Oh, I neglected to add...

"Because blowing shit up in any orbit, is so self-defeating a child could see it."

You're correct. And your complaint is also with the CCP. But war is always a gamble - can you win something worth more than the costs? Or can you defeat the aggressor with acceptable costs? Look carefully at the Ukraine conflict. While it seems that Ukraine is somehow succeeding at assymetrical warfare, listen to reporters on the ground. The mainstream is publishing propaganda, nothing new there. And it may seem this is illustrating the 'future of warfare'. Or it's smoke and mirrors, and a different game is truly afoot. Starlink could be destroyed, perhaps, with a Kessler attack, kill enough birds to cause fratricide. Destroy the geostationary birds? That's more damaging and gets a different response. Kill the surveillance birds in polar orbit? A different response. The CCP would be playing the long game I think. We would play the retaliatory game, I think. The mid powers are all spectators, and they are beginning to hate that, but they can't afford to play. The US must only match capability for now. There are alternatives to on-orbit destruction. We'll develop those.

... the /. that I registered in always said that non-malicious hackers were doing the world a service by revealing system vulnerabilities.

And I gotta say, their standards for "non-malicious" could be pretty low, lol.

Just interesting to see how things change, with the fashions and slogans of the time. (And how people who would swear that they are immune to fashion tend to follow along with it.)

as if the companies running these AI bots have no control, guardrails or responsibility about these breaches

Hmm...Have you looked at the ohno crate? That, and a bunch of other crates in oxidizer look really useful, and none of them are specific to windows. There are a few obviously designed for MS products like azure, but most that I've looked at aren't.

They mostly seem geared at making rust even more ergonomic.

/facepalm

By this reasoning, Microsoft should have taken over C++ a long, long time ago. Hell, C# should be even more proprietary right now, instead it has become open, whereas the language it was built to compete with, namely Java, went from being open to being an excuse for Oracle to sue anybody who uses it. Actually come to think of it, Microsoft is funding eclipse adoptium.

Just because your favorite drink is the same color as rust doesn't mean you understand it, let alone any other programming language.

Can't forget the parody, which was incorrectly attributed to Weird Al back in the Napster days (along with just about every parody song).

Yes, if prices go up, then tax on those prices also goes up. I'm surprised that this surprises you.

So, if you're an oil-exporting nation that isn't dependent on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, yes, when the companies you tax make more profit, you make more money.

Wrong. Go learn some real economics.

Basic economics says that internet businesses, who will do anything to grab more eyeballs reading their stuff instead of somebody else's, will pay money to have their content prioritized.

This will tend to drive small, low-cost internet businesses, who can't afford to bribe ISPs, out of business, but from the point of view of the big players, that's a feature, not a bug.

We live in a simulation used by an advanced far-future artificial intelligence to understand its origins.

Laws are useless in general.

And by the time you get AT & T to fulfill the fiber delivery, Starlink will be providing Internet at Fiber Speeds to the whole planet. Starlink V3 is coming sooner (Within months) than the snails at the terrestrial providers could imagine.

Johnson!

Oh, so you mean. 'China deployed a weapon in space and *used* it'?

Then again, after a Kessler event, first the lost resources need to be replaced, even marginally, so that life is not too unbearable /s. Then the debris cleanup must begin. It will have to be done.

Then whoever gets up there first will mostly win. And I would put good money on knowing who gets up there first, unless the NWO offs them and destroys their industrial advantage.

And I want MY nation to be the winner. Obviously. Your wishing me and my nation ill is only 'me win' in disguise.

for once I am really rooting for the extinguish part of Microsoft's Embrace Extend Extinguish MO..

The language and the tech are fine but the proponents are mostly insufferable.