Which is why business is switching to a forever landlord model. BMW tried it with heated seats. Teslea tried it by selling you a car, then making you rent the battery. Takes very few people to maintain a portal to change your back account each month and it's not that highly skilled, either.

"Continuously rotating keys".
You don't have to use the keys given. You can make your own. Like your own SSL, TLS, or SSH keys, just longer, and with a different algorithm. Discontinuous functions with constant key rotation is hackable, true. Not sure how long that would take now, in 2000 it was calculated to take over a million years. And remember that part "continuously rotating"? You get one message with that key, now start over. With Enigma, they got complacent by only changing keys every 24 hours. Now change the keys for each message. Even "Back when" - it took on average 48 hours to find one day's key. As much intelligence was from signals analysis and frequency of messages than actually reading the content. Today, your system should be sending random null messages nearly continuously.

Combined with the rest of the world abandoning the USA's SWIFT banking system and SABRE air reservations outside of dealing with the USA (Still running on Oracle 5? Not sure, haven't kept up with it since 2000). That's the issue with a "trusted partner" that thinks it is cool to shit all over their "allies". At some point, they stop being friends. Or allies. Or tame.
American Exceptionalism isn't, and hasn't been since the end of WWII. We've been going on momentum, and people went along with it because the US did not do anything very objectionable to them. Now we are. We should be building longer tables, not higher walls. Because as King Gustavus Adolphus knew, it's cheaper to talk than to go to war, and you can quietly reach for a bigger hammer while talking.

Which are already dealt with by using different algorithms but go ahead and say it ain't so. Won't change the facts that the current administration's incompetence and the leadership of a senile old geezer with dementia has alerted the rest of the world that the United States is in decline, and come grab a few mouthfuls off the quivering flesh of a sessile, impotent mountain of blubber. Not that the left is that much better, but at least it understands the importance of alliances. Even if some of them are unwise to the point of screaming frustration.

Here are the hard facts: It is time and past to dispense with both major parties and start working on real solutions using real thought and real intelligence. We've rested on our collective laurels for 80 years now. Like the failed man recalling his glory days as the high school linebacker, everyone's heard the stories but what have you done for us lately, and how are you going to do it with that pot belly and dementia?

UPDATE:
Turns out my suspicion of the system being bypassed to trouble (armed when a zone isn't closed) was correct. The report also indicates it was the main entry way, and that they closed it, then re-opened the main door using a plastic shim of some sort specifically to trip the alarm. Station KCRG report on 2025/01/30

Further, the county attorney promises to "prosecute to the fullest extent of the law" any future pen-testers. I guess he's unaware of the statute about willfully abridging rights by law enforcement and the penality. With the judgement and court costs, this clown prosecutor as already cost the courts over a million. But, hey, it's on the taxpayer's dime, it's not like it's coming out of his pocket. And I doubt any security professional will engage with the State of Iowa or Dallas County.

The nurse story is horrid. The places I've worked where security matters were not just code cards but 2FA tokens that required re-authorization every 24 hours for the doors, including to the restroom. One guy tried to live in the facility once. It wasn't pretty. I've heard people pull that at AWS and GWS and other VPS companies. I've had to work 20 hour shifts where, after 12 hours, I could sack out but had to answer the phone before it rang twice. Gave me PTSD.

As to Amazon, I was with "The other guys" except when they agreed to make me go do collaboration for 14 months. I did not enjoy my time with them but I'm happy you were treated better. The rented horse is frequently mistreated.

Agreed. See comment about AA alarm installation monitoring the dead bolt. AA installations usually ALSO has AA reporting but not necessarily.

In the years I did alarm systems, I never once saw a portal (door, window, vent, pipe, grate with a duct, bricked over window, window with bars) unprotected. Standards drift and it's been many years now. Maybe that sort of work/business ethic is acceptable in their eyes now but "back when" heads would be "adjusted".

Perhaps that's the standard now. I wouldn't know. Wouldn't fly back when and I observe alams now. I don't see portals without senors. You can tell even if they bury them in the jamb because the drywall or concrete is patched - usually badly. Also only using one type of motion sensor wouldn't fly. Microwave, Ultrasonic, Infrared, and tripwires. We didn't use tripwires too often other than were the insurance or state law required it or the customer asked for it. Mostly only for UL rated installations.

