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> And the lady doing the tests can clearly been seen faking tests because she has to "meet targets"
So that's where Elizabeth Holmes went
>Lets hope they aren't doing the same with the plane tests.
No need to fake the plane tests, just don't do them and don't tell the Feds
>Its not the people of China that are the issue, it's the CCP that we all have an issue with,
Fortunately in a democracy the failings are the fault of the electorate not the leaders
This isn't a problem of modern engines needing computers. This is deliberate user fee lockin. The filter needs to be swapped every X hours then the engine will stop at X hours until the official service agent has swapped the filter and reset the clock.
But of course this isn't a user fee per X hours, it's genuinely that a filter lasts precisely X hours in all circumstances and can only be swapped by the official service agent.
>It's weird that a company is able to build a single model of tractor, and sell it with different licenses controlling the power output
That's legitmately the one good use for DRM.
Build 6 different models of engine, each with it's own emissions certification and set of spare parts = higher cost for all models, more expensive maintenance, longer waits for parts VS build one model and sell the power output the customer wants.
You only need water and electricity to operate a fab
If you can get a tax break for simply building a building, or promising to build a building, or laying out the marker tape for a building and arrange a ribbon and a silver spade for a political photo op.
Presumably NVidia can just render a CEO and politician into a ground breaking ceremony entirely in a GPU
Following privatised space we can have privatised ICBMs. In orbit is a network of fabs, car plants, bank head offices and movie production companies packaged in cube SATs.
On a message from the appropriate stock market they can fire their retro rockets and break ground anywhere on earth in 4minutes
Yes the kit works, the question is whether it's a good public investment.
Essentially give Starlink a guaranteed subsided business to supply certain rural areas with a service that works from day one, but might not be as great in 5years VS run fibre which can be expanded and improved and supply fast service for decades.
It's like for some remote rural areas it might make more sense to pay a local taxi company rather than run a bus, but it wouldn't necessarily be the best thing to give UBER a $Bn instead of building a subway.
>Correct me if i am wrong or misinformed, but is there not a chip shortage? If so then wouldn't this worsen it?
But only for cheap Chinese versions of cutting edge chips that they don't make yet.
What's important for national security is that China won't be able to develop next generation AI supercomputer GPU chips that are used in imaginary next generation weapons.
Fortunately all the chips that are actually used in deployed systems were designed 10-20 years ago and are made in China using 10-20 year old fabs
That's what section 230 currently covers.
If usenet took down one child porn or terrorism post, then they would no longer be a platform and would be liable for somebody saying something hurtful about your dog
Section 230 allows a platform to block some posts without becoming a publisher.
Of course they do. I'm assistant technician (3rd class) in charge of Nest thermostats. Although all changes to temperature settings must be approved by a weekly committee meeting.
PS wonder if the automatic downvote on everypost I've ever made following a comment on the QE2 thread is manual or a bot. Will see how long it takes for thus to get noticed
With a slightly improved beam forming 5G antennae, perhaps requiring the phone to be flat or pointed in the right direction it might be possible in the future for some bandwidth data link. IIRC a bunch of these space internet companies have "demonstrated" this.
You can see how SpaceX would love this, a billion potential customers that they don't need to supply H/W to.
Whether that bandwidth is worth the cost for non-emergency use? If you have internet but can't do spotify or netflix or tiktok is there any point ? (kids today!)
You have to jump through some pretty big hoops to get a satellite signal.
So if the domestic terrorist patriot is prepared to closely follow the onscreen instructions and keep the phone pointed at the satellite for 5-15mins then the MMB will know their location, but probably only to a 100km from a single pass fix (in use the phone sends it's local GPS location as part of the SAR message)
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