There aren't enough super wealthy to provide sufficient revenue. We went through this exercise a while back. Take a corporation. Lockheed was the example IIRC. Take all of the executives compensation. Every penny, not just some tax rate. Spread it it across all of its employees like peanut butter. It will make a nice Christmas bonus. Nothing you'd manage to live on. Your kids might get nice iPhones under the tree (but not the top of the line models).

You HAVE to tax the middle class. Because that's where the money is. Once this is encoded into tax policy and enforcement, the rich have an interesting tactic: Given that there just isn't enough money in that slice of the economy, chasing after it isn't worthwhile. On the other hand, enforcement targeted at the middle classes will pay off.

The alternative to a non updateable blob is to have the telecoms roll their radio firmware when a vulnerability is discovered. And then block old versions of your phone model from their network.

Think of the e-waste.

"I want either less corruption. Or more opportunity to engage in it."

Thats just an ASCII emoticon of a totem pole.

StarLink may eventually wipe it out. Until then, it's the only way some people have to watch TV. I'm not familiar with Starlink data caps and fees, if any. It could be that Satellite TV will always be a lower price point for this application.

I wonder how many software shops would have to close their doors if this were adopted industry-wide.

Or the incumbent telecom/broadband companies. Difference is that with Bezos/Musk, at least you'll get service for it.

... this month. And still going!

... Rust being put to use improving our computing security.

Dark Angel.

Twelve Monkeys.

"Confirm you are running JavaScript." After that, it's game on for the coin miners slipped into compromised sites. And now there are JavaScript site scrapers. And CloudFlare doesn't give a shit. Beyond perhaps using the threats to sell more services.

They got all the parts from E. coli bacteria. Convince me that they didn't just make artificial poop.

There's a kid that can make digital clocks like that.

It was obvious that Broadcom's plan was to shed their smallest customers and squeeze their biggest customers and I'm sure that they had models projecting how many customers would migrate away from VMware in the process. What I'd love to know is how accurate those projections have been but that information is harder to obtain.

And I'll bet they didn't even file an EIS for the CO2 they generated.