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Comment Re:Higher Costs (Score 3, Insightful) 14

Tariffs are a bad thing from a pure economic perspective. They introduce inefficiencies, and make things more expensive. This is a basic concept of macroeconomics.

However, some things are more important than making the most money. Among them, national defense. In America, both parties have decided they don't want to work with China anymore, for varying reasons of ideology, ethics, and self defense. And they have decided that is more important to them than economic efficiencies.

Comment Re:No one wants their TV spying on them... (Score 1) 58

The same can be said about building automation systems, security systems, HVAC systems, etc. I worked in physical security (key cards, cameras, alarms and the like) for over a decade and a half and the utter lack of security on many of the products was appalling. For example AMAG, the second largest vendor of key card systems, only supported MSDE or SQL 2000 with no service packs until 2012. The most expensive security camera that I ever had to install had one user, root, with a hard coded password of 1234 which could not be changed (we only installed those once, at the customer's insistence. Nice camera though). Cisco's miserable excuse for a video system only worked with XP with no service packs (when SP2 had already been issued).

The Target breach was through a remote access connection for the HVAC installers, rather than through the hardware. The entire company used a single easily cracked password on all installations to allow anyone in the company to service any site, and when they were granted remote access they just used that same password. This is unfortunately common throughout all the construction trade, we had a list of passwords that we had ferreted out used by other companies. I could have logged into any installation done by three of the six largest security installers in North America, and probably half of the others.

Comment Re: If Trump hadn't won (Score 1) 56

So apparently Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald Trump sucked Bill Clinton's dick and Vladimir Putin has the pictures.

Stop, read that again, Google it, and just Jesus fucking Christ what the hell is wrong with our world?

Anyway, I doubt Trump sucked Clinton's dick. Although given some of the freaky shit guys at ivy League schools do in those gentlemen's clubs who the hell knows? The point of something like that would be to have pictures so that both sides could use them for mutually assured destruction...

I think it's much more likely though that Epstein was exaggerating for effect but that Putin really does have some extremely damning compromat on Donald Trump.

Comment It's rage bait people (Score 1, Flamebait) 50

They wouldn't have made very many of these so they could advertise they sold out.

The purpose of this is to get you angry at excess spending by idiots. Then you engage and become aware.

This is a marketing campaign and I'm participating in it and if you're reading this you're participating in it too.

Think critically and Google competently

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