The article talks specifically about mortality rate. So I offered a comparison and pointed out the problem with that metric. And then you jumped on my post basically agreeing with me in a disagreeable way. I don't know what to say man

I have a ":w! saves" mug ;)

I have to ask: did you literally never use a computer lab at all in the DOS era?

Not "logging into DOS" - logging into your account. I literally said "mimicked the DOS prompt, including common commands", e.g., you're at the DOS prompt. When you want to login, you ran LOGIN.EXE, which "mounted" your network account. I believe it was Novell NetWare-based.

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) 2023 Deaths per 100K:
795 Norway
796 Switzerland
836 Canada
891 Sweden
907 France
922 United States
932 Spain
955 Netherlands
962 Belgium
965 UK
977 Austria
991 Denmark
1103 Finland
1136 Portugal
1142 Italy
1211 Germany
1237 Greece

We're all dying from something to some extent. For example, I'm dying on the inside reading these comments.

US is somewhere in the middle of the range that EU member nations occupy. Similar to France, lower than Germany.

But Iraq an India are both much lower than the US. Pretty much all of South America is lower, where air conditioning is uncommon despite being hot AF in places. Mexico and Canada both have significantly lower death rate than the US, even though they share some similarities with the US in terms of region, cuisine, and culture. And that's even with Mexico having a significantly higher murder rate than the US. But the US has a much older population, and it turns out being really old puts you at risk of dying. And the statistics bear this out.

Once the target enters the correct password, PamStealer displays a message stating that the file is damaged and can't be installed. This is designed to be a decoy to prevent the target from suspecting anything is amiss.

Same sort of technique I used back in secondary school, lol ;) We had a programming class (in Basic on DOS), and it was painfully trivial, so I'd always complete the assignments in like 5 minutes and then spend the rest of class messing around. So one thing I wrote was a program that mimicked the DOS prompt, including common commands, and when someone ran the login command and typed in their username and password, it would say that the password was incorrect so they'd think they had typed it wrong (while it was actually saving their username and password, then logging out of my account), so that when they tried again, it worked. I would launch on a bunch of computers in the lab after class when I could get away with it..

Among the passwords collected were the teacher's administrator username and password. So when it came time to write my final project for the course, among the various demo-style scenes in it was a stereogram generator. The hidden image in the stereogram was her username and password. ;)

(Thankfully she had a good attitude about it... seemed like she wanted to get mad at me but also found it funny. In retrospect, that could have gone very badly had she gotten angry...)

In your defense, Amazon Leo is a stupid name for it. They originally called it Project Kuiper but that was always place holder until the marketing team could think of a better name. A room full of MBAs never fails to disappoint.

Yeah, this is what I always worry about when I see studies like this. I know they always try to control for confounders, but it's really hard to do right. If you mess up, you get another "Regular wine drinking improves your health!" craze (wine consumption is correlated with wealth and better access to healthcare, and also, people with serious health problems often have to give up drinking)

Socialist are too smart for him, he'll never catch them.

You are correct LEO != Leo, one is an acronym for low-Earth orbit. The other is the name of Amazon's satellite network. RTFA

Yes. Every time a tree falls it seems like the power is out for a day. And every time the wind blows a tree falls. So very localized outages from living in a forest.
In the nearby city, people rarely lose power. Perhaps a day every year or two.

Progress is a wonderful thing, but let us not be lackadaisical about inherent risks.

I save a bit of gasoline on the 15 or so days I'm without power. I already had solar, so it seemed a little silly sitting in the dark with nothing to run my water pump to flush the toilet. I was also in a situation where the inverter on my solar system had died and the original manufacturer was out of business. There was not a huge cost difference in getting an refurbished identical replacement versus something fancier that switches between house battery, EV battery, generator, solar, and grid tied. Pays for itself in 60 years, if I go by time of use billing, but I arranged to keep net metering so it's more like a 27 year break-even for me in part because my battery system is oversized and expensive.

For rural living, it's worth it, makes a huge difference for us. As an investment that saves you money, it depends, answer is often "no". But it is insured and warrantied. So not really so much of a gamble, most scenarios are covered.