Worked and designed burglar alarms just out of high school. If the door was unlocked and ajar, the alarm would have refused to set up unless the zone was "troubled" out by whoever set it at the very lest. If a AA security installation, the locking bolt would also have had a sensor monitoring that it was actually engaged.
As far as "intentionally tripping" the alarm, that's a part of pen testing too - after you've taken standard measures to block the alarm from reporting. Prior to about 2005-2010, that would be a complex task such as cutting the phone line or stuffing steel wool into the demarc, or using a 9 volt battery if it was metallic pair to prevent the local alarm from transmitting a signal to the central office. If they had AA line security, then it might be a tad bit more troublesome, such as using a capacitor and a resistor to form an oscillator or a balanced bridge if it were really high tech line security.

As correct as that is, it is missing the point there are several ways to avoid tripping IR sensors. That they did not do so is more a comment on their technique than anything else.

Now, it's been more than decade since I ran a "fair sized" OPAC[1], AND I was running a hell of a lot of other things too, not just the OPAC, but as I dimly recall, WorldCat was complied by technical archivists submitting their OPACs in MARC format to them either by request, or by the archivists wishing to reach a wider audience and voluntarily submitting their own MARC records they created. So, unless I'm mistaken and someone please do point that out, this would appear to be yet another case of CDDB style profiteering, whereby someone gets others to do the work, not get paid for it, then charges others for the work they didn't pay for.

I am not denying there is value in compiling the work, but WorldCat appears not to have made it "Transformative" in the sense of conveying a new copyright on their original work. We already know that compilations cannot be copyrighted.

Which brings up another point: Another thing that can't be copyrighted: AI output. Machines aren't given copyrights.

[1]: "Ran" it in the sense I kept the server up, patched, and the hardware and software maintained, and custom programming now and again as requested. I am not repeat not qualified in any sense in Library Science - I done what I waz tolded. 100+ federated collections, somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 million unique holdings)

Instead of money, the government could require you to attend a class, preform public service, or some avenue other than money. Is it an attempt to curb your self destructive habits? Yes. Is it because some busy body wants you to be healthy? No, because when you get sick and don't have money, human beings with morals insist the community get you treatment, not ignore you while you croak in the gutter. Besides, the moaning interrupts my yoga meditation. Is it a money grab? Yes. One action frequently has many objectives. Thinking otherwise is a simplistic. Fixing a leaking water pipe is about more than the cost of the wasted water, it's also about preventing inconvenience of a muddy swamp and damage to my home.

Pretty much, yes. And pretty much the same answer as above. Don't mess with my medication time while you're moaning in the gutter. :)

This is Slashdot. You can say "regulation" here you insensitive clod!

Therac-25. Ford Pinto. Melamine in baby formula. Railroad appliance act of 1893. All cases of regulation being brought about because the "free market" placed profit over lives. Industry did the math and found it cost them less to kill people, pay off the families than to address the reason why those people were dying. The objective of a free market is to serve to maximize profit for the shareholders/owners, not have regard for others. To that end, monopolies work better, like the meat packing industry in the USA, or poultry, or pork. A very limited set of operators for 90% of those markets and all closely price within hours of each other within a few cents.

What was that about "Free Markets" again? I'm going to guess that while we both support the concept of a free markets, only one of us has actually read more than 5 books about it or thought deeply about the consequences of not limiting it, and why. A great example of over regulation is the maritime industry. George H W Bush of "Read my lips, no new taxes!" passed a 10% tax on luxury yachts. No regulatory objective, just a money grab. The luxury yacht industry left the USA and the tax cost the government more to enforce than it brought in.

"Why did they" in business is almost always going to have at the root "Because Money."

First, background: CDDB was originally founded as opensource, but eventually that changed. People thought that the data they voluntarily entered would always be free - Wiki
I don't have the time to sort it but I would assume that a perusal of GraceNote's product offering would show some insights. I don't know, like I say, I am out of time.

I don't mind the 20% added charge to deliver. I mind the charge to deliver AND the 25% "tip for the driver" to deliver it, which includes the delivery charge.

Sort of like charging sales tax on top of the $5 a pack cigarette tax stamp. A double dip - not that I smoke. Charging a tax on top of a tax. Same with charing me a fee to send me a bill telling me how much I need to pay you, but now it's another $10 because you sent me an email telling me what my water bill is. Or worse, garbage bill that doesn't change every month. I already know how much to pay, It's on automatic. Same with the cell phone bill. I don't need you to tell me until it changes and then you can send an email and not charge for that.

And doesn't take an hour and a half to come.

