Tens of millions of insider trading profit is an order of magnitude less then Pelosi and her husband has reaped in the past year alone. Guess it is nice to buy calls the day before major spending announcements.

because the car doesn't maintain a constant connection to the keyfob while the car is in motion, even with the keyfob in the car itself. The short-range auth/unlock signal can get blocked especially as the battery gets weaker over a couple years.

so 99.99% of the time it'd be owners dropping keyfobs between the seats, behind the metalwork of the chair, that stops cars in the middle of a dangerous road instead of a thief driving off.

From the French article cited

"Despite the absence of the furin cleavage site, these viruses may have contributed to SARS-CoV-2’s origin
and may intrinsically pose a future risk of direct transmission to humans."

The "lab leak" theory clearly denotes the Wuhan scientists took Covid which could eventually harm humans, added in gain of function via the furin cleavage site they inserted, and oops it got out.

So far, the French scientists key discovery showcased to the world is ... yes Covid could have eventually weakly affected humans. What it doesn't prove is who/what inserted the dangerous bits at the furin cleavage site (that's also not present in any natural viruses the scientist community have studied so far).

Yes, let them argue that. Ignore it, block it, or never see it because of the filter algo bubble of every major social media platform. Because one of the people who say that, one day, may be true because they understood atmospheric mechanics and the see a tornado forming, thus the sky does indeed turn pink.

Consider the argument of 99% of free speech flowing through 3 companies. Not corporate free speech, but regular people speech. Public speaking in the town square has shifted much in the same way most other faucets in life have shifted, yet fourth amendment protections still protect you from warrantless searches on the internet. Most things have shifted since 1787. If we don't have protections in place for that speech, then you have an absolute easy/legal time establishing a Corpo-state ala modern day China, something antithetical to the Magna Carta / English bill of rights where the first amendment is cribbed from.

The Covid pandemic really crystallized it for me, as people like Dr. Chris Martinson got deplatformed for stating basic facts that ran counter to the current CDC guidance; CDC guidance which was always a few months behind the raw science but eventually caught up.

Here's one somewhat less political thought yet still should have been not bannable off social networks -- The lab leak theory. The common narrative of the lab leak theory is it's 'racist', thus leading to deplatforming, yet it continues to have more and more supporting evidence.

With the assumption that speech is public forum if the vast majority of speech occurs that way, I don't see how the issue impinges on others rights by protecting it. Online speech provides the same protections as current speech does, in the terms of you don't have to listen and agree with someone speaking about something publicly. You can block them yourself; or you simply never see them anyway because the search algorithms are so tuned to feed your filter bubble anyway. Corporations already have sheltered immunity from the speech of others, as long as they don't act as a publisher would. The direct costs of the speech on these platforms is probably even lower then public speech in the common square, given the maintenance and traffic control costs one would have with a 100 people listening to someone speak in public. So why not let someone speak if they want to on a subject digitally no matter how horrible and contentious it is to you?

I believe that's a statistic developed and funded by ID.me, the same company selling facial recognition technology to a now-majority of states unemployment offices. That statistic surfaced elsewhere where someone questioned it.

Formally accusing China of state sponsored hacking is a step up from the previous policy of everyone knowing it and doing nothing really about it. Next will be sanctions against certain members of the Chinese Military industrial complex, so as to make it harder for when they retire to one of their vacant Toronto properties. China will threaten Taiwan more, sterilize and harvest a few more Uighurs this month, and the world will go on.

Wake me when the world admits China probably released Gain of Function'ed COVID into the world. Might get real then.

Having looked at the specs, while they are somewhat broad; it was chiefly along the lines of "give us a price for storage, computer, security" etc. Amazon and Microsoft both had or almost had Secret / TS sanctioned offerings, so it came down to lifecycle costs. Microsoft threw in the deep discount on Microsoft licenses, discounted O365 transitions, etc that Amazon couldn't really compete on. All this IMHO of course, as the deal got mired in the mango man/bezos fight so who knows what else went on. The RFP / specs are public, and you can kind of fill in the blanks if you've worked with msoft/amazon before.

What a slant from Reuters; "it is not the first time the U.S. law enforcement fabricating false accusation against Chinese or China-linked persons". You can say that about literally every single race, creed, or color out there, it only matters and is poignant if it's systemic. Referencing a single case where they couldn't ultimately prove espionage (just fraud, lying in sworn statements, etc).

More examples abound about Huawei being involved in numerous, ongoing human rights abuses against Uighurs.

I agree with you on other areas of concern with media, however Amazon is limited in media compared to the other monoliths in the industry. Wapo through Bezos and their streaming platform, plus their army of lawyers writing cease and desists for bad stories on their warehouses consist of their current media control. i'd approve it on condition of complete acceptance of determination on any future Amazon mergers.

This has been part of the Topaz Labs ecosystem (a picture/video editor) for years. Adobe finally getting tech integration that's been common in the competition doesn't make for 'historic' days.

After the months of kowtowing to China's feelings on the subject versus core scientific integrity.
After delaying the ground trip to China for a year because China refused them access.
After flip flopping on the early preventative measures of masks vs no masks, and what kind of masks, in contrast to the as-known conditions.

They have no scientific integrity. The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation does more for the world's health on a daily basis then WHO does now.

10 years out of date? I lived in Israel between 2009-2011, I was a block away from the Beersheva preschool hit in Dec 2008 which first taught me about what rocket attacks were like. It sounded like a suitcase dropping on the ground. I don't know what it's been like since 2011 first-hand, but Wikipedia/current news tells me it's closer to my recall then yours. >90% are Qassams, because they're cheap, the launchers look like irrigation equipment, and the launcher team can scatter immediately after firing before the Israeli helicopters.

Here's a picture from Wiki of that Qassam hit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

and yeah, the alarms work great, but people want active defense measures. Iron dome does that for them.

The rockets being sent against Israel are small, sporadic, unguided, and mostly lack the range to hit major population centers (Tel Aviv). On the rare occasions it does hit a building, it won't destroy the building but will gut a room.

If the Iron dome is effective, great. If the belief of the people is it's effective, even better, especially for politicians in power. Pretty much what the article says.

Government is an enterprise like any other.

It's users are arguably less technically savvy.

Can you imagine the cost with establishing a secure 1 million user network, where Linux isn't an OS but more probably some disease that was eradicated back in the 1800s. Training would cost so god damn much, take a year or two.

Sure, probably don't need IIS servers. But users need to be on Windows.