Posts by ponga

Re: And shut the door on your way out ...

<blockquote>Simple, make it a requirement that Starlink(SpaceX) create a replacement for Hubble and launch it on their dime. Then we'd be good for the next 30 years.

You could call it a good faith gesture to astronomers, or a cost of doing business like subdivision developers that have to do initial public roads and utilities.</blockquote>

Would you care to make a back of the envelope calculation as to exactly how many space telescopes it would take to replace all the ground based observation hours getting ruined just by Starlink satellite trails? Better book all the Falcon 9's for the next five years, is my guess. Apart from the cost of designing and building those telescopes, of course.

Elon isn't paying for his externalities. I love the rocketry, but I hate the negligence behind his financing business plan.

Lithium is an alkali metal, not a RE. In related news (possibly fluff, but I'm somewhat hopeful): https://phys.org/news/2021-06-electrochemical-cell-harvests-lithium-seawater.html

Re: Oh not biometrics again

"Next, Biometrics could very simply be changed in EXACTLY the same way we change regular passwords. Send an email asking to be changed, re-scan fingerprint. I fail to see how this is an issue."

Wow, they'll issue you new fingertips? Sounds painful.

Re: Archive vs right to be forgotten

I broadly agree with you that, as I conceive of natural rights, there is no absolute right to be forgotten. However, this does not mean that there are no legal problems to address: with the EU General Data Protection Regulations coming into force this spring, you will in fact have a general right to remove records from any organization storing your personal information (with some obvious exceptions for e.g. active business relationships and security). The usual tricky question of jurisdictions then raises its ugly head.

In the very longest term, we will of course all be forgotten. Isn't that comforting?

Heh. Nine years earlier, I splurged on a 20 MB hard drive for my first PC. And a full length extension memory board to get 2 MB RAM based swap space for complilation, above the MSDOS limit of 640/768kB… Good heavens, I'm ancient!

Re: Alas poor Privacy!

"Sorry, bad integrity! I knew him." Google Translate has a way to go yet.

Re: Soon...

Perhaps you should read up on those happy-fun-times of, say, the Mongol conquests, the An Lushan rebellion, and the second Sino-Japanese war? Sorry, mate, us Europeans ain't all that special.

Vulnerability

To be perfectly fair, if it really can't be uninstalled, *that's* a security flaw. The rest is PEBKAC.

Re: Options

Wow, am I glad I'm not tasked with maintaining the Office macro-hacks you seem to be churning out, when the next few 'upgrades' come rolling along from Redmond. Best of luck.