Making the ransomware payments illegal is the _only_ solution. We've endured years of attacks and the idea that this will be solved by organizations bolstering their defenses has proven to be a fallacy.

Making the ransomware payments illegal would not only cause the rewards for the cybercriminals to dry up, it will also remove the lazy solution that many organizations are relying upon (paying the ransom), instead of bolstering their defenses.

Gee, you staff the administration from top to bottom with incompetents and you get incompetence, ranging from pointless wars to lame apps. Who would have guessed?

Next it will be your bank account. Only, the bank won't have as much incentive to fix the problem as PocketOS did in this case. Good luck arguing with the AI customer support agent to try to get your retirement savings back.

When school lets out in my neighborhood, the streets are full of swarms of high-speed ebikes dashing every which way. The number of accidents is staggering. Something needs to change.

You're absolutely right. There is a certain style and format that makes them easy to spot. Or, more precisely: they are easy to spot for the small number of people who know what to look for. However, very soon they will become difficult to identify as AI-generated.

The problem is not that there are a lot of AI slop pages being generated every day. The problem is the search results you get back from google are increasingly dominated by these AI slop pages. It's becoming difficult to avoid them and the misinformation they spew.

What you're saying about "just the rich" doesn't align with the facts. In California, about a third of the people who file returns, mostly non-rich people, don't pay state income tax.

They despise Trump. Most of them have always despised Trump. That's not the problem. The problem is they despise the left even more. Like most hate, that hatred is irrational, and this particular irrational hatred is founded on the baseless belief that everything wrong in their lives is the fault of immigrants, people of color, and everyone else who doesn't look like them...in other words, the left side of the political spectrum.

Hatred is a powerful motivator and that's what has put this country in the position it finds itself in.

These markets are only serving to make evil activities far more profitable than they ever were before.

It's bug that shouldn't have existed in the first place and it deserved to be fixed. However, to get the message stored in the notification database, the user needed to change the default setting and allow messages to be displayed on the screen of a locked phone.

If you've chosen to have messages displayed on the screen of a locked phone, you're basically saying you're not concerned about keeping the messages secure, so the user bears some responsibility here.

There's nothing quite as dispiriting as instructing employees to use tools to render their jobs obsolete.

Not a chance. The US lacks the infrastructure to do the necessary refining and distribution to supply domestic need, even if all the domestic crude could somehow be rerouted to domestic refineries. The lack of the necessary infrastructure for that purpose, which would take decades to build out, is to be expected, since it would be horribly inefficient to build it.

That's not how the global oil market works. The US is no position to redirect all of its production to meet domestic demand. In the same way, there is no "local discount" for the US consumers of oil on domestically produced crude. It's a global market and the US will suffer along with everybody else due to shortages and high prices.

More connected? I can't think of anything more alienating.

No can do on an Apple Silicon Mac.