TLDs primarily exist to divide the DNS space into human-comprehensible chunks.

I wish the original setup had been national TLDs run by the the nations they represented, then let them go Wild West.

If your company is big enough to operate in multiple companies, it is big enough to have a domain for each country it operates in.

The other thing is simple risk reward. Putting stuff in orbit is comparatively at least cheaper than it used to be.

It is also true that we have advanced quite a bit in hardened control systems. Let's not forget the almost magic/impossible degree of precision required to do this stuff. Did we have the technology 20 years ago; probably could been do sure.

Did anyone want to try a real mission when the likelihood of failure, development, and operational costs were much higher, no it made more sense to just replace aging sats after discounting the risks.

There is no need for a conspiracy theory when simple business logic explains it all fine.

I don't know about the non-us phone market but based on slashdot comments it seems like non-carrier locked, not carrier financed phones are maybe more common than here. Certainly in the US that option is only for eccentrics.

Klarna though seems no less but also not inherently more predatory to me than the very worst of the ultra high interest, tiny limit credit card issuers (Credit One, PREMIER, and similar).

  I don't know what to tell someone though who can't afford a phone or PC. I would have said in say 2015, get a used one they are dirt cheap and that 2010 PC will do everything you need to do. However the manufactures have sought to pretty much destroy the used market because lets be honest without really imaginary system 'requirements' a 2014 PC runs Windows 11 just fine... except that you are one upgrade or patch away from something breaking your unsupported platform, and if you are having trouble budgeting for a PC, you can't afford sudden emergencies like that.

Same situation applies to phones, the things one might truly *need* vs want, like banking and finance apps tend to follow N-2 platform support, and so that older phone while realistically perfectly adequate is a door stop because Apple does not want to give you at least ios-18 for it.

It sucks but a PC, Phone or both are one of those things you almost need to succeed, but like cars industry and politics alike seem to be conspiring to make sure there are no 'affordable options' like a robust used market that is the least bit accessible.

If you think the US is going to fail gracefully, I have a bridge to sell you.

Trump - and his successors - don't care if they're destroying the world as long as they personally feel they get some kind of immediate personal advantage every step of the way.

At some point, the US is going to exploit Amazon, Google, Meta, or Microsoft to cause another country economic pain... and the government won't care that doing so will mean everyone starts disconnecting from the US' newly displayed threat and ultimately hurt the US more than anybody else.

There's a reason Canada and multiple EU nations are seriously pursuing 'sovereign clouds'. They're anticipating an attack and trying to mitigate the risk.

There are also power limits on unlicensed frequencies. Would you like to guess what my experience has been working on police surveillance and whether they respect those limits or not?

Different country, same problem; cops often put themselves above the law.

Let's be real, even if wordpress code quality isn't the highest of its CMS peers at least the core product is probably not worse than the vast majority of server software out there.

The real issue here is AI. The time it takes and the range of capable people who can now reverse engineer a patch, and generate exploit code from has been greatly reduced and greatly expanded respectively.

Patch management that once got exposed systems patched the same day is no longer adequate, if you can't be patched within hours even if you're tiny potatoes, shodan.io knows about you - so you're in for a bad time. Every hour is a roll of the dice.

Which brings us back the zero trust model, and why it really isn't a very good idea, or not a very good idea implemented independently from the tradition moat/perimeter model. Between true 0-days and now near zero time to patch, nothing not even the immediate peer if it is directly on the Internet can enjoy much of any trust no matter how often you re-authenticate.

Fark has no significant redeeming qualities, so I guess... OK, thanks for the update, dustbin of history is just on your left.

Free speech includes lying.

I was going to say the same thing. We have some amazing weapons systems. I mean when you think about it, it is down right stunning what a systems like Patriot Interceptors, AIM-9 air to air missile, or even a Phalanx CIWS, actually do and with such efficacy.

Yet these are 40-60 year old systems, at least their fundamental designs are.

All of it is undone though by swarms of cheap drones, which are marvels of technology themselves in terms of position identification and the digital logic to deliver simple stable flight be it fixed wing or multiple rotor aircraft.

Its funny in some ways it seems we are back to castle walls and archers. You can bead a horse to be strong and fast, put a bunch of fancy Armour on the riders, but if the enemy your are approaching can throw a lot of cheap shafts at you (which just as now were actually not all that cheap to manufacture) all the expensive super weapons become as much liabilities as assets.

