One? No. A RAID 6 or equivalent composed of them? Depending on the cost and availability requirements, maybe.

They can't support vigilantism.

This wasn't necessarily vigilantism, according to what we know in the article. If he walked up and ordered the guy out of his truck, and the thief pulled a gun on him and the owner defended himself, it isn't vigilantism at all. If he walked up and shot the guy in the truck for stealing his truck, then it is.

The side I'm seeing few people talk about is that police generally don't do much to find stolen vehicles. I've seen a number of reports where $person tells police "I have a tracker, my car is $here." and they don't do anything. Or get around to it in a few days, by which time the car is no longer there. So yeah, it is the police's job, and ideally they would do it (and have the resources to do it), but that doesn't happen a fair bit of the time.

> I would love to hear counter-arguments.

Merge them into one military. Having the army separate from the navy separate from the air force separate from the marines separate from the coast guard? To say nothing of "Space Force", which doesn't need to exist at all.

Indeed, that was the first thing I thought when I read this. Do they not realize how big the ocean is? That we're talking billions of tons of co2 per year? That's a lot of Tums.

No, and I say that as a capitalist.

See Porter's Five Forces. Part of what you look for in a successful opportunity, or build in a successful business, is ways to LIMIT competition. Make it harder for competitors to enter the market. Reduce the power of consumers. Don't want to buy from us? Then you're not going to the show. Reduce the power of suppliers. Want to sell tickets at $venue? We have an exclusive agreement with them. Reduce competition. Sorry, guys. We bought our biggest competitor.

Much as we want to pretend pure capitalism is a panacea, it exists within a legal framework that can be, and often is, used to stack the deck.

> concealment of Airtags for stalking isn't a forseeable use - Apple even put special features with the airtags to prevent that

Part two is a really solid argument that not only was it forseeable, it was forseen.

I don't think it's necessarily right to put the blame on Apple. Tracking devices have existed forever. These aren't even really better than what existed before. They are much better advertised.

If what Musk says is true...

Well, there ya go. No need to evaluate the rest of the expression.

Came here to say the same thing. I can't see why Apple would threaten to kick Twitter off the app store without giving a reason. The only reason to threaten, rather than just do it, is to get Twitter to change something.

No. If everyone puts money in a bucket and the bucket catches on fire, everyone loses all their money.

Benefit of not-shredding disks: you get maybe a hundred dollars for a used hard disk on the secondary market.

If that. The whole premise of the article is nutty. An old drive isn't worth much. Shredding disks is fast and cheap. You can have a truck show up and shred them by the thousands. When you add in the overhead of labor to wipe drives, including assurance and testing (if you're reselling them, you're going to want to be damn sure you really wiped them), actually marketing them or contracting with a company to do it, etc, it's not worth it.

There might be a 3rd party service offering opportunity, but if I'm $BIG_COMPANY, they better have a big enough insurance policy to cover damages when they let a drive slip through, and I get sued over it.

If he's thinking "several move ahead", he's a rank amateur like me.

Yes, it's not Meta's fault if hospitals send them PII. The hospitals would be at fault.

> I work for a major health ins. company, and prior to that, a large company that handled processing of HIPPA data.

You should probably know it's HIPAA, then.

First when he bought the NFTs. Second when someone "stole" them.

Anyone who successfully runs for office (especially the highest office in the land), endorses candidates up and down the ticket, and holds frequent political rallies is absolutely a politician.

He may not be a good one. But he absolutely is one.