There aren't enough super wealthy to provide sufficient revenue. We went through this exercise a while back. Take a corporation. Lockheed was the example IIRC. Take all of the executives compensation. Every penny, not just some tax rate. Spread it it across all of its employees like peanut butter. It will make a nice Christmas bonus. Nothing you'd manage to live on. Your kids might get nice iPhones under the tree (but not the top of the line models).

You HAVE to tax the middle class. Because that's where the money is. Once this is encoded into tax policy and enforcement, the rich have an interesting tactic: Given that there just isn't enough money in that slice of the economy, chasing after it isn't worthwhile. On the other hand, enforcement targeted at the middle classes will pay off.

The alternative to a non updateable blob is to have the telecoms roll their radio firmware when a vulnerability is discovered. And then block old versions of your phone model from their network.

Think of the e-waste.

"I want either less corruption. Or more opportunity to engage in it."

It's important to realize that the so-called far-left Democrats idealize Bolshevism while the far-right Republicans idealize Fascism, both of which are forms of Big Government Socialism.

So if the Democrats are in power and they want to increase the size and scope of government the Republicans will go along with it 80% of the time. Because they know they will eventually be back in power and have more tools of power to control.
They will balk the other 20% of the time so they still have something to run on and false promises to make to their voters.

The base of both parties is mostly against all of this.

Thats just an ASCII emoticon of a totem pole.

StarLink may eventually wipe it out. Until then, it's the only way some people have to watch TV. I'm not familiar with Starlink data caps and fees, if any. It could be that Satellite TV will always be a lower price point for this application.

Any IDE or basic text editor can do that as well, no LLM necessary. I'm sure CS professors will tell you that their students have been doing it for decades, no artificial intelligence necessary. Of course just like the students who get caught every year, the developers who do are going to be the lazy ones that don't try to refactor in the slightest and just use whatever the LLM spits out. It'll probably still have the original author's name on it.

I have a ":w! saves" mug ;)

I have to ask: did you literally never use a computer lab at all in the DOS era?

Not "logging into DOS" - logging into your account. I literally said "mimicked the DOS prompt, including common commands", e.g., you're at the DOS prompt. When you want to login, you ran LOGIN.EXE, which "mounted" your network account. I believe it was Novell NetWare-based.

I wonder how many software shops would have to close their doors if this were adopted industry-wide.

Or the incumbent telecom/broadband companies. Difference is that with Bezos/Musk, at least you'll get service for it.

... this month. And still going!

Once the target enters the correct password, PamStealer displays a message stating that the file is damaged and can't be installed. This is designed to be a decoy to prevent the target from suspecting anything is amiss.

Same sort of technique I used back in secondary school, lol ;) We had a programming class (in Basic on DOS), and it was painfully trivial, so I'd always complete the assignments in like 5 minutes and then spend the rest of class messing around. So one thing I wrote was a program that mimicked the DOS prompt, including common commands, and when someone ran the login command and typed in their username and password, it would say that the password was incorrect so they'd think they had typed it wrong (while it was actually saving their username and password, then logging out of my account), so that when they tried again, it worked. I would launch on a bunch of computers in the lab after class when I could get away with it..

Among the passwords collected were the teacher's administrator username and password. So when it came time to write my final project for the course, among the various demo-style scenes in it was a stereogram generator. The hidden image in the stereogram was her username and password. ;)

(Thankfully she had a good attitude about it... seemed like she wanted to get mad at me but also found it funny. In retrospect, that could have gone very badly had she gotten angry...)

... Rust being put to use improving our computing security.