional spare time? Hang out in "social" media?

I also see plenty of wind turbines and solar parks in Denmark, things "nobody" does in the world.