Glad I wasn't the only one wondering why boy scouts were lashing out at opensource software LOL.

In addition to the correct statement from @bad-badtz-maru, SpaceX has been pretty clear that Starlink is intended to eventually become a constellation of data-centers in addition to network access points.

One area where I feel that AI could be helpful is keeping your timeline and history straight. You could use something like NotebookLM to query your own draft—like asking, 'Has character Z already found object Y by page 120? Or has Character A met Character B; Was Character B ever in Place C etc. This would aid in keeping consistency throughout a novel. But then again I'm not an author... don't even play one on TV.

Further, I think the additional point is, It costs the city some amount of money; fractional police salary, car upkeep, gas etc. for that police officer to perform his duty of pulling that car over, the fine should to some extent help recoup those costs. It still cost money whether the officer pulled over a human driven care or an automated car. It seems only fair that the company testing self driving technology should not get a free ride at Tax payer expense (unless they specifically already have a contract with the city/county/state allowing for such behavior). In which case I guess you get what your vote for!

Congress has the constitutional authority, but they gave it to the executive branch in multiple laws: https://constitutioncenter.org... has a great and pretty deep look at the various laws that effect the issue. This section specifically seems like it will become relevant: "Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, which allows the president to enact temporary tariffs to address “large and serious United States balance-of-payments deficits” or certain other situations that present "fundamental international payments problems; and Section 338 of Tariff Act of 1930, which authorizes the president to enact “tariffs on articles produced by, or imported on the vessels of, foreign countries that discriminate against U.S. commerce in certain ways,”" Sadly it seems likely his actions are probably legal. Congress however can and should act to reverse them, but seems very unlikely to happen unless/until we vote in a new congress. I reached out to my State's Senator and he has no interest in bucking Trump policy what-so-ever at the current time.

Mozilla isn't yet based on chromium; but perhaps you were just expressing hyperbole...

Could someone explain why some random regulator in UK has any say in the merger of 2 United States companies? I mean I get that MS especially is a large global company, but legally how does that work, can any country in the world stop any merger?? I could see that they could register an objection with the appropriate regulators in the USA, but I'd think that would be it. What am I missing? -Josh

Apparently I can't delete this :\ Slashdot somehow cross posted from a different tab :(

Frankly, this is a potential merger of 2 United States companies, I don't really understand why regulators from UK or EU or anywhere else for that matter should be involved?

"Any single spreadsheet alternative (whether it's google or open source projects) will implement the needed features with the same syntax" Hate to break it to you but "google" is also a specific mega-corp that has an increasing monopoly esp in schools :) Frankly why wouldn't you want to teach the "most common in use tool"(aka the monopoly) after all that's what they will most likely use later. Especially since Microsoft is fiscally supporting the program why wouldn't they choose one of their own tools??

Awesome, wish I had some mod points!!

Yep, except a warranty is only as good as the companies willingness and ability to honor it, and your willingness/ability to sue them if they don't. So far I have gotten the following excuses: "That's not bad, some people are only getting 15miles" "It must be the charge controller firmware" "Our EV guy is out on vacation for the next 2 weeks" "Chrysler hasn't given us any information on how to fix batteries" and my personal favorite: "If it isn't the charge controller there is nothing else Chrysler can do" So its seemingly like I may end up in a lose lose situation.Its all happening right at the tail end of my State's lemon law period so I suspect they will end up "aging" me out of that option, but honestly in the current used car environment I bet I can get a better deal selling it then buy back minus "use".

When I bought my PHEV Pacifica, it could regularly go 30+Miles on electric only, 1.5 years later, I'm lucky to get 20.... I guess I'm still an anecdotal single point, but definitely real, and pretty pissed given 100% of my driving is w/i 30 miles, but only about 70% is inside the 20 mile window...

I meant that sarcastically, I should go back and add tags, I have worked with lots of depth sensors, and yes you can definitely get odd readings as you get to boundary conditions (such as 0). Getting good clean data out of depth sensors is hard, especially for irregular surfaces (such as snow and liquids in vibrating machinery)

Not sure how much I trust their data, its currently showing -0.4 cm of snow.... What exactly is negative snow? Is that like the glaciation carved out a groove!?