The large companies, especially financial companies, do not have their US based company own the assets in other countries. Instead they spin up a new local company in those countries to avoid laws exactly like this one.

They have full control over those companies because they control the purse, but those local countries can then follow the local regulations within their region.

This is VERY common, and I'm surprised this was not mentioned as something that almost all large corporations do to avoid the issues with the Cloud Act and many other laws.

This is not a democrat or republican only thing, there are several of these type of laws in the US, and they are even more plentiful in other countries. Before throwing a stone at the US over a sovereign law, take a glance over at China, or the EU countries - they have FAR MORE laws that impact your personal privacy.

This is about mankind taking impressive first steps toward becoming an inter-planetary species. This is exactly the type of news we all want to see and read about here on Slashdot. And you still cannot think of anything else but politics.

Anyone here who cannot separate their political opinions from the impressive technological advancement such as this, really needs to take a step back and have some self-reflection with your priorities in life.

Go argue politics on some political site, embrace and enjoy the technology news here on Slashdot!

Is this really news for nerds??

Is this really news for nerds??

Maybe in the early universe, time (as in the motion of atoms) progressed much faster allowing these galaxies to form in a fraction of the time it would take just a billion years later after the universe had expanded.

All that energy in such a young/compact universe may have behaved much differently than we understand.

Even if you have a latency of 50ms or so, there is still some time required to compress the audio into one of the codecs used for voip. Some codecs take 100's ms of time to compress the audio, some (which take up more bandwidth usually) take around 100. If you have an actual voip phone, then the compression is done a little faster since its done via hardware, but if you are using a softphone on your computer, then expect that compression to take a bit longer.