You can't rip what you can't play.

Their population absolutely dwarfs Canada and the US as well, so that isn't much good, is it?

BTW, remember the secret of Ti Kwon Leap- Anger is a weapon only to one's opponent.

I still think we need, given the microamps involved, a hamster powered cell phone charger.

Yes it is. Radioactive materials are made in the planet's core, and float up in the magma. Radon Gas is a normal and natural resource from decaying uranium.

It's as renewable as sunlight and wind.

Google for "Sony rootkit fiasco". Basically, Phillips (cocreator of the CD... with SONY!?!) hit them with a suit for trademark infringement.

You appear to believe that increasing the severity of a threatened punishment "enough" will eliminate the sanctioned behavior.

If that were the case, the death penalty would only be applied to the wrongly convicted or intentionally suicidal.

This is because of two interlocking facts: (a) most criminals are not terribly rational, in particular they tend to have broken time preferences. And (b) many crimes like this are "crimes of passion" - e.g. being stupid because you're super angry.

Making prisons more sadistic than they are now doesn't fix either of those things. You just make people more resentful and broken when they finally get out.

Of course that's not an answer. Keep bullshitting.

What countries require clearances for jobs that have nothing to do with the government?

... I guess in the age of LLMs the horse has to be fed water from a bottle.

The point is that SF86s only apply to a subset of the jobs these folks are applying for.

Therefor demanding clearances does not solve the problem unless you demand clearances for jobs that have absolutely nothing to do with natsec.

Which will never happen, because (a) it would be a ridiculously stupid waste of time, money and effort to screen people for risks that have nothing to do with the job to be done, (b) and even if folks wanted to OPM would never go along with it.

I work for a large financial firm. I'm sure we have some government contracts somewhere in the company, we're huge. But we're definitely not national defense, the large majority of our businesses are consumer-facing.

And we interviewed one of these.

A few little things made us think the application was weird. Then during the interview, they claimed to be from a smallish place in New Jersey. One of our people grew up close to there and asked some questions about local things. They had no idea and covered poorly. Then my coworker just blurted out, "you're North Korean, aren't you?"

Dude immediately bailed on the call.

I assume the goals were money, data access and maybe access to the network. In any case, they aren't just going after defense actors.

A car's repair history matters, as does the odometer.

Laptops, not so much.

SSD wear is the only non-obvious thing this would help with, and you can check that yourself with `smartctl` on a thumb drive.

Otherwise this just looks like trying to find something consumer-friendly-sounding to say about yet-another surveillance vector with protected storage for your tracking cookies.

Difficult is not equal to impossible. Heat can be used to boil working fluids, which can be used to drive turbines, which can create energy, which can in turn be used to run AI chips, which give off heat, which can then also be harvested to boil working fluids...Not really a perpetual motion machine, but the inefficiency in the system can be used to suck more heat out of the heat pumps anyway. Inefficiency in this case is a feature.

And find that "AI" is good for population control, controlling public opinion by flooding, software development, and destroying jobs where nobody cares about the product, like marketing copy, saying "no" to customers and Google search.

I never understood PINs being part of Windows Hello.

First of all, PINs are often shorter than an average password.
Second, the PIN length is fixed, making it even easier for an attacker.
Third, the PIN address space is often fixed to digits, making it easier for an attacker.

I know if I was an attacker, I'd prefer an 8 digit PIN to a variable length password, that may (not must) include uppercase, lower case, numerical, or special characters.

My answer to environmentalists claiming this is "You first". Stop being hypocrites, eliminate your own fossil fuel usage- including wasting fossil fuels storing articles like this in data centers.