Whenever I get a new air traffic control system, first I do the conveyance test, then the short test. The long test can take a couple days, but it's worth it, and after that, it's ready to use.

Format, reinstall Linux, and reboot

FTFY. :)

Perhaps under Trump, there is enough craziness to consider launching a nuclear strike, but even Trump isn't that crazy.

The US President is also the Commander in Chief of the US military, in effect their most senior military officer. The US military does include provisions for a subordinate to remove a senior officer from power under specific situations, most of which can be summarised as "unfit for duty". So, a crazy POTUS attempting to launch an unjustifiable nuclear first strike could - in theory - be legally removed from post by the ranking officers in the room, in effect, the plot of "Crimson Tide" set in the Oval Office, Ballroom Bunker & Air Force One rather than on a boomer.

Could be an interesting scenario for Hollywood to speculate on, although I think it might work better as a legal drama rather than an action flick by mashing that prologue up with the post-action repercussions of something like "A Few Good Men". Cover the attempted launch in the first act and spend subsequent acts of the movie dealing with the major stages of what would almost certainly be an extremely messy aftermath taking several years to play out; an act on the next few days, the next on the House hearings, another on SCOTUS, leading up to the fates of the key players.

Russia's war with Ukraine is basically wiping out a significant proportion of its "men of fighting age" demographic, which has a heavy overlap with the "men breeding age" demographic, a loss that is probably already severe enough to cause serious economic and society issues in a generation or two as the population balance shifts. Now, evil thought, but if you were to see Russia as some kind of threat, and don't particular care about the toll all this is taking on Ukraine, wouldn't it be in your best interests to see that trend continue?

Also, let's face it, Russia has no clear successor to Putin that is going to be able to do the one thing he does *really* well, namely stop the military, oligarchs, and mob bosses tearing each other apart. When Putin eventually does go, however that happens, Russia is highly likely to implode in a spectacularly messy fashion, so having the country on its knees in as many ways as possible when that happens might be seen as strategically advantageous as well, and so especially regarding men of fighting age.

There is also a relatively popular third option in Russia that doesn't involve a container; "accidentally" falling of a high window.

As cultural event's go, what does this one tell us? We all want to be criminals and get away with it?

Hey, it can always get worse. Be thankful that people aren't taking the day off to play Missile Command.

I drove the NC500 route - and then some - around Northern Scotland several years ago, which is about as rural as you can get in the UK with some pretty large distances between refuelling locations by UK standards. While we did the drive in my friend's ICE, at the time I personally owned a PHEV and was looking to go pure EV, so was keen to see how the trip might have worked with an EV.

tl;dr, with a little planning on where to stop (which we also had to do to locate petrol pumps), and when due to the longer refill times, it would have been a doddle with an EV. There were plenty of charge points available and in working order that could easily have been aligned with our meals, overnights, or visiting some of the locations we spent time at. As said, that was several years ago, so availability has presumably improved since and it's also a LOT easier to find available charge points with the current generation of Apps.

Needless to say, my daily driver is now an EV and charging it is no problem at all, even with the occasional drive of 300miles or more. Most of my charging is at home, at ~8p/kWh, less whatever is in the home battery system from the solar panels, with the longer drives covered by a couple of EV charging loyalty schemes to keep the costs down. Frankly, if you're driving that kind of distance you should be taking a break anyway, so you just need to find a suitable charge point and grab a coffee; plan ahead and you can avoid the ridiculous rates on the motorway by driving a few extra miles and have a better standard of food as well. (Although if you're going up the M6, it's hard to argue with the food quality at the Tebay Farmshop services!)

Well it *is* the oldest profession of them all, and a honeytrap is one of the oldest tricks in the espionage game too, so there's definitely legitimate cause for concern. Especially so if it turns out Jensen's thing for leather extends beyond jackets and the MSS now has some compromising material on him.

Also, nitpick, but didn't Pussy Galore work as a personal pilot for Auric Goldfinger? In this context, there are *sooo* many more outrageously dated quips to be had with that combo, I think. Have at it Slashdot... :)

Or not. A disconnected customer isn't going to be generating any more revenue, so I'll expect this to be about as effective as everywhere else that has tried something similar; the ISPs will do the bare minimum (because to do more would cost more, duh!), wait for the take downs, and then take every possible step they can to avoid taking any action unless it becomes a slam dunk backed up with a court order. Factor in things like CGNAT, deliberately vague logfiles and short retention policies (complete and detailed customer connection logs for even a small ISP are insanely large), shared gateways, open WiFi, VPNs, sketchy residential proxies, and encrypted protocols, and the ISP has a lot of options to fairly legitimately say "we can't work out which specific user to disconnect with the information provided."

I hereby declare that malloc() may not return NULL, due to the fact that nobody ever checks for that, i.e. legacy reasons.

Sure, but if - as is likely given how AI is finding exploits elsewhere - this kind of heist becomes more commonplace what do you think is going to happen to the notional value of all those secure crypto wallets? Even if you take Binance at face value, then while they've either recovered, or are in the process of recovering, a significant chunk of the stolen tokens, they have still had to dip pretty deeply into cash reserves to cover the rest.

Where is the money going to come from if Binance are done again before they get to rebuild that cushion, or keep getting hit with lots of somewhat smaller heists in a death by a thousand cuts type scenario? What do you think is going to happen to market confidence, and therefore token values, if another of the major exchanges defaults/rug pulls as a result of one of these heists, which is probably just a matter of time now? The reality is that there's a whole bunch of people using crypto who are either too lazy and/or not technically adept enough to sort out their own wallet and keys, so they're going to keep using exchanges like they are banks. That makes the whole system vulnerable to token value crashes because it doesn't matter where and how securely your crypto is stored if the value of the tokens tank; everyone with a HODL position gets to be a bagholder in that scenario.

Maybe that's the problem: it doesn't suck enough?

Without science, a hypothesis never gets rigorously confirmed and mainstream enough to ever be considered a theory.