It will massively suck, but the reactions will at least be entertaining for a little while once people start noticing what happened.
To any rural USians - I sincerely hope you stay healthy, you won't have a hospital soon enough.
A regime by assholes, for assholes.
No, this is a much more pedestrian situation.
Trump, being the pettiest shitgibbon alive, likes to get even with people who have refused to provide him with favors.
Since Ukraine refused to provide him with fake dirt on Biden in 2019, he's been waiting for a chance to "get even" with them.
Now he's got a chance, and he's more than happy to leave them to the boss of his KGB handlers.
Oh for fucks sake. Trump ran on pulling back from Ukraine involvement. It was loudly and clearly part of his campaign. Average people want less involvement with foreign conflicts, not more:
According to Morning Consult’s U.S. Foreign Policy Tracker Index from January of 2023, nearly 40% of voters favor isolationism, while 30% want stability, and 17% want engagement. Among Democrats, 33% favor isolationism, 33% want stability, and 20% want engagement. Among Republicans, 45% favor isolationism, 28% want stability, and 15% want engagement. While these findings do indicate a divide between the parties on the issue, in both cases isolationism was the top answer or tied for the top answer. Neither side wants to be the world’s police.
As was the case with the May layoffs, Microsoft is looking to reduce the number of layers of managers that stand between individual contributors and top executives, the person said.
MS is in no way hurting. They made a profit of $26 Billion in March, far ahead of Wall Street projections.
As other companies are also specifically targeting that mid-management layer, this is a possible sign that the Cult of the MBA may be waning.
If that were the case, the death penalty would only be applied to the wrongly convicted or intentionally suicidal.
This is because of two interlocking facts: (a) most criminals are not terribly rational, in particular they tend to have broken time preferences. And (b) many crimes like this are "crimes of passion" - e.g. being stupid because you're super angry.
Making prisons more sadistic than they are now doesn't fix either of those things. You just make people more resentful and broken when they finally get out.
The point is that SF86s only apply to a subset of the jobs these folks are applying for.
Therefor demanding clearances does not solve the problem unless you demand clearances for jobs that have absolutely nothing to do with natsec.
Which will never happen, because (a) it would be a ridiculously stupid waste of time, money and effort to screen people for risks that have nothing to do with the job to be done, (b) and even if folks wanted to OPM would never go along with it.
And we interviewed one of these.
A few little things made us think the application was weird. Then during the interview, they claimed to be from a smallish place in New Jersey. One of our people grew up close to there and asked some questions about local things. They had no idea and covered poorly. Then my coworker just blurted out, "you're North Korean, aren't you?"
Dude immediately bailed on the call.
I assume the goals were money, data access and maybe access to the network. In any case, they aren't just going after defense actors.
All women*.
* DesScorp only has a sample size of one, his mother.
I sampled your mother first.
Millions of people go to Vegas every year... so I think there are a lot of folks in that "not very good at math" grouping.
Most of the people that go to Vegas know they're not going to win anything. My grandparents used to go every year, and that vacation was their annual highlight. They set aside a budget, enjoyed themselves blowing it on the tables, then enjoyed the hotels and the shows. This was the early 60's, mind you, the height of the Rat Pack era when Sinatra and Dean Martin were still playing there, and there was a mobbed-up mystique about the place to the WWII generation. My grands knew they weren't going to win anything. They just enjoyed the thrill of it all. It was the "adult" Disneyland, a bit of naughty fun for people that survived the skies and fields of Europe and Asia, and as far as they were concerned, "fuck you, I'll blow my spare money as I see fit".
Specifically women? Citation needed.
Most men still have a PC simply for gaming, if nothing else. Women don't give a shit about gaming. And the phone is the natural instrument for their Instagraming.
My wife has a nice laptop that she barely touches. She'll pull it out every once in a blue moon, but she and all the women she knows use two things primarily: their phones, and their tablets for reading. The smartphone was the perfect product for females. It fits the way they communicate. A lot of men would be fine with plain texting, email, and maybe some IRC. Women crave that constat, content-filled social connection.
The shrinking userbase doesnâ(TM)t have jack shit to do with 11â(TM)s requirements, and everything to do with women using their phones for everything now. It was silly to even attempt that argument.The writer went on a Windows rant when this shift has been predicted for 25+ years. There are kids with $500+ smartphones that have never touched a computer.
Laptops, not so much.
SSD wear is the only non-obvious thing this would help with, and you can check that yourself with `smartctl` on a thumb drive.
Otherwise this just looks like trying to find something consumer-friendly-sounding to say about yet-another surveillance vector with protected storage for your tracking cookies.
"There is nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things we don't know yet." -Ambrose Bierce
