Really? Don’t look now, but you just gave about a dozen reasons why people are still on cable and prefer it. Describe that nightmare process to anyone paying for cable 30 years ago and they would have laughed non-stop. “Modern” conveniences of the future my ass.

And if the iPhone has already taken more pictures than any other camera ever, it stands to reason humans have wasted at least eleventy seven billion more hours scrolling through 4,000 streaming channels across a dozen streaming services filled with half-subscriptions they might get to find something to watch, vs. 200 channels of get-what-you-see TV with one guide, one gate, and one price.

K.I.S.S. is a timeless concept for valid reason. Yup. Cord cutters were bragging back in the day. For about five fucking seconds.

Just don’t sit too close while looking for Santa’s workshop, masturbating about all the gifts you’ll get soon.

You’ll go blind.

And if your face stays like that, people will know why.

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?

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 people are still shocked about people.

TFS/A also seems to be hell bent in injecting AI into the hacking discussion, on behalf of AI and sponsored by AI.

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.

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.

Autocorrect.

Now brought to you by the makers of Intelligence that is indeed incredibly Artificial.

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.

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.

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.

Because taking taxpayer money for “broadband for all” programs and then pocketing the cash, seems to be “working” just fine?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.