And like that, the massive TSMC complex in North Phoenix is rendered moot.

No, actually, it seems TSMC is busy with geographic diversification, and in equal measures for political/etc. purposes, and invasion-proofing. I consider the Chinese invasion threat something other than geopolitical.

This has been obvious to any intent observers, and necessary. I expect next we will hear that their best and brightest engineers, designers, and all other technical staff are across the globe commissioning these new plants, for indefinite periods of time. I pity those unable to get assigned overseas, but eventually every other significant industry in Taiwan will follow suit. If China does invade, may they inherit a dry husk.

"for as little as $45 a month (plus $30 network connection fee, so $75)."

And like that, Techdirt also cannot quite state the price without obfuscating the fees etc. as a footnote.

This is the point of a federal law that the industry is fighting, yet even journalists can't just say '$75 a month'.

Yeah, the price is pretty competitive. Wish this wwr happening in Arizona, but never to be. The powers will never let it be born.

Great. Profit with responsibility to shareholders, bad. Profit with responsibility to, I don't know, those who don't like the corporation? Good. Oh sure. That doesn't work in the real world. That's why I think you're a libertarian, are you trying to make points that don't actually work in the real world? I don't buy it. I think you're misguided on this. But it's very popular and very satisfying to find fault with profitable corporations, especially the more profitable. They are. Not very fashionable to recognize that this is how our society in the United States is organized. I'm open to better solutions, but I can guarantee you socialism is not one of them. And just blindly complaining about success and other people getting money isn't one of them either.

"reasonable profit"

"make more money "

And just like that, you;ve conflated. A reasonable profit in light ofi inflation is 'more money'. Add in research and development, response to competition (woops, repeating myself), and it's 'more money'.

Please try not to cling to your indignation at capitalism, consider the alternatives and work to improve, not destroy. K? Bibi.

ps- from here you seem like a Libertarian. That was intended as an insult.

Good Lord, this has been a problem since aropund 1998, and is fixable with effort and competent programming.

Oh, right, government.

Apples and oranges. Not too mention the difference in scale. So far I don't think SpaceX has lost a life in space travel, but the sample size is too small. And the same for Boeing and the CCP. But don't compare them on that basis, because first, if you recall, at least one shuttle accident and loss of life was due to very bad decision making by NASA. Not that SpaceX or Boeing are any better, so let's wait and see what happens. In the meantime, Boeing's having a hard time because this is new to them doing it this way, and honestly I don't think they can get anywheres near budget. They don't know how to do that. They're not how to build stuff, but remember the old NASA qualifier. Good, fast or cheap, any two of the three.

Even Boeing itself has admitted that this is a new form of venture for them. Boeing has in the past done space travel work on cost-plus contracts, and NASA granted those given the urgency and unknowns at the times. But we are well along in the development of these technologies, and the competition for the Conmercial Crew Program is unique in several arreas. For Boeing, fixed-price contracts for space work are really tough, and they are struggling to manage costs.

Some would say Boeing has failed to control costs, leading to rushes, delays, missed deadlines, technical debt, and ultimately being unable to delvier anywhere on time.

Meanwhile, SpaceX is flying. They have navigated the Conmercial Crew Program constraints well enough.

I really do hope Boeing succeeds, but that is not at all certain as of today. They are playing a new game. Hopefully they will learn.

I can change ports, but never will an external request on port 443 be forwarded to me. I don't need this, I will not run my own mail server at home. I have one out there in the cloud already.

Your ISP is not my ISP. But if you forward ports, why? Can you just jit your home server via HTTPS directly, or do you forward a port to it for external access?

My service, Cox, blocks ports 80,443, 25, 143, 135, 136-139, 445, 1433, 1434, 1900. They do not wish to support customer-operated email and web servers,
for what should be obvious reasons, nor access to well-known services that are exploited often, such as MS-SQL and NetBIOS/SMB, similarly. I can live with that. BUT - my fixed wireless alternatives, such as Verizon and T-Mobile, do not permit any port forwarding AFAIK. So those are out, I want SSH for instance, on random ports, and yes those hosts are hardened as well as a VPS could hope to be.

I could run my own gateway, but here COx would still block the well-known ports. Feh. I will reverse proxy soon and spit on their restrictions.

Well, since this offer relies, apparently, on a subscription, going to a simple-ish virtual server somewhere is a choice.

When I consider changing ISPs, my current cable service blocking the obvious ports (80,443, etc), I think of saving about $40/mo outright, and having a virtual server 'out there' for even $20/mo is a win. BUT, I still do not have my home media/file server available everywhere.

So it's a Wireguard VPN for me. Bit of a nuisance, but I have an external POP that will let me.

ps, FTFS: "New limits on greenhouse gas emissions..."

Daylight crypto mining isn't very useful, it reduces the work by 40-60%. Buying land in a catbox state to build use-specific solar would face the same level of opposition I think, but why buy land when you have the existing plants? Economics.

It does seem, though, the rule imposes a somewhat grreater restriction on coal plant emissions, responding to the illegal emissions with a total ban. Hey, it's rule, and can be changed again if they do not achieve their desired outcome.

Never too late to punish your enemies, if you can.

This isn't about coal emissions or clean anything. It's about killing the coal industry before the cryptocurrency industry can buy in to make their own electricity. As and our government does NOT want cryptocurrency. Unless it's theirs.

Oh, and our government does NOT like us citizens. None of us. Some more than others, yes, but our government is against us. You want to be in the good side of the government? Read history. Only the leadership escapes this.

Yup, and requiring a warrant is nearly the same as no requirement at all. Indeed, since at least 2015, many FISA warrants were, recently issued despite flawed or plainly illegally obtained.

From an article:

"the OIG reviewed 29 FISA applications from eight FBI field offices to check for compliance with mandatory “Woods Procedures.” Those procedures require agents to compile supporting documentation for each fact contained in a FISA application to ensure that they are “scrupulously accurate.” The OIG found four of the 29 didn’t have any Woods file at all; the other 25 all contained multiple deficiencies:'“Although all 29 FISA applications that we selected for review were required by FBI policy to have Woods Files created by the case agent and reviewed by the supervisory special agent, we have identified 4 applications for which, as of the date of this memorandum, the FBI either has been unable to locate the Woods File that was prepared at the time of the application or for which FBI personnel suggested a Woods File was not completed.”

“Additionally, for all 25 FISA applications with Woods Files that we have reviewed to date, we identified facts stated in the FISA application that were: (a) not supported by any documentation in the Woods File, (b) not clearly corroborated by the supporting documentation in the Woods File, or (c) inconsistent with the supporting documentation in the Woods File."

The government isn't playing bu the rules now,. and hasn't for years, probably decades. More rules will not be enough to change this.