Also, to preempt any pedantic response, yes, I'm aware that Cray computers are still very much a thing. But, using the phrase "Cray computers" as the epitome of computing power is very much a thing of the 1990s and before.
Hah, now see, I left some keywords in my last post you would have picked up on if had done national security work (at least connected to one of the bigger players).
That Wikipedia page is severely out of date. For instance, it quotes Hayden as NSA director talking about "Cray" computers. Hayden hasn't held a position in maybe 20 years, and his last position was as DCIA! US Intel is very, very aware of the computational and hacking abilities of China, North Korea, and others.
> Indeed. The Chinese also know that publishing a story about a found backdoor in their software would be a great exploit for the US and hence they know that the US is looking. Strangely, nothing has been found so far. Or rather very obviously, nothing has been found and the whole thing is nothing but lies.
Or maybe, just maybe, when the Chinese AND the Americans IC agencies find exploits and backdoors in the other's countries, they keep them quiet and monitor, save for later, watch other people exploit, etc.
Maybe, when 3-letter agencies in McClean and elsewhere catch incursions, they monitor them closely, analyze their tactics and techniques, and contain. It's a pretty Byzantine system, but that's modern spycraft.
This is absurd on so many levels.
To start with, it's not like the lawsuit has anything to do with what state they're based in. The California AG happens to be leading it, but it's a coalition of 12 states. It's not as if they could escape the suit by moving to another state. This is purely a pressure tactic, nothing more.
I believe they can. States can only sue companies that operate in their state. If Paramount moves to a state that isn't in that coalition, the other 12 will have a difficult time collecting.
Actually moving would be incredibly expensive. Build entirely new studios. Relocate all their employees. Lose a whole lot of employees who don't want to relocate.
And exactly who's going to employ all those who refuse to move? California unemployment isn't exactly stellar these days.
And anywhere else they moved to would be a worse place. They're located in Los Angeles because that's the heart of the film industry. That's where the workers are. That's where all the other companies that support the industry are. Trying to operate in Georgia or Tennessee would be much harder for them.
Your information is...dated. There are thriving film industries in Georgia, for example. It got so good California got scared of it. Granted, things have scaled back a bit in recent years, but that's tracking the overall decline of the film industry. LA is even worse.
Even if they somehow decided it made sense to move, that's not a decision you make quickly or lightly. It would take long and careful planning to choose a new location and prepare for the move. But here he is, saying they're going to start moving in less than two months, and he hasn't even decided what state to move to. Is anyone really supposed to take this seriously?
Please, don't take it seriously. Then, when it happens, it'll be far more shocking.
If in spite of everything he really tries to go through with this, expect a shareholder lawsuit and calls for the board to fire him. But he'd have to be crazy to really do it.
Shareholders have this odd habit of wanting their CEO to do things that increase the profitability of the company. Given how many businesses are fleeing the anti-business climate of California for Florida, Texas, and other business-friendly states -- and thriving in those new states -- they might just give him a raise.
Why do you people have so many weird fantasies about California? Obsessed much? It's fucking weird, dude.
No state has ever gone bankrupt. California's economy is the fourth largest in the world.
Take your meds. Reconnect with reality.
And yet, with all that economy, they still can't make budget
One could be forgiven for saying they can't afford to lose a single dollar of potential tax revenue.
Family member who lives there is a Environmental Studies professor. He uses his own trash/garbage pickup as a case study for students to calculate vehicle wear+tear, ROAD wear+tear, impact on traffic through the area, transportation-related CO2 emissions, and so forth.
Not that it's a shocker, but yeah, tl;dr, privatizing garbage is a ridiculously bad idea.
Yeah...we just throw all that stuff in the "regular" trash and they haul it away.
Where you live, do the garbage men actually slow down and stop their jobs to "inspect" your trash, open up bags, etc...to see what you are throwing away in there?
Hah--funny! No, needless to say, they do not. I have had a sticker put on my rolling recycle bin before saying that it was picked for a random inspection to make sure we're only putting recyclables in there, and threatening fines and penalties, but that's it.
I also read up on my city's solid waste quarterly reports, and the vast majority of what goes in recycle bins ends up going to a landful. It's a pitiful fraction, especially for plastics. So, I just through those away. I do dispose of some kinds of batteries and other ewaste specially.
Single stream recycling is about 90% performative theater. Other kids of recycling are like 80% performative.
If not where do you life they don't do this in the US? Are you somewhere extremely rural?
I've never heard of anyone in modern times having to haul their own track to a dump.
It's very common outside of suburban and urban areas. I like in a large suburban/urban area and I have to go to the dump for certain kinds of waste (batteries, UPSes, eWaste, etc). We have municipal compost/recycling/yard waste/trash.
Also pretty common in mountainous areas to take your waste either to a transfer station or a dump.
I have relatives in Minnesota, in the Twin Cities. They have to buy private trash and recycling service. The end result is every week 3-4 different "brands" of recycling trucks go rumbling down their small area, and 3-4 trash trucks do the same.
Oh, I thought you were just using this as another excuse to rant about Apple and Trump and your usual list of things. Forgive my confusion.
If you find that confusing, that's totally fine with me! It's a nice service to have around, either way.
"VPN for normies" -- as I said, in iCloud Private Relay word, Safari is a special citizen with hiding IPs and using its own DNS, etc. It's a "VPN for normies" who don't have a full VPN.
I'm very happy that Apple is including a VPN for "normies." I see a lot of traffic to sites I manage coming from iCloud private relay blocks, and the demographic is teens and twenty somethings.
Having said that, for me, it's a bit mixed. Things get confused when running my OpenVPN or Wireguard split DNS vpn with--and sometimes without--iCloud relay. There are also some OS network-specific settings that involve blocking trackers that impact things too. Safari is kind of "special" in terms of how it looks at networks and DNS as compared to base *nix utilities or Chrome/Firefox. I'm still entirely on macOS 15 (skipping macOS 26, we'll see about 27), and the situation has gotten much better since early OS levels.
Click the links. They have exlpoded parts diagram, step-by-step instructions, diagnostic software, etc. If you want pictures of every step along the way, iFixit has you covered there. I've repaired many Macs over the last ~30 years (Plungers for iMac monitors, etc) and I'm glad Apple had made it easier again. Hilarious joke about "biting that apple" lololol!
I think you replied to the wrong post.
Fallacious argument. A Macbook Neo is not the same as a sub-$200 Chromebook (I cannot find a single Chromebook for that cheap on Amazon, either. The ones that are close, in the $250+, are dramatically inferior to the Neo in every way I can see.). I am speculating, but I expect that a Neo would be more durable and longlasting than a budget Chromebook. The screen, keyboard, trackpad, and everything else is certainly better.
If school systems with 25,000+ students are deciding to make this investment, there is a reason. They also have far more information about the financial realities of using Chromebooks and the costs of acquiring 25,000+ Neos. The proof will be in the pudding, and we'll see what happens in the next several years.
My own personal opinion--Chromebooks suck and worst of all, they make computing utterly miserable for students.
https://selfservicerepair.com/en-US/macbook-neo/display
https://support.apple.com/genuine-parts-distributor
https://support.apple.com/en-us/docs/mac/301292
Apple went through a span of time where it was unfriendly to repairs. People rightfully complained, and they got better. That's everything working like it's supposed to, and Apple should be praised for improving.
If you don't have time to do it right, where are you going to find the time to do it over?
