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Comment Another Bad-For-America Move (Score 2) 132

There's no part of the merger that's good for America because Space-X enjoys government protection, and nearly holds a monopoly in orbital transportation systems, currently--and Tesla nearly holds a monopoly in electric cars. Generally monopolies should be broken up--not allowed to coalesce.

In studying American manufacturing, when we had it, those who filled a need with government and military supply were give special breaks that their American competitors were not, and that advantage stifled competition and created laziness and complacency in American companies--which in turn, left us open for the onslaught of foreign manufacturing, first from Japan, and then from China. If it weren't for the tilted playing field, perhaps we would have more manufacturing here.

Comment $180 Billion for Fukashima Cleanup (Score 2) 86

Could Amazon afford the cleanup cost for their reactors? Are you going to pay for the accidents that they cause? It's all for the sake of putting hardworking American's out of work. Basically, in America, we have a Banana Republic, where depts are public and profits are private.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And here's a nice little reactor story for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Submission + - Which Major Websites and Advertisers Wrongly Equate Privacy as Ad-Blocking? 1

BrendaEM writes: We see it each day. You navigate to a website, and you are greeted with an overlay that states that you have an advertisement blocker or plugin installed, but you don't have one—it's just that their advertising wants to track you or individualize your advertisement experience. Perhaps it would be beneficial to set the record straight.

Which websites and advertising companies have you noticed that wrongly confabulate privacy as ad-blocking?

Comment The Slowest Horse in a Race with the Slowest Horse (Score 1) 91

Windows 11 is really terrible now, not under your control. I just help a friend who, was in a Zoom meeting, when Window tried to do a background update. It crashed the computer--mostly, then because of Fast startup--it would only load/restore the beleaguered partially crashed state. It's amazing that over the phone, we had to figure out how to prevent the computer from loading what it crashed, and boot. I have 8 computers in the house, most with Windows 11 licensees, which now run Linux Mint as their daily driver. There are only a few apps left. It's tragic what Microsoft did to Windows 11.

Submission + - Margret Hamilton, Director Working on the Apollo Guidence Computer, Passes Away

BrendaEM writes: From Wikipedia: Margaret Hamilton (née Heafield; August 17, 1936 – September 30, 2026) was an American computer scientist. She directed the Software Engineering Division at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, where she led the development of the on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Guidance Computer for the Apollo program. She later founded two software companies, Higher Order Software in 1976 and Hamilton Technologies in 1986, both in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

https://arstechnica.com/scienc...
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