When were they ever a space power? Hard to understand what is going on in Europe. A lot of talk and plans, but not actions? The curse of planning by committee with a lot of vested interests.

Perhaps the folks that wrote the summary of the study could have chosen simpler words? But it does sound pretty impressive!

We like our FREE email, messaging, posting, etc... How's that get paid for? I'll admit, I don't like it. Somewhat creepy when you click on something on one website, then an ad for it pops up somewhere else... But, do I want the FREE stuff. Yes. Does it really bother me enough to opt-out, No. If it really bothers you - opt out.

Here is what I encountered on my windows systems. 1) Started a command prompt as administrator.
2) Ran the first command given in the article:
wsl --install FedoraLinux-42

3) That seemed to work, but at the end got a message reboot required.
4) Did the reboot
5) Gave the next command (got an error)
wsl -d FedoraLinux-42
There is no distribution with the supplied name.
Error code: Wsl/Service/WSL_E_DISTRO_NOT_FOUND

6) So I repeated step #2, the install, ran more quickly, didn't get a reboot message.
7) Then ran step #5 just fine.
Interesting.

Ignore context of what is said, ignore why those words were chosen, ignore motivation ... I can 'police' your writing by just grepping for phrases. How about toleration of other viewpoints?

"we are the thin blue line" -- This isn't okay. This isn't creating an inclusive environment. This isn't okay with the current political situation especially in the US. A maintainer speaking those words can't be kept. No matter how important or critical or relevant they are. They need to be removed until they learn. Learn what those words mean for a lot of marginalized people. Learn about what horrors it evokes in their minds.

Men are getting taller and stronger -- and you blame it on women!!! Clearly, another conspiracy! You may believe women usually steal food from men's plates, but some fact checking is needed here!

You have to admire innovation. I'm in my 60s, remember the old sci-fi tv shows with rockets that would land on Earth by firing their engines. People used to laugh at that in the 70s and 80s when shuttle service was vogue. Hard to believe all the PhDs at NASA couldn't do the math on that, not to mention cost+ contracts would have made it amazing expensive.

You've go hand it to Space X and Musk for exploring and implementing new ideas.

I liked what the FREE Software Foundation board had to say and their rationale from corporate takeover or PC restrictions. I've worked for big corps: GE, Lockheed Martin, AT&T - they'll contribute when it's to their benefit (don't blame them for that), but they also like control and have the huge legal departments that play games with words (not a real fan of that)! Sorry, it seems many don't find "Fact Checking" of FREE speech as censorship! I can't agree more with what they say:

We believe that software freedom should be accepted as a human right, meaning that everyone is entitled to it in all areas of life. If people who would let that go for the sake of some other goals, valid though those may be, got control of the FSF board, someone would surely call on them to subordinate software freedom to unrelated goals. We must make sure that they not place their supporters on the FSF board. A recent source of disagreement with the free software movement's philosophy comes from those who would like to make software licenses forbid the use of programs for various practices they consider harmful

Folks, reading this and exaggeration is never good.

"European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), which said climate change is pushing the planet's temperature to levels never before experienced by modern humans. "The trajectory is just incredible," C3S director Carlo Buontempo told Reuters, describing how every month in 2024 was the warmest or second-warmest for that month since records began.

Perhaps the wording could have been a bit better?

Folks, I looked at definition for censorship from Brittanica: "Censorship, the changing or suppression or prohibition of speech or writing that is deemed subversive of the common good." Who checks the fact checkers? We're all computer nerds here. Simple solution, you decide in your FB account what you would like for "Fact checking" on the posts/comments you see. Easy. You pick the filter (or none).

Thanks! I didn't know he had a full website with details.

Just some amazing work. The combination of a thrust vector control system to keep it vertical and the custom micro-controller. This kid really did showed some ingenuity and dedication. Would love to know where he got some of the parts for the vector control and how we got the circuits printed. Nice job! He'd be a natural at SpaceX.

I'm sick of this also. I've got other streaming services, so I have stopped watching anything on Prime. I don't plan on paying their extra fees and I'm not watching their commercials. If a bunch of folks did that, I think they might come around. They will fail in commitments to advertisers...

Got you! Great phishing! How many folks got caught with this one? What an unbelievable claim! Humorous start to the New Year! Oh...... I also hear others want the American flags removed from the Apollo landing sites. I hear there is an automated rover mission to do that!!!

I have to agree. Nice to see we're giving China a great production facility. Too bad it couldn't have been built in the US -- probably the taxes would have been too high. Amazing!