An exception is the Zeropatch technique where they dynamically update machine code of the OS in memory on the fly for folks who can't tolerate downtime.

It's certainly not common on unix systems.

Or an IoT device running a 2.6 kernel that is never going to be updated. :)

Did Dolby break any countermeasures of Snap's copyrighted code in what would appear to be a significant reverse-engineering effort to make this determination?

Or do they only have a suspicion?

This scenario reminds me of the SCO lawsuits when the progress of technology made that company obsolete.

Count the number of "former" intelligence officials on his company's board.

Then search for the many photos of him mouth-kissing his father and son (RIP).

They use both carrots and sticks to control compromised people.

I took mine apart and there were two separate display modules for the 4K screen with ribbon cables I didn't recognize so I just put it back together and stuck in an HDMI streaming stick flashed to LineageOS.

I got one around 2008. They were the best of the non-premium 1080p HDMI screens at the time.

The one I got had slightly better test review scores on display quality than the LG that year. The Sony was 20% better for 3x the price.

It lasted about twelve years and by then a bigger 4K with much brighter colors was half the cost in nominal dollars, so probably 1/4 the cost in real terms.

And by then cheap flashable streaming sticks were available as was pihole and fairly easy outbound NAT rewriting rules to keep the beasts contained.

What are you using for the streaming services? Netflix etc? A web browser?

If so, that's a complete non-starter; it fails the ease of use expectations of watching TV of the wife using a remote control to turn it on and make it go. (and honestly it fails my own expectations for that matter too; having to reach for a keyboard or mouse to watch a movie or stream a show is just clunky). It also limits you from watching content in 4k.

At the moment, I've got a RokuHD of some sort on one TV, and an nvidia shield on another one. Plex, netflix, f1tv, and a couple other things on both of them. The TV remote can fairly seamlessly control the TV/soundbar and the attached box and it works well, and passes the usability test, but both devices are still more ad-laden than I want.

I've also got computers and consoles hooked up to TVs for gaming and what not, but i find them utterly miserable to use for streaming. Their is no app for linux that I'm aware of. And even the app for Windows is regularly just complete ass to use, and its a PITA to switch from plex to netflix and back etc, and using them with a remote control is pretty trashy. So I've been using the aforementioned boxes for streaming as the least awful way to run things for some years now.

But if there's a better way now, I'm listening.

WTF, it is America that is threatening other countries with annexation. It is America who is currently waging a war on the other side of the planet and fucking up the whole worlds economy. it is America that is run by a real estate developer and a bunch of lawyers who have their heads up their arse, rather then engineers like in China
China's bad but America is looking to be worse. I feel much more confident with a Chinese router then an American one spying on me, especially as it is America waging economic war with the goal of annexation. And the way it is looking, the average American should be way more worried about being spied on by their government then a government on the other side of the world.
Fix your fucking country. You're forefathers gave you the 2nd amendment to take care of fucking bad government that is anti-freedom.

One of the lessons we've had as the Federal, multi-branch nature of the US governmennt has frustrated Trump is that the government may be fucking us over, but it's not doing it in *unison*. It's doing it piecemiel, on the initiative of many interests working against each other, just as the framers intended. The motto on the Great Seal notwithstanding, there are myriad roadblocks to consolidating power in the hands of a single individual. It takes time and repeated failures. This is why the second Trump Adminsitration is worse than the first; they've figured out ways around things like Congressional power of the purse, put more of their henchmen in the judiciary, and normalized Congress lying down and letting the president walk all over them. It's a serious situation, although fortunately Trump isn't long for this world.

Yea, I remember when they had to rejig the pumps to half gallons as they couldn't handle more then a dollar a gallon, people said it was temporary. Same thing when they had to rejig the pumps for over a dollar a litre, a temporary thing. With the stupidity of the Americans, I wouldn't count on it being temporary.

They don't stop them, rather feather them and the swarm of bats shows up on radar at a bit of distance and is only a worry in some spots.
Do you have any idea how much energy it takes to ship something to the Sun? Just getting to Mercury is harder then getting to Neptune.
Anyways, best is a mixture of sources with natural gas as a backup. Even here, the natural gas plant needs to be fired up at least once a decade for those really cold nights to supplicant the hydro. Wind would would do a way better job of supplicating the hydro, solar too.

Talking to my neighbour the other day. Has a 100 mile commute, loves making it in his Tesla, the car was cheaper then his truck, charges it with an extension cord, forget what he said it costs but fairly cheap in the land of cheap electricity and expensive gas.

Well nothing we think of as "critical infrastructure" is using consumer routers - and if it were that could and should be remedied quickly without a ban on consumer routers.

So ... this leaves us with an open question for this to make legal sense.

The best fit is probably an Internet Drivers License and mandatory packet signing for a surveillance control grid and CBDC coming down the pike rapidly.

When in the course of Human Events....

Cats are by far the biggest killer of birds, followed by buildings. There is a problem with wind killing bats, which is fairly easy to mitigate by detecting the migrating bats and slowing down the turbines. End up lowering production by a percent or so.

Yeah, not sure if you remember the Vegan Crossfit Pythonistas.

Instead of saying, "we could write a program to..." they would dogmatically intone, "we could write a Python script to..." in almost every situation.

Not sure who taught them the NLP but their dedication was a fervor.

A whole lot of rewriting of fast, debugged, working code got rewritten by them just because Perl, Ruby, and Bash felt like heresy.. For a while python stacktraces were the error message of common use on Fedora.