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Comment It might be more than one person (Score 1) 58

People always seem to assume that Satashi Nokimoto is a single person, and if it isn't then there will always be some evidence pointing to "this is the guy" and some other evidence that "this isn't the guy", but I suspect it is team. Solving a puzzle basing the approach on a false assumption is a great way to guarantee you can't solve it.

Comment Re:We cut back on cyber security (Score 1) 50

There's nothing ironic about it they got what they paid for. People forget that Trump was a Russian stooge for ages. The reason he wasn't bankrupted during his most incompetent business deals is because he was laundering money for the Russian mafia.

Never mind the fact that Russia and the Israeli government both have massive amounts of dirt on Trump thanks to his long-term friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. You would have to be incredibly naive not to know that the Russian government has evidence of trump raping kids. You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure that out. We learn from the Epstein files that the Russians provided a lot of girls to Jeffrey Epstein and we have eight credible women accusing Trump of raping them when they were children details of which have been corroborated by several journalists.

The problem is you can lay out all the evidence and proof of that but nobody is going to believe you because it's too fucking insane to think that we elected a pedophile who is under the control of a hostile foreign Nation to be president of the United states. I don't think the human brain is capable of grasping the enormity of that.

You get the same problem with things like the Iran Contra affair or how Ronald Reagan arranged for Americans to be held hostage so that he could win his election. It's just something that you don't want to believe is true no matter how true it is because you don't want to face a world that fucked up.

Comment Yeah the radicals are cool with bombs dropping (Score 1) 167

The rank and filed that those radicals need to stage an actual revolution aren't. Just like when 9/11 happened in America I can tell you right now that every single regular Iranian person is going to rally around the government and the military. Doesn't matter how terrible the government and the military are when your country is attacked you rally round them.

On top of that Trump has done numerous stupid things guaranteed to undermine any opposition of the Iranian regime. Go look up YouTuber Belle of the Ranch. She does a good job talking about it and how incredibly inept the Trump administration has been. Like criminally inept.

There are no upsides and no good outcomes from this. This is downhill for everybody. Which is to be expected from a man who bankrupted casinos.

Comment We cut back on cyber security (Score 3, Interesting) 50

So that Russia could have more access to our politicians and voters. It worked Trump's president again. But it does mean that we are substantially more vulnerable to other attacks. Especially when a senile old man can easily be tricked into starting a war that even Bush Jr wasn't dumb enough to start...

As for Iran yeah, we attacked them without any reason to do so. We already had a perfectly good deal to stop them from building nukes. But it came from a black man so it had to go.

And now it looks like all told this little adventure is going to cost us about a trillion dollars. That's another trillion dollars of debt and inflation. Almost as if electing a well-known rapist and pedophile with a long history of bankrupting businesses including casinos was a bad idea...

Funny thing is I don't see anyone defending El presidente in public anymore. Trolls will yell TDS at me but they never actually defend his actions anymore. Not outside of their safe spaces.

And despite $4 a gallon gas and a huge wave of inflation about to hit in a few months that we all know is coming, Trump still somehow has a 36 to 40% approval rate depending on the poll. I don't even know what you do about that it's fucking insane.

Comment Being a woman put Kamala in a tough spot (Score 1) 167

A sizable percentage of likely Democrat voters are worried that a woman would get bullied in international negotiations by male world leaders. This is of course a silly thing to think but they think it.

To counteract that women who run for president, and this goes for both Kamala and Hillary as well as the various women who ran in the primary, all have to do a bunch of saber rattling to show how tough they are to those voters.

The problem is that saber rattling inevitably backfires and a bunch of young men see it and get spooked that the woman in question is going to drag us into a war with a draft.

There's an old saying about war, don't give your opponents problems give them dilemmas. What I described above is a dilemma. There's no actual right answer or good solution. If you skip the saber rattling you lose the voters who think you aren't going to be able to negotiate and if you do the saber rattling you lose the voters who think you're going to draft them off to die in the Middle East.

The Republican party has a lot of these kind of dilemmas and they can usually solve them with overwhelming propaganda and dog whistles because they have a much larger media apparatus and a lot more money. Those aren't options for the Democratic party.

Because of all this under the current system it's basically impossible for a woman to become president. I think if they completely eliminated voter suppression then they could win but that's going to be a multi-generational effort.

This is what Jasmine Crockett meant when she said the Democrats are going to nominate the safest white boy they can find. They aren't in a position where they can risk running a woman again. We've got 20 or 30 years of civil rights organization and voting rights organization before that can happen...

Comment Re: Hubble out of support (Score 1) 128

There are two categories of realtime: soft and hard. Realtime is complicated, and no OS can guarantee hard realtime if the hardware is not up to the task (excuse the pun.) For example, if you are running an OS written in assembly language on am Intel 8051 microcontroller clocked at 10 Mhz you cannot handle events that could easily achieve hard realtime on a modern system, because the task switching overhead alone precludes such capability, even if your application is just an infinite loop.

Comment It's too expensive to do that (Score 3, Insightful) 27

Litigating each individual infringer is impossibly expensive for them. That's why they tried to go through the utility company.

For now what they will probably do is pick off a few people here and there to use as examples and use the full weight of the legal system to ruin their lives. Of course if you know anything about criminal justice harsh punishments are not effective deterrence.

So far the only reliable way to stop piracy has been to make a product that is better and have consumers that can actually afford to consume.

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