Russia's war with Ukraine is basically wiping out a significant proportion of its "men of fighting age" demographic, which has a heavy overlap with the "men breeding age" demographic, a loss that is probably already severe enough to cause serious economic and society issues in a generation or two as the population balance shifts. Now, evil thought, but if you were to see Russia as some kind of threat, and don't particular care about the toll all this is taking on Ukraine, wouldn't it be in your best interests to see that trend continue?

Also, let's face it, Russia has no clear successor to Putin that is going to be able to do the one thing he does *really* well, namely stop the military, oligarchs, and mob bosses tearing each other apart. When Putin eventually does go, however that happens, Russia is highly likely to implode in a spectacularly messy fashion, so having the country on its knees in as many ways as possible when that happens might be seen as strategically advantageous as well, and so especially regarding men of fighting age.

There is also a relatively popular third option in Russia that doesn't involve a container; "accidentally" falling of a high window.

it was a useless forum whose only members were Apple fanboys. Post an actual problem and they are no help whatsoever, also Apple never paid any attention to the forums at all. Big waste of potential.

Who needs a backdoor when it is Ring?

Ring allows law enforcement full access to their devices and data without a warrant.

Remember that Ring shares all of their data with law enforcement, without a warrant.

Do you really want the government to be able to fly a drone around your home taking pictures of whatever they want, when you are not around?

Talk about big brother creep factor. The only way I would ever allow a device like this into my home is if it was 100% locally controlled.

I drove the NC500 route - and then some - around Northern Scotland several years ago, which is about as rural as you can get in the UK with some pretty large distances between refuelling locations by UK standards. While we did the drive in my friend's ICE, at the time I personally owned a PHEV and was looking to go pure EV, so was keen to see how the trip might have worked with an EV.

tl;dr, with a little planning on where to stop (which we also had to do to locate petrol pumps), and when due to the longer refill times, it would have been a doddle with an EV. There were plenty of charge points available and in working order that could easily have been aligned with our meals, overnights, or visiting some of the locations we spent time at. As said, that was several years ago, so availability has presumably improved since and it's also a LOT easier to find available charge points with the current generation of Apps.

Needless to say, my daily driver is now an EV and charging it is no problem at all, even with the occasional drive of 300miles or more. Most of my charging is at home, at ~8p/kWh, less whatever is in the home battery system from the solar panels, with the longer drives covered by a couple of EV charging loyalty schemes to keep the costs down. Frankly, if you're driving that kind of distance you should be taking a break anyway, so you just need to find a suitable charge point and grab a coffee; plan ahead and you can avoid the ridiculous rates on the motorway by driving a few extra miles and have a better standard of food as well. (Although if you're going up the M6, it's hard to argue with the food quality at the Tebay Farmshop services!)

Well it *is* the oldest profession of them all, and a honeytrap is one of the oldest tricks in the espionage game too, so there's definitely legitimate cause for concern. Especially so if it turns out Jensen's thing for leather extends beyond jackets and the MSS now has some compromising material on him.

Also, nitpick, but didn't Pussy Galore work as a personal pilot for Auric Goldfinger? In this context, there are *sooo* many more outrageously dated quips to be had with that combo, I think. Have at it Slashdot... :)

Or not. A disconnected customer isn't going to be generating any more revenue, so I'll expect this to be about as effective as everywhere else that has tried something similar; the ISPs will do the bare minimum (because to do more would cost more, duh!), wait for the take downs, and then take every possible step they can to avoid taking any action unless it becomes a slam dunk backed up with a court order. Factor in things like CGNAT, deliberately vague logfiles and short retention policies (complete and detailed customer connection logs for even a small ISP are insanely large), shared gateways, open WiFi, VPNs, sketchy residential proxies, and encrypted protocols, and the ISP has a lot of options to fairly legitimately say "we can't work out which specific user to disconnect with the information provided."

Sure, but if - as is likely given how AI is finding exploits elsewhere - this kind of heist becomes more commonplace what do you think is going to happen to the notional value of all those secure crypto wallets? Even if you take Binance at face value, then while they've either recovered, or are in the process of recovering, a significant chunk of the stolen tokens, they have still had to dip pretty deeply into cash reserves to cover the rest.

