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Comment Re:Help Me Understand (Score 4, Informative) 36

Maybe, maybe not. Wake-on-LAN works from a remote system, without an outgoing request first. If this malware is so sophisticated, it could wait for any other program to call to the outside world. If the attacker has access to the network, it can inject something in the answer, thus bypassing a firewall. This could trigger the action and be otherwise seen as a defective network package, which is just asked for again. Nobody would notice a defective network package. This sounds quite scary.

Comment Re:Hot or cold? Make your minds up! (Score 1) 164

Oh come on, we know for decades that the weather will be more extreme. So on average it will get warmer. For example, that makes showers bigger and more violent, as more energy gets into it and it reaches higher altitude until all water vapour has not only been undercooled, but actually frozen. This makes the cooling effect afterwards so large it can actually cause hypothermia if you are not dressed for it and have nowhere to hide. This is apart from the larger hailstones.

This is actually one of the major problems in Europe. In the past, a heatwave just ended, and sometimes with some thunderclouds. Nowadays, heatwaves end with violent thunderstorms. But those are not the frontal thunderstorms we are used to; these thunderstorms hardly move at all and can flood the same area for hours, sucking all moisture in from the environment and delivering it in one spot.

And yes, the global currents have changed as well, and will change further, which was what you were referring to.

Maybe it is time to pull your head out of the sand after 3 decades. If only because that sand gets terribly hot in summer.

Comment Re:There is very little need (Score 4, Interesting) 96

Especially banks want a cashless society. The idea of a Central Bank Digital Currency is already quite old in Europe, but the banks have sabotaged it time and time again, out of fear that they would not be necessary anymore and would be unable to squeeze themselves between every payment.

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