I am in no way a security expert. ELI5, please.

Is a phone (which certainly CAN be secured to high levels but in my experience rarely is) inherently more secure than an atm card and pin that only the user knows?

How is a PC "more vulnerable" than a phone?

....In case anyone needed proof of ideological capture and some users having (apparently) legions of slashdot-rating bots. A genuine thank you for a good post is modded 'troll' as I've offended the progressive horde.

1) "Trade will continue to diversify away from the US"
It isn't. US Imports and Exports are BOTH GROWING.
â Imports: Rose 1.2% to a record high of $426.6 billion in September 2026, with goods imports reaching an all-time high of $346.9 billion.
â Exports: Rose 1.9% to $321.5 billion in September 2026, with goods exports increasing 2.5% to $211.0 billion.
(https://www.morningstar.com/news/dow-jones/202611049237/us-trade-deficit-contracted-in-september)
EU-US Trade: Reached record levels despite tariff pressures, with EU exports to the U.S. growing around 2% to 7.7% depending on the specific goods-versus-services breakdown tracked
(https://finance.yahoo.com/news/eu-trade-us-hits-record-063410731.html)
Meanwhile, fwiw, EU imports expanded at a faster rate than exports.

2) ahahahahahahaahahahaahahahhahahaahahhaa
No, stop, ahaahhaahahhahahahahahahahhahahah
(gasp) you're killin' me man. ahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Give me a call when EU can manage to mount a basic Coast Guard. Meanwhile, the German army (2015) was using black-painted sticks in training because they didn't have enough actual guns, their battle rifle doesn't shoot straight, and the Bundeswehr reached 186k...thats as many as the US just has parked overseas (https://www.us-militarynow.com/overseas.html)
Don't even start with "Euro" military until they decide their armies aren't just jobs programs for unemployables, and military development programs just industrial subsidies.*
*don't get me wrong, the US has its own MAJOR problems here too.

3) Yes. Congrats, you've managed to echo de Tocqueville in what, 1830? As has been opined correctly here, this vote was (rightly) against Trump's blundering, not in favor of Democrats but they are likely to believe that is true and indulge in the kind of ridiculous excess that got Trump elected for a 2nd time. If you faintly understood US politics, the expected next 2 years of paralysis and ceaseless lawfare just INCREASED the chance of a subsequent GOP president in 2030.

4) Good. I'll happily trade "stopping to pay for others' free lunches" and "falsely inflating the dollar to build EU manufacturing for 75 years" for a US economy based mainly on its own strengths. The "return" on that soft-power investment was looking fairly shitty since about 2010.

You don't want a US that's happy, prosperous, and self interested. Not really. Because then the US wouldn't give much of a fuck about Europeans' propensity to squabble violently.

Great post. Thanks

Sincerely,

Yahoo.com

...I think we've conclusively closed the "don't be evil" chapter, haven't we boys?

I see the attraction of utc, but doesn't that completely mess with things that reference system time to adjust incoming time-related things?

Eg a meeting request from another system in a different time zone, where it says "the meeting is at 5pm for my sender, but you receiver are x hours different, so I adjust your announced meeting time by the"?

AH, I get it. As long as you consume the proper flavor of slop, then bootlicking is approved.

Thanks for explaining!

Someone should ask media/technology studies professor Torin Monahan at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill how much a college degree is today.

Oh wait, anyone can look that up.... $47k/yr.

Perhaps that isn't the (chapel) hill Mr Monahan wants to die on?

"Humanism] tends to appeal to people who are skeptical of a god or other supernatural power yet still seek a scientific and moral framework to ground themselves in. "

St Athanasius, St Augustine, & Erasmus would all be somewhat surprised to hear that they were skeptical of God.

Lol at the atheists conveniently forgetting that the entire basis of Western Humanism came from the Catholic Church and ultimately Protestantism.

While such bootlicking is repellent, some of us would note with irony the attacks here from people who - with the same craven, lickspittle reasoning - cheerfully spent 2020-2024 (and some until today) insisting we disregard things like penises when determining "what is a woman" eh?

While I'd love imaginary propulsion tech to be our saviour here, you know that Hubble exists outside a lab, right?

"Peer Review and Scrutiny: While showcased at venues like the Electrostatics Society of America, APEC, and technical discussions, the claims sit well outside conventional physics consensus, and full peer-reviewed validation is pending"

Yeah, why would you post something as ridiculous at "computer tech put in orbit" on Slashdot? Absurd.

It's not like this is a TECH site anymore. This is a "we fucking hate MUSK" site.

Get with the program.

Thanks for confirming.
Always nice to be validated.

It is peak irony that - honestly - the whinge about how miserable the "internet" (as a broad synonym for social media, I guess) is, is followed by one of the most authentic, non-political*, most Old-Slashdot-Flavored engaging discussion I've seen here in at least the last 5, maybe 10 years?
Thanks, this was a nice post & engaging discussion. Even the people I disagree with on balance were making persuasive points.

*so far. It's 2026, I don't hold much hope it'll remain pristine.
Even my simple posting here, I may have tainted it. I have a lovely anon-stalker (I am pretty sure I know who) that follows any post I make with political bile, regardless of the subject.