Bribes and kick backs are at threat...

Which is why all the insider trading sites have hired members of the Trump family to be very high level employees. Not quite C-suite, but basically employment for doing nothing. You know, like how China has CCP members at companies to say in the government's good graces.

The vast majority of those "brands" are fly-by-night Asian products from effectively un-suable companies. Meta is a juicy American big tech outfit with deep pockets.

Most are just rebrands of the same glasses as well - one factory makes something and it's sold under 100 different brands.

But additionally, most of those glasses only record to internal storage, it's not used to train AI models or identify people. So they are a lot less creepy than Meta's.

Meta's glasses are designed to be used to recognize people and Meta is known to gather stuff like this to build a profile of you. You might be caught on multiple glasses which can then be used to reconstruct your movements, similar to how Flock cameras can be used to track people.

Those Chinese glasses well, they could be used to upload to a Chinese AI server, but it's not something likely to be done because those fly-by-night companies can't operate a server to save their lives. It's why those connected cameras and other things almost always operate using local storage because any apps will die in short order.

What the Meta Perv Glasses do is far beyond what the Chinese ones do. Meta has admitted to what they want.

You've hinted at the bigger problem. The US air control system is obsolete. Every time an upgrade has been funded, it has failed. And a sizable chunk (15%+) of the money became campaign contributions to members of Congress.

Over in "communist" Canada, their ATC is an run by an NGO, which is funded by the airlines and private pilots.

Maybe the USA should do the same.

What do you mean? The greatest change in aviation history is happening right now - ADS-B. Granted, it's around 30 years old by now (it was trialed in Alaska in the late 90s early 2000s). But you know who the greatest detractors of it is? Airlines. And to a lesser extent, the military, because it would mean they would be forced to equip ADS-B.

ATC doesn't really need modernization - it actually modernizes just fine - it's just a radar with secondary surveillance (transponder) plotted on a screen. The technology gets better so you're not just looking at spots but full realized plans, projections and history, along with potential conflicts.

And there was a proposal to do a NavCanada like thing in the US - it was called privatization of ATC. It was soundly rejected because airlines hated paying for it, and GA would take on a huge burden of paying for it despite not using it as much. (Right now it's paid for in fuel taxes, so those who fly the most pay the most, which is airlines). Then there is also the reverse worry - airlines forcing GA to the fringes because they pay for like 95% of ATC services who may demand GA "get out" and thus be locked out of ATC airspace. (A lot of flights in GA are done without ATC oversight).

GA activity is much smaller in Canada and most of it happens outside of ATC controlled airspace. That doesn't mean there is no ADS-B - Canada is adopting space-based ADS-B because the flight density is too low to equip land-based receivers everywhere. This is also a problem because it's incompatible with US ADS-B - US aircraft have to equip with diversity antennas (one pointing up, one pointing down). Space-based ADS-B also uses 1090MHz exclusively, so the 890 UTS is not available. (1090MHz is the frequency used by transponders so your transponder needs to be ADS-B compatible).

The US abandoned space-based ADS-B because there is so much air traffic that it wasn't feasible - it would overload the satellites.

Anyhow, the main reason to focus on gamers is because ATC is a mind and memory game. You have to keep track of planes and where they're going and where they're coming from and make sure they go to the next sector safely. It's a mental game and the whole point is the radar serves to provide feedback to update your mental model. Certain game genres really encourage that sort of mental thinking.

It's mentally taxing enough that ATC only does it in 2 hour shifts out of the entire day - any longer and your mind can wander and that's when bad things happen.

And he was a psychopath, as he watched is neighbors, friends, community members, babies, etc. drown rather than helping them up on his boat or trying to convince them to build their own boat.

Nevermind how we are still around today because I don't recall two *humans* being on board, just Noah himself. The obvious reason for two of every animal, but Noah? (Plus, it turns out things like homosexuality exist in animals as well...)

Nevermind that if we did that, we can ignore everything between Adam & Eve to Noah.

(To be fair, though, multiple civilizations have reported things similar to a great flood happening, but since those records actually exist it means people from those civilizations did survive.)

