And you may not even be able to verify that the drive was completely erased -- modern ATA drives have a "secure erase" feature (and many (most?)) SCSI drives do too, but I don't think you can verify that remapped bad blocks were completely erased.

Full disk encryption helps, but configuration mistakes happen, maybe a mistake in provisioning scripts meant that a rack of servers didn't get FDE set up properly and plain text data was written to the drive before it was discovered and corrected.

Because (at least with Android), side loading exists, so even if the app store requires GPS location to operate, side loading bypasses the app store. And of course if the app store restriction is based on geolocating IP address, that's trivial to bypass with a VPN.

It will be interesting to see what happens when ChatGPT submits misleading or outright false public filings or regulatory information -- who will be held responsible?

Why? If the computer can do it better (or at least as good) as me, why shouldn't I let the computer do it, assuming that I vet it for accuracy?

I stopped carrying around a dayplanner years ago because the computer is a much better time tracker than I am with pen and paper, so why shouldn't I let the computer help me with other tasks that it's good at?

So the USA said it's Chinese, China says it's Chinese, but that's all a misdirection? How far are we supposed to follow this conspiracy theory?

If it's not Chinese, why did the Chinese government say it was theirs?

Or we sent a message that we're not afraid of surveillance balloons, but if we were, we'd have no problem shooting them down.

It'd be pretty hard to traverse the USA in a balloon without flying over *some* military asset.

This wasn't a party balloon that you could burst with a pinprick, years ago Canada tried to take down a balloon with 1000 rounds of canon fire and were unsuccessful.

Given that they wanted to recover the payload to see what it was, they probably didn't want to hit that part with the missile.

I'd like to see you take down a large balloon with a slingshot -- Canada once tried to take down a balloon with 1000 rounds of cannon fire and couldn't bring it down until the helium slowly leaked out.

This kind of balloon doesn't pop like a party balloon and are under very low pressure, so a hole just causes a very slow leak.

Weren't their antics already published? Are there more unpublished antics?

Because most people don't understand or really care about security and the average consumer isn't going to find out about this breach at all. They'll see the product on Amazon, see that it has a 4.7 star rating, then click "Buy"

Doordash and other companies have already squeezed as much value out of me as they are going to get in my lifetime.

My breaking point was when I ordered a couple Banh Mi's from a local vietnamese place. When I go to the restaurant, they cost $8.95 a piece, so for about $20 I've got a meal for two.

Then one time I had a $40 promo credit and ordered on Door Dash, between the inflated menu prices ($12.95 for a sandwich that cost $8.95 in store!), the service fee, the delivery fee, a couple other fees I can't remember, and driver tip, it cost over $75 for the order. Even with the $40 credit, it cost $15 more than going to the store.

You're confusing continuous power (600W 24x7) and instantaneous power (25KW fast chargers that will charge a car in a few hours).

My EV plugs into my regular household outlet and charges around 30 hours/week at around 1000W. (a little less than that since the last 20% of charging is at a much slower rate than the first 80%, but it's capped at 9A so the max is around 1000W).

So in a week, my EV uses around 30KWh of energy, while the 600W bitcoin miner uses around 100KW, or 3 times as much.

I went to college well before Zoom or the modern internet... I never recall the university promising in-person instruction and several of my undergraduate classes were televised - we went to normal classrooms, but there was a television in the front of the room and one professor taught hundreds of students at once. Some of the other classes were in big 200+ person rooms where even though the teacher was there in person, he wasn't giving any real 1:1 time.

You could schedule time with a teaching assistant if you needed 1:1 help, but I'd think that online classes had that option too, though the 1:1 time would be via zoom.