"Well-known science fiction author Walter Koenig ("Buck Alice and the Actor Robot"), who also had a bit part in some obscure 1960s space show, has died".

Or if you're really worried about these types of errors you could just use one of the error-recovery-targeted RAID levels and not have to worry about the massive performance hit of RS-encoding and -decoding each data block read...

Probably not, but they will eventually target you: "flout international law or funnel coveted classified contracts to political allies" will also include "target anyone not showing puppy-like devotion to the Dear Leader".

Linux distros also relentlessly expire signing keys so that even if the packages are still there the system will refuse to install them because some signing key has hit its arbitrary EOL. The result is an infinite number of posts to forums telling users how to completely disable all verification of packages in order to allow an older system to be updated.

The fix is pretty trivial, don't arbitrarily decide that a key that was perfectly fine on Tuesday can no longer be used on Wednesday, but that would sap and impurify the precious signing fluids so isn't permitted.

And does that matter? This fiasco has been running since April 2025 (not April of this year, 1 1/2 years ago) and no attackers have bothered with it because the PKI isn't defending against anything they're doing. Distrust, don't distrust, it may give you a warm feeling but the attackers won't care.

Incidentally, are all your PHP setups patched?

So the clanker told you that clankers are all just misunderstood beings/things?

It's also completely the wrong thing to use. RS-coding will deal with small amounts (bits/bytes depending on the layout) of data corruption, not general filesystem corruption. And the overhead is enormous, unless you're streaming data through hardware that can correct and reassemble on the fly it's not practical, and for filesystems even useful.

This proposal is a bit like the hypothetical "why didn't we use the space shuttle to rescue the Apollo 13 astronauts" question. Yeah, you just go ahead and do that then.

The headline should really say "A different set of wolves descended on Finland". The first set were what caused the second set to descend.

And you can pretty much guarantee it's going to be used like pepper spray by police, initially introduced as a means of last resort and now casually used whenever you're dealing with someone you don't like. The ranged nature of it makes it even easier to just hose down anyone you can see. It's non-lethal and they're already sunburned, what harm can a little more do to them? Hit 'em again Earl! What 'em squirm!

Bear country? Who cares about bears, this is bat country, all swooping and screeching and diving around the trashcans. No point in mentioning them though, poor renters will see them soon enough.

This is probably the end of Crime Stoppers, or at least a very severe curtailment of the operation. Who would trust them with a tip after this?

And it'll probably take deaths before P3 Global gets sued. Dunno about Canadian law but in the US they'd probably try and claim qualified immunity due to their doing the work for LE.

And how does your personal DVD collection work for the tens or hundreds of millions of people who have rented music/videos while thinking they were buying them?

So it'll be back to All Indians again. That is, the AI will instruct humans in cheap-labour countries to perform the transactions for them, thus bypassing the blocking.

Of course they won't support it, it was proposed by a Democrat. If the Dems proposed a cure for cancer the Retrumplicans would oppose it because it came from the Dems. Thus see Lincoln, A., 16 June 1858.