OTA just seems like such an inconvenient waste of time and resources now. It doesn't help that you need a licence for it in the UK, but even if it was free, it seems like it is easier to just pirate the small amount of stuff that is worth watching. And these days that is approaching zero, and what there is can be streamed anyway.
Counterpoint: Is is plausible that he'd be that successful at insider trading when he has failed at every other endeavor he has turned his hand to?
Depends on your definitions, I suppose. You could argue that engaging in blatant market manipulation and insider trading from the Oval Office for 16 months and only netting $750M in profits represents a failure. Someone more competent could have made a lot more.
Should it matter? The founders weren't gods, they did their best for their time. They made mistakes, and times have changed.
It really should matter. If we can just decide the text means whatever we want it to mean, what's the point in writing it down?
Amend the constitution, make it illegal.
Yes! This is the way. Unfortunately, our system is so dysfunctional we can't even pass normal laws now, much less enact and ratify constitutional amendments.
What will the SEC do? It will settle the cases out of court and set up a $1.776 billion fund to pay to friends who have been accused.
Surely not that. That would be dumb. And awful. And utterly corrupt.
Sigh.
Will it catch the president, who has been on a rampant insider trading and market manipulation spree for his whole second term?
What about congress?
What will the SEC do when it flags top politicians? I think all of us know the answer to that question.
The main reason that Israel supported Hamas is because the more moderate Palestinian politicians wanted a two state solution.
The problem is that he is an artist and needs to keep making money to get opportunities like this, so when critics pan his work and audiences react negatively, he feels the need to defend his decisions.
It sounds like he ripped off those people who take a podcast, add AI slop images, and upload a video to YouTube.
The problem is Israel. Israel is everything the US claims to oppose Iran for.
- Nuclear armed, with the ability to deliver those warheads to Europe and beyond.
- The world's biggest state sponsor of terrorism.
- An existential threat to every other nation in the region, constantly attacking and invading them.
- Openly genocidal, has the means to actually do it, and is doing it.
- Abuses its own people.
If Israel wasn't based by the US and European nations, if we didn't tolerate Israel violating international law every single day for decades, Iran wouldn't be the problem that it is.
If the fees are lower than the cost of mitigating the problems it causes, they will probably just pay.
Trump and Netanyahu have opened a can of worms here. Iran is now looking at what else it can tax, since it's become apparent that the US can't actually win and Iran does in fact have the upper hand.
The most powerful military in the world is of little use if the political will isn't there.
If you use BitLocker similarly to how you use VeraCrypt, this vulnerability does not affect you.
The most common mode for Bitlocker is the automatic mode, where the drive is encrypted and Windows loads the key at boot time without any interaction. It's transparent to the user, most people probably don't even know it's enabled. It uses the computer's TPM to store the key, which is only released when Secure Boot confirms that the OS has not been tampered with.
It stops an attacker accessing files by booting Linux or removing the drive, or at least it is supposed to. The idea is that if you don't know the Windows password, you can't log in to access anything, but as this guy discovered you can just go into the recovery environment which doesn't need a user account. The drive is unlocked at boot as normal.
It does seem to be some kind of massive screw up at the very least. Windows 10 made you log in for the recovery environment, but for some reason it changed with 11.
If you set a BitLocker password that needs to be entered at boot, similar to how VeraCrypt works, this bypass doesn't work.
The SNES supported ADPCM, and I don't think it has a wavetable built in. It was up to the game to supply and PCM audio needed. It was definitely one of the better sounding 16 bit consoles though. The PC-Engine with CD-ROM is unmatched, of course, at least for music.
I'm wondering what version of the Doom soundtrack they used. The MIDI files? Some specific sound card's rendition, or all of them? I still have a Roland SC-88, and no 90s sound card ever sounded that good.
There was an issue for a couple of days with MG car connectivity in the UK a month or two ago. Simply going to the menu and turning off connectivity fixed it until the servers came back up. So it seams that there at least the connectivity switch does actually work.
Android Auto kept working, of course.
In the United States, simply keeping their cars running after the manufacturer died is a fairly substantial set of crimes. Since they have admitted to conspiracy by forming an interstate group to do it, major Federal organized crime laws have been broken.
Is it? What crimes, exactly? They might be defeating some copy protection, but the entity that owned the software is defunct, so no one has standing to sue.
I'm not saying this isn't a problem, but it's not really a "pitchforks and guillotines" problem, it's an Econ 101 supply and demand problem.
In this specific case, yes. But TFA describes just one instance a society-wide problem in which both politics and the economy are predicated on turning the general population into victims and servants. That can't be solved by Econ 101 platitudes.
Really? Got any examples that actually hold up to scrutiny?
I don't think Google has any intention or desire to kill F-droid
I think it's very likely to get caught in the crossfire. I don't think f-droid is big enough that anyone except engineers at google even know about its existence let alone care.
At Google, it's what the engineers care about that really matters. Google is still very much a bottom-up company. And, in any case, even if no special allowances are made for F-droid, it's very easy for F-droid to stay in operation under the proposed terms. As I said, it just means someone is going to have to pony up $25 and provide their ID. That doesn't even have to happen for each app; F-droid as an organization could become the official "developer" who signs all of the apps.
I really don't see a risk here.
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