It's well known that an air-burst thermonuclear weapon lofts the vast majority of radioactive fission products above the troposphere as a vapor that condenses to a very fine dust aerosol as it rises and cools. That is above where it rains out quickly and it takes years to decades to make it back to the surface. By that time, it is mostly inert.

They absolutely should have obtained a warrant, if for no other reason than to make sure that the defense can't bring the issue up and possibly have the evidence excluded. Judges sign off on those as a near rubber stamp anyway.

Zuck is doing his best to remain very neutral in what the platform can carry, especially at a time when there are street riots and a president likely to declare a rebellion. He certainly doesn't want to be caught up in that at all.

Now when is someone going to demand that networking vendors stop locking-down SFP/SFP+/QSFP+ interfaces to only use "approved" transcievers when they are all identical between manufacturers, except for a code programmed into a little bit of flash?

AMD periodically massively leapfrogs Intel in performance and price, then over the course of some years Intel catches back up, then passes AMD, then a few years later AMD yet again does the leap.

The man knows that if he tries too hard to make the platform PC, then the censored people and their friends will just delete their accounts and give up on it. Loss of eyeballs makes all advertising less valuable than losing a few big advertisers, especially when the big ones are a relatively small percentage of the site's total revenue. It wouldn't surprise me for him to find a way to turn the platform into a really hostile place for the brands of the boycotters.

It is difficult to compare numbers between countries as they don't all use the same terminology. It appears that in the US, any presence of the virus will count as a COVID death even if the person is asymptomatic and the cause was an unrelated condition, or even injury. Other countries will only count those that they can confirm were killed by the infection itself. It's really easy to get into a GIGO there.

Another major variable is that nobody really knows what percentage of total infections result in any interaction with medical care and are tested. Some health systems will only test someone admitted to a hospital, whereas others will test anyone presenting with any symptoms.

I keep in mind a saying that my grandfather liked to use - "Figures don't lie, but liars sure figure."

Diplomacy between nations quite often involves issues such as prosecuting or not the other party's people or companies.

The pressure on her is going to be intense over the next few weeks or months, as she is nailed dead to rights committing a major felony, but the Feds actually don't care about her much and want to go up the chain to get whoever organized and funded these riots. Of course, it's almost 99% certain that she doesn't know anything useful and was just drunk/high and caught up in a moment that will result in her passing away in prison.

They will probably just change the name of the fee to "IP Address Lease" or "Access Port Fee".

Has nobody at Boeing ever heard of NTP? You know, the protocol that lets computers synchronize what time it is.

Even millimeter band energy is still just radio frequency, and is not ionizing radiation that causes DNA damage and kills cells. The only hazard is heating effects if one is directly absorbing tens or hundreds of watts in a small area. There has never been a reproducible study that has shown any cancer or other health risk from non-ionizing RF energy, even though radio has been around for over 100 years.

And just shut down their services in the EU entirely. Let the scream from millions of users and companies reliant on FB fix this.

Trump conducted that call perfectly by making the discussion about international cooperation with investigations to be carried out by competent legal authorities in both countries, based on known information that does indeed give at least the possibility of having actual probable cause to suspect criminal activity. It's not inappropriate to investigate an opponent if that opponent is indeed corrupt or has an objective appearance of being so. That is actually a requirement of the office - to take care that laws be faithfully executed. Improper would be giving a pass just because the other side's candidate is running for office. In the case of Biden, he could indeed be exonerated if his motives were related to public policy and not personal/family gain, or he could be nailed dead to rights for a corrupt act. What makes this so perfectly executed is that it puts anyone trying to influence his going forward with that in the position of committing obstruction of justice. He is really good at playing a buffoon on Twitter, but is actually a pretty astute player who always makes his opponents or counterparties greatly underestimate him.

This seems to be a straightforward jurisdictional issue. The EU can regulate activity within its own borders, but can't regulate outside of there, nor can they reduce the global network to the lowest common denominator of their regulatory scheme. They are free to mandate filtering by their domestic ISPs such that services outside their borders are blocked, but can't directly regulate what happens in a server hosted, say, in the US or Canada.