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Comment Just have us bring it in (Score 2) 59

Do it like soda bottle deposit returns.

The end users just rip out their old unused wires and bring it into the local office for a few bucks.
Saves the phone company from hiring crews, equipment, and fuel.
Plus, if the homeowner breaks their own fiber, then the phone company gets some money for a service call.

And if they bring in their AC wiring, that'll be even more copper.

Comment other uses (Score 2) 246

I don't have one of the balcony panels.
What I do have that works for me is a panel with batteries. I put the panel/battery on the roof and that supplies power to a wireless security cam that records 7/24. So far, it's never run the battery down. I connect using wireless when I get an alert or was just curious about what animal was making that noise last night.
Why bother? So I don't have to run a wire through the yard or any wall or replace batteries every month, and I can put one on the fence looking back at the house.
No doubt there are many uses for these as stand alones.

Comment old news, and Project 2025 (Score 3, Informative) 76

Old news. We heard all this back in the 20th century.

1998,
  LOpht testifies before Congress
https://commdocs.house.gov/com...

Clinton weighs in to protect us from all this in 1998
https://clintonwhitehouse5.arc...

and countless other incidents

And now we have DOGE eviscerating CISA because Project 2025.
https://www.darkreading.com/th...
https://www.americanprogress.o...

The problem with CISA is that cyber security measures previously taken have served to make Russia look bad and did nothing to prove Trump actually won in 2020.

Comment Re:Windows MALWARE back door (Score 1) 39

The headline and summary make it sound as if this functionality was built into Windows itself.

It's not. It's malware.

The only people affected are people who installed Windows and THEN installed the malware. Probably as part of a phishing campaign, or by downloading something that pretended to be legitimate software.

That ^^^ or perhaps some legitimate software that was OK when installed, but later got a supply channel hack of an update that included the malware.

Comment Re:Help Me Understand (Score 4, Informative) 39

It sounds very similar to how a Wake-on-LAN trigger works. Based on how that works, it requires another machine on the LAN with a foothold to send the magic packet?

So, we're looking for the machine with the foothold and anything that even vaguely related to that PoS ESET?

The real problem here is the eternal Windows problem of dll side-loading.
That allows a system dll to be impersonated and evade sfc scannow protection. How it gets activated is by far less of a problem than that the bad code is already resident in memory waiting for instruction.
Also, there's the problem that someone has gotten the privilege to put it there.

Comment Re: Blank (Score 1) 67

This is just not true in any consistent way. US mortality data is better for cities than rural areas, for example. Cities tend to deliver higher incomes for populations, and income is strongly associated with life expectancy.

Well yes, and. That's probably directly due to Rural areas in the US having greatly inferior healthcare than what is found in cities and especially having a lack of specialists. And that is due to money, as you say, higher incomes for populations.

Comment Re:What a load of crap (Score 1) 153

"could appear to violate our obligation to conduct our analysis in a technologically neutral manner."

What you are doing is exactly violating that. You set the goals based on where you want to be, not what you think the technology can do. That is what "technologically neutral" means. You are taking into account the technology when setting goals, which means you are not neutral at all. But what else would I expect from this band of asshats?

It is indeed about being fair.
The Handicapper General, Diana Moon Glampers is running things now.

Comment Next step (Score 4, Insightful) 150

The next step is for the lenders to bundle the small loans into securities to sell to investors. They'll say the securities will be safe because they'll be protected with credit default swaps, CDS, that will be sold on the open market. They will get AAA ratings.
Next, you'll be able to trade naked CDS and securitized bundles of CDS guaranteed by investment houses and major insurance companies. This market will be holding trillions of dollars of putative value.

Then a bomb will go off in the lobby of one of the investment houses, perhaps figuratively, and that company will collapse. The CDS will all be called and the trillions will evaporate, and by that I mean anyone who is not a too-big-to-fail entity will lose their shirts. Also, they'll lose their houses.
The treasury will prop up the too-big-fail-entities and, oh, btw, the investments of the political leadership, and by that I do not necessarily mean the elected leadership.

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