Seems impossible that it could take 4.4M hours to process 53M entries, that's only about 12 items per hour, or 5 minutes of computer time each. Even a human with a calculator could process the data faster than that.
This is one of those things where lawyers will get involved and say "this was not explicitly mentioned in the terms of carriage so therefore my client is owed compensation for being told not to be an arsehole". It's mainly an American thing as the courts in most countries will accept the "failed to follow instructions from the cabin crew" part.
Yeah, my HOA is going through an expensive lawsuit now over a detail in a contract -- the HOA fined a member for violating the rules "No alcohol or groups over 12 people in the pool area" after the police were called to break up his party, the member sued both for the fine and for unfair treatment by having the police called because they weren't using the pool, they were using the BBQ that's in the pool area so the rule shouldn't apply to his 20 person drunken party.
United notes that it will offer customers who forget theirs a free pair of wired earbuds. "Don't worry if you forget your headphones for your flight," the airline states on its website. "If they're available, you can request free earbuds." You'd better hope your device still has a headphone jack...
If your device doesn't have a headphone jack and all you have is wired headphones, then don't use your device.
I carry a backup set of wired headphones with a USB-C headphone adapter so if my bluetooth buds don't work, I have a backup.
Good on them for pulling it out for recycling - but are they doing it because it's better for the environment, required by law, or because they'll make enough money from recycling to be worth it?
>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.
Behind every great computer sits a skinny little geek.
