Yeah, on reading the links, it looks like his lawyers already have a lot of that covered.

The law they are using is 18 U.S. Code 2232, and it's on pretty shaky ground. If you're reading it at non-lawyer eyes, sure the law uses words that seem to fit.

For the current administration, that's all they need to make the accusations.

For the defense lawyers there's going to be a long list of reasons that law doesn't apply, and it's got all kinds of reasons the judge is going to dismiss it. The "Terrorism Response Team" has a rather high burden of proof.

The laws are simple enough. The landline companies are given enormous public benefits, right-of-way access, monopoly access to customers, and more. They're also told as a responsibility they must provide services to certain groups, a relatively small cost in comparison to the tremendous benefits.

They're might quick to back out of the responsibilities when it has a tiny cost.

It would be interesting if the state were to counter-offer, yes they can cut off the few thousand customers, in exchange for being charged for every square inch of that is currently a free or low-cost easement for their cables, wires, boxes, conduits, poles, and towers, plus the adjacent ground cleared for them. And bills for billions of dollars in property repairs and damages done in the process, and an escrow account with funds to remove all the lines, conduits, poles, and towers when that eventual day comes.

The simple rules for EMS are that if they have to drive dangerously or race to the victim, then they are dead already.

Yes the prompt treatment will help, and in a few cases those extra minutes are crucial, but typically the difference is minor.

Location matters. In the article the cities are Los Angeles and Austin. A drive to the nearest EMS facility, ambulance station, fire station, hospital, or similar is likely under three minutes, at least one will be nearby, as fire stations particularly are placed based on short travel times. Also in the article, these are people who they are trying to wake for a long time, in the opening story "nearly an hour".

Driving to any of a variety of EMS locations would be straightforward and faster than the nearly hour long wait for the story.

There are plenty of other rural areas where the nearest EMS facilities really are an hour away, but that's not where robotaxis are getting deployed. When that does eventually happen, it will be best to coordinate with an ambulance and have the vehicle drive towards the ambulance, meeting somewhere in the middle which still would save time for the potential patients, or more likely, the passed out drunks, but it is still a faster option for getting them to a qualified human.

Unregulated gambling is a long-established haven for criminal enterprise.

Money laundering is the most likely, and historically it is trivially easy when they're unregulated. Criminal enterprises, anything from scam call centers to major white-collar crimes, they don't care if they lose a high percent, as long as the money is laundered in the end. Wash a bunch of money betting on both sides of the bet, they'll lose half but still the money comes out clean.

Insider trading is hard to catch, and we're seeing a lot of people connected to influence, like the teleprompter guy and assorted military folk who are getting caught. They almost never are caught, especially the highly skilled ones.

Hiding fraud, hiding embezzlement, racketeering, extortion systems, they're all havens in unregulated gambling.

Kalshi and Polymarket are the big ones and given their nature of distributed unregulated gambling, they're absolutely major elements in both organized crime and casual financial crimes.

Cramer is literally a fraud. Jon Stewart's Daily Show interviews with him nail him repeatedly.

The only thing worse than the drubbing Cramer got, is how seriously CC/NBC have memory holed those segments. Wiped the internet of the originals.

He's typically pragmatic about it, and the attitude serves well.

Is it a real bug? Are POSIX standards violated, or user code broken by a operating system's promise? If yes, it needs to be fixed. If no, it has already wasted too much time.

Unfortunately, it's complicated.

For large companies, yes, there are enough lawsuits all the time that retention rules are to keep everything.

For small companies and individuals, generally there are minimal retention policies in place. That's the big reason for sending out the notices, so they have legal notice not to delete anything that might be evidence in the lawsuit. Even if they casually or unwittingly deleted it before, they're on notice now to preserve it.

The allegations are pretty serious, and digital paper trails through emails could be quite damning if people were specifically asked to bring along intellectual property from a past job. Assuming news reports are accurate, at least a few of those requests came through emails and text messages, so it would be a big deal if anyone deleted them.

Renewables are always going to be a front loaded expense - it's entirely infrastructure and zero fuel costs. That was the entire point of the IRA 30% tax credit.

I'm with you on getting China to flood our market with cheap panels. A resource with a solid 20 year lifespan isn't going to become a natsec issue tomorrow. It will eventually, so we'd need to heavily push home grown stuff during that time. Call it a 'Sun Shot' development program to figure out our own manufacturing for the future. But now? Trump is absolutely hamstringing us for the next few decades.

It's hilarious because if someone had told him China was subsidizing the panels and so we were getting great 'deal' on them, he'd probably have gone for it.

Yes but no.

They could have left support for old drivers. They're dropping support for the encrypted drivers they used to support.

For your comparison, the thing about encrypted overlays on file systems is that the encrypted overlay works independently. People will move simply by virtue of using a natively-encrypted file system is easier and more convenient than an overlay system. But nothing precludes the use of an overlay if people want to do it themselves.

In this case there is no more support. It's a migration at gunpoint: "migrate or lose your data".

For lots of users it's a whole lot of nothing. Lots of people have already moved over years ago. For old archives and legacy systems, it's brutal. Re-encrypt the old archives, re-encrypt the old systems, or lose them.

no kidding. I just checked my June bill. We used 100 kwh less than last year...and the bill was 10% higher - a net 15% rate increase in a single friggin year!

Speaking of a DC micro grid, a company just got approval for a PoE on steroids setup. 1000 watts / 400 v DC over ethernet (18awg) called Fault Managed Power, and can be installed *without* an electrician.

https://www.panduit.com/en/pro...

this has some good diagrams

https://www.buildings.com/smar...

It's not aimed at existing edge PoE devices but higher power middle hardware that would feed those edge nodes.

regarding rates...we used 10% less power last month than a year ago. yet our bill was 10% higher. A 16% rate increase.

Data centers are here to make that grid stability go byebye.

They are huge loads that auto-trip offline if they sense even minute fluctuations to protect all the computer equipment. The grid isn't designed to handle that. NERC just issued it's highest warning over potential instability b/c these huge loads at multiple data centers will all follow similar patterns and all of a sudden multiple GW loads vanish.

US power rates outside CA are generally quite cheap and makes ROI longer, no argument about that.

Solar + batteries is basically locking in your power rates for 30 years, vs the 10-15% annual increases we're seeing. That makes the ROI shorten fast.

I had a 2003 Civic Hybrid with a battery that lasted 10 years/140k miles - 20 year old tech. Modern stuff is *much* better.

My current 2012 Insight hybrid is going on 14 years/110k miles and *just* starting to show some loss of capability.

https://www.indexbox.io/blog/c...

30 YEAR warranty.

The way I look at it is this.

If you pay $2000 annually for your power. In 10 years that $20,000....probably more like $25,000 with rate increases.

In 30 years, that's $60,000 without rate increases.

$25,000 in solar to reduce your power bill for 30 years vs a guaranteed $60,000 spend is pretty no-brainer to me.

Outside of CA, US power rates are, at least for the moment, pretty cheap on average so that does extend the ROI period probably into 10-15 year territory.