If you've ever been stuck talking to a clanker on the phone you have a pretty good idea how this is going to end up. The only relief will be that they'll have to hire the human operators back once the first few people die because of it, so be very, very careful with anything you're doing the first week or so after it's introduced so you're not one of the deaths.

It is a hash of the actual file.

To be fair, I don't see Brian saying it is free.

The freeness claim appears to have been added by Slashdot editors.

This is about electing the governor.

It is a statewide election, so gerrymandering is irrelevant.

Same with my Toyota Innova.

I have to tap "Agree" before I can use the car.

After tapping "Agree", it turns on the radio, so I also have to turn that off again. Every time.

I'm not sure what I'm agreeing to, since the terms and conditions aren't listed on the screen.

Texas has plenty of wind and sunshine.

They should be installing wind turbines in the Panhandle and solar panels in the Trans-Pecos region.

Someone should explain supply and demand to Governor Abbott.

It's a significant impact on everyone. Everyone I know uses Chinese-OEM'd transceivers because they're about 1/5th to 1/10th the price of the same thing when it has a Cisco sticker on it.

Also, in terms of a device that converts electrical to optical signalling being a means for CCP bogeymen to exfiltrate data, I know you have to be a special grade of idiot to work in the Trump administration but do these guys have any idea how these devices work? Although it could be a blessing in disguise, they could think they've banning Chinese-made CB radios.

They don't automatically make them dumber, at best they have no noticeable effect on their learning. At worst, they're worse off.

So the headline should really read "Schools ditch one expensive pointless tech toy for a different brand of expensive pointless tech toy. Also, teachers pay to remain at 1980s levels".

Absolutely, yes. Single-chip designs are always compromises, for example you could screw up some on-chip hardware RNGs by lowering the supply voltage, using irregular clocking, and a bunch of other tricks. A proper HSM has a ton of additional circuitry to isolate it from external influences on its operation. A single SoC isn't an HSM no matter what the vendor's sales staff tell you.

No-one certified it. Proper HSMs are created by people with decades of experience and get enormous amounts of evaluation by other people with decades of experience. "Hardware wallets" are hobby projects created by people who think they can take an STM32, turn on the security bits, and sell it as an HSM. The crowdfunding will go well because the crypto bros will go gaga over it, but don't expect it to actually be secure.

The clock, to make sure they don't run out of time before investors realise they're just seeing who can built the biggest bonfire of dollar bills.

It's a bit like the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 80s when they only had access to domestically-made equipment. Only back then we did it to them as a Cold War act of aggression, and now the US is voluntarily doing it to itself. Quite bizarre.

Nononono, you've understood it wrong, he's going to wave a chainsaw around on a stage in Argentina.

Aren't the required qualifications for being an influencer either being a THOT if female or neo-nazi misogynist if male? What else is required beyond that?

It had the guardrails disabled. That's sort of like pulling all the control rods out of a reactor and waiting expectantly to see what happens.