Even with SG1, SG1 definitely also had plenty of space and space ships, can't remember from which season exactly but lots of episodes have the team spent stuck on ships in space.
Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe aren't "occasionally on space ships". That's fundamental to their entire plot.
From Wikipedia, though: "Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction[1] and science fantasy[2] that emphasizes epic outer space adventures set in a universe in which faster-than-light travel has become common."
Stargate, even without the 2 series above, absolutely fits that definition. Very little of SG1 takes place on Earth. It's absolutely about aliens and crossing distances faster than light, and the epic adventures and social interactions that result.
Edit: Also, there's pretty heavy discussion that Dr Who is space opera.
I can't accept that Wikipedia is an authoritative source, but existence of FTL is not the sole determinant. That would make 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe' space opera.
Space Opera is any true descendent of Van Vogt's "Voyage of the Space Beagle" or EE Doc Smith Lensman series, Horatio Hornblower but in space, etc.
It requires the space opera quality, not the soap opera style.
Star Trek is in, Star Gate (core, not including their Universe and Atlantis) just jumps around with the Star Gate. It's Sci-Fi but not space opera. Probably a budgetary constraint of episodic TV, but nonetheless.
I think they are thinking of something of a poorly designed Dyson Swarm, the plebs who came up with it think that with "cheap" launches, no permits really, and free* power, it might really come out in the wash and be easier to scale.
Is it a good idea? Most likely not, the amount of issues they are going to have is going to be amazing.
The language I grew up with does use non latin letters, I can manage. Then again, it's only four of them, so I get your point ... but I can dream, can't I?
Any fule no that a file name is just an array of bytes (excluding the null byte and the slash). You can create a file with a name that is an invalid UTF-8 encoding. It's fun to see how much software chokes on that!
I did the same thing with a old multiplayer game called Wulfram, we got it online and a mostly working server (most of the game logic was server side with no surviving code or binary) with the help of AI, Mostly opus and astra. https://wulfram3.com is our efforts in this.
IIRC, Netscape 4.* series was the last in the proprietary line of Netscape Navigators (though 4.* had a broader name like "Communicator" or something, since it included more than just the browser — but "3.0 Gold" was the one I remember most fondly as my first true good browser).
After that, open source efforts to rebuild the entire browser and mail client took years as XUL and Gecko were being built as very generic reusable components, opening up the space for competition to spring up. On top of that, Microsoft leveraged the Windows moat, including IE 3.0 and later 4.0 as the basis of Windows "97" (95 something-something) and 98, along with ActiveX push. By the time legal systems caught up with the practice of bundling a browser into a dominant OS, Netscape and Mozilla were toast.
Everything from there on was an uphill battle, and when KHTML was turned into WebKit by Apple, and adopted by Google for Chrome, there was also an open source engine (or two) supported by infinite money.
That's at least how I remember it, but you are welcome to fact-check me on any of those since this is now 20-30 years ago.
How do you imagine that would work for something like this?
Suppose you live in South America, register a domain from a registry in Canada and then have users accessing it from Ukraine. Are we going to give every local government a global root certificate? Have a single one in California or Texas that every other country is somehow forced to use? Or make it so people in Europe can't access sites in Asia and vice versa?
The existing system is more than the usual amount of messed up but that seems like one of the things that could actually make it worse.
The point GP was making is that DNS-record based ACME mechanism for verification of ownership implies trust in the domain name owner (or really, anyone who can edit records in the domain zone), making the issuance of a certificate actually superfluous.
DNSSEC is probably not even used, though I never checked.
Eg. as a domain owner, you will put a cryptographic hash into your DNS zone so a CA can validate you have control over it, and then issue a different cryptographic hash derived from their private key, and browser will use their public key to validate this cryptographic hash (TLS cert) is valid.
So we could simply push public key into a DNS zone, and browsers could use it to decrypt the traffic encrypted by the private key from the server hosted under that DNS name: no CAs needed, similar to SSH except the DNS-ownership-implied-trust component.
"Extended validation" certificates involved a lot more (in theory, checking true ownership, business address, physical presence, etc), but nobody really cares about these, and with the push to automated renewal and 45-day expiration dates by 2028, it's going to make even less sense.
Edit: I realize now that you may be referring to the fact that MITM DNS server can inject a different public key in there and thus DNSSEC is required — you are absolutely right, and this is a good and important point.
It's all an elaborate scheme by the ISRG: compete all the commercial CAs out of existence, and then charge A MILLION DOLLARS for a certificate renewal. I've seen this movie before.
You can do that just fine. You can order a minimum of five PCBs and choose to have only two assembled. Then you'll get three unpopulated PCBs and two assembled ones. That's a way to get finished PCBs very cheaply.
Be aware that every component that you use that is not in their basic and preferred extended parts library incurs a one-time three-dollar fee. This hurts disproportionately if your entire design is low count and low cost. So if you always go for the latest and greatest ICs as advertised by TI, instead of the Chinese jellybean clone, you'll add up hidden fees quickly. However, when I choose components, I start out on their basic parts page and only go for a non-basic part if it's not there and I really need it.
It's random, but the chosen orbs to queue up are chosen from edges of the piles that you have, also if you hold shift, that is a wildcard orb and will match anything. If you do it with a 0x80 it will purge a good bit of the board
I inclined to believe so. I miss shows like that, we need more space operas
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