And what happens when you wash it?

You guys would normally love this, but ... lol

I think you are confused. The corpse of Biden has shuffled off the stage.

Yeah, it's almost as though you should hire actual Americans, as actual employees.

>"India is weighing a proposal to mandate always-on satellite tracking in smartphones for precise government surveillance"

What? This is the same India that just tried to force non-removable government spyware on everyone's phones. Then claimed it wasn't spyware, could be removed, that it couldn't spy on anyone using it, and then claimed it was always going to be voluntary to use?

It is obvious that they are pushing the populous to see what they can get away with.

Depends. Was the bald-headed reference somehow oddly accurate?

If so, I'm Informed.

And Enlightened, Entertained, Bewildered and Bullshitted.

We need more tags.

The Federalist Papers might have been a good idea.

If the year were not 1984.

Why do I envision an election year PPV event with two AI political chatbots each programmed to promote and defend their individual American political party, yelling at each other through Atmos-certified sound systems, with baby politician graphics in 4K IMAX?

Dammit, shut up and take my money already. Where do I buy popcorn.

Glad I wasn't the only one at least having some suspicion about that.

While clickbait fans fawn over the kewl enemy behind the gates cover story, I'm more questioning what was IN those databases and who directed them to target them.

Guess we'll know even less and suspect even more when they claim they can't recover them.

No.

I mean the President who actually knows and remembers why he pardoned people. Versus the one America entrusted for years who can't recall anything now. Including the fact he's now infamous for an auto-signing machine.

You're right.

But only one dementia-addled President is now corruptly infamous for it.

While you raise those valid points on that side of the coin, I'll be on the flipside wondering exactly what was in those 96 databases someone directed them to target. The moron contracting with former criminals is only one problem layer here. Doubt it ends there. Doubt it started there.

Perhaps that deserves some light here in the midst of selling the cool enemy behind the gates story.

More to the point, NONE of this data was deemed "sensitive" enough to warrant the most basic of background investigations?

(I'm assuming their former Federal-level hack resulted in a felony charge. When I say basic, I mean fucking basic.)

Should be direct hires with minimum SECRET clearances to access data like that. The fuck are they thinking. Starts with the contracting agency and goes from there. Anyone in .gov could run a simple criminal background investigation even if the contracting agency failed to.

Wonder when VLC started to really gain popularity.

It's been a minute since I've found a need for any other player. Damn thing eats formats like a dirty Glock does ammo.

> Meanwhile, H.264 has dedicated hardware decoders in world+dog devices, including ancient ones.

Ancient ones, yes, but most devices sold in the past five years have AV1 *decode* support.

Hardware with AV1 *encode* is still pretty rare but a fair number of up-market chips from the past few years have it.

What we mostly care about here is the $20 amtel or mediatek devices sold today, and those are fine.

Netflix can support the older devices with H.264 as long as it makes more sense to pay the patent license fees than to drop support for old devices.

It won't be long before there are no devices that the manufacturer still supports that can't decode AV1 in hardware. Not that most end-users even know their device went EOL and now a potential liability.

Given that Netflix has native apps on most of these systems it should be straightforward to serve the non-patented stream to any device that can play it well.