Doubtful. It makes sense for oil companies to begin (though realistically continue) investing in alternative energies if they want to survive beyond this century due to the continued decreased cost of alternative fuel/energy sources.
I wonder why you phrased your thoughts this way. The benefits are the additional options which were implemented in the fork. If there were no benefits then
1. no one would use this, which clearly isn't the case and
2. this merge wouldn't have occurred
It is not intended to be impossible. It seems to require using a portion of the game that has not been previously introduced. Try exploring portions of the game that are available to you.
I'm willing to admit that maybe I'm not the best at social interaction. I think this article is on point though.
I am unable to count the number of times I've gone to some random project community for assistance dealing with whatever problem I was having at the time to be met with someone telling me that what I'm doing is insane and shouldn't be done in the first place.
It's taught me that I should just use these outlets as a last resort. I'd rather struggle with whatever I'm attempting to solve and try to refine my searches beyond the amount of time for it to be useful than deal with very opinionated and unhelpful people in a chatroom/mailing list/forum.
The unfortunate thing is that this is generally something that happens when I deal with open source and when asked about why the interaction is the way it is, there is always a retort by someone saying the help is free and that I should be grateful. The feeling is certainly something that I could compare to what I imagine the receiving end of the santa scenario was.
It is not a Mars orbit. It's an orbit around the sun which reaches into the same orbital path Mars has. It will not interact with the planet in that way.
Under this concern, perhaps the if being used in "honeypot" mode, it could act as a reverse vault. Rather than setting up what you don't want people to see, you would instead set what you do want them to see.
Regardless, implementation details would probably be better for a different topic.
I've been working on an app/program that could be of use for this kind of situation. It's in way to early of a state to be released though. For the sake of giving it a name, we can call it Dead Man's Pass.
Effectively, for phones or laptops, you would have your standard password as well as a secondary password. If you use your fingerprint to open your phone, you would be able to register a different print as your secondary print.
Using your regular password/fingerprint would unlock the device normally. Using the secondary (dead man's pass) would either wipe the device, or open it to a honeypot state.
I think this would be useful for phones and perhaps laptops. If a memory card is confiscated, perhaps it could be encrypted with a program that follows the same concept. Either way, it allows people like DHS to demand a password, and have one given to them while also solving the problem of not wanting to show them private information.
I always wonder why articles like this are written from the perspective that things are done to get children/students/people to be interested in space. Perhaps I surround myself by a weird circle of people that are very interested but also lack the immediate opportunity to go do anything about it.
One figure we could look at is sales figures for games like Kerbal Space Program. It was one of the top selling games on Steam and has sold over 2 million copies [1] on that platform alone.
Don't get me wrong, I love that these ventures get media coverage, but I dislike that there is a stigma that people aren't interested in space.
I find it interesting that the article fails to mention the reason behind the bans. Perhaps they expect us to already know that it's due to problems with driver background checks. (correct me if I'm wrong)
Then again, if the argument is that in a pure libertarian system consumers would drive out bad actors like this, I'm not sure that this line of thinking would hold. The convenience of a cheap ride would seem to be worth the cost of the seemingly small chance that a user might be assaulted if the world worked this way.