"Drink up, the world's about to end." -- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

It's funny how quickly corporations respond to financial threats.

Meta would quickly oblige.

I have 2 MacBooks, and I network attach 6 Seagate 5TB portable external drives to those Macs (three to each of the 2 Macs). That's about 30TB available directly over my home router.

Seems to work fine, and the Seagates are far less costly than most NAS drives. Though, they do die occasionally. Oops.

Basically, I found a way to make my older Mac useful by simply leaving it on all the time, with the external drives attached.

My concern, beyond giving my phone to another party ... is whether some kind of clever hack is possible if the phone is stolen.

There's always a hack, but I'm not clear on what this could entail.

maybe sometimes?

Exactly. Almost never in the history of the world has major power and wealth simply been given away.

Musk is smart and capable and extremely successful.

But that's no guarantee that this prediction will pan out.

In a year's time, or two or three, someone should remind him of this erroneous thought.

Also, please remember this Tweet he posted 3 months ago:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1740913974135459902?lang=en

"I stand by my prediction that, if Tesla executes extremely well over the next 5 years, that the long term value could exceed Apple and Aramco combined"

Right, Sure.

And fully autonomous cars, and the rise of twitter (X) as the sole source of Truth.

25 years ago, I wrote a book (published by John Wiley & Sons) predicting this. It was obvious back in 1997 that this was gonna be a sure thing.

On one of the first pages of my book, I wrote: "Television is something that watches you."

i guess Apple is hurting financially,
and needs to move from Trillion dollar valuations to Gazillion dollar

how about fire all executives who don't enforce good security?

I mean, what's wrong with requiring basic security measures? with severe penalties for lax operations and enforcement.

ya know, expect decent levels of management. ... i know .. it's too much to ask for :(

"Astronomers Grapple with JWST’s Discovery of Early Galaxies" is an article, this month in Scientific American.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/astronomers-grapple-with-jwsts-discovery-of-early-galaxies1/

Here's the gist of it: "Researchers are convinced the James Webb Space Telescope has glimpsed an unexpected population of galaxies in the early universe. Now they’re trying to decide what this means for our understanding of the cosmos."

Similar articles have been posted on Nature.com and Space.com.

As the science advances, maybe we'll learn more about this. Right now, any statement of certainty is simply fake BS.

Right, just 4 days ago, this was posted on /.
"Wired Hails Rust as 'the Viral Secure Programming Language That's Taking Over Tech' (wired.com)"

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/22/11/05/2143237/wired-hails-rust-as-the-viral-secure-programming-language-thats-taking-over-tech

I meant to say that I was a freshman in High School.

I'm old now, and well past my 'Best Used By' date.