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Comment Failure to follow basic instructions. (Score 2) 40

The problem here is that he's failed to do the one thing he is supposed to do: work with congress. Who could make this happen? Congress. Who does he cooperate with? Nobody.

It's very clear the U.S. President doesn't know how ideas are made into laws because despite having a lot of leverage, he has yet to produce any original laws.

Comment Incorrect title. (Score 1) 38

Study Finds Weak Evidence Linking Increased Social Media Use to Teen Mental Health Problems

FTFY.

What's the difference? What they are looking for was a correlation between in the amount of time using social media and mental health problems in teens. At no point were they comparing teens who use social media to those who do not.

Comment Re:I'm not in favor of weapon R&D but... (Score 1) 11

You can bleed to death is what I was trying to get at depending on how it is used.

Yes, less lethal doesn't imply it won't kill you, only that it's less likely to kill you than being shot with a normal firearm. Consider that beanbag being fired from a shotgun is considered less lethal and that it absolutely can kill people. If you get hit in the eye with one of those then you're a dead. It's less-lethal but people still die from it. Same goes with tazers.

there is a medical condition where some people who have major issues on even up-to a paper cut that will not stop bleeding

That's hemophilia, a rare genetic disorder. As a general rule, formal military forces require a certain level of physical fitness in order to join because medical issues (like hemophilia) make them a liability. Therefore, it can be inferred that this weapon will not be used on someone with unique medical conditions that would make them more susceptible to injury... unless you start targeting civilians.

I wonder how long it can be used before excessive - that is deadly - or at what power level (and from what distance for the power level) such is used.

Well to know that, we would have to first know how the weapon works. After a bit of consideration, I'm thinking that it may be an ultrasonic version of LRAD. I definitely would not want to be hit by something like that.

Comment Don't be so sure. (Score 1) 149

Since the invention of the computer user, it has only been a matter of time before someone managed to find a way to make the drug dealer model applicable and we're most of the way there.

I might delegate certain tasks but I'm never buying into this subscription based cloud computer crap.

For the most part, a lot of people are most of the way there. Specifically, they will use an online office suite which keeps most of their data offsite. I had a friend who, through a series of poor choices, managed to lose access to his google account (and several years of data) after switching phone numbers. As he described it, "my whole life is on there."

One could say, "well that's just data, not compute" but features that rely on server-end compute aren't unheard and are only increasing with AI being pushed on everyone. When it's the easier option and your "whole life" is on their servers, it becomes unsurprising that people sign up for subscriptions.

There will always be people like us who resist these kind of entanglements but it's far from the path of least resistance.

Comment Re:Source code? (Score 5, Informative) 27

A link to it in TFA or the one it points to would have been nice given how often its mentioned.

So I looked deeper into this malware and it's a framework with many components. One of those components is a web browser based control panel which is written using the React JavaScript framework. I believe within the source of this control panel is where they found the reference to it being named VoidLink.

Details on VoidLink from those who reverse engineered it: https://research.checkpoint.co...

Comment Dead wrong. (Score 1) 145

What people fail to grasp is that pollution controls and regulation don't actually reduce pollution at all unless they're enforced globally.

Believe it or not, air pollution can be quite localized. I recently had to investigate and report on the issue of air pollution in various countries and you're not going believe how much it matters. In Turkey, 25% of all medical treatment expenses are to treat people that are slowly dying as a direct result of the extremely poor air quality.

The primary reasons for this poor air quality are:
* Erdogan went all-in on mining and burning lignite for energy production. (idiotic)
* They have stoves that burn some terrible fuel. (not great)
* They have a fleet of old shitty diesel trucks and no air quality restrictions. (not great)

So while air pollution is a global issue, it's also very much a local issue.

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