Comment EM radiation (Score 1) 282
The reason given is "electric engines can interfere with the sound of AM stations", it seems to me the EM radiation is not being shielded properly, does that concern anyone?
Comment Re:Totally predictable. (Score 1) 161
Here here.
MoonDAO Will Pick Two of the Next Blue Origin Astronauts With the Help of NFTs (cnet.com) 24
On June 4 a 10-minute Blue Origin flight (using a reusable rocket and capsule) carried six more people on a visit to suborbital space, reports Space.com — the fifth human spaceflight mission for the Jeff Bezos-founded company, and the second one this year. But GeekWire points out that civil production engineer Victor Correa Hespanha had his seat funded by the Crypto Space Agency — that is, funded entirely by the NFT community through mint proceeds — after he was the winner of its lottery for a ride to space.
And they're not the only crypto community buying rides into space. CNET reports on MoonDAO: Over 8,000 people "minted" a "Ticket to Space" NFT on the Ethereum blockchain for free (plus a small transaction or "gas" fee), and...one of those NFT holders plus several alternates will be chosen at random for one of the seats to space. MoonDAO's members will also vote on a specific person from a list of predetermined nominees to gift the second ticket to. The two astronauts could fly as soon as the next Blue Origin launch in the coming weeks, but no target date has been announced....
"Our mission is to decentralize access to space research and exploration," co-founder Pablo Moncada-Larrotiz told me during an interview on stage at the DAODenver conference in February. In addition to sending people on a short trip to space, MoonDAO is also using funds from its treasury — it's raised millions worth of cryptocurrency through a crowdfunding platform called Juicebox — for community projects that include designing a small rocket and satellite. In other words, the ultimate vision is to build an organization something like SpaceX, but that's run as a community cooperative rather than in the traditional top-down corporate structure.
"We definitely need more capital to get to the level of competing directly with Virgin Galactic or SpaceX," Moncada-Larrotiz said via Discord direct message on May 26. "It's for sure a long term project and I think it'll be a matter of building the right type of organization where builders are free to just focus on making awesome things in a collaborative environment."
Unfortunately, MoonDAO's drawing Saturday experienced technical glitches, and after a two-hour livestream — no winner was chosen.
They promised a winner would be chosen by Sunday.
And they're not the only crypto community buying rides into space. CNET reports on MoonDAO: Over 8,000 people "minted" a "Ticket to Space" NFT on the Ethereum blockchain for free (plus a small transaction or "gas" fee), and...one of those NFT holders plus several alternates will be chosen at random for one of the seats to space. MoonDAO's members will also vote on a specific person from a list of predetermined nominees to gift the second ticket to. The two astronauts could fly as soon as the next Blue Origin launch in the coming weeks, but no target date has been announced....
"Our mission is to decentralize access to space research and exploration," co-founder Pablo Moncada-Larrotiz told me during an interview on stage at the DAODenver conference in February. In addition to sending people on a short trip to space, MoonDAO is also using funds from its treasury — it's raised millions worth of cryptocurrency through a crowdfunding platform called Juicebox — for community projects that include designing a small rocket and satellite. In other words, the ultimate vision is to build an organization something like SpaceX, but that's run as a community cooperative rather than in the traditional top-down corporate structure.
"We definitely need more capital to get to the level of competing directly with Virgin Galactic or SpaceX," Moncada-Larrotiz said via Discord direct message on May 26. "It's for sure a long term project and I think it'll be a matter of building the right type of organization where builders are free to just focus on making awesome things in a collaborative environment."
Unfortunately, MoonDAO's drawing Saturday experienced technical glitches, and after a two-hour livestream — no winner was chosen.
They promised a winner would be chosen by Sunday.
Comment I want a simple engine (Score 2) 155
If I type "A and B" I want both in each of the result articles that come up. And that is very rare and very disconcerting. I am very ok if nothing comes up, but I only want the results to include both A and B.
Comment I do not trust messenger. (Score 1) 18
I realize Zoom has problems also, but my company takes that risk not me.
Comment Can I change out the battery? (Score 1) 89
All the new phones are sealed and very expensive to remove and replace the battery, yet the battery is the one thing I want the ability to change easily.
Comment Is there a way to stop all international calls? (Score 1) 56
I don't know anyone in other countries that would be calling me. So block them all.
Is that possible with the current technology?
Comment Re: why (Score 1) 569
I did not know that about Mac. So if we could do something like a three finger salute that brings up a dialog with memory and cpu priority that allows the user to "trim" the programs that are consuming the most memory/cpu that would be cool.
Comment 19 Million bbls per day now (Score 1) 181
The USA uses 19 million barrels a day.
So we are getting less then 2 days of oil out of the sewage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Comment Re:scapegoat much? (Score 1) 110
$190 million is chump change, cost of doing business. They made billions off of this fraud.
Comment Googling does not tell me how to turn it off. (Score 1) 75
Unless I have Windows Server 2008 RC2.
Any clues as to how to turn it off on Windows 10? I do not use proxy so I should turn it off regardless.
Comment Preference: No default search engine (Score 1) 400
If I mistype, so be it tell me so. It is usually one character so is easier to fix then look through the garbage from the search engine.
Comment Code written by Humans is always flawed. (Score 1) 582
At least with FOSS, you can quickly identify and fix problems that show up. Proprietary software fixes only happen when they have no other choice but to fix it.
Comment Re:The proper way to use Windows 8 (Score 1) 389
I agree that it is totally screwed up.
Comment The proper way to use Windows 8 (Score 2) 389
This works for both the power user and the casual user.
Sit down to the Windows 8 computer. Make sure you have a Windows 7/Mac OS/Linux computer next to you. Now the moment you get confused about the Windows 8 screen, go to your other computer and click Google. Then type how to ....
That is how I do it for Win 8 and Server 2012, and I have been using Microsoft since DOS 1.0 days.
