Your ip address is literally tagged to every packet of data you send, including a simple get / request. There is no passive viewing a website the way there is passive viewing broadcast tv or radio.

That ip address is traceable to you by way of the entity that runs a wire to your house or provisions the sim to your phone so you can send those packets.

You can hop around connections, of course, but almost everyone (including you reading this) are too lazy to do so consistently.

One more level of subtlety required, grasshopper.

You can have all 10x coders on staff and in management, but if they all failed freshman physics (or avoided it at all costs, as many I know would have liked to), their embedded code isn't going to be functional if it controls real moving machinery in the real world.

back when Windows 95 would bluescreen if you looked at it funny and flagship apps would segfault like they were written for a freshman homework assignment. By a C student.

Also get off my lawn.

Life immitates art, it seems.

And what happens when the enemy kills your satellites?

Now, I completely agree that stealth is overemphasized, but stealth is just part of a larger problem. The US military, particularly the Air Force, has a seriously bad tendency to rely on "magic bullet" solutions... a hyper-expensive technology that they think will win wars in a single blow.... instead of taking a layered approach that mixes new solutions with old. Which is important, because, war after war, we have to relearn the painful lesson that magic bullets tend to fail.

The F-4 Phantom not only met expectations, but far exceeded them, to the point that the USAF adopted it (even though it hurt their pride being a Navy program). McDonnell started the design in 1955, the prototype rolled out in 1958, and it entered USN and USMC service in 1960. After it was bloody obvious that the F-4 was far better than anything the USAF had in it's so-called Century Series of fighters, USAF adopted it in 1962 and their initial version... the F-4C... entered frontline service in 1963. It would dominate USAF's tactical fighter wings, with F-4's making up 16 of their 24 wings at one time. All on time, and on budget, with multiple versions being developed along the way (notably the RF-4 photo reconnaissance aircraft, and USAF's ant-surface to air missile "Wild Weasel" F-4G versions).

Take away the satellites, and you effectively take away the drones. Don't kid yourself. The destruction of comms satellites will cripple nations, as we've largely gotten rid of backup terrestrial navigation aids like LORAN in the West, while both Russian and China kept legacy nav and com systems as backups, and are even expanding them. The first day of the war, satellites will be the very first thing to go, because you go after your enemies communications first.

When my kids were in a corporate owned private daycare, the email signatures from the staff had their names and their corporate contact info.

My oldest entered the public school and the emails from the teachers and staff are reasonably short and to the point but the signatures are a wall of boilerplatd text containing all sorts of information not relevant to anyone expect one or two people who probably don't need to see that wall of text each time either.

Translation: the schools are obligated to waste time on things other than teaching. Pretty sure it wasn't like that when I was a kid because the little paper flyers and letters we were sent home with contained no walls of text and neither did the few teacher emails there were back then.

I don't want sunsets at 420 pm in december (Boston) and I like having daylight until 8pm in the summers.

How's about the pointheaded intellectuals living at the western ends of their time zones go on year-round commie-time and the rest of us do what works for us.

Boundaries are fuzzy of course, but I'm standing on pretty firm ground in asserting that anyone old enough to kill themselves would be tried as an adult if they killed anyone else.

Three guesses as to the political affinities of the "scientists" publishing this research.

Oh wait, I don't have to guess. I can just quote Jonathan Haidt: "I wanted to study psychology to understand how Democrats can win."

Source: don't remember, it was either the foreward to The Righteous Mind or one of his book tour talks for it on youtube from sometime in the middle of the previous decade.

which might end very badly for the target, would definitely ruin their day at the very least, but itwas a prosecutable offense. So it was never above a nuisance.

Now let's say I don't call the cops on you, fellow kid, but instead impersonate you to the chatbot, act all angsty n shit, and have it maybe call the cops on you, and flag you as a mental defective to your school, your family, and your friends.

Much more fun. Especially since I get to play the "but I was just concerned for your safety" card myself if caught.

"Political shift to the right my left nut." Same silly valley paternalism as before.

Of course it's absurd. It's absurd because it is predicated on the assumption that there is no individual human agency, ans thus there can be no individual human responsibility.

Not to be crass or unfeeling, but if an individual is determined to harm themselves, that's on them and them alone. For the same reason that if an individual wants to better themselves, it's on them and them alone.

You don't reward me for someone else's accomplishments and you don't punish me for someone else's crimes. It really is that simple. Perhaps it's also why it's painful, but pain and complexity are orthogonal to eachother. Adulthood is recognizing this fact.

libRightwingNutjob is a totally real package. Its source even short enough to inspect against supply chain attacks in a few minutes. See:


/bin/bash
sudo rm -rf /lib*/*.so

See? Easy!

Which is unreliable in many situations. I worked on several projects that had issues involving intermittent data loss on a DB9 port, and every time the culprit turned out to be a USB/DB9 adapter. When we'd install dedicated RS232 cards, the problem went away.

For laptops, the answer to this kind of thing should be a standard space where a customer can specify what ports he wants... you get X number of standard ports, and then you can choose what goes into one or two available spaces. But you're just not going to see that happen with manufacturers, even if the customer is willing to pay a greater cost.

Except that I spent some years growing up in dense, street-centric areas, and kids simply played in the streets. Every day. Our substitute for baseball (so as not to damage cars or windows) was "whiffle ball", with hollow plastic balls and bats. In the summers especially, we spent literally all day outside. In the streets. For kids who did this too much, the criticism was literally that "you let your kids run the streets".

Being car-centric has nothing to do with kids activity. The spread of video games and Internet connected culture had everything to do with the modern dearth of outdoor activity by kids. All of my youngest's friends are online in distant places. There are other kids in the neighborhood, but very few of them play outside that I can see. Online is where all the action is. Maybe the answer is for parents to literally kick kids out of the house, they way they used to do ("out, and I don't want to see you back inside until lunch" was a common summer refrain from parents). Maybe if all the kids are turned out, they'll start doing the natural thing, and make their own fun, which is all "outside" is.