Military aircraft are subject to failure from being shot at. Aircraft in combat will fail much, much more often than properly maintained civilian aircraft.
Civilian aircraft don't have election seats because situations where they would be useful are exceedingly rare.
It looks like improved yield, but also there's the possibility of producing a product that has different properties than that produced on earth.
If, for example, the larger ritonavir crystals they can produce in space produce a dramatically more effective treatment, somebody's going to be interested in paying a premium for that.
Nothing all that exciting, I'm afraid. The new director of InfoSec must have watched a Cable News Show about supply chain attacks, or something, so suddenly anything with package management - pip, npm, gem, etc - was banned from the official Windows policy. Since his flunkies didn't want to get nailed, they just went ahead and flushed any associated environments/runtimes too. It wasn't super consistent. It was, however, generally a surprise - you'd log in one Monday and whoops! Where'd my Python tooling go?
Now, ok, funny thing. Engineering could just get bare metal laptops, whenever they wanted, then blow the thrice-blessed CentOS image on it, and then do whatever the hell. So what happened - and this probably sounds real predictable - they used the CentOS machines to make all sorts of nutty crap, boxed it up, and then sent it back to their "official" Windows machines, now as a locked-in-amber config that never updates, even if five years later it had like fifty zero days in it and none of the libraries were good anymore.
I understand it took a new director and a LOT of meetings to explain whitelist mirrors for package managers, but I was long gone by then, even if I had a tiny hand in rolling out the demo whitelist mirror on-prem. Man, I had no idea what I was doing . . it still makes me shudder when I think of the things they were asking me to do.
The last time I had to replace four tires at once, the mechanic could no longer source the model of tire that my car had, and refused to mix tire models on my car.
I thought that was what the article would be about. All those freezers are pumping out heat 24/7. I could see climate control being a huge issue for these facilities.
In the USA at least, to use the name "ice cream", there needs to be a certain density of cream. If the product isn't dense enough, you need to use another name, like "frozen dessert."
The products called frozen dessert are whipped up to contain lots of air. There's several advantages to this for the manufacturer: You can fill the same size container with less material, so you can cut costs. You can also list fewer calories for the same size serving.
If you truly want what actually used to be called ice cream, you want 'frozen custard', which is legally required to contain egg, something ice cream used to be required to have, but industry lobbied the feds to drop it.
The enshittification of our food chain marches on, in the never-ending quest to milk every dime out of the cost of production.
Egg-free ice cream is a thing, you know. It's colloquially called Philadelphia Style, and has been around for a long time. I make it at home for reasons far removed from cost (I just like it).
When were eggs legally required to be in ice cream? Philadelphia style ice cream predates modern food regulation.
"The laptops contain standard Microsoft Office applications, a link to the Division of Rehabilitative Programs (DRP) Learning Network, and pre-loaded approved bookmarks. This gives students access to Internet sites approved by academic instructors as appropriate for research."
In that case it would probably be good to issue to politicians - it might cut down on allegedly accidental leaks and would be of little immediate use to a thief who might "find" it on a train.
Then run them with only some variant of ChromeOS or similar on it.
Root FS is immutable, all content goes over a wireguard secured network connection. No network? No files.
"What do you mean you can't get in? It says here you're trying to access content just fine... You said you're where? Moscow? I'm sorry sir but we can't risk that."
FM has more bandwidth per channel, so better sound. And stereo. Doesn't matter much for talk radio, but it sounds like this station was mixed music/talk?
Some modern listeners don't even know what AM stations are.
AM has better propagation (lower frequency), but inherently more noise (amplitude modulated).
Military aircraft are subject to failure from being shot at. Aircraft in combat will fail much, much more often than properly maintained civilian aircraft.
Civilian aircraft don't have election seats because situations where they would be useful are exceedingly rare.