Because young people straight out of high school don't have the money to pay for university. So they either have to borrow the money at 6.5% interest rate, get it from their parents, or work their way through college. This last option used to be possible because the government heavily subsidized education. It's not anymore. That is not a good thing for this country's future.

Sounds good on paper, but you'd be very limited in what you can study with those. Not to mention full time work plus college is difficult, so it would discourage a lot of people who might have otherwise done well if they could focus on college.

You would do so for one subdivision at best. I doubt they share enough tech to allow you to hack all of it in one go.

What shore and vacation spots? What specific jobs are you referring to? All the ones I'm aware of pay about the same or less than a lifeguard. Jobs that require no skill simply don't pay much. You can thank decades of open border policies for that.

Side note, you can counter my argument by linking to some job posts. It's summer right now so you should be able to find a job that even someone with no qualifications can do. It'll take far less time than arguing hypotheticals.

A laudable accomplishment... How much were you paid? How much was tuition? How much was housing and food for the family?

I've used statistics a lot while working with software, but never the parts that require calculus. Mostly it's computing averages, quantiles and counting the outliers. Never once was there a need to e.g. compute a probability distribution function.

Did you read the summary? They're doing this with the permission of the US military. The problem is the subcontractors that they hired to oversee the work actually have no idea what the Chinese engineers are doing because they're too ignorant of the technology being used.

On an unrelated note, why do you write like Trump?

You should try to use it for a real world problem, not a simple problem with solutions that people wrote down ages ago and that the "AI" can recall from their training data.

You boomers have no idea how much things cost nowadays and keep spouting ridiculous fantasies.

A starting lifeguard makes around $10 / hr. Let's say they can work 90 days (a very long summer vacation) without break or weekends and work 8 hours a day (unlikely but let's go with that). The entire summer they will make $7200. The average rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Florida is around $1,600 per month. Let's say they share the room with a roommate. They're left with $4,800. Add food, utilities and an old car, they're left with $3,300.

The cheapest option is an in-state public school. Tuition and board for one year is $27,000. $3,300 is a whopping 12% of the total. Even if they work the entire year, they'll only make half of the necessary costs. To cover the entire cost, they'll need 2 jobs, 16 hours a day, no weekends or vacations.

Did you pay your way through college by doing that? Or was college mostly paid for by the government, and you could pay most of the rest by doing part time work in the summer?

The Russian army probably have to deal with a dozen faulty drones every day anyways. They'll figure out it's this manufacturer and trace it back to the software very quickly. Blow up on launch doesn't actually work because the explosives are not triggered by the drone. They either have contact fuses or timers on them. For the former, you have to drop the explosive from height, or if it's a timer, hope the operator didn't run away after hearing the click from it activating. The timer's pretty long too, somewhere between 5 and 10 seconds because they're expecting it to be dropped from very high up.

That said, I do think it does a bit more damage than simply deleting the data. The malfunctioning drones would have to be shipped back to be fixed, or simply abandoned. Meanwhile, this isn't a company that depends on data to function.

The worst case is if they lose the source code for their drone control software. This is fairly unlikely because every single developer would have at least one copy and some of them will be on vacation or sick when the attack happened and their computers would be offline. They might also have copies on USB sticks which are unhackable. The compiled software would be on the drones they already made so they can keep making copies from that. It'll just be hard to make updates without the source. It's also possible that they do not even produce the software in the first place. Maybe the technical expertise they got from China includes software.

Besides that, they might lose track of their accounts, so they'll need to figure out how much money they owe other people and vice versa by reconstructing them from emails and bank records. Everything else doesn't really matter. Technical designs? That's useful for the Ukrainians, but they have the people that came up with those designs and a production line that implements it. Personnel data? Again, possibly useful for the Ukrainians but they can look at who showed up to work. Door access codes? They can leave the door open and station a guard instead.

I wouldn't worry about that. Attacks like these don't have long term effects. The real important stuff can be air gapped with multiple copies. It might take a few weeks to factory reset all the machinery and network them together again, and of course fix the vulnerability.

Also there's a number of different factories producing the same thing. I'm unable to find any concrete information on this "Gaskar" group and how many drones they produce, but they're one of approximately 140 drone manufacturers in Russia. So if this hacker group can repeat this feat another 139 times, Russia will have low drone production for a few weeks. And if we cared about making drones on a large scale, I think we'd have a number somewhere in between Russia and China (which has at least 300 manufacturers).

So it's impossible to take down the industry by hacking.

Actually there's more: Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Norway, Portugal, Lithuania, Slovakia, Hungary and Iceland all sent troops to the Iraq War. So that's 19 NATO countries.

Now you're just lying. How much did the CIA pay you?

Here's the actual list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Literally the first listed one is NATO. Of the remainder, there's 10 NATO countries:

- United States
- United Kingdom
- Poland
- Romania
- Denmark
- Bulgaria
- Czech Republic
- Albania
- Latvia
- Estonia

All Western of course.

Russia has somewhere between a 3:1 to 7:1 advantage in firepower. Ukraine is not killing twice as many Russians except in your propaganda filled goop of a brain.

It's not a defensive pact. They attacked countries outright as NATO. And when that's not politically convenient, they have also taken action as a group without invoking the official alliance, using all of the same resources that were established as a part of NATO. Iraq was a NATO operation in all but name, and no less illegal than the invasion of Ukraine I might add. NATO is the equivalent of a rival gang and if I were in charge of Russia, I'd also try to stop its expansion.

Good thing they're only fighting Ukraine then.

This growth is due to Ukrainian manpower being depleted. If they attacked Poland they'll need to deplete Polish manpower before they'll see this kind of gains.

You accuse me of being a Russian fantasist. Yet here you are spouting Ukrainian propaganda.

Why are you using linear interpolation when it's clearly a growing value? This is simply intellectual dishonesty. You have no interest in the truth. You just want to push a narrative. For what reason I cannot fathom because it's not to the benefit of the Ukrainians to keep lying about how the war's going.

You think not spitting in someone's face is capitulation? Get real.

Russia gained about 490 sqkm last month, a 940% increase YoY. You gave to be delusional to think they are slowing down.

Nah. They were more free before all this started.

Before 2014, all they had to do is not do anything that really aggravates Russia. They can keep doing business with the EU as usual and even potentially join the EU. But they proceeded to aggravate Russia by trying to join NATO.

After 2014, they lost Crimea and were under threat. They had a choice to either accept their loss or commit to NATO. All other options were no longer available. They chose NATO.

In 2022, they're under attack. They have no option but to fight.

Now it's 2025. They lost 2 provinces and will probably lose more. They're kidnapping men off the streets to go to the front line. Their economy is completely wrecked, totally dependent on western handouts. Their defense is also completely dependent, and western supplies are drying up or sent to Israel instead.

In another year or two they will either have lost half of the country or be directly under Russian control. This will be less free than 2014 Ukraine in every way unless you're a Russian shill who thinks Ukrainians will be more free as Russians.

The trend is up. It was about 490 sqkm last month, a 940% increase YoY.

At this growth rate Ukraine will entirely be under Russian control in 2 years.