But at least China has pledged to address the problem.

China pledges and promises all sorts of stuff....

They are basically one of the worlds greatest and most prolific liars too.....

Go over there and try to start a business (with them by force)....and see just how far promises made go for you.

Motor starting inrush current is massive compared to the running current, but it happens so briefly that it *usually* doesn't matter. An AC unit that runs at 8-9 amperes may take 90-100 amps or more to start, causing blown breakers, or even main breakers if the system is being taxed by another high current job like running an oven or charging a car. Nobody runs a 100 amp circuit to an AC system that calls for a 15 amp circuit, and neither does the unit have lugs big enough to accommodate that kind of wiring. If it causes problems there are workarounds like soft start controllers, or motor-rated breakers that better tolerate short spikes of high current.

I think you significantly overstate the gravity of their announcement. You can entirely bot the process of finding a flight to suit and handing you a link; open it, pay with stored credit card, and you'll still be entirely within what they explicitly allow.

In practice they don't necessarily have much incentive to do anything about bookings they have some sloppy-implementation reason to suspect are fully botted(in their ideal world comparison searching would presumably be harder; but cat is obviously out of the bag on that one an concealing that almost all of the work was automated will be relatively simple so there's a high false positive risk); but since you were specifically directed to not do that they are better placed to deal with cases where someone's openclaw fiasco buys them a nonsense route and they want to try to make it the airline's problem.

Alleged professionals checking secrets into github and shipping them in retail binaries is at least as old as 'devops' being a thing people say with a straight face; and standards in 'AI' and for amateurs are even lower than in software development generally. There's some diversity in terms of the ignorant vs. the negligent; but in practice egregious mishandling of secrets is to be expected.

Is anyone else surprised that the DoJ ended up asking; rather than Satya just giving Dear Leader the access as part of a lobbying effort?

I don't think linkedin has, or has ever claimed to offer, any sort of protection of user data against administrator access, and the broligarchy has been nothing but eagerly cooperative.

Just the last 3 weeks of 2 years average data retention is 3%. That would destroy a lot of companies. So the "which 3%?" is a big question.

Sounds like we're soon gonna have Mr Puggle's Revenge going on.

Mail all the rotting meat to them.

Nah....just all the PORK, and associated liquids and blood.

And maybe air drop it rather than mail it....that'll get them where it hurts.

To me, that is basically an acoustic Stockholm syndrome. Motorcycles with their open engines are necessarily very loud to the rider. Like the hostages start to love their captor, motorcycle riders start to love the sound to cope with the fact that they can't flee it.

From that,I'm guessing you are not a biker.

And as the old saying goes..."..if I have to explain it to you....you wouldn't understand.."

That's now throwing shade at you, mind you.....it's just if you aren't of the biker mind, you likely won't "get it".

That's honestly the weird aspect, to me. Infidelity is pretty common and unsurprising, even among people who don't dress like the midlife crisis is hitting pretty hard; but if you've got options why pick the almost comically politically compromising one?

Even if it has to be a workplace thing, and wouldn't be the same with some sort of heavy-mutual-NDA escort, there have to be more than a few AI lunatics who want him to be their accelerationist daddy sprinkled across areas Nvidia can actually export to.

If you've never had a boss like this -- a lazy narcissist -- you're lucky. But if you have, the pattern is familiar and unmistakable:

* Doesn't understand the issues.

* Doesn't do his homework.

* Believes he's a genius whose "gut" overrules people who do understand and do do their homework.

* Plays his subordinates off against one another.

* Highly susceptible to information from random sources: thing he saw on TV, or heard on the golf course.

* Not particularly fussed about contradicting himself because he doesn't care about being right, but does care about being in charge.

* The more chaotic he can make things, the more in charge he feels.

* Has a cynical view of the people he works for but has a genuine gift for flattery when it suits his purposes.

Once you've seen this up close it's really obvious when you come across it again. You can't *not* listen to a lazy narcissist boss because he absolutely will try the stupid shit he says he will. But you can't count on him either, because he has no commitment to anything other than how he looks and feels *right now*.

Clearly Mr. Kessler had advised Mr. Huang that Megaspeed had paid the appropriate bribe and they were cleared to receive product. After inquiring with Commerce about the awkward investigation of sanctioned sales the problem went away for a time, until an internal audit tripped on the fact that it was legally prohibited and the sanction illegitimate. So they tossed it over the fence to DoJ for the cover-up and investigation of the whistleblower since that's their primary line of work these days. DoJ was busy shredding Epstein files, persecuting liberals and clearing murderous feds, so they didn't do a proper job of the coverup before the pesky press found the hanky panky. Now they have to throw Mr Kessler under the bus for reporting to Mr. Huang that the grease was in, and sorry about the dirty linens.

Neither. Commerce didn't drop it, it got taken away and given to DoJ, but not because Commerce couldn't handle the invetigation of where the chips were going. The case goes to DoJ because we're talking about criminal charges of smuggling, corporate fraud, violation of national security statutes. Also because the Commerce investigation was tained by potential political interference. And possibly because it ran afoul of a counterintelligence operations siloed in the DoJ -- although by this point the cat is so out of the bag everyone must assume they've got a FISA wiretap warrant on them.

However, the *effect* may be to slow the progress of the investigation and delay any actions being taken.

The first reason for this is that criminal investigations are slower, the standards of proof higher, and potentially involve a criminal trial. Commerce could simply make an administrative law determination that put Megaspeed on some shit list and come to some kind of agreement with NVIDIA.

The second reason is that putting this into DoJ's hands is putting it into a department that has had staff turnover and loss of institutional knowledge, strife between career personnel and political appointees, and difficulty replacing lost employees. It's also led by lame-duck appointees, facing turnover in the next administration. So if they don't make progress in the next two years, allowing for transition delays, it could be years before anything gets accomplished. By then a lot of people will have left their jobs, memories will get hazy, evidence will go missing, and defensive positions constructed.

So while the investigation hasn't been *killed*; it has been delayed so long that it's effectively in suspended animation. It's not possible for Commerce to sanction anyone because the investigation is out of their hands.

What about motorcycles?

Ugh....I dread the day when all you can get is a silent electric motorcycle....

Half the fun of one is the sounds and smells and vibrations it gives you....a visceral experience.

I think it's posited similar to the theory of gravity.