My browser shreds cookies as soon as I leave a site in most cases, as well as all other site date. These days the tracking works based on multiple signals, so even if you delete the cookies, if the IP address and browser signals like user agent and screen resolution match, they will re-associate that identity with you. You need to screw with a lot of metrics to throw them off.

In my country a spam lawsuit against 50 people where only one of them is possibly "guilty" of a civil offence with a relatively small financial loss isn't going to fly. They have largely given up suing people here because such speculative invoicing scams tend not to stand up to judicial scrutiny. At best an IP address identifies a subscriber, who may not be the person who downloaded the file, and who isn't under any legal obligation to help determine who it was, and who can't be held liable as there are no reasonable means for them to prevent such "abuse".

Go on YouTube and technology connections has a good video explaining in detail why a very modest amount of wind and solar can supply energy to all of our needs. Maybe not the rapacious needs of AI slop generators designed to eliminate all of our jobs. But everything that good decent people want.

A very tiny handful of people have had enough of you having access to civilization. They are not content to be unfathomably wealthy. They want to be elevated to the kind of godhood that the Japanese emperor and the Pharaohs experienced. It's not about money it's about power.

Those people never went away we just stopped letting them take over our lives and take all of our property. We are in the process of taking all of our property and giving it back to them for stupid reasons.

I didn't say no rocket launches. We just need to evaluate the impact, and take steps to prevent damage. We need to know what is in the satellites and what the effect of them burning up is.

I wouldn't say they are doing it wrong, I'd say that there is a fundamental conflict between privacy and anti-bot measures.

For privacy reasons I don't want a unique IP address. I want a shared one, and if it's IPv6 I want it to rotate frequently. That's one of the reasons why I use a VPN. ISPs probably also like it because it means that without extensive logging, for which there is no business justification, they can't identify who downloaded some movie that the MAFIAA et. al. want to sue over.

But of course the anti-bot features would love everyone to have a fixed IP address assigned to their person. Failing that, they seem to prefer to just mass block shared IP addresses and force you to log in.

Stuff burning up does not disappear. It becomes part of the upper atmosphere. Before there were so few things burning up that nobody really bothered considering it, but now we are going to be having tens of thousands of satellites re-entering every year, it needs to be looked into.

It's a trade off: you get abundant free energy to run the server, with extreme constraints on cooling because your server is running in the most perfect Thermos bottle ever.

Others are taking the opposite tack: undersea data centers for abundant free cooling at the expense of having to get the power down to your servers.

If had to bet on which one is more practial, I'd go with undersea servers. Build them off the coast of Chile, run cables out from batery-backed solar plants in the Atacama desert.

Games are succeeding. Games are selling millions of copies but that's not enough to keep the suits happy. It's enough to keep everybody who makes the games very comfortable employed but it's not enough to make the line go up.

The problem we have here is a bunch of ghouls are sucking 50 to 70% out of the economy before anyone else gets a crack at anything. So things don't have to be successful they have to be wildly incredibly mind-bogglingly successful so that they can line the pockets of the Epstein class while leaving just enough left over that you and me can survive

Microsoft fired all the engine programmers except one guy for id. This means that if you need a advanced engine and you don't have the money to build it yourself the only option is going to ever be unreal. It is painfully obvious Microsoft should not have been allowed to buy id software because of the effect on the engine market. But here we are.

The blue haired college girls were never coming for your games. Gamer gate was always bullshit cooked up by Jeffrey Epstein. The people coming for your games are the finance bros and the AI Bros who made buying game hardware cost three times as much.

Before you assign the F.C.C. as further example of the Trump administration, that the F.C.C. is behind the design and operation of this Satellite, go back and read the F.C.C. document. https://docs.fcc.gov/public/at...

They are granting a station license.

Any time a satellite is launched, if it has communication abilities - all do - the regulatory agencies of the world must be in approval. A station license is granted. This satellite needs coordination, and that the F.C.C. coordinating the frequencies in use, and granting them station licenses does not makes them part of the design and operation. I have F.C.C. granted station licenses, as long as I work in the frequencies the license grants, and comply with the modes of operation allowed, they don't have anything to do with my stations.

This coordination happens on everything launched, not just communications satellites. And seriously, unless the satellite never transmits, it needs coordination. RF does not know political parties.

Almost as funny as people who think that the RF spectrum is political.

Make no mistake. The only thing the F.C.C has to do with this satellite is assigninging the Frequencies it communicates on. they have nothing to do with anything else. It has nothing to do with Trump, Obama, Bush II Clinton, or any political party. It has nothing to do with the design or use of the satellite. It has everything to do with RF, keeping radio signals away from each other.

Anyone using it as a further example and source of outrage for their hatred of a country, that this is politics - is only showing that they know nothing about what they are talking about.

Read the official F.C.C. pdf document in TFS. Rather than gaslighting anyone, the F.C.C. is simply doing what they do, asked for frequencies to communicate on, they provided them in conjunction with the NTIA. This action is performed in conjunction with the similar organizations in other countries.

Has nothing to do with politics. Has everything to do with keeping RF emitters from interfering with each other. RF is not concerned with political parties. It is one area where there must be coordination between countries.

Now onto gaslighting - TFA is a fine example of exactly that. An article which paints the F.C.C as somehow being an integral part of this solar reflector is top tier gaslighting. The people in here, in their zeal, yet know almost nothing about the F.C.C or RF, yet demand that it is somehow evil.

RF is how I make my money, and people who know almost nothing about it yet make sweeping pronouncements about it are big gaslighters.

But when the Russians did the same thing, they were just being smart?

Many people in here apparently missed the part that the F.C.C. has absolutely nothing to do with the mirror itself. The F.C.C. has made a conditional grant for the frequencies used in communication, in concordance with the NTIA. And the payload is irrelevant. Other countries have similar groups to coordinate RF emitters.

One does not launch satellites without that coordination, you have to let them know where you plan on emitting RF. Or just as likely, ask where you can.

Why is this? https://www.ntia.gov/sites/def...

I have that chart printed on my wall in a large frame. Occasionally people come in wanting a chunk of RF to operate on. Many have trouble understanding just how crowded the RF spectrum is, and I refer them to the chart. "Pick a frequency". And that turns out to be way beyond their ability.

I don't do it to be contrary, but to educate them that this is seriously non-trivial. Especially when people don't know how RF acts. It is an unruly beast that has wildly different characteristics depending on frequency, and it beats with other frequencies to produce new frequencies outside its allocation.

The mirror sat itself is just a mirror sat, there is perhaps some data to be gathered from its deployment, but this company will find out just as the Russians did, that it is of limited utility. It is on a fast moving satellite, it doesn't provide all that much light, and then there is the clouds and stuff that block the sky.

But the F.C.C. and NTIA are just doing their jobs, which has nothing to do with the purpose of the sat, only keeping the spectrum operating. Just like with every other satellite for every different purpose.

I think the minimum number os sails that would work is the number that would block the sky completely. 8^)

Oh, you have given me my comeuppance, you have.

You are so enraged that you follow me around, posting complete non-sequiturs that fail to make much sense. Even my sig gives you a shitfit.

Thank you - as a troll who enjoys sending the thin skinned into spittle flecked keyboard warrior rage, You've given me the ultimate compliment - well almost. Please post in all caps, and I'll win the internet.

Focus, observe, remember.

I find IPv6 is worse than CGNAT for these anti-bot measures. YouTube is a good example. With IPv6 enabled all I ever see is "log in to prove you are not a bot". With it disabled and sitting behind CGNAT, I can usually watch some videos.