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Comment Re:Is this news? (Score 1) 77

>"I am seeing countless, mostly elderly, folks using Edge because they dont know how to convince windows to let them use chrome by default."

But using Chrome is no better for our ecosystem. They are both Chromium and ultimately Google-controlled. They both harm web-standards, freedom, security, and privacy. So that would still be a lose for everyone.

Comment Interesting (Score 1) 9

Companies that sell control systems with proprietary software running on Windows could distribute their software running on Wine/OpenBSD as an appliance without reengineering the application.

Windows updates/hardware abandonment etc. are real headaches while control systems ought to be secure.

GPL virality has many vendors scared of linux appliances, warranted or not.

Comment Re:The Expense Is In The Shutdown And Cleanup (Score 1) 126

Data centers are the perfect customer for nuclear power. The data center wants to draw a relatively fixed amount of power around the clock and nuclear is great at delivering exactly that. Nuclear is less efficient if it needs to ramp up and down, especially if some other plants are given preferential treatment.

Outside of geothermal, there's no good alternative for this kind of use case that doesn't need to rely on massive battery storage to balance out generation with demand or that doesn't need to transmit the power from elsewhere and spike the prices there.

Comment Re:manual intervention? (Score 1) 19

They could breed the algae separately and load up a UAV with "bath bombs" buoyant at the correct depth to deploy them where it sees bleaching. One of the large solar powered planes wirh giant wings would suffice. Speed isn't valuable, just range and payload. Payload can be multiplied with increased numbers of aircraft.

With polarized lenses and sufficient ML cameras it should be quite precise.

Some work would need to be done to work out dispersants and adhesives.

It wouldn't be conceptually different than the fish breeding and stocking operations already common in most states, just more complicated.

Comment Re:I'm jus' a simple country engineer (Score 1) 60

Yeah, would a smart speedbag be illegal, if held?

More importantly this is all clearly theater, not a contest.

It almost seems like a MIC play to get people to be OK with humanoid soldiers.

The real Terminators can't lose to a human in martial combat.

Perhaps the boxing commission is complicit in the psyop.

Comment Re:Not sure what's meant to be demonstrated here (Score 0) 60

OTOH, having done the latter, what have we learned? That we can design and build a robot that we nerfed just enough that it usually loses in hand-to-hand combat?

Humans pretty much knew for the last thousand years of competition that men are built different.

Then 21st Century Feminism came along and started to justify the destruction of the entire concept of competition. Which is why the WNBA may soon see slam dunks that will make Shaq shudder.

You ask what have we learned? Human Competition today is wondering why you’re even asking that. It’s now both irrelevant and offensive.

Comment Re:Change to a monthly service (Score 1) 130

I expect a lot of these game companies to change to a system where:

1) You pay for a yearly contract to play ANY of their games.

2) Despite them having only one or two games that people want to play, in addition to 8+ crappy games that no reasonable person would pay to play.

This allows them to screw over people in a manner similar to what they do now.

You do know that you wouldn't have to sign up for such a scheme, right? There's no gun to your head?

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