There has been regime change. The old supreme leader was killed. The new one was thought to be too extreme by the old one, but that was before his mother, father, wife, child and a bunch of other family members were killed by the US and Israel. Much the same experience as a bunch of other young Iranians who might have been leaning towards the whole US = the great satan thing being a bit of hypoerbole.

AI is typically more efficient than the old hand-coded algorithms.

The reason you want to do this in space is that you want it to be autonomous. What might you want an autonomous satellite to do?

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The data rate is likely to be the limiting factor

No, it's going to be the amount of processing power you've got. In the future you could put more up there but that has problems. You could also put more lasers on the satellite and have more bandwidth.

What you can't do is make light go faster. On-satellite analysis could be critical if you wanted to run a fairly simple algorithm on a fairly limited amount of data and detect a fairly obvious feature very quickly, and do something automated with that information right away in orbit, or at least on that side of the planet. Like detecting blooms on thermal imaging. For example.

There is no "oh, natural disasters and stuff" application where it's not more efficient to return the images to the surface. There also aren't any such applications where you wouldn't want to have the images available to view.

The problem with Reagan's Star Wars: no droids.

I could see that.

That's hilarious!

I also use secure boot, and self-manage the keys, since having someone else hold the keys completely mitigates the value of secure boot. It's not ideal, and it creates a minor headache, but the gains massively outweigh the extra work required. I don't run Windows, so at least that portion is mitigated by OS selection, but it still creates a headache when I have to install Microslop junk on my computer, since they expect a prebuilt key to be present.

Why doesn't Microsoft want an independent encryption program running? They need to be able to steal all your data, and feed in to their AI training, and hand it over to police. Windows is not a safe OS, Microsoft has proven that time and time again. I use VeraCrypt frequently, any sensitive file on my computer is in a VeryCrypt volume.

If sensitivity is important, you must encrypt the file away from the OS, and other people. The entire point is to keep sensitive stuff safe, and since Microsoft has some delusional belief that all your files are their files, in the wrong hands, they block VeraCrypt.

Uh huh.

Computers were more expensive in the past. Particularly 40 years ago.

Yeah, I didn't include the Air because it's kind of dual use. There are enough examples of machines specifically targeted at home users it wasn't necessary to give the trolls more room for pedantry.

I was actually there when Jobs announced the Macbook Air. Apple was very much talking up how great it was for business users and people who travel a lot, and BTW probably a good choice for students too. Not like e.g. the clamshell iMac. It only recently got a real colour choice too, and only barely.

What makes you think China wants to project power?

Maybe not the best examples. Genghis Khan did not conquer Persia. He got partway through then got distracted by China, where he died. The Mongol conquest took generations, spread the empire thin, and it broke up to civil war and internal resistance twenty or so years later.

Alexander did conquer Persia, then died about five years later. His empire broke up in civil war immediately.

What if the white hat AI introduces the vulnerabilities?

I don't know why they emphasize the cybersecurity dangers though. It's like they want to get sued for encouraging attacks on company networks. Perhaps they think in America you can attack anybody without consequences. Perhaps they're right?

What for? The energy required is mainly for leaving the Earth gravity well, so substantially the same if you're merely slingshotting around the moon no matter where it is. The launch window is mostly a function of terrestrial climate and slightly unpredictable. The time to reach the moon would be less than 5% longer, a few hours more over 3 days. Probably timing the arrival for around peak TV times would be more important than minimizing the distance.