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.

If you've never had a boss like this -- a lazy narcissist -- you're lucky. But if you have, the pattern is familiar and unmistakable:

* Doesn't understand the issues.

* Doesn't do his homework.

* Believes he's a genius whose "gut" overrules people who do understand and do do their homework.

* Plays his subordinates off against one another.

* Highly susceptible to information from random sources: thing he saw on TV, or heard on the golf course.

* Not particularly fussed about contradicting himself because he doesn't care about being right, but does care about being in charge.

* The more chaotic he can make things, the more in charge he feels.

* Has a cynical view of the people he works for but has a genuine gift for flattery when it suits his purposes.

Once you've seen this up close it's really obvious when you come across it again. You can't *not* listen to a lazy narcissist boss because he absolutely will try the stupid shit he says he will. But you can't count on him either, because he has no commitment to anything other than how he looks and feels *right now*.

Neither. Commerce didn't drop it, it got taken away and given to DoJ, but not because Commerce couldn't handle the invetigation of where the chips were going. The case goes to DoJ because we're talking about criminal charges of smuggling, corporate fraud, violation of national security statutes. Also because the Commerce investigation was tained by potential political interference. And possibly because it ran afoul of a counterintelligence operations siloed in the DoJ -- although by this point the cat is so out of the bag everyone must assume they've got a FISA wiretap warrant on them.

However, the *effect* may be to slow the progress of the investigation and delay any actions being taken.

The first reason for this is that criminal investigations are slower, the standards of proof higher, and potentially involve a criminal trial. Commerce could simply make an administrative law determination that put Megaspeed on some shit list and come to some kind of agreement with NVIDIA.

The second reason is that putting this into DoJ's hands is putting it into a department that has had staff turnover and loss of institutional knowledge, strife between career personnel and political appointees, and difficulty replacing lost employees. It's also led by lame-duck appointees, facing turnover in the next administration. So if they don't make progress in the next two years, allowing for transition delays, it could be years before anything gets accomplished. By then a lot of people will have left their jobs, memories will get hazy, evidence will go missing, and defensive positions constructed.

So while the investigation hasn't been *killed*; it has been delayed so long that it's effectively in suspended animation. It's not possible for Commerce to sanction anyone because the investigation is out of their hands.

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!)

Money may be an aphrodisiac but come on, Jensen, look in the mirror. There's limits to anything.

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."

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.

He's a photographer, so pretty good bet this is a specialist photo inkjet printing onto a suitable paper stock, rather than the run of the mill paper that comes in larger reams intended for more general use like you'd get at the local supermarket or whatever. Photo papers to be of higher quality, thickness (or even be card stock) and weight and do indeed have special coatings, finer fibres, use more cotton/silk, and so on that could explain the texture. Depending on the printer, it might not even be card or paper at all; some support various fabrics, plastic/acetate, and even metal in some fairly specialist cases. It doesn't look like a fabric, but could possibly be a sheet of white plastic/acetate.

Push it to a 420 and you won't feel the need to worry about it any more.