Incorrect. Computer misuse within the US, regardless of where the individuals who are doing the misusing are located, is under US jurisdiction. This is long-established. Laws dealing with multi-jurisdictional issues (such as patents/copyrights, illicit interstate commerce, sex tourism, computer misuse) are old-hat.

Attacking US servers located in US territory is an attack carried out within the US, regardless of where the keyboard warrior is.

Now, if the servers attacked are in Ireland, then they're also covered by EU jurisdiction (no matter what the US likes to think).

The law is the law, and nobody, in any nation, is immune. A fact a lot of nations like to pretend they're somehow immune to. They aren't and there will always be a price to pay for such cavalier attitudes.

If a place is cheap to live, then your life is just as cheap to those running it.

In the end, there's a certain minimum cost for running things effectively and if the taxes don't reflect that, then as far as the corporations and politicians are concerned, nobody there matters.

Even amonst the rich clients, the malpractice incidence rate in the US is between 2-3 times that of the rest of the civilised world.

Worse, doctors struck off in one State for malpractice can simply move to another and get a fresh license. It happens.

The system is really bad.

It's short sighted too. If they installed a lot of batteries and renewables at the site, at least they would have something of value when the AI bubble bursts and the rest of the site gets scrapped.

Indeed, game studios know about licencing issues and these days often add a "streaming friendly" mode which replaces any licensed music and visuals so that streamers don't get copyright claims.

Also the licence must include an earliest end date, before which the servers cannot be shut off without triggering a full refund.

I've seen clothing with built in cooling in Japan, aimed at people who work outside. A little fan circulates air, and some of pockets for ice packs. Of course, that doesn't work in a space suit.

They never learn, this happens again and again every time some new technology is developed. Photography, fingerprints, DNA, phone call tracing, CCTV, surveillance doorbells, Tasers, pepper spray, zip tie handcuffs, every tool the police get is abused until they have some expensive losses. Not just the US either, it happens in the UK too.

Batteries are probably more practical for this, and can serve as a backup for them too.

Flywheels are used, but a better place to put them is old fossil fuel plants. They already have a lot of the infrastructure. Ireland has converted some, and I'm sure other places too.

I'm sure they have adequate protection for their equipment. The problem is everyone else's. If they switch off a large amount of power consumption suddenly, the generators supplying them are instantly putting too much power into the grid, and need to ramp down. Of course many of them can't ramp down very fast, and even things like batteries can only respond as fast as they can detect the problem happening some distance away, so the voltage goes up and the frequency wonders off.

Brown outs are bad, voltage spikes are much worse.

They aren't going to help the grid stay balanced if they aren't forced to. That would be a cost they could avoid.

Maybe I should make this simpler for the hard of thinking.

Smoking impacts your chances of getting lung cancer. It is not a 100% guarantee, but it's pretty damn high. It is called an impact by anyone with anything close to an intellect that actually functions.

Having a vaccine impacts your chances of getting a disease. It's not a magic forcefield. It increases the payload needed to overwhelm the initial immune response, and it increases the severity of the infection needed to be anything more than a brief annoyance, but it isn't Harry Potter. And some would probably whinge about magic fields if it were. In many cases, the impact is a 90-95% level of protection, but we call it an impact.

God, the level of brain-dead morons here is so depressing.

If X alters Y, then yes X impacts Y. That's, like, basic terminology.

I do not specify magnitudes anywhere. If you saw them, please see your local pdoc as you're hallucinating.

Do you have problems with English?

Physics has used indirect testing for many years, and I don't think anyone expected string theory to be any different.

There are research papers that detail specific properties that must be present in any string theory-based model of gravity, for example. If we find, in our efforts to study quantum gravity, that those properties can't hold, then string theory cannot be correct. Not just a specific string theory, ANY string theory at all.

Any string theory that requires a supersymmetry that is reachable by the LHC once it gets updated will be falsified within a very short space of time. If we persist in not seeing supersymmetry after this further round of updates (and we've already had several to improve luminosity), then none of the string theories involved can be correct. They have to be false.

None of these allowing string theory would prove string theory "true", but if any are false then string theory cannot be true. If ALL of them permit string theory, then whether or not string theory describes anything real, the maths that has been done must nonetheless describe real things.