...when literally any content provided on them is available for streaming and download for free?
In a word? Convenience.
Where is your centralized TV Guide that allows you to browse and stream on demand as easily as cable does?
And how much of an actual threat is that to any aspect of your life if you're pirating it, both today and tomorrow?
People don't like having cameras streaming from their bedrooms and livingrooms.
Those same people also carry around a smartphone 18+ hours a day, armed with at least two HD cameras and a 3D microphone array. Boardrooms. Bedrooms. Bathrooms. Bathtubs. They carry that everywhere. At least the unread TV EULA only violates from the wall it's bolted to.
I'm shocked.
I'm shocked people are still shocked about people.
The article states: "Anthropic said it was confident, based on the digital infrastructure the hackers used as well as other clues, that the attacks were run by Chinese state-backed hackers."
TFS/A also seems to be hell bent in injecting AI into the hacking discussion, on behalf of AI and sponsored by AI.
Hackers have been using AI for years now to conduct individual tasks such as crafting phishing emails or scanning the internet for vulnerable systems.
Knowing what the nmap command is and using a textfile of email addresses to create a d-list to send the latest Nigerian Prince bullshit, isn't exactly what we should be calling AI bragware. Even for the Toddler AI we have today. Smells more like the kind of script based shitware we've seen for decades, long before AI escaped the pages of science fiction to pretend to be what we have today.
The hackers conducted their attacks “literally with the click of a button, and then with minimal human interaction,”
Uh, yeah. That's kind of how modern hacks work. Do MSN editors think DDoS attacks are done manually by humans driving stick-shift hard drives? The virus and worm aren't exactly hanging around waiting for the trojan horse to finish taking a shit.
Parsing. Not pastoring.
Fucking autocorrection.
Autocorrect.
Now brought to you by the makers of Intelligence that is indeed incredibly Artificial.
These satellites are hundreds of miles from each other. Furthermore they are in LEO which means the orbit decays in under 5 years if they don't have regular thrust correction. We've already had satellite collisions in space and last I checked space is still fine. The only way for Kessler to be real (and that too temporary) is if someone put hundreds or thousands of tons of ball bearings above a certain size up there.
NORAD was tracking over 18,000 objects in our orbit in the early 1990s. And hundreds of thousands is starting to describe the plans for that orbit. How many cellular providers are on planet now? How many ISPs? How many companies will now follow both SpaceX and Amazon into LEO to compete for the same exact thing? Who is stopping them? Cost is an artificial constraint when Greed can always find someone else’s money to pay for shit. Taxpayer money smells the best.
As far as the satellite collisions we’ve already suffered, you do understand how and why that problem can get exponentially and catastrophically worse, right? It’s not denying Kessler that’s the true problem here. It’s what the FUCK a satellite-addicted planet is going to DO about it after the fact. Not even having a Plan B anymore (ala copper lines to your home), makes that event quite impactful. Over and over again.
The problem is not that we are stupid, its that we are selfish and short-sighted. The current problems are easily manageable. They have no impact at all on most of us. In fact, you can even make some money off them and people do.
There is NO money to be made telling people they are going to need to change their lifestyle whether they like it or not. That Bill Gates can't fly in his private jet even if he can afford it. Much less that no one can use commercial airlines any more. Force auto companies to immediately stop producing ICE vehicles because every one of them is going to produce emissions until it stops running? Ain't going to happen.
Suggest that economic growth is a bad thing. That it makes dealing with climate change impossible. See how many people will even consider the question.
Fine. We’ll be extra stupid and have an even Greater Depression instead to force-fuck a reset out of the economy. Or maybe yet another World War is in order. We always have a “solution” for Greed fucking up. Moar Greed fucking up bigly biggest.
Climate change? Hell, we can’t even slow progress because stock price. Were not even at the point of Mother Nature needing to be acknowledged.
I read, then re-read it and still can't understand. "Leo" somehow projects "new era of internet" better than "Kuiper"? Why?
TFA clarifies that “Leo” is a nod to low earth orbit. I took that clarification as a clear example of why this program might fail. Since no one remembers what an acronym is.
Might as well have renamed to project “Space” as a convenient reminder for everyone on the team where the satellites go.
Why not just build the proper infrastructure with what we know works?
Because taking taxpayer money for “broadband for all” programs and then pocketing the cash, seems to be “working” just fine?
Leo is a nod to "low Earth orbit," where Amazon has so far launched more than 150 satellites as part of a constellation that will eventually include more than 3,200..Amazon says its satellites can help serve "billions of people on the planet who lack high-speed internet access, and millions of businesses, governments, and other organizations operating in places without reliable connectivity."
Probably should have named it Project Kessler. Since that seems to be some kind of fucking goal here.
10,000 satellites ago I’d probably think this was a cool story bro. For some reason I have to fight the urge to yell “COPYCAT” at the top of my lungs instead. Can’t imagine why.
steve@hotmail.com made all the sense in the world...
And them spammers, they nail first-name addresses. All of them. All the time. Complaining about your 'name' being a spam magnet shows you do not well understand the methods spammers use to get mail out the door.
Naturally this reeks of the problem being solely on the email victim and never on the spammers who should have been legally beheaded in the town square by now. In order to permanently fix the problem of 98% of ALL email being spam.
As if History needs to prove actual enforcement actually fucking works.
"Short, easy to remember" email addresses are also scarce, but you don't need a "short, easy to remember" email address to function in society. Most people do need a phone number.
Wrong. Everyone needs an alias, not a number to remember. Most people know everyone by a contact name, not a number.
Most people couldn't even tell you their own parents cell phone number. If their life depended on it.
Imagine if a phone number or mailing address was reused? You'd get someone's old spam all the time. Getting messages not relevant to you with the wrong name on it must be most frustrating experience a person can have.
Worrying about recycled email addresses will soon be about as legitimate as worrying about someone's snail mail getting delivered to the "wrong" address.
Tough shit if you happen to be born well after a planet invented email addressing. You better be willing to be known as [random_number_generator@email] if you intend on being "hidden" from spam for more than 30 fucking days.
The article says "Verizon also plans to transition about 200 stores into franchised operations, which will shift employees off its payroll". So how many of those 15,000 are going to keep their job at the franchise Verizon store?
Shit-shifting a failed business model into "franchises", reeks of the ignorance of a brand-new Subway franchisee wanting to use Pedo Jared as their marketing frontman.
They should really stop pretending that we don't smell that business move from a mile away.
It's an entirely new kind of economy. Capitalism without competition. They can keep raising prices and screwing us over and firing us and making us work longer hours for less pay and there's basically nothing we can do about it.
After Too Big To Fail, taxpayers will be ready to do something about it when it comes to light that these greedy fucks intend on abusing their obvious losses by trying to socialize them.
The Rich won't realize they're on the menu until they're tied up over the spit. They're predictable. Not smart.
use PGP. This company has a long history of complying with police.
If that is true, then I have NO idea why this company even exists. Encrypting email prior to sending it, tends to completely defeat the entire point of bragging about 'secure' email and the entire business model around it.
And not that you're wrong, but you're literally recommending thirty-five year old technology. This is akin to telling newly licensed drivers that they should buy a '91 Corolla because every model newer than that isn't going to get you from point A to point B without getting carjacked. Every time.
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