You are assuming a lot about competition that did not exist. The justification for the AT&T monopoly and Western Electric monopsony was the 1913 consent decree giving it the goal of creating what was known as "universal service." That was still the mantra when I joined BTL in 1977. That goal ended with AT&T divesting itself of its operating phone companies in 1984. That was so it could enter the computer business and compete with IBM. I saw first hand the goal of universal service was such an important doctrine that the basic model of the phone network based on circuit switching was impossible to give up and also made it impossible to recognize the Arpanet for what it was becoming and what that implied about the future. Even the early Arpanet was evident to a lot of technical staff but the success of the existing business structure is what shaped decision makers thinking.

I feel like we're stuck in a time loop with a a really screwed up read head.

I so, so very look forward to pissing on several graves. I'll happily be arrested in Arlington Cemetery, so long as they let me shake first.

"It enforces zero policy," Poettering said. "It leaves that up for other parts of the system."

"Calm down, stop being so jumpy. The explosives around your neck will not detonate. Unless I push this button."

LNG is not just used directly for energy.

It is an input to urea production. As in fertilizer. As in a major farming input.

So you can thank Mr. Peace President for you impending food bill, too.

Yes, the same dipshit that calls himself the peace president and minces around talking about redoing the drapes like a pantomime suburban housewife.

(Can you imagine what fun the press would have had with a President Hillary going on about the drapes?)

And then goes on to be a trashy asshole to the Japanese PM. Although that could "just" be dementia-driven disinhibition instead of intentional. And when he's gone, remember that this is what Republicans value - this incompetent, boorish, demented piece of trash. And why? Because he is hurting people they resent slightly more than he is hurting them, and they're willing to burn the constitution to do it.

Oh, that's not what they meant?

Nevermind, not interested.

Absolutely agree.

And you can rest easy knowing the US is currently crippling and isolating itself, so it will likely back off some of its nastier behavior over the long term. (Although the short term is turning out to be... interesting.)

But to be realistic you need to note US is not uniquely bad here. Nations have interests, not morals. If one ends up substantially more powerful than peers, it will throw its weight around. And the US, for all its faults and evils, has mostly promoted human rights and an expansion of political freedom. Its failures and hypocrisies there are many and awful, but I assure you a resurgent Russia or unfettered China would not be a better actor.

Similar concerns here, both for F-droid apps and DJI's - which require installing from an APK downloaded directly from DJI to get the latest version. I only have a handful of apps I sideload, and when I'm not updating those I tend to have the ability to sideload turned off for the modicum of additional security afforded against inadvertant user error. If I either need to go through this 24-hour process every time I update the apps, or leave sideloading permanantly enabled (which I'd be more likely to do, I think), then this is yet another user-unfriendly move by Google that is almost certainly more about being self-serving than anything else.

If I wanted a walled garden, I'd have bought an iPhone.

There have been several recent cases of the Ohio leg not being responsive to what the citizenry want. You can expect citizens to keep doing this until they manage to dislodge the arrogant little shitweasels who keep trying to tell normal folks how to live.

Or chloromidians? Was there any mention of chlorine on it?

In the absence of chlorine, would flouromidians form? Would flouromidian-based life have any unusual properties?

Or whatever it is that tricorders detect?

Or souls? Did it make a detour through our solar system to pick up a few souls for later use?

Never would have believed it was a fake.

Nicely self-descriptive comment. I'll remember the name and not bother reading you anymore.

(1) Your conception of fairness is broken, apparently because you can't see the difference between sports and society's justice function.

(2) General hint to dealing with other humans: If you try to surreptitiously break rules and get caught, appealing to some sense of "fairness" makes you look like a fucking weasel who will say anything, so your words mean nothing. You just tried to get an unfair advantage and hide it, and now you're whining about being caught, demonstrating lack of remorse. You deserve to be stomped for it, if nothing else as an example to others.

Beginning to think that, if you are a normie[1], affirmatively picking your malware might be the way to go. You're going to get pwned, so you may as well pick one that will defend your gateway from other gangs and hopefully not be too awful.

Maybe someday we'll seeing APTs advertising for vassals and competing on terms.

[1] As in, you don't run snort at home or monitor CVE feeds

Fully homomorphic encryption is mostly theoretical, but that's because it is incredibly slow and uses huge amounts of memory, not because you can't write conditionals.

You can compute anything using FHE that you can with any other turing machine. As long as you can wait long enough.

If Intel can provide 1000x+ speedups, some of this might become usable in limited ways. Because right now it costs multiple seconds to do a single FHE multiply, and it needs something like 20000x the memory space of unencrypted computation.