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Comment Re:We need a infosec recall law (Score 1) 115

Model Ts are street legal under antique car registration laws. Mind you, you can't drive them on the highway because they can't go fast enough (if the speed limit is 55, there's a minimum limit of 45, which a stock Model T would struggle to achieve) But they can be and are driven on roads.

But no one is telling Ford they should provide support, parts and upgrades

Submission + - Killer Robots Are About to Fill Ukrainian Skies (wsj.com) 1

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: In a front-line dugout this spring, a Ukrainian drone navigator selected a target—a Russian ammunition truck—by tapping it on a tablet screen with a stylus. The pilot flicked a switch on his handset to select autopilot and then watched the drone swoop down from a few hundred yards away and hit the vehicle.

“Let it burn,” said one of the team, as they observed a plume of smoke on a video feed from a reconnaissance drone.

Strikes like this represent a big advance in Ukraine’s attempts to use computers to help it combat Russia’s huge army. The drone that carried it out was controlled in the final attack phase by a small onboard computer designed by the U.S.-based company Auterion. Several other companies, many of them Ukrainian, have successfully tested similar autopilot systems on the battlefield.

Now, an even bigger breakthrough looms: mass-produced automated drones. In a significant step not previously reported, Ukraine’s drone suppliers are ramping up output of robot attack drones to an industrial scale, not just prototypes.

Enabling the upshift is producers’ successful integration of inexpensive computers into sophisticated, compact systems that replicate capabilities previously found only in far pricier equipment.

“None of this is new,” said Auterion founder and chief executive Lorenz Meier. “The difference is the price.”

Submission + - It Sounds Like NASA's Moon Rocket Might Be Getting Canceled (futurism.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: NASA has squandered $27 billion on the SLS moon rocket — $6B over budget and 5 years late. The SLS isn't reusable so even if they finished it — it is already obsolete. It is clear to everyone that the boondoggle has failed but the newest plan is to find a way to blame Trump.

There is a big desire for big changes.

Submission + - Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Is Waiting for Trump to Free Him (wired.com)

Submitted by SonicSpike
SonicSpike writes: As Americans and the world grapple with how last week’s election will reshape the next four years and beyond, few have as much personally at stake from a new presidential administration as one 40-year-old man in a federal penitentiary in Tucson, Arizona. For Ross Ulbricht, creator of the legendary dark-web drug market known as Silk Road, who has been in prison since 2013, a Donald Trump presidency could mean the difference between freedom and a lifetime in a cell.

“Immense gratitude to everyone who voted for President Trump on my behalf. I trust him to honor his pledge and give me a second chance,” Ulbricht wrote on X one week after the election, through an account controlled by his wife. “After 11+ years in darkness, I can finally see the light of freedom at the end of the tunnel. Thank you so much, @realDonaldTrump. ”

After the government identified him as the administrator behind Silk Road’s cryptoanarchic marketplace and arrested him in an FBI sting in late 2013, Ulbricht was convicted in 2015 on seven charges relating to money laundering, computer hacking, and the distribution of narcotics and was sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole. Nearly nine years later, at the Libertarian National Convention this May, then-presidential candidate Trump promised to commute Ulbricht’s sentence “on day one” if reelected, letting him walk free. There were cheers from the audience—many waving “Free Ross” signs—for the former dark-web mastermind, who has become a cause célèbre in the cryptocurrency and libertarian worlds.

Now that Trump has emerged victorious, however, Ulbricht and his supporters must wait at least another agonizing nine weeks to find out whether the president-elect—who has a history of abandoning campaign promises and who once rejected calls to pardon Ulbricht at the end of his first term—will act on his pledge.

“Regardless of what one thinks of Silk Road, Ross’ actions, or the political aspects of Trump and the largely right-wing crypto community’s support for Ross, I firmly believe his sentence is unjust,” says Alex Winter, the actor and director who released a documentary about Ulbricht’s case in 2015. Winter says he has corresponded intermittently with Ulbricht over the years since then. “He’s already been in prison for over a decade, and he should be free.”

However, Winter has less faith than Ulbricht in Trump’s vow to grant him clemency. “I’m not someone who trusts Trump to be true to his word,” Winter says. “So it’s a bit anxiety-provoking to wait and see if he makes good on this promise.”

Submission + - RFK Jr nominated for Head of HHS (independent.co.uk)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: HHS included the CDC and FDA

Kennedy ran as independent candidate while attacking Covid-era lockdown rules, and has referred to vaccines as unproven and dangerous

Submission + - New model calculates chances of intelligent beings in our universe and beyond (ras.ac.uk)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: The chances of intelligent life emerging in our universe—and in any hypothetical ones beyond it—can be estimated by a new theoretical model which has echoes of the famous Drake Equation.

This was the formula that American astronomer Dr. Frank Drake came up with in the 1960s to calculate the number of detectable extraterrestrial civilizations in our Milky Way galaxy.

More than 60 years on, astrophysicists led by Durham University have produced a different model which instead focuses on the conditions created by the acceleration of the universe's expansion and the amount of stars formed.

Comment Agencies should be able to force Congress to vote (Score 1) 3

by schwit1 (#64942761) Attached to: US Court of Appeals upends 50 years of Environmental Law

If it gets enforced the same as a law(ie rules, regulations, policies) it should have to be passed by Congress(elected) and signed by the President(elected).

Executive agencies should be able to send to Congress a desired regulation and it should be required that it be voted on within 30 days of Congress receiving it.

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