Just don't leave the country after you participate.

For that matter, you may suffer remote retaliation even if you stay home. I would leave this to the military or other government branch.

Also there is the question of legality, government operation or not. It sounds to me like vigilante justice. And countries who like their anti-American cybercriminals will certainly treat it as illegal. (Hence the advice not to leave the country.)

We certainly need a way to stop cybercrime, international or otherwise. But this doesn't strike me as a good way to go about it.

Finally a prediction: in the not too distant future, one or more offshoots from this will turn into unmanageable domestic criminal organizations.

I'm in favor of enforcement of laws which protect rights, but it's cheap and easy to get such devices, and there are valid reasons for them to exist — like knives.

You could cook with only shorter knives. It would be a lot more difficult (I also cook) but it would be possible.

I would imagine they decay into something else in like 10e-15 seconds.

I don't think most people who can afford a thousand dollars for a phone plan to keep their phone for longer than the 7 years Google will support their Pixel devices these days, nor do they want to buy a phone which has been out for very long. The poors will accept last year's iPhone, or an even older one, or the Shitty Edition bundled into their phone plan.

For a non-Pixel device you'd have a solid point, as most other Android phones have abysmally short support lifespans. Then again, many of those phones are so much cheaper you can buy one every three years...

It's partly end stage for a nearly dead country that causes us to have to talk about politics now.

But it's also partly because we didn't take politics seriously, and get involved enough in it. If we had discussed it a lot more sooner, maybe we wouldn't have to discuss it so much now.

Even if it could find the answer it might mess it up before it gave it to you. It might give you the right answer sometimes and not other times, especially if the right answer has changed...

Wikipedia wasn't banned, though one asshole did introduce a bill which tried.

You can't cite ANY encyclopedias after elementary school, whether it's claimed they are particularly inaccurate when they aren't, or not.

We would have fixed this with wind and solar already if the money holders didn't think nuclear was going to solve these problems any day now.

Humanity is in the end stage atmospheric we're fucked fire... And the amount of fire is increasing.

If some people didn't spend political effort to make sure of that then this wouldn't be an issue.

Slashdot has ALWAYS been a place where we discussed politics. Cry harder.

Yeah he paid billions to shut down a wind project in my area in California. PGE has made it quite clear they will not bring in more power, and right now you can't get anything permitted here that requires new service because there isn't any to go around. Since California let PGE kill net metering (fuck you Gavin) we won't be getting the power from anywhere else either. The local descendant of the Confederacy yokels are celebrating because they didn't want the wind turbines to ruin their view.

Congress "did not intend" to legalize straight-up gambling nationwide through what amounts to a semantic loophole. There is absolutely no doubt about that, on any side of this discussion (including the CFTC).

It's funny - Online discussions among (real) investors often worry about, and frequently caution each other about insider trading. The reality is, insider trading isn't applicable to the vast majority of us. Unless you're a C-level employee, specifically working in M&A, or maybe as the lead on a truly revolutionary new product (no, your company's Facebook wannabe or thinly disguised open source ripoff ain't it) - You have no insider information to trade on. Sincere belief that your employer's cool new toys are going to change the world ain't it - every company has cool new toys in the pipeline, and most of them are going to flop or at best be just another branded widget.

Thanks to Kalshi and Polymarket, congrats, every single one of us can now have truly actionable insider information. And that's not good, because as the past year has shown repeatedly, the average Joe is more than willing to use that information and has zero comprehension of securities regulations.

And to be clear, I have no substantial objection to gambling. This sham is something else entirely, however, and that something is a naked power grab.

But you participate in society! I am very intelligent! Etc etc

Global warming won't work out well for them either. Permafrost doesn't magically become arable land when it thaws and AGW means more chaotic weather that will affect crop yields for them, too. And at high latitudes it means increased occurrence not just of heat waves, but blizzards too... Russia might well be one of the nations for which it will be worst. It's hard to know, that's why they call it chaotic

Cute eighties movies about inexplicably skilled protagonists doing space combat which would absolutely actually be done by a computer don't prove anything except that suspension of disbelief is necessary to enjoy Hollywood movies.

The Chinese are doing a lot more cloud shit now than in the past. For example the manufacturer of my 3d printer made it phone home for cloud crap. Naturally I loaded a third party firmware patch into it which fixed this and other things. You're right that they're not good at it, it goes down a lot from what I hear, but that doesn't stop them from trying out this new angle on monetization (for them.)

I don't know if the problems are incompetence or just being less protected by attacks from competitors...