The whole drama around semiconductors is driven by people who don't understand how they are used and by figures in the industry happy to milk that ignorance for big piles of tax payer's money. Chips … (View Post)

The implications are terrifying, without question. It now takes comparatively tiny amounts of money and resources to cause massive damage to a nation's infrastructure, so much so that a mid-level ter… (View Post)

Unfortunately so true. I ride a motorcycle with L plates and they're a very effective arsehole magnet. Drivers regularly come right up to my rear wheel, revving the engine and jinking right looking f… (View Post)

Depressing. We're desperately short of engineers and scientists, but the hobbies that spark curiosity in young people are gradually being regulated out of existence. (View Post)

I'm not so sure about that one. Boeing has a major advantage, airlines have nowhere else to go. Airbus' production is booked up for years, abandoning Boeing means a 5-10 year wait for new aircraft. S… (View Post)