In the meantime NASA built a whole spacecraft around it and the craft went through numerous tests. If they'd have to undo and redo all of that, they may even miss the 2025 backup launch date. I'm sure NASA is very eager to seek other ways to deal with this problem.
Ok, that sounds a bit more convincing... I'm not the OP, but I was just trying to imagine why a "sealed vault" would work better against cosmic radiation than a more prosaic screwed shut container.
Other articles[1][2] mention that the transistors came from International Rectifier which was bought by Infineon ten years ago. Maybe Infineon wasn't aware because NASA acquired the transistors through their IR subsidiary. IR provided transistors for the JWST and even for Hubble[3], so they probably were NASAs go-to supplier for this kind of hardware.
On the other hand, wouldn't people that (quite literally) live on the street have a better situational awareness regarding their urban surroundings, opposed to other pedestrians?
> So essentially everyone who isn't very into law and order type politics and cares about civil rights is against this, regardless of where they are on the political spectrum.
Germany has a very well established electronic cash system in the form of Girocard because the overwhelming majority has a Girokonto and thus no need for a separate payment method. So why should any business in Germany go through the trouble to offer additional payment options for the extremely few cases where a customer cannot pay via Girocard or with cash?
If you are frustrated that you cannot use your card you should blame whoever issued it to you. It's their responsibility to convince businesses to offer their payment method.
Batteries are just one of the many issues when headphone jacks are removed. (Also you can totally use wireless/usb-c headphones with phones with jacks, but that's something hopefully people realize.)
"an entire USB sound card" is literally a single piece of silicon (plus some passive components like resistors and capacitors) that can cost less than 10 cents to manufacture. Not exactly a huge burden here.
Additionally, unlike a 3.5mm jack, you don't need to deal with a 'sound card' that can handle almost anything you can plug into it. You get to tailor your headphone/headset drivers specifically to your attached devices. The general-purpose device that can handle anything you can throw at it costs much more.
Except for the not-so-minor issue for us Android users: The default gain on Apples adapter is far too low for most proper headphones, and Android doesn't touch the gain and just relies on software-mixer for volume control. This results in a far too low volume. On Apple and Windows devices on the other hand, they are excellent.
Imo, it's very much dependent on the intensity. I don't smoke it myself and consider a slight whiff of it quite pleasant, but I wouldn't tolerate someone smoking in my living quarters.
In the meantime NASA built a whole spacecraft around it and the craft went through numerous tests. If they'd have to undo and redo all of that, they may even miss the 2025 backup launch date. I'm sure NASA is very eager to seek other ways to deal with this problem.