TNG was my favorite then, today it's still my all time favorite. Rest in peace captain!!!

Engage!

Yeah that part I understand. But the victim must have been aware of the ransom amount. Why would they wanna pay much higher than that?

I think that's the basic issue with administrations across many countries. Initiatives begin by someone people, but they never have the length of term to see it all through and their successors have different opinions. Even if they did have time, yeah sure they'd run the POC but they wouldn't have the balls to carry it out. Exact reason why the FAA is still running on ancient computers/software.

The only way the US can modernize the FAA is to hire a high tech taskforce, protect their jobs from administration politics with a congressional law, then give them the budget, headcount, timeline to do it. They'll still report to new administrations and what not, but if their roles are completely shielded from the politics, only then they can make it happen.

So I think going opensource is awesome. At national/continental level, security is definitely important. But doing it for the reason to reduce reliance on US technologies is the wrong motivation. Technologies in this context doesn't have anything to do with countries. In fact, I think what motivated them to start these projects is more political than anything else. But it shouldn't have to be that way. You use what best suits your need, you rely on companies that makes your productivity soar. I think that's all that matters. I don't wanna see in the future there's a host of european leaders calling to boycott US, when we have been allies for as long as most of us have been alive.

So the ransomware must have demanded a certain amount. But if he pays the ransom and keeps a hefty profit, that means the ransom amount is much smaller than what he charges. Why would the victim pay that amount?

Staffs do their jobs, lower/middle management supervise them, senior management supervise the lower/middle management, executive leadership make this type of decision. Yeah sure staffs can quit if they don't believe in their jobs, but IMHO, it's ABSOLUTELY NOT their place to say whether a company can/cannot have military contract. It costs billions to pay salary alone at Google. That money didn't fall from the sky.... Regardless of my feelings about the company, they have to make deals that bring in revenue and in the process make a big buck. That's just how it works.

Dude!! That listing is so awesome I wanna pack m stuffs and go to Japan right now!!!

Most listings charge a separate cleaning fee, then they turn around and make the guests clean. That's BS!

So throughout the whole 4 months, did the college not once able to stop the vehicles/people who came to remove the covering? What kind of security personnel do they have there?

The truth is even the strongest brute force cannot break a cert within few years. It would be easy to steal the key and its passphrase via social engineering. The cert providers make only a few hundred/year each cert so they influenced the entire security world about how a cert length can jeopardize things. In each operation there can be hundreds to thousands of certs. Rapidly reducing their lengths from 5-3-2-1 down to 9-6-3-1 months is their exact roadmap to more money.

Headline says "ban public officials from making memecoins", then the text says ban companies from using officials as their memecoin. I guess there's such a thing as journalism while intoxicated.

I'm pretty sure it is.. Paramount has something like 58K employees, they pay CA taxes in the billions.

True... and if they don't make it, they pay 30M to get out of it.

Yeah that's possible... When things die down, nobody even watches to see if the agreed terms are met. Hell, the news outlets oversight board can't do anything to the Ellison if he wants to run it the way he wants. Dude paid $110B for this deal, it ain't chump change.

Wow!! I had no idea the two company combined makes 30 movies a year, which makes them hold the merged company to do the same. But why would they want oversight board of the news outlets though?