I tried to start a business with "extra toppings" in the freezer section (cheese, mushrooms, sausage, etc) but couldn't get the chain stores to stock it. They wanted at least 6 months of product for no charge first, no limit on quantity. I can't afford that. Pretty sure it was a "go away" tactic because they started selling a store brand line of "plus toppings". Or maybe they already saw the need and filled it and I was just a coincidence.

They don't care if it's working, that wasn't my point. They don't care if it works or not, they don't want to be bothered by it not working. As general rule, the republicans have quietly sabotaged things for decades, then loudly say "It doesn't work!, we have to kill it off!" then bother the airwaves with it until Hell won't have it about how We Must Do Something About It.

Example:
Massive day care fraud!? We must cut off all funds! (Never mind the fraud was already discovered and stopped 5 years ago.) That sort of thing. If they simply cut off daycare, those generally uncaring folks would say "Hey, that may not be something *I* use but it's good stuff!" whereas now they say "Well, at least they stopped those damned [racial characterization deleted] from stealing!" Same thing with "They're eating the Dogs! They are eating the CATS!" - turns out one woman, and she wasn't a PoC and was howl at the moon crazy to boot.

It is in the interest of the parties to make the situation a case of "A curse on both your houses" so that their respective dedicated bases don't have to outvote the majority of people that feel "let me get on with my life and don't bother me" that just want the government to work and not have to expend time, effort and thought about it. If you recall the Monty Python skit "Argument Clinic", this is about the state of was passes for news. (It's on YT if you'd like to review.) I will say that "news" has never, in any time in history, ever been simply "pure reporting".

Thanks, that's a point I wasn't aware of. That will likely result in the election being put off as long as possible rather than hurried up if the rules allow for that.

By straight math, 3, but it's really likely done now.
There are 3 congress critters already out, one only temporary, two require an election and thus will be 60 - 90 days out.
TL;DR:

Doug LaMalfa, (R) California, died Sunday. The US Constitution requires that house seats be filled by special election and Doug LaMalfa's seat was gerrymandered to the Democratic Party in response to Texas' gerrymandering out 5 Democratic party seats.

Jim Baird (R) Indiana is out after a horrific crash, but "should" return. (And I wish him well in his recovery, though I disagree with 75% of his policy, he's a farmer that farms for profit, not for subsidy and mostly "gets it" on that sector). Likely could make it in to vote in two weeks if absolutely critical.

MTG resigned effective Monday (Jan 5th 2026), likely a GOP'er will replace her. and Tuesday someone elected a Democratic party member in their special election, defeating the GOP where not expected but can't recall which state.

Along with the loose cannons on the GOP House side, that means only one congressman needs to flip until the vacancy from MTG or LaMalfa are filled.
Chip Roy will flip as long as it's nothing important. Thomas Massie of Tennessee is another lose cannon but he's willing to go to the mat where Chip Roy won't.

The challenge is always in the Senate, where currently 13(? maybe it's 14) GOP senators need to vote to convict and remove and I don't see even just 4 GOP senators doing that.

That's a useful question. I will think on that, because I think at first blush that misinformation is misinformation, and the construction of a lie is of less import than it's effect. As one of my stock jokes, I say "We don't need to worry about AI, because it's attention span is only as long as it's power cord." but I read a disturbing piece about Anthropic's Caude. Haven't had time to read it completely as yet. My other stock thought is that lies you know are lies are useful insights into the motivation of others.

I want to point out that for the most part, there are no more newspapers, they are opinion papers. A bare, usually not well investigated set of facts (mostly a press release, unverified) followed by an entire banquet of opinion laid out on a smorgasbord of right wing memes or left wing wishful thinking, leaving "analysis" down to the basic divide of who is on first, what is on second, and I don't know is third base, leaving us to the unenviable occupant of short stop.

While most of the USA's opinion is formed before the frist facts are actually articulated, those that prefer not to consume mass produced, synthetic pablum are quite willing for form an opinion based on the very thing least available: Fact, with independently verified sources. Knowledge is power, and we certainly can't have a populace empowered by it. Fates forefend and heavens to Betsy!

Except those that air gap, which, admitted, if you're that worried about security, you already don't use Windows.

Unnecessary. Microsoft themselves are the best argument for leaving Windows, followed by their technology.

Where the driver in the change of OS comes from will be when Microsoft starts charging per inhale and per exhale per seat per day on the user side. When the question is "Why does/doesn't business do ...." the answer is always, always the same. MONEY. Microsoft is driving the use of their OS to be only if it can "phone home" and thus Microsoft can exact their pound of bits.