And someone got paid.

Which it is not. This industry has been in business for decades. This isn't a new, unusual burden on the electrical systems, it's tech that is new and unique. Not that the industry might be able to optimize their processes, but that's their business, and we rarely consider asking data centers to do that at any scale, which, BTW, they do do already, for profit.

You would think, huh.

I've been involved in DoD level platform sign off. One of the companies I used to work for had a platform X, that was closed AF, to spite my objections. The DoD has us do a live demo of it in Virginia in a closed meeting. We had to submit the platform for a ton of security testing, BUT, we never had to submit source code. I had to bring the platform with me, on a CD, and show it running on a server they provided, but again, never had to hand over source. I sat in the testing room, with the testers, and everything was above board.

I don't doubt your account, I'm sure it is accurate, I just know they didn't always require it, and if they do now, that's great, they should. Everything should be open source, across the board.

There are rubberized coatings with aluminum in them which don't shrink and are fine on a roof. I would imagine the coating would go on something like this rather than on shingles

There is a serious problem with having mangers, on mangers, on team leads, that just break any ability to communicate at scale. If anyone remembers that phone game, where several people stand in a circle, and you tell the person next you X, and they tell the next person X and so on, until it come back to you. It's the same issue, and well, I think his double speaking nonsense is annoying, and I don't believe him, there are some benefits to cutting the abstraction layers.

How many times can you recall where a person in the middle, made an issue more difficult, by either misunderstanding something, or, relaying incorrect information? Cutting out managers can resolve this issue, especially if you can report something or receiving something directly. The other reality is fewer managers = less project management = less time waste. How much nonsense PM stuff do you have to deal with? I'm not saying all project management is useless, but the over reliance on meetings to plan meetings to plan the planning meeting is ridiculous. Then you take all those outputs, sanitize them into some document system, with an inaccurate document, and you've just wasted 10, 20+ hours per week.

If I honestly thought this was his goal, that would be spectacular, but I don't. I think he's doing it for costing cutting and AI funding reasons because everyone knows that AI is 10 employees in value (joking).

If your property is deserted, isolated, and vast enough that the neighbors will barely notice the ice cubes in their Old Fashioned jiggle all by themselves, well yeah, they might wanna rent it out.

But they already got a lot of that.

That's effectively the same thing, you'd somehow discredit the administration more than they're already discredited, which granted is hard.

They should demand open source, as should most companies. If a company is willing to provide the evidence they're above board, and can show verification that what they're showing you is what you're going to get, then there is no downside.

Yes, but that's a different issue, and if you can show that using the government's baseless methodology, you can probably cause a good amount of change. From TP Links side, there isn't a downside to this, they can prove reliability, safety, security and privacy, and shut the government up.

I was interested in the raw data regarding left- and right-wing violence. So much sop that I read the article at https://ccjls.scholasticahq.co... referenced in Wikipedia...

One incident caught my eye. Attributed to a right-wing assailant, I looked for biographical information. What I found was confusing.

This assailant, described elsewhere as right-wing, was black, homosexual, partnered with a Democratic party member who later was elected to public office as a Democrat. The assailant left a manifesto, ascribing one motivation for their attacks to a church shooting. None of this, on the surface, describes a 'typical' right-winger. But that attack is often categorized as a right-wing incident. Confusing, as I said, though the https://ccjls.scholasticahq.co... article described this as ' a response to some of the more egregious actions by the far-right'. Consider that language; 'more egregious', 'far-right'. I sense an implicit bias, but then I'm sensitized to that and may be mistaken.

Try as I may, I still find the studies to be biased, and often ignoring substantial incidents that could be categorized as politically motivated violence. It's interesting, and I am studying it more carefully.

OhMyGod. Apple wasn't willing to take the word of one party to strip the rights of a different party. Tar and feather them.

This is the domain of a court order, not the word of a disgruntled, divorced parent. Your eager sympathy for one unique case endangers the rights of everyone else who might be in an opposite circumstance. Let a judge decide, not some warm body in a chair answering tech support phones *AND* certainly not armchair quarterbacks either

There's no real hardship here, just open source the hardware, software, designs, and then spin this around and force the US government to prove there's anything to be concerned about. Secure chains of trust are available, so everything can be validated, signed and audited, so really there is no good argument against doing this, unless you have something to hide! Keep in mind going open source does not mean giving away everything for free, it just means you're being accountable.

Do not understand why they do not compromise and just move the clocks back 30 minutes this time of year and keep it there.

It fits well. First, I describe motivation, not action. Second, following the Wikipedia article, several of the footnoted articles actually failed to find significant (discernable is the word) differences in the motivations or tactics of the Left or Right. But more telling, the Wikipedia article seemed to ignore rioting, occupation, etc associated with Antifa, one reference describing these as "violence in the context of ideological clashes at protests". But not political? There is even significant comparison to Islamic violence, which I'll submit is ideological at it's root.

This Wikipedia article I think is terribly flawed, which of course I would think, given it's pretty well titled towards declaring right-wing violence as more prevalent, and extreme, than that of other political movements.

And finally, I was stuck by the article tendency to describe what was identified as right-wing violence as 'extreme', with references to left-wind violence generally lacking such a label.

I reject their premise, dispute their statistical analysis, and in all this, still submit that the Left in America is motivated, motivated, by violent envy. Emotional, strident, extreme envy. It is expressed in many ways. Physical violence is only one means. Legislation, media reporting, do I have to drag you through that? You're not that dense.

Microsoft Office is a terrible reference to pick, regardless as to my personal feelings, it's objectively, slow, bulky, lacks proper platform support, invasive with AI, and has a completely broken licensing system. If they want to innovate gaming, to make it like Office, just throw your game console in the trash, have someone kick you in the nuts, then demand payment for painkillers, and that might be a better overall experience.