I noticed that as well. I have gotten a better one. But the Eneloop batteries are very good. Shame they do not seem to want to do 9V, but Duracell has some 9V NiHM intended for smoke-detectors and the like that seem almost as good.

IIRC Kennedy originally wanted to do something spectacular to show the world how advanced the US was, and things like desalinating water were considered. But he also wanted to improve relations with the USSR, and when he proposed going to the moon he then started putting forward the idea of a joint mission.

It was still in the early stages when he was assassinated, so the mission profile hadn't been decided upon and most people were expecting there to be a moon orbit rendezvous between a crew capsule and lander launched separately. So the thought was that the US and USSR could send their own crew capsules, and then both board a joint lander, and go down together. Presumably they would have had to figure out how to have an astronaut and cosmonaut step onto the surface at the same time.

So it was a dick measuring contest, but there was also the possibility of it fostering cooperation. Shame it didn't happen until Apollo/Soyuz.

Trump Hotel.

NASA is already talking about a "perimeter".

For that use NiMH is much better. Much, much longer charge retention (with current tech), comparable capacity, many more charging cycles and no fire risk.

I hate to defend the UK, and there have been some serious mistakes made, but nobody is in jail for hate speech. It's always something like harassment or credible threats. In fact, a recent case demonstrated that even criminal damage, throwing someone's phone on the ground, isn't a crime anymore, unless there is very strong evidence that it was damaged by that specific action. That incident was preceded by months of harassment too, and the guy got away with it.

That's how it works.

The browser has two filesystem APIs. The older one just lets it display a file chooser, and then the browser gives it access to that one file that the user picked, sandboxed, and nothing else. Any writes are cached until all security checks are passed, and then the browser copies the data out of the sandbox.

The problem with that is performance. So there is a second API which creates an isolated, sandboxed, quota enforced filesystem just for that one website. The quota counts for everything the site stores, including cookies and other stuff. It gets cleared when th user clears site data, e.g. automatically on closing the browser. The benefit is performance for cached data.

I know you hate it, but a lot of people use web apps. Office apps, CAD apps, games, IDEs, all sorts of things. I'm sure one of the reasons why Linux has been able to make gains lately is because so many popular apps only require a web browser now, not a compatible OS.

It's not that. Junction noise is believed to be truly random, governed by quantum physics, and impossible to predict.

The question is, can you prove it? That's what they have done here - created a system that is provably random, not just strongly suspected to be by our current understanding of quantum physics, and a review of the measurement hardware.

The same claims have been made about lotteries that use physical balls. They wear out, the machines are unbalanced, the painted on numbers make some heavier than others... None of it has ever been proven AFAIK. If there is some bias, it's too small to matter on the scale these things are used for.

An example of where it does matter and has been previously exploited is card deck shuffling. Particularly online or other "virtual" card decks that only exist in the computer's memory. You might think that simply swapping every card with another random one would guarantee a well shuffled deck, but it turns out to quite a difficult problem to solve.

Staking a claim maybe. China is probably headed to the same area, because there are resources there. China has already demonstrated some of the required capability, and has installed relay satellites at key positions to facilitate it.

The think is, Lithium is really only good for mobile battery applications, because of energy density. For stationary use, other chemistries offer better lifetime, lower cost, better safety, etc., and that is the reason why alternatives matter.

I guess they are not serious about actually securing anything.

The moderation down only shows that we have plenty of stupid scam victims. The LLM pushers know that. Hence thanks for proving my point.

True.

But the "they" you refer to can't be excluded. And specialize in co-opting other movements for street riots, breaking windows of businesses unrelated to the issue and lighting dumpsters on fire. And then disappearing into the woodwork.

Is that make-up water for cooling towers? Or pumped out of a river, passed through an exchanger and then returned with some specified maximum temperature rise?