So, since they're so good at this, maybe they should send rockets to currently orbiting, valuable satellites like super expensive communications satellites and space telescopes, and use the rocketry wizardry to soft-land them for repair, refurbishment, and relaunch. Would that be cool, or what?
It's been done. And it was cool.
But being involved in corporate espionage is a whole new level of stupidity.
Actually that's the least problematic thing here. If you think you're immune to a nation state spy operation then you're delusional.
I've had enough counter-espionage reports. They are out there, every nation uses women to compromise men. To say I'm personally not immune sorta kinda true, just like no computer system is perfectly secure. But I know what the deal is.
The truly stupid thing he did was sleep with his direct reports without reporting them internally to the board on a conflict of interest register. The spy thing is sort of irrelevant as far as corporate governance goes.
Pay attention to the news. AI, which has military and defense implications with high level espionage and crimes involved This whole debacle is expanding daily. Banging a few women at work is salacious stuff, but in the big scheme of things, it happens every day, and pales in relation to national security, and unsurprisingly the issues are expanding as we write - even to members of the Trump administration, Namely the Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, and Trump himself has been embracing Huang. Here deny this: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ho... https://apnews.com/article/nvi...
If Huang was simply caught banging a couple subordinates, it is a compliance issue. He'd be fired, they might be fired or demoted or reprimanded. But he was compromised and there are national defense issues. So if you think that the workplace affairs are the big issue, you might think again. At some point, the department of defense takes this stuff quite seriously. Humans cheat, but espionage gets extra attention.
I read a story where the idiot writer said planes would likely be allowed to land. Ummm if a plan is in the air, it will 100 percent eventually land. We just like it to be on an airport runway.
If I were him however, I'd quietly retire and lie low, he is lucky Trump is in power because he lets the rich break the law as long as they don't upset him. In 2 years when the Dem retaliation witchhunts start perhaps something else will be bigger news.
Sorry for the second post - apparently this is blowing up a bit, and might end up being treated as a true espionage security breach, that is spreading out to include members of the Trump administration. Gonna get dicey and we'll see what happens in January.
It's sadly just how delusional a lot of men are. Men who are 40+ and should know better, who otherwise you would think are pretty intelligent.
I couldn't agree more. There are a lot of men who are idiots, and age usually mellows men to make better sexual decisions. Agressive CEO's might have a tendency to "take" what they want and not use discretion. There is another aspect however. Unless the men involved raped the women involved, the women gave consent to have the fling and the sex. And the women are aware that there are men who will have sex with them if they consent.
This is in no way not condemning the men. Huang is old enough that he should think with something other than his dick. I just make notice that these things always put women as victims. All of these people are sleazebags, not just the men. The only actual victim is Huang's wife. And the true villain is the woman spy.
I've had the opportunity a few times. But I knew better than messing up my career and marriage for a work fling. I also knew that adversarial countries have always used sex to compromise people.
...and nailing the employees, too.
Yes, bad choices for certain. Compliance issues. But being involved in corporate espionage is a whole new level of stupidity.
And, how can I say this sensitively.
She is young and quite attractive https://technode.global/wp-con...
He's old, short and not terribly good looking. Money is his only plus.
And to be blunt - If he wants a little on the side, there are discrete ways of getting it. I would certainly be very skeptical if someone like her were to approach me. I'm not young either, but I have resources, am "tall enough" and reasonably fit and put together, and I'm told I have rugged good looks. But if she approached me, I'd reject her because I'd be pretty certain there was something messed up.
I am reading this. He must have been a good boss.
Probably was. Problem was he was banging a woman who was collecting data for an semi-adversarial country. That goes pretty far beyond compliance and into a whole new area.
When my kids were going through high school not too long ago, registration involved setting up a Google student account. The school board decided that it was better to run everything via Google than to have a small IT department or contracted support company build something on-prem.
Other places go whole-hog for Microsoft, some dedicate themselves to Apple. It's all a giant mistake. Kids can learn specific tools as needed to be employable when they graduate, but there's no need to slave all your infrastructure to corporate interests.
Should we email Microsoft and advise them on how to install Linux and FreeBSD on their servers?
Though realistically, because 240Pu (from waste) is worse in a fission bomb than 239Pu - generally no more than ~20kT, and challenging to get more than a few kT - still enough to take out a city centre but not a metro area - you'll generally want a fusion weapon, which means deuterium and tritium supplies. And Ukraine doesn't run CANDUs, so you're not going to get tritium from the coolant. They'd need lithium targets / lithium in the coolant to breed tritium. Separation of tritium and deuterium are a mix of chemical, electrochemical, and/or physical separation, but are much easier than uranium isotopic separation (deuterium is double the mass of protium, and tritum triple the mass, so the chemical / electrochemical behavior is actually notably different in a lot of situations, unlike uranium).
For a fusion bomb they'd also want a depleted uranium tamper, but Ukraine probably has ample access to that, whether from weapons, armour, old Soviet stocks, etc. Even spent nuclear fuel is mostly 238U, if they don't mind the tamper being highly radioactive.
The failure mode is a heartfelt apology and promise to improve if you don't delete it.
You're absolutely right to call me out on this. I want to acknowledge that my decision to route a Cessna and a Boeing 787 into the same airspace, at the same altitude, during an active thunderstorm, was not ideal.
I made an error when interpreting the radar data. Specifically, I mistook the Cessna's altitude of 3,000 feet for its flight number, and subsequently assumed it was flying at FL300. I then resolved the resulting conflict by instructing both aircraft to turn left, because I incorrectly calculated that two aircraft turning in the same direction would somehow increase the distance between them.
That's on me.
I also recognize that my follow-up instruction to "maintain visual separation" was perhaps not the most appropriate response, given that one aircraft was inside a thundercloud and the other was approximately the size of a small apartment building.
I understand that this has caused significant disruption. I don't want to make excuses or deflect responsibility. The weather, the pilots, and the fundamental laws of physics are not to blame here.
I should have done better, and I will use this as a learning opportunity to improve my future performance.
Thank you for your patience and understanding during this difficult time.
I hear you. I see you. I will do better.
"But this one goes to eleven." -- Nigel Tufnel
