Peak capitalism should at least succeed commercially. This looks more like a bad idea that will sell maybe a dozen units and then be forgotten. So it remains faithful to the spirit of Commodore's business model at least :)

It's not premature. It's either unneeded, or "they should have done this a few years ago". And we won't know which for several years.

Remember, it's not only stuff that can be broken instantly. Coded messages can be recorded, and then broken when it's interesting/convenient.

The motive would be to insult the Russians.

That's possible. My guess was that Glasswing detected a backdoor that the feds had insisted be inserted into some, or much, of the popular commercial software.

Odd. My first suspect was either Ukrainians or some of their sympathizers.

Are they planning on using a hypergolic fuel? If not, I wouldn't expect there to be much explosion risk.

It's NOT the opposite. Both sides are doing it.

If it's still going up, it probably has a very eccentric orbit, and so will decay more quickly. But, yeah, it would be nice if there were some way to solve the problem. All I can think of is shooting the small pieces with lasers to vaporize them.

Orbits don't work that way. If something is in orbit, and you hit it hard, one end of the orbit will go high, and the other end will go low. And it will go through the point of impact once in every orbit. (I think "point of impact" means "some point on the original orbit", but it may be more specific.)

We have VASTLY different ideas of "beautiful".

I'm sorry, but Trump really isn't the worst president possible. The worst since 1780 possibly.

I'm personally convinced they're a cutout. They're being used to intentionally push this fear agenda so that the government can crack down and further implement the panopticon.

It's the only reasonable response to them repeatedly saying, "our products are dangerous". They're pushing for government intervention, and for whatever reason, want industry regulation or governmental industry control.

On one hand you've got potential nationstate-threatening technology which could take out power plants and penetrate sensitive top secret systems.

On the other hand you've got mean words and fake nudie pics.

I think your priorities are a bit fucked and navel gazing.

This isn't surprising, but I know what the best offer they're likely to get is.

Even the summary said the match was only 93% probable. That's a LONG way from any reasonable certainty. (Out of 1000 people you'd have 70 matches. If you don't do other steps of elimination, what is the size of the population you're screening?)