If I read that summary correctly, this will only ever be usable to clean small amounts of stuff in a closed container. It's not going to work for, say, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

That's what it meant ever since RUR. I'll grant that PR people keep spinning different meanings for it though.

Please modify this to:
"""Whenever a "discovery" is announced it's best to wait for verification before popping champagne corks."""

If there isn't independent verification then it's poor policy to believe. It may also be poor policy to disbelieve.

Actually, I had measles twice before there was a vaccine. There are two different kinds of measles, but presumably the vaccine covers both.

Not necessarily. If they're designed to achieve maximum penetration, then you're probably correct, but if they're designed as networks of friends, and you can't invite whole networks, then it's a lot more manageable. Say that no group can have more than, O, 254 members, and you don't have the problem you posit. Of course, everyone would have trouble finding the groups they wanted to be a member of that also had room for them, but there are problems with every approach.

How do you prove they represent the company they claim to represent without giving them a credit card number?

I generally assume that they DON'T represent such a company, but occasionally one will claim that they represent a company which forwards positive sales to another company. I've never tried to find out if that's true, but it's believable. But such a company is probably off-shore and with no local assets.

A couple of things to worry about, if you want to.
1) How reliable is that test for measles antibodies?
2) How quickly do those antibodies decay after a vaccination?

I strongly suspect that the answers to both of those questions is variable. Also, at least some diseases with do a reset on your immune system beta cells. (Actually IIRC measles is one of the diseases that will do that.)

Since he's talking about an individual decision, I assume he's talking about that same individual deciding whether it's worth paying for his extended life (in the future).

Well, unless you're arguing that everyone should invest an infinite amount of money in prolonging everyone's life no matter what their condition is.

That's not a "could be". They *did* report that. And adjusted the statistics to handle that effect. There's a reasonable argument that "10 years earlier" is hard to adjust for", though.

But do you need those data items for every single client all at once? Why not (weak example to make point) one login for customers A through M and another for N through Z? If someone breaks security for a system, they should not ever be staring at a database of *everything*. Maybe divide customers by region? Or class of freight? It is insane to me that any user's login carries the ability to see all the data downloaded in this attack.

They're a logistics company. They take in products that are to be shipped to people. Likely they come in as the orders happen. So it's likely just a simple FIFO queue - someone from Steam buys a Steam Controller and their details get entered into the shipping database in FIFO order. As people work to package and ship product, that order will come up and whoever's the lucky person takes a steam controller, puts it in a box and slaps a label on it, then enters in the tracking information and tosses it on the shipping pile.

It's likely not ordered by anything - other than maybe the order the orders came in as. If someone else orders a widget after the guy orders a steam controller, the next person then gets to pick the widget, pack it into a box and then move on.

The database in question only contains orders up to 100 days old, so it's likely just the active database containing the orders that need to be sent out and orders that were sent out. Anyone fulfilling orders will need access to it so they can see what product needs to be packed and where to send it off to.

It's not a database of "every single client". It's a database of orders that have been shipped out and less than 100 days old and orders yet to shipped out because either they are being held for supply, or they just haven't gotten around to handling the order yet.

The 100 day history is so if there is a problem, it can be traced - if a product doesn't arrive, they can look at the order and figure out tracking. Or if there's a problem and it needs to be returned, it can be traced to the original shipment for RMA.

As far as it looks, other databases weren't compromised, which can include inventory information - what stock is on hand and where it is in the warehouse, or their customer information (as in who buys their services). The only thing compromised was the active order table which likely has lots of access out of necessity as people fulfilling orders need to read the database to get the orders, and backend systems like Valve need the ability to read, add and delete order entries to see what order status is, the ability to add an order, and the ability to cancel a shipment that hasn't gone out yet.

It looks like a perfectly reasonable way to segregate the business. They aren't storing your name, address, phone and email, it's just information that's needed to fulfill the order and any post-shipping issues that might arise. And it looks like that database was compromised

Criminal law usage is not common speech usage. I'll agree that legally you have a strong point, but I wasn't making a legal argument.