>One source said officials had discussed including a virtual private network function to make a user's traffic appear to originate in the U.S. and added that user activity on the site will not be tracked
They tracked actual congressmen looking at the Epstein files, only a fool would believe that this government run VPN is not going to track all user activity.
Just erase the data, and then sell them!
Which is what you say when you are clueless about everything that is actually involved. Wiping a large number of drives, and verifying that 100% of them really were completely wiped, is far more expensive that just shredding them.
And you may not even be able to verify that the drive was completely erased -- modern ATA drives have a "secure erase" feature (and many (most?)) SCSI drives do too, but I don't think you can verify that remapped bad blocks were completely erased.
Full disk encryption helps, but configuration mistakes happen, maybe a mistake in provisioning scripts meant that a rack of servers didn't get FDE set up properly and plain text data was written to the drive before it was discovered and corrected.
Not sure why you think a website or the installation of an app cannot be geo-restricted, but they can.
Because (at least with Android), side loading exists, so even if the app store requires GPS location to operate, side loading bypasses the app store. And of course if the app store restriction is based on geolocating IP address, that's trivial to bypass with a VPN.
It will be interesting to see what happens when ChatGPT submits misleading or outright false public filings or regulatory information -- who will be held responsible?
Write your own damned cover letter. And scientific paper. And homework.
Why? If the computer can do it better (or at least as good) as me, why shouldn't I let the computer do it, assuming that I vet it for accuracy?
I stopped carrying around a dayplanner years ago because the computer is a much better time tracker than I am with pen and paper, so why shouldn't I let the computer help me with other tasks that it's good at?
Provocation? It's not like they haven't tried in the recent past to be the PITA of international politics.
So the USA said it's Chinese, China says it's Chinese, but that's all a misdirection? How far are we supposed to follow this conspiracy theory?
I don't believe for a second this would be chinese, as it's much easier to just use the satellites they already have to perform the same spying. I even think it's more of a hassle to use this balloon.
If it's not Chinese, why did the Chinese government say it was theirs?
We sent a strong message to the world that we will not tolerate invasion & spying in our airspace, and will promptly shoot it down after it has completed a mission across the entire USA and exits over the Atlantic,
Or we sent a message that we're not afraid of surveillance balloons, but if we were, we'd have no problem shooting them down.
Give me a break. A weather balloon, somehow magically steered precisely over strategic missile sites?
If we go to war over this fake pro-war bullshit, I'm sending all of you pro-war assholes first, right over the beach. Have fun!
It'd be pretty hard to traverse the USA in a balloon without flying over *some* military asset.
TFA says an F-22 jet fired an AIM-9X missile. Why even so? The F-22 has a rotary gun that would be sufficient to burst the balloon. There will be dangerous wreckage falling to ground in either case, and bursting the balloon avoids dispersion of the wreckage for later analysis of what it does.
This wasn't a party balloon that you could burst with a pinprick, years ago Canada tried to take down a balloon with 1000 rounds of canon fire and were unsuccessful.
There's a bigass scaffolding of crap beneath the balloon (or there was anyway) which is more than sufficient to lock onto.
Given that they wanted to recover the payload to see what it was, they probably didn't want to hit that part with the missile.
My concern is that a missile is an awfully expensive way to take down something that could be wiped out with a slingshot.
I'd like to see you take down a large balloon with a slingshot -- Canada once tried to take down a balloon with 1000 rounds of cannon fire and couldn't bring it down until the helium slowly leaked out.
This kind of balloon doesn't pop like a party balloon and are under very low pressure, so a hole just causes a very slow leak.
So they ignored the complaints for a good long while, but finally responded when threatened with publication of their antics and hiring some PR critters to do damage control.
Weren't their antics already published? Are there more unpublished antics?
Why on earth would anyone buy their products?
Because most people don't understand or really care about security and the average consumer isn't going to find out about this breach at all. They'll see the product on Amazon, see that it has a 4.7 star rating, then click "Buy"
Doordash and other companies have already squeezed as much value out of me as they are going to get in my lifetime.
My breaking point was when I ordered a couple Banh Mi's from a local vietnamese place. When I go to the restaurant, they cost $8.95 a piece, so for about $20 I've got a meal for two.
Then one time I had a $40 promo credit and ordered on Door Dash, between the inflated menu prices ($12.95 for a sandwich that cost $8.95 in store!), the service fee, the delivery fee, a couple other fees I can't remember, and driver tip, it cost over $75 for the order. Even with the $40 credit, it cost $15 more than going to the store.
>Normal people are plugging in 600W GPUs to mine crypto! This is bringing our grid and planet to the BRINK! Our hands are tied, we MUST charge more for electricity!
>Everyone needs to buy $60k+ EVs and plug them into 25,000 kW chargers! Our grid can support it and only by doing this will we save the planet!
Wut
You're confusing continuous power (600W 24x7) and instantaneous power (25KW fast chargers that will charge a car in a few hours).
My EV plugs into my regular household outlet and charges around 30 hours/week at around 1000W. (a little less than that since the last 20% of charging is at a much slower rate than the first 80%, but it's capped at 9A so the max is around 1000W).
So in a week, my EV uses around 30KWh of energy, while the 600W bitcoin miner uses around 100KW, or 3 times as much.
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination -- but the combination is locked up in the safe. -- Peter DeVries
