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Comment What if? (Score 1) 64

Someone made a deepfake video of Putin telling the truth about the war in Ukraine, and showing sorrow for leading his people into a stupid war, which has cost so many lives and impacted their economy.

Sometimes telling the truth can be extremely powerful.

Comment Why not tax ransomware payments? (Score 1) 65

If they placed a 100% tax on them and required companies to report them to the government, it might help in many ways.
  1. Companies wouldn't silently avoid reporting the ransomware attacks.
  2. The government would make money from it.
  3. These would be more expensive for companies, so they'd be more incentivized to defend them selves properly.
  4. Cyberware insurance wouldn't pay the taxes, so companies wouldn't be able to pass the as much of the expense off to their insurers.

Comment This is actually a non-issue for astronomers. (Score 2) 98

I suspect this is an issue mostly for astro-turfers.

I work with professional and amateur astronomers, and the only time low earth orbit (LEO) satellites, such as Starlink's, are visible is at dawn and dusk, which not a good time for viewing the sky.

Astronomers normally wait until the sun has set well below the horizon before observing, because they need the darkest conditions, and this would also be after the sun has stopped shining on the LEO satellites.

On the other hand, I think it would be revolutionary to have a good internet connection, which wasn't controlled by Hawaiian Tel or Time Warner Oceanic, both of which are expensive, slow and sometimes unreliable.

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