jlbraun

What are they key problems to solve today with ion thrusters? Or another way, if you could wave a magic wand and make one obstacle in your field go away, what would it be?

Do the standard methods of accelerated life testing not apply to ion thrusters?

When will there be a Linux version?

Why do you not allow men in the changing rooms with their lady? If I am dropping $500 on lingerie I am damn sure going to want to know how it looks on her before I buy it.

Kind of a weird question, but from a certain point of view, aren't terrible things like SOPA, CISPA, the NSA spying, and internet censorship a good thing, by pushing the Web in the direction it should have gone in the first place?

I mean, besides increasing your book sales and donations of course. :)

The Web from the beginning should have been decentralized, encrypted, and P2P. Email clients should have incorporated strong encryption from the beginning and by default. Social media should have had been decentralized and had strong privacy protections from the beginning, as you knew they were going to do bad shit with the information.

Without all of these terrible things, especially the NSA spying, it was impossible to get anyone to use PGP or encrypted chat at all. "What have I got to hide, that's too hard to use." Now at least the awareness is out there.

Second, are you as surprised as I am at how much civil libertarians love Bitcoin, given that if you simply require all businesses to only accept coin from government-registered addresses (eg. apply existing AML/KYC laws to all), that opens a dimension of monetary surveillance and control that previously the NSA could only dream of?