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Comment Re:Why invade when you can sanction? (Score 1) 328

I think I've worked out the disconnect. A blockage would affect the rich people living in Taipei, of which many are pro China anyway. I'm sure they'd fly off before things got to the point of a blockade. Where I live there is an abundance of food. Just across the street from me right now is a dump truck full of watermelons being sold for about 1 USD each.

Comment Re:Why invade when you can sanction? (Score 1) 328

The FFTC is a lobby group, you need to eye the articles with that in mind, however they are right further down in the article, there is such an excess of locally grown food a huge amount of it goes to waste.

Taiwan exports $5 billion of food each year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Re:Why invade when you can sanction? (Score 1) 328

Taiwan will probably run out of food in less than a year.

One of Taiwan's major exports is food. They have rice growing everywhere, even between buildings in some cities. The most advanced aquaculture industry I have ever seen, pig farming, duck farming, fruits from the South that are bigger and juicier than from any other country. Their wine sucks though, so that could be problem, the whisky (KaVaLan) and beer (Taiwan Draught, LeBleDor) is decent and great, but they aren't going to starve.

Comment Re:Still a pretty good range of support (Score 1) 32

Nice that it supports older phones, BUT...my main question. Is this really that important to many folks?

When I drop iPhone 13 Pro Max levels of cash on a phone, I expect it to be supported until my fingers wear their way through the touchscreen glass. Otherwise you are just throwing your money away on disposable garbage.

Comment Re:I'm so confused (Score 3, Informative) 37

Is this running Windows within Android, or running Android within Windows?

This is Android running inside Windows, and Microsoft will continuously update the supported Android version. So you can get a Mobile device, install Windows 11, run Android apps, and continuously get updates forever, so you don't have to throw the device away after 2 years due to none of the Android vulnerabilities getting patched.

Comment Re:Stop with the crypto shilling already (Score 1) 56

The the value of the positive mental health effects of buying a lottery ticket shouldn't be discounted. You might be nearing the bottom mentally, but if you buy a ticket in a $100mil lottery for $5 you are less than a week away from potentially having more money than you know what to do with. And if you lose, sure you feel down for a couple of minutes, but then you just buy a ticket in the next one, and feel the positive potential again. For 5 bucks a week that's some cheap psychological treatment.

Comment Re:Somewhat misleading article (Score 1) 112

So random guy who had a job at a Federal TLA was in a debate at a random security conference and lost but he had things to say.

I think the point of the summary is that the Federal TLA guy told people to use ChromeOS instead of Windows. Which is probably an agenda the submitter is trying to push.

I do a similar thing where I like to trash Java. I recently submitted a summary to slashdot about Psychic Paper Java vulnerability, which is hilariously bad if you read about it, but my submission got marked as "Spam".

Submission + - SPAM: Java 15 onwards Psychic Paper vulnerability bypasses certificate validation

Heir Of The Mess writes: A critical vulnerability in Java 15 onwards can make it easy for adversaries to forge TLS certificates and signatures, two-factor authentication messages, and authorization credentials generated by a range of widely used open standards. A key has two derived parts R and S. You multiply one side by R and the other side by S and check if they are equal. One step in this validation process is to check that neither R or S are zero, which Java doesn't do.

This vulnerability has been named Psychic Paper after the forgery device in Doctor Who. More details can be found here at arstechnica.

Comment Re:A good thing (Score 0) 29

I agree this is a good thing. I think iPhone users don't appreciate the platform they have. I think everyone should be forced to use Android for a while, like rich people who decide to live with homeless people for a week to see what it's like. I went from a Windows Phone, which was reasonably good, to a using a high end Android phone for a couple of years, which I found was awful laggy garbage compared to the nicely integrated device I had before, to an iPhone 13 Pro Max, which has been a breath of fresh air after the Android phone. The iPhone is still missing some niceties that I had on Windows Phone, like high res motion tracking that you have to buy an iWatch to get, but it's better than the Windows Phone in many other areas. The main thing is I don't hate the iPhone, but I now despise Android.

Comment Re:Awful idea (Score 1) 323

Average headlight coverage for most cars is 180ft

So since you seem to live in a country without adequate street lighting you had better drive a lot slower than 60mph then. Or you can do what we do in my country, and that is we put big Roo Bars on the front of our car, so if we do hit something it doesn't do much damage.

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