Wow, you didn't tell us whatever you did, but it sounds really bad! I hope you get better soon.

You make no point and are just ranting. I work in a field which is reliant on specialized software. Those software vendors are assholes and their ancient, rickety codebase is all Windows-specific. If we had a choice, we would be not using windows. Our software engineers all run on Linux. I had to show our CTO how to install Windows on a machine yesterday, specifically so he could use one stupid proprietary piece of software which interfaces with hardware we use and has no other alternatives besides their closed source, garbage Windows interface.

NASA's role isn't a as a regulator, so you would expect the same experts to work there as in other parts of the aerospace sector.

NASA's role is to be a place where nerds are willing to work, where they make cool stuff that the air force can pay companies to copy and build into weapons.

NASA also hires a lot of subcontractors and manages projects, mainly to support the aerospace sector, but they're not a regulator. They're supposed to be helping these companies.

that makes perfect sense. Surely you wouldn't take cash out of circulation and replace it with anything but sanitized bills.

Hey,.. maybe you should rename the new currency. No one will notice or suspect a thing.

DoorDash needs to step up their game if they want to compete in the lucrative LEO delivery market.

More bats and pangolins are joining our cause every year.

America is in deep negotiations with Chupacabra.

The Yeti have been with us for decades, waiting for the signal.

When we finish breeding the new prawns, the war begins. The fish fly.

How does one determine whether or not a purchased organ was consensually harvested?

Depends. If you can emit noise at a volume that causes the ADC to clip, there's no possible fix other than turning down the input gain before the ADC. That, in turn, may mean low to negative SNR, assuming it's even possible to do via software.

So, depends how close to full scale these devices are operating and how much spare dynamic range they have.

I see this argument all the time.

It's bullshit. Always.

Take several years. Build a community of thousands, or even millions of people.
Then have the platform make you go *POOF* overnight.

Now tell me that has ZERO effect because "you've got other options".

So now they're into money laundering. Great.

Those Huawei patents are clearly valuable. If you want to get your hands on those patents without paying for them then you need to build a case that the owner is a hardened criminal and the only way anybody will ever bring justice to them is to move in and steal their stuff (nice and legal like),

If you use enough propaganda to inflame the rage of the ignorant you are half way there.

Next step is to declare that your country no longer recognises the validity of the patents. After that, you just ignore them and use all that sweet sweet IP and export it around the world (declaring it's better, safer and justified).

What if the other side hits back and does the same to you? Shut up! That would be wrong and stuff and we don't want to think that far ahead.

What a wonderful thought though. All nations simply stating "for the moment all IP is dead. Long live the new IP regime we are about to invent, with blockchain....and hookers".

Ecclesiastes 10:20 for the "bird" brand in the house that reports all.

So you want it turned up to 11?

As long as those devices are on a closed network they usually don't need updates and you can cherry pick the updates needed through manual means.

The circulating snake on the ATM screen of one of my banks sure looks like embedded Win10.

Given that Win10 does get at least some support (of questionable effectiveness at times), I'd rather that those devices be on Win10 than on 7 or XP or (horrors) 98 or older. As is actually true of some of them. A better approach might be to have them running on a genuine RTOS, or if real-time isn't necessary some form of embedded Linux/BSD/QNix/Minix/etc.

LOL, you'll be waiting a very, very, looooooong time.

But information wants to be free! You can't steal a secret, since they still know it and haven't been deprived of it! Or does that logic only apply when it's convenient? Yes, I know there are laws concerning leaking proprietary information, I even said so in my post. My point was that trade secrets have no inherent protection. If they did, there would be no point to patents. You only get that exclusivity in exchange for publishing, and therefore spreading the knowledge.

Perfect excuse for the authoritarian pigfuckers running China to spread FUD about cash and ban cash "for people's health." They want total control and to get rid of untrackable payments.