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Comment Will Net Zero Strategy in Limbo? (Score 4, Insightful) 112

Took them long enough. Honestly, at this rate, they’ll probably end up delaying—or possibly quietly scrapping—the whole net zero push. They need to sort out their own economic mess first before chasing big ideological targets. Fix the balance sheet, then talk ambition.

Submission + - SPAM: China, Not SpaceX, May Be Source of Rocket Part Crashing Into Moon

An anonymous reader writes: On March 4, a human-made piece of rocket detritus will slam into the moon. But it turns out that it is not, as was previously stated in a number of reports, including by The New York Times, Elon Musk’s SpaceX that will be responsible for making a crater on the lunar surface. Instead, the cause is likely to be a piece of a rocket launched by China’s space agency.

Last month, Bill Gray, developer of Project Pluto, a suite of astronomical software used to calculate the orbits of asteroids and comets, announced that the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was on a trajectory that would intersect with the path of the moon. [...] But an email on Saturday from Jon Giorgini, an engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, changed the story. Mr. Giorgini runs Horizons, an online database that can generate locations and orbits for the almost 1.2 million objects in the solar system, including about 200 spacecraft. A user of Horizons asked Mr. Giorgini how certain it was that the object was part of the DSCOVR rocket. “That prompted me to look into the case,” Mr. Giorgini said.

Part of a rocket is expected to crash into the far side of the moon on March 4. Initially thought to be a SpaceX rocket stage, the object may actually be part of a Long March 3C rocket [that launched China’s Chang’e-5 T1 spacecraft on Oct. 23, 2014]. He found that the orbit was incompatible with the trajectory that DSCOVR took, and contacted Mr. Gray. [...] Mr. Gray now realizes that his mistake was thinking that DSCOVR was launched on a trajectory toward the moon and using its gravity to swing the spacecraft to its final destination about a million miles from Earth where the spacecraft provides warning of incoming solar storms. But, as Mr. Giorgini pointed out, DSCOVR was actually launched on a direct path that did not go past the moon. “I really wish that I had reviewed that” before putting out his January announcement, Mr. Gray said. “But yeah, once Jon Giorgini pointed it out, it became pretty clear that I had really gotten it wrong.”

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Comment Re: Intertwined... (Score 1) 233

China seeks to "control" freedom of speech outside its borders; its no longer Freedom of speech vs Communist Ideas; its about what's morally right and wrong.

Putting a firewall that disconnect the outside world to judge the facts; hide crimes against humanity, force and silence ideas that are different to their main agenda ?

Comment Re:Free Hong Kong! (Score 1) 44

Hong Kong (an area that by all means legally belongs to China) has nothing to do with Uyghurs (a race, on the other side of the map in Xinjiang).

Free Tibet, and free Xinjiang. As for HK, well.. let's see how happy USA will be if Texas does the same thing and decides it needs to be free. Then come and discuss politics with the rest of the world.

It has nothing to do with Uyghurs... yet, for now; as soon Hong Kong is becoming Uyghurs as Hong Kong now is a police state; and it is predicted to soon start building camps to detain protestors with different political view with Beijing.

Stop drawing the parallels with USA; Texas residents have their right to vote; Hong Kong residents only have the so-called right to vote only for candidates who are "pro-Beijing" and intolerant of people with different views.

Comment Its not about "China limiting Creativity" anymore (Score 1) 78

How would anyone know where this so-called the "red-line" of China that will basically "anger" the Chinese audiences actually drawn?
I mean sooner or later even waving a non-China flag the Chinese audience will probably anger them

Its not about "China limiting Creativity" anymore; China audience will just have to accept the world outside China; or they will have to learn this the hard way.

Comment Re:My right of notbeingrecognized is being recogni (Score 1) 278

Lets say this scenario: you a have few "conflicting" social circles and you are not suppose to have gatherings with one circle or another. You don't want either circle to know you still have social ties with the opposite circle, however they found this out thru the unconsented photo tagging, and causes unwanted "attention"
Well, i guess its quite common in real life as your social circle expands and conflict of interests deemed to arise, but shouldn't new functions make your life easier than causing extra havoc?

Comment Re:My right of notbeingrecognized is being recogni (Score 1) 278

Lets say this scenerio: you a have few "conflicting" social circles and you are not suppose to have gatherings with one circle or another. You don't want either circle to know you still have social ties with the opposite circle, however they found this out thru the unconsented photo tagging, and causes unwanted "attention"
Well, i guess its quite common in real life as your social circle expands and conflict of interests deemed to arise, but shouldn't new functions make your life easier than causing extra havoc?

Submission + - Man open sources his genetic data on GitHub (geek.com) 2

An anonymous reader writes: There are many services popping up on the Internet allowing you to store data about yourself or the projects you are working on. One of the most popular among the development community is GitHub: a distributed version control system mainly for software development allowing you to share and collaborate with others online.

While GitHub can be paid for as a service for private projects, open source projects get hosted for free. So there is a general mix of both types of project and over 1.7 million repositories currently stored on the service.

Manu Sporny, founder and CEO of Digital Bazaar, has decided to use GitHub to store a project of a very different nature. Rather than a piece of software, he is listing his own genetic data as an open source project. He has released all his rights to the data and made around 1 million of his genetic markers public domain.

As to why he decided to do what many may feel is a risky sharing of data so personal and unique to himself, Manu explains:

        I’ve thought long and hard about each of those questions and the many more that you ask yourself before publishing this sort of personal data. There are large privacy implications in doing this. However, speaking solely for myself, I think the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.

Manu hasn’t gone into great detail as to his thought processes yet, but promises to on his blog at a later date.

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