This. Sometime in the previous decade, he made a big deal about how he was killing animals prior to eating them and insisting that if you didn't do the same thing, you were some kind of poser to just buy your meat the grocery store. At that point I realized that he was completely detached from how normal people live so I stopped respecting him.

Been a long time since I had any mod points, so I'll comment since I can't mod you up. You're likely right. I'd like to predict that within 4 days Bybit - Never heard of them before - is toast and out of business and they can't actually cover it.

The reason is that probably a significant number of outsourced IT shops don't do any checking on access from the firewall to internal servers, so you get on the firewall - bam! - you have unrestricted root/administrator access to the servers behind it.

I know you're joking and it is a good joke, but I want to point out that Florida has working private high speed rails run by Brightline that reach a top speed of 125 MPH between north Miami and Orlando. Brightline is currently building a Las Vegas to Los Angeles line that will top out around 200 MPH. There was talk of Brightline building a line to connect Tampa and Orlando but those plans are on hold for now and it's unclear if it will ever happen.

I didn't vote for Trump in the last 3 presidential elections so I'm hardly a fan, but here's probably what's going on with the NASA decision.

Trump always has a plan. Many people that dislike him think he doesn't but this is quite wrong. The plan may have only been thought of yesterday and/or it may be terrible, but there is always a reason for what he does. In my opinion, NASA has been run really well at least since the first Trump administration if not longer. The last couple of heads of NASA were terrific and Isaacman may end up being excellent too. Trump does actually care about space and his own legacy. We were already supposed to be back to the moon under Biden, but as always happens, there are always some kind of delays that push stuff out and Biden just shrugged them off. I think Trump is going to force NASA to get its crap together and get people back to the moon. There are plans for a permanent moon base. It would be a huge accomplishment for Trump to actually get this stuff done, so my guess is Isaacman pointed out that NASA isn't a problem and hasn't been a problem and keeping its employees around is a better way to get us back to the moon than randomly laying off people who work there. We need to get back to the moon and if Trump and his buddy Musk can accomplish that goal soon instead of the usual "Gee, maybe in 10+ years we can think about doing it" stuff that we've been getting, then more power to them.

All she has to do is get Elon Musk to feel sorry for her, or maybe just get the hots for her, he'll talk to his Buddy In Chief and it will be a done deal with The Donald telling us about how unfair the Biden administration was to go after her for political reasons and how she's the real victim here.

It's not almost. It is considered rude. Here's why. Japanese society is very workaholic, especially for salary men. If the boss wants to go drinking after work and wants his underlings to go, they go. Stay out until 2 AM on a Monday night? Yep. Also some workers commute by various trains from very far away. So some of the passengers may be exhausted and want to sleep when they can, so that's mostly why they are quiet.

Probably. We'll likely never know about this, but I suspect that these particular movies also had very low physical disc sales. It's a really unimpressive group of films with maybe Mutiny On The Bounty being the only classic.

I can't provide a link for this, but at the time Win 11 came out, it was said that Microsoft discovered that between 10 and 20% of malware infections could be prevented by simply encrypting the hard disk, so this is what is driving the use of TPM. It's an artificial way to make Windows look less bad for security.

You and some others don't understand that Hawley doesn't really expect this to become law and that's not the point. Here's what you need to know. I'll try to keep Americanisms to a minimum so those not from the USA can understand easier what's going on here.

Hawley is a Senator from a very hard core Republican state. Basically, as long as he doesn't commit a crime, and maybe even if he did, he will get re-elected for as long as he wants to keep being a Senator. He's a huge Trump supporter and as such, he is positioning himself as a possible Trump replacement down the road. The point of this bill is not to actually get it passed, which is why it wasn't written with more care. It's to follow his leader, Trump, and make a lot of noise about something. The point is the noise. It's not about actually getting it passed. And when it predictably goes nowhere, he can simply claim "I tried to pass a bill to protect this country that I love from evil China AI, but the evil communist Democrats kept it from passing" even though the Republicans control the Senate. Most of the voters in his state will simply accept that as fact.

Actually this kind of investment is being done, but at the state level rather than the national/federal level.

I was hoping I might somehow have mod points to give you for this, but maybe others who do will mod you up.

I don't like to say exactly where I live, but I live in US metro area larger than yours and our experience was the same. Google ran fiber here into the richest and most expensive part of our metro area and nowhere else. They served maybe 10% of the metro area residents by this. Then they considered it a failure because it turned out that rich people really don't care that much about saving a few dollars on internet costs, so there was no real big amount of customer desire to get it.

You have some valid points, but I do think it's fair to point out that Australia vs. America isn't even close to being an apples to apples comparison. 87% of your population lives within 50 km of the coast - I looked it up - and this makes is substantially easier for somebody, the government of private industry, to simply just get it done. The US population is spread throughout a vast continent and one of the problems is that there are many small towns where nobody wants to run fibre unless they are forced to by law. Putting fiber there will only lose money because the population base isn't high enough to justify the cost.

As an American, I'm pretty sure it will be more than 4 years. Trump will leave office when he dies and not before. I fully expect in 2027 he will announce that there will be no presidential election in 2028 because the 2020 election was "stolen" from him and thus he is owed another term. The Republicans won't be thrilled because some were hoping to replace him as president but the vast majority will shrug and agree. The Democrats don't have enough support to do anything about it. Once the 2028 presidential election is canceled and it becomes a fact, I really don't know if there will ever be another presidential election again. The 2026 congressional elections could be the first time elections stop being legitimate. Many southern states have implemented election commissions whose supposed purpose is election security. They may be in a position to simply throw out votes for Democratic candidates and nobody will be able to do anything about it. If some southern states announce after those elections that Republicans won every Congressional election, even in the majority black districts, then free elections are over in the USA.