Where is the money going to come from if Binance are done again before they get to rebuild that cushion, or keep getting hit with lots of somewhat smaller heists in a death by a thousand cuts type scenario? What do you think is going to happen to market confidence, and therefore token values, if another of the major exchanges defaults/rug pulls as a result of one of these heists, which is probably just a matter of time now? The reality is that there's a whole bunch of people using crypto who are either too lazy and/or not technically adept enough to sort out their own wallet and keys, so they're going to keep using exchanges like they are banks. That makes the whole system vulnerable to token value crashes because it doesn't matter where and how securely your crypto is stored if the value of the tokens tank; everyone with a HODL position gets to be a bagholder in that scenario.

He's a photographer, so pretty good bet this is a specialist photo inkjet printing onto a suitable paper stock, rather than the run of the mill paper that comes in larger reams intended for more general use like you'd get at the local supermarket or whatever. Photo papers to be of higher quality, thickness (or even be card stock) and weight and do indeed have special coatings, finer fibres, use more cotton/silk, and so on that could explain the texture. Depending on the printer, it might not even be card or paper at all; some support various fabrics, plastic/acetate, and even metal in some fairly specialist cases. It doesn't look like a fabric, but could possibly be a sheet of white plastic/acetate.

Push it to a 420 and you won't feel the need to worry about it any more.

Well, I can't speak for the US electoral roll breakdown, but it appears you may be in the 10% that can't add up. :)

That's over simplifying things a bit, but yeah, we have fundamental infrastructure issues in the UK with any proposed mass rollout of AI DCs. While we do have surplus generating capacity, to the point that we occasionally need to pay people to use it, and more generating/storage capacity (especially local domestic, which frees up baseload capacity for industrial uses) is being added all the time, there are some other more fundamental UK issues. Firstly, the national power distribution grid is in need of some serious upgrades to support some of this. The South West in particular is on a very thin high tension thread that currently has insufficient capacity for the the planned relocation of the UK's nuclear deterrent subs to Devonport and associated growth, for instance. Secondly, and this seldom gets mentioned in the context of all these new AI DCs that are being planned or the "shouty kids/let's save water" adverts currently being run, is that we have some severe water supply pressures as a result of climate change combined with a decades long lack of investment in new reservoirs and upgrading leaky Victorian era distribution networks. Care which part of the country is currently experiencing the brunt of a "once in several decades (but is now expected to happen every few years)" severe drought event? Yup, it's the home counties, where most of the planned DCs are supposedly going to get built!

Those all have technical/construction solutions though, the third does not, and that is that the home counties in particular are notorious for the NIMBYism, although they are far from alone in that - just a few days ago a massive planned solar/storage facility in Scotland got pushed back, and possibly nixed, because of it. Sure, there are totally valid arguments against concreting over large expanses of what is currently greenbelt to some extent, even before you get to water/power shortages, pollution (including noise), additional traffic, and all the other impacts, but there have to be some limits. One solution I like for this (albeit not without some quite complex zoning issues due to suitable areas for building supply not being equal to where the supply is needed) is to make supply, or cost of supply, proportionate to acceptance of local capacity build outs. If you want your power to be generated in someone else's backyard, then you'll pay more for the privilege while they get a rebate. If you object to that proposed new local reservoir, then you don't get to complain if you need to start buying potable water in bulk during the next drought. If, as in the case of DCs, you are putting in disproportionately high demands for supply, then you either pay - up front - for a suitable proportion of the required upgrades, or commit to some other form of reimbursement with suitable early termination clauses if you want a longer timescale.

Then again, this *could* just be Microsoft wriggling off the hook because they're starting to think the AI bubble might be somewhat overinflated and therefore they might not be needing all that capacity they've been saying they are going to build afterall, but don't want to start the stampede for the exits until they're already through the door.

Damnit! UCT != CUT either, which is yet *another* standard timezone, using the same three letters. Cue oblig. XKCD on standards...

Above should have used CUT, not UCT.

It's more likely to be much ado about nothing for almost everyone apart from a few astronomers, rocket scientists, and similar groups, all of which you'd expect would have the braincells to figure it out, but will no doubt have a few in the mix that don't. Other standard timezones exist (the various UTCs are != UCT), so if your system is working fine on one of those then it will continue to do so.

UCT also moves backwards *and* forwards continually, mostly due to gravitational variances due to other celestial objects, changes in the Earth's spin, and all the other things that effect planetary orbits; some years Earth (and all the other things going around the sun) will orbit a little faster, others a little slower, so it's not a cumulative year on year increase to the delta, although there can be a run in one direction or the other for a while. Assuming it averages out OK, then there's a distinct possibility that by the time an adjustment really is required no one will be left around to care about it, let alone do it.