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Comment Re:Well, let's face it (Score 1) 51

You don't need it on consumer hardware

Except for, you know, illegal immigrants, legal immigrants, naturalized Americans and even American born, and all the other people targeted by their governments.

If your government breaking into your house and applying hardware-level attacks to scrape your secrets out of the RAM of your running computer is seriously part of your threat model, it's almost certainly very, very far from your biggest concern.

Also, you should probably consider turning your computer off.

Comment Re:Satellites (Score 2) 83

The law under international treaties says the US government is responsible for all satellites launched from US territory or by US companies. That is why SpaceX have to get permission from the US government to launch.

Other than that, space is like the oceans where you can travel at will wherever you want. Currently you can't claim territory in space, but that will change soon as it becomes possible for people to live there rather than just take a vacation.

Comment Re:Another con from the conman. Nothing new here. (Score 1) 150

with the fallout being less (or none at all) made-in-China rainbow colored kitsch being sold at places like Target

Target went especially unwoke in an attempt to fight a conservative backlash against their pandering to the LGBTQetc community. They seem to be trying to ride it out, but their revenues continue to fall, so it's clearly a pretty shit plan.

Comment Re:redundancy (Score 3, Interesting) 83

Even this article says that most parts will reenter in a few months. Anything small and low-density will come down rapidly due to drag at that altitude and the rest will follow.

SpaceX chose it in part so a dead satellite wouldn't stay around for long causing trouble for other Starlink satellites or other users of that region of space.

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