Rename Erie as to Lake America as well - they're close enough. Then you can have HAMAS.

Talking about the President reading briefs shouldn't be a question. Yet, it reportedly is for this President. What I have seen reported is that he doesn't have the patience or reading ability to do the reading in order to make an informed decision. He relies on bullet pointed summaries that better not go over one or at most two pages. If correct, that is wrong for any sitting President.

I don't think that any person would debate that the issues the President is addressing are potentially very real. Foreign chips, dependence on foreign suppliers for critical items, and probably even a very small number of products in trade should indeed be handled. But the ways he goes about solving them are shortsighted and wrong. There are very few companies which are going to do much more than lip service to claim they are investing in America, and hope that saner heads in 2028 will prevail and they can get back to business. Nobody in America wants to pay for what "Made in America" as opposed to at most "Assembled in America" would cost them. They're having troubles making ends meet as it is and are perfectly happy buying "Made Elsewhere".

I'm a Republican, by the way, and proud to say I have never voted for Trump. I also haven't voted for candidates who are rabidly pro Trump at the federal level either. For state offices, there frequently isn't a choice as many times there may just be one Republican candidate on the ballot and a slot for a write-in. But Congress needs to find their collective spines that they were issued at birth and rein in the idiocy spewing from the White House.

More likely, they're producing installations according to the specifications they are given to bid from. In most all municipal jobs, the lowest bidder is going to win. If you bid in all the extra layers that should be there, you'll lose the bid. That isn't the way it should be, but good luck changing the process. If you want to point blame, look to the people writing the specifications for bid.

But also realize that most water and wastewater infrastructure is old. It may be internet connected, but the threat surface was perceived to be much different when those specifications were written. 20/20 hindsight is a great thing. In the early days of the internet, your IP address meant something. Today, with virtual server farms located around the world, they don't mean much. Everything should be written or updated to the security problems we have today. No utility has the money to upgrade - they're just trying to build out more infrastructure to serve more people that needs to be compatible with the existing SCADA system - not a new and improved SCADA system that is more resilient.

Most of the long distance stuff was done over radios. They had line of sight issues, failed frequently, had their own security issues, and dealt with congested spectrum. Sometimes it was dial up, but the telephone companies are abandoning analog as fast as they can. You have to go through hoops to handle phones in elevators compared to the old days.

They certainly should be doing better internet security. But the old technology had lots of problems as well. Combine that with the need to do remote security in many spots, requiring live video feeds sent back to logging devices and running a separate radio or dial up connection for data is a very hard sell.

It has been a while since I visited Canada, and then, it was a couple of provinces in western Canada. But at that time, French was very much a Quebec province thing. Yes, there are scattered patches elsewhere, primarily in areas near Quebec. Implying French is universal in Canada just because it is predominant in Quebec is just wrong. And to be fair, the hostility between western provinces and Quebec has been real for a very long time. At least it was the times I was there.

I loved the people I met and have great respect for Canada. I'm not a fan of the current US leader's desire to annex everything to get everyone's attention off of his family business dealings, or many of his other ideas for that matter. There are many in western Canada that would like to be independent, at the very least from the eastern provinces. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't want to join the US, especially as poorly run as the government has been lately. But ignoring the leadership issues, the people of western Canada have a lot more in common with the people of the upper midwest and western US than they do with Quebec.

I recently downgraded from Cable 800MB to starlink. Simply because for some reason at 2pm EVERY SINGLE DAY my ping times with charter would go from around 30/ms to 100-1000/ms and it lasted for a few hours. I work from home and that was unusable. The only other "broadband" available was starlink. So now I'm much slower in the 100-200MB range, but overall we haven't noticed much difference.

So I'd say, yeah, you don't have to go all the way up to gigabit to be considered broadband.

RF control drones are nowhere near dead. Even DJI Mavics are still used daily for recon missions, nothing beats their combination of price to video quality.

This is a love tap, fists will be thrown later. One thing can and should be done, we need to start adding aerosols into the atmosphere, the higher the better. Adding Na compounds to jet fuels would introduce just enough aerosols in order to start reflecting a tiny amount more of solar radiation than what makes it to the surface of the planet. 1-2% reflection is all we need to start reducing the temperatures. Of-course we will have to keep doing it until we figure out a more permanent solution.

This problem needs to be solved by references, ask AI, people, is this program safe before installing.

Google is now adding more rules to make sideloading more difficult while Apple never provided a way to sideload an app in the first place. People need to be able to build and load their own apps without permission from the OS manufacturer, a phone is a computer with specialized hardware, we do have ability to build and run apps on our own hardware.

At work (all at one company) - work built 6502 based systems, Kaypros, UNOS with serial terminals, Xenix, SCO Openserver, Linux, and eventually Linux with Windows running as a virtual on rare occasions for me. Don't get me wrong, we're mostly Windows based, but as the licensing changes, there's a lot of regret there as well and we see many more attempts to move what can be moved off of Windows. I don't make use of any Windows software, so I'm fine with my Linux box. I can administer all of the Linux servers just fine from it.

At home - UNOS with serial terminal, SCO OpenServer with a Windows box, then Linux for the last couple of decades (not counting gaming consoles).

Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?

Flock is not a single police officer standing on a street corner. Flock is a network of continuous data collection from every perspective on every road and intersection. Flock is not a camera, it is an AI system that follows you precisely everywhere, it is a data dump without a court order. There is expectation that a police officer will NOT follow you everywhere without a court order just because he is paid from taxes and has nothing better to do, this is stalking.

but that's going to have to run on a motor spinning 25fps in the other direction. It could work if frictionless was possible though. I wonder if gyroscopes, low friction and a counter prop like a helicopter would make that feasible.

i was thinking something similar, then I realized that with a 25fps camera, it's made an entire rotation in the time the aperture was open. I was thinking more about taking pictures OF the drone. But if I was designing some automated machine to attack this thing, like another drone, putting a 120fps camera on it would give a decent picture of it. that's only about 1/5th of a rotation. Tracking software doesn't need to get a perfectly clear picture to track something.