People can fabricate their research, tweak the results as they want, and publish. There is no penalty for this. The reasons why they do it are the same as for any other type of fraud: money, success, prestige, etc. There needs to be a risk to breaking the public trust in science before it will stop at all. People who do this act in humility and grace, while at the same time being con artists with a skill to acquiring the nomenclature of a field of science. How did they get their PhD? Same method likely?

Solar and Wind are marketing hype, always talking about capacity, which means little when contrasted with nuclear plant or hydro project capacity. It's for the public, who are easily confused, and vote for politicians, who may also be confused. Money spent this way is 80% gesture of good will and 20% help to the grid. In the end, it is a very poor use of mined resources. It should be considered on the level of Kg of copper used per KW actually generated. What is most efficient use of the finite resources on the planet?

When I briefly worked at a convenience store decades ago, the owner mentioned research on how long the average customer was in the store. I don't remember the number, but it was less than 5 minutes. This is the feature of this type of store. The only people who hang around a 7-11 for very long don't have money for a car. The whole business model of such stores is to serve people quickly and get them out the door.

"It's not so cool to have so many problems" - Talking Heads

The idiot wants to make things big but he doesn't understand mining and scale. There's a saying: if it isn't grown, then it's mined. There's simply not enough production capacity to make all these battery walls, etc. It's currently limited by how sunshine evaporates the liquids pumped out of the earth containing lithium in South America and Australia in huge desert flats.

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One of Canada's National Parks will let you dance on it or anything you like. The OP Article makes it sound like a unique discovery.

If you're on facebook, don't use personal info, no different than this place.

Exactly, media looking for sensational stories.

After Swiss Air 111 crash due to fire/smoke in cockpit, every aircraft landing due to reports of smoke was reported in headlines. It's like they believed the aircraft have something contagious.

Actually ZFS protects the file system integrity, not data. It will gladly roll back a transaction to restore the file system to full integrity.

How do I know this? From experience. A failing SCSI drive was causing errors in logs and I copied it into service request for Oracle, so they could send us a replacement. The system had to be rebooted for stability reasons. When it came back up I ran the Solaris Explorer report. The support people said the logs showed no errors. I searched and they were right - the log files had 3 days of information missing.

Tell me how your software RAID stands up to hundreds of concurrent users connecting to an IMAP service like cyrus with Horde webmail. Had a system like that years ago with good SCSI drives which had performance issues. Switched the system to new server with hardware RAID controller, performance was excellent. I think it's partially the better latency performance you get with dedicated RAID disk controllers.

It seems the winner is Tesla if the VM electric isn't for sale. I can see it on the website for my country, but I can't get one.

Exactly. This article is hype. You can have a million sensors on a car, but if there is no uplink technology on board, no one is collecting it. The position of the vehicle might be available with On star or Tesla, etc., but very few vehicles have such tech.

The concept of delays for security patches is not generally true. Perhaps in the initial release of a major version there would be a gap, but for any nasty zero days and so on, CentOS was patched almost at the same time as Redhat. I work in a facility where we've migrated most Redhat to CentOS, and there were no issues with obtaining security patches quickly. However we stay behind a little to be in the sweet spot for sufficient security and less bleeding edge, and that's version 7.* today.

I don't have to say "on behalf of Debian" but it would fulfill the joke:
Debian will match Redhat's offer of a free OS.

IBM on Redhat appears to be the same changing cascade of deals as when Oracle took over Sun Microsystems.

The developers of this seem to ignore the basic reality going on with gun ownership. Gun owners can and do take apart their guns regularly, for cleaning, or replacement of parts as they wear out, or to adjust features such as trigger weight.

At the most base level, a gun is a hammer and a nail. It is very difficult to make something to prevent that simple action from happening

It would also require the firing pin/bolt and chamber area to be a maintenance free which can be locked out from access. Either they would come up with a gun enema kit that could do some kind of half ass job of cleaning the gun, or the guns would need to be viewed as disposable after so many rounds have gone through it.

Anything that can be designed can be overridden by the owner, given some efforts. It could be useful in the case of preventing a gun being snatched from police officers and used against them, but it would have no role in securing a gun from being used by an unauthorized user who has possession of it long enough to crack whatever the safe guards are.