Also smart contract defined tokens may allow tokens to be frozen per the terms of the contract.

Some chains allow freezing specific transactions. It may or may not require a consensus of validators. It's rather controversial among crypto enthusiasts.

Not your keys, not.your crypto.

Your best engineers will be AuDHD, and AuDHD folk don't do well in these sorts of synthetic tests.

I can code in 20+ languages for over 12 different OS', write code that's good enough for CERN to run for particle accelerator data collection for a decade, have accelerated systems by an order of magnitude by understanding the poem space better than their previous engineers, but I am abysmal at exam style settings.

The software industry is riddled with SEs who write abysmal code but can pass a coding test easily. They're the folk that you have always needed to reject but didn't because they ticked a box.

Pinhasi pays the ransom out of his own pocket and gets the key.
He tells the victim he used his propriety technology to decrypt the files and sends a bill.
Pinhasi is telling a fib, which is OK in the US. That is, it's OK unless money changes hands, and then it's wrong, because that's how we roll here.

It depends.

It is illegal if the ransom is being paid to an entity that is sanctioned or in a sanctioned country such as Russia, Iran, North Korea, etc.
It does not matter that the payer didn't know the ransom is coming from a sanctioned country, the payer is breaking the law.

Here's a source for checkng present sanctions. https://ofac.treasury.gov/
"The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that paying ransom to cybercriminals is now illegal. In an official advisory, the agency stated that organizations that facilitate ransomware payments to hackers on behalf of ransomware victims, including financial institutions, cyber insurance firms, and companies involved in digital forensics and incident response, are violating OFAC regulations."

And a cyber crime advisory.
https://ofac.treasury.gov/medi...
It's also illegal to use a third party to facilitate payments to sanctioned entities, or to be the third party.

But it appears to be Ok to pay if you know the ransom is being done by a fellow American or, I suppose, a European. Except for this week, Norwegians.

If you're arguing that people are bad at their jobs then so be it. Clearly someone fucked up at Warner in order to accumulate all that debt. At the same time, if the people getting bounced were really deadweight then they would have been included in the layoffs. They wouldn't be getting buyout offers and/or be getting pressured by an RTO order.

Skydance doesn't really count as venture capital in this case. They're an actual media company that already owned Paramount and recently acquired Warner.

Let's be honest, these people aren't going to magically find work at a competitor overnight. Some of them will be unemployed or underemployed for 18+ months depending on what they were doing at Skydance/Paramount/Warner before taking the buyout. And i can almost guarantee you that the RTO and buyouts are aimed at Warner people. Though who knows, maybe they're stupid enough to bounce folks from Paramount.

In any case that is a poor excuse for people not being able to negotiate over work conditions or pay.

"Just go work somewhere else"
"There is nowhere else, you bought all the competiton"

Warner wasn't profitable though...

That's boring though. Hulkapoodle is much more compelling for military applications!

Ohhh good choices!

Which sci fi horror are we getting? Man's Best Friend?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Or Gamma dogs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Trump and Zelensky are doing a pretty good job of keeping petroleum and refined petroleum product prices high. If all you want to do is reduce fossil fuel production, well, there you go.

Most Windows "overclockers" are using PBO with the curve optimizer on any recent AMD CPU to actually run undervolted.