I don't know. All the same arguments could be applied to not acting upon a non-responsive passenger while the taxis is traveling as well. It isn't as if cardiac events or respiratory failures are just going to wait until the vehicle is parked!

Yet traditional cab drivers don't monitor their passengers to make sure they are awake and alert and not reporting any distress the entire trip, as matter of fact neither do bus lines, railroads, airlines, passenger ships, and so on. Neither do these business require everyone to wear a pulse-ox for the duration. Would we hold a motel accountable if you expire from natural causes in your rented room overnight?

Liability usually follows from either expectation of concern/care or causation and I am not sure there is either here. I am not a fan of Waymo but if I am on the jury and they are the defendant in your case against them because they did not do enough to prevent your whomevers death by self inflicted alcohol poisoning where we have video that simply shows them appearing to be sleeping peacefully in the back seat most of the ride; I am going to need to hear a lot of compelling argument. I can't currently imagine what that would be to get me to go along with the idea you have any claim against them.

...the article shouldn't mention the woes of someone who worked for Meta.

When you work for a particularly evil company, you know what you're signing up for - screwing everyone over else for a buck. I'm not going to cry for you when you find out the company doesn't see a big difference between you and me.

I've worked on police systems that are connected to home alarms. The false alarms got problematic, so police agencies started a 'one false alarm, then you get billed' policy.

Very shortly thereafter, there were multiple vendors offering tracking and billing solutions that would integrate with police call taker / incident tracking systems.

It seems like this would work exceptionally well for robotaxies - give them an economic incentive to find a way to confirm someone is in actual distress prior to calling 911. Like maybe a remotely activated just-below-hearing-damage alarm in the car if you're not moving within 2 minutes of the car pulling up at your destination.

But then there's another fancy option - the car could drive towards the nearest hospital ER or EMS station during the 911 call, with the service's agent reporting location and redirecting or stopping the car if so instructed by the 911 operator.

This is what everyone needs to understand when they say "we should have a public..." or "why did we privatize this".

If you have actual experience doing any work from the government you know that huge portion of it is compliance costs, realistically it absolutely is something like 40% probably.

First there is the upfront bits of doing an RFP that looks like nobody else's

then there is proving you have the required mix of ethic and gender representation (if you actually want to win)

after that comes the recording and reporting on different metrics than anyone else in industry uses because someone has to follow a rule from 1943 or some public employee who does not understand anything about the process decided they needed to CYA and wrote up some report templates, because they all believe (possibly rightly) that if they make the haystack big enough none of them can ever be identified and faulted for ordering the wrong thing or given the wrong instruction.

Next unlike the business world where the incentive is usually to accept the deliverable, if it meets the spec and functions well under test, because the customer wants to put that asset into operation and either start making or saving money money with it, the public folks are incentivized to nit pick and play lawyer about every word because again CYA, in case anything ever goes wrong in the future. So you got 15% in rework or dispute resolution right there whichever path you chose; again all the fix things any reasonable persons would find no fault with.

So the private sector responds to this in a couple ways.

First - dramatically over charge because it is government. In competitive markets there is a wink a nod and nobody offers the tax payer a far price

Second - in smaller less understood tenders they dramatically under bid to win, then insert some time and materials language somewhere that lets the go 30X over budget. The people evaluating the responses know this and don't care because it is not their money after all and the vendor will let them play victim in the court of public opinion. Oracle, SAP, Blackwater, Core-Civics types don't care what "people" think about them because they don't have "consumers", the Amazon's and Microsoft's of the world have figured out consumers are not informed enough or don't seem mind them abusing Uncle Sam or the local yokels on their county board..

Writes age it, so the best method is to write once, then plug it in for a while every few years to let it do whatever automatic maintenance can or must be done. And honestly, I'm not sure whether that's baked into the hardware or if you need some software process to check the thing. Not my area of expertise.

In theory you can throw one in a drawer and it'll be fine a decade later... but you can't trust that it will be.

Cool story bro time.

I developed finger-based calculation independently as a 10 year old. Freaked the teacher right out, she didn't understand what the hell I was doing.

Probably not as complex or effective (I have never heard of Chisanbop, but I assume it's well-developed), but my method definitely helped me rapidly finish math tests without the more traditional intermediary steps of pencil and paper or a calculator.