Maybe you didn't have the initial spark events, but perhaps you get new ones when you turn it back on if there are any downed lines, or a tree dangling from the wires...

Mod this bad boy up! Exactly what I was thinking. A new IoT device to have poor security and open to vulnerabilities.

I agree. They should be using something that could actually modify the orbit of the satellite either forcing it outside of earths gravity on a trajectory for the sun (don't need it aiming toward nowhere in particular so that the Starship Enterprise crashes into it 10 million years down the road, that's just silly) or making it so that it reenters earths atmosphere and burns up.

If a couple of weeks of shutdown causes some certs to not have been applied, it is because the administrators weren't doing their jobs right. I'm sure they will get "adjusted" once they are back in the office.

Blockchain and huge power requirements aren't synonymous. Bitcoin, and other cryptocurrencies that use the technology are where the power usage is, and that is because it is actually built into the algorithms for the currency.

Blockchain methodologies are actually very cheap to compute and use, it just the matter of other resource usages over time as the "chain" spreads out and is housed in more places in part or in whole. A big chain can be many, many petabytes in aggregate stored over hundreds and thousands of machines. That doesn't even cover the bandwidth required to transmit all of that data. Granted, some chains are "self contained" in that they aren't spread widely, mainly used in house, but they can be anywhere in between.

Anyway, that's my take on it. Not an expert by any means. Some some schmuck with an opinion.

How about if people were more conscientious about their "reproductive habits" and weren't being so damn promiscuous, perhaps we wouldn't be in the position that you ascribe to "every zygote is sacred".

True, but wasteful taxation is not.

I think you're totally missing the sarcasm...

Doesn't this mean EVERYONE starts out as a tr0ll, and that they are invisible to all others, unless of course someone chose to change their settings to allow them to see the "unwashed masses", but why would they ever do that? ..."before anyone would even see them", so, it would be a platform where only someone that somehow paid to be visible was visible, because why would you ever want to see the potential tr0lls when you could avoid that altogether. Instead, you just end up with tr0ll factories that are raising the reputations of their main tr0lls, or tr0lls that have somehow invested in other ways to become visible.

Every system can be gamed, and this just sounds like another game waiting to be played by bad actors.

I agree, it's an interesting thought, I'm just a guy that tries to pull things apart to find the reasons not to do something, so take it as that, not that I necessarily disagree with what you're trying to accomplish with the thought.

HOLY FS!

FUCK YOU SLASHDOT! Is that unlame enough for you?

Repeated use of the word "troll" was what triggered the filter, hence using tr0ll. How lame. Sorry

Isn't it an HR policy to NOT share personal information about someone? Wouldn't this be counter to a persons right of privacy?

Yup, they're a pile of crap for what they did (if they did do it, and it wasn't just a baseless accusation), but does an employer really need to advertise why they got rid of someone? As far as the payouts, I'm sure there was something other than "Well, we think you're a good guy anyway, here, take a pile of money while we fire you for being accused of sexual harassment". Things are never cut and dry. It's not a binary world. There's an infinite distance between that 0 and 1...

Happy Friday!

Are you a fucking idiot? Who says I am afraid of "a brown person". I have enough brains in my head to know that an uncontrolled border, or a poorly controlled border, or a border that gets overrun will likely have people coming through that mean harm to the country. And that is ignoring the fact that it is FUCKING ILLEGAL what they are doing. And not to mention the fact that allowing anyone to stay that comes across illegally is just throwing it in the face of every single person that did it the RIGHT WAY.

Oh, and the whole "home grown right wingers", that is a farce as well. Just look at the news, you can see who the unhinged assholes are, thinking that they can harass people in the most absurd ways anywhere they want because they don't have the same political view. Let me spell it out for you. F U C K I N G D E M O C R A T S! Oh, wait, you won't see that, because you watch CNN that has a vested interest in not showing the stupidity of your party.

There, now fuck off back to wherever the fuck you come from. Jackass.

No, i think it will be deemed against the public interest to grow your own "free" food (kind of like collecting rainwater). You must buy it, at a premium, and probably from a third world country, where your fresh produce will be days or weeks old. (yes, there should be a sarcasm tag there... or should there?)

By switching to plant based foods, then you will have to plant a ton more plants, and that would act as a carbon sink... Yeah, that could totally do it! On the other hand, they can pry my steak out of my cold dead hands! Bastards!

I bet that even if Google complied fully, that all of the things that the EU commission is complaining about, will still get installed. Manufacturers have a duty to put out a piece of hardware with appropriate software installed that will provide the consumer with the most value and present the least trouble to that consumer. Google search, and chrome, which are everywhere and well supported are a good base to start with.

Bull. Fucking. Shit. Full stop.

I usually don't spout, but it's this kind of bullshit that sends me over the edge.

How about they are ALL corrupt AND incompetent. Don't try to say that the misguided sense of entitlement and "feels" from the left make them merely incompetent. And that nationalism and pride in their country and trying to protect their constitutional rights makes the right competent, yet corrupt (If they were merely corrupt, as an error of omission they must at least be competent).

Let's all agree that politics as a whole, is a pile of manure. Hyper partisanship has led to everything that you see today. (over generalization, but you know what I mean). There's no communication skills anymore, nobody wants to have a conversation, they just want to ratchet up the rhetoric and violence until things get even worse.

Anyway, long story short, who gives a flying fuck about whether or not some employees at FB got butthurt over the fact that someone high up in FB doesn't share their EXACT SAME BELIEFS and supports their long time friend who happens to be in the middle of a scandal that everyone seems to have polar opposite views on.