I can beat that, the big freeze in TX had me out for 6 days. The entire time it was below freezing. There was a time where in the US outages were quite uncommon. Up until around 2000 I just don't remember it being a thing. Now as the article states, it is really more of a thing if you don't have outages. As just one example of how the wealthier are adapting, prior to the big freeze, I don't remember seeing nat gas home generators with transfer switches in my area. Now it is common. one on my block has the nat gas, one has solar with battery. I have some portables and so does a neighbor as cost is pretty high for the home sized ones. There must be a decent sized market for the home sized though as Generac seems to be doing very well. And prior to a couple years ago, I don't think I'd ever seen nationwide tv ads for whole house generators.

It is pretty inexcusable. Rates are up, quality is down. And not just long term quality, but short burps seem to be up too. There was a time I had a sun box at the house with a UPS, so was pretty aware of short glitches. Almost never happened. Now if a month goes by where I don't have to reset the microwave clock, it is a rare month. I did it a week ago. And I don't think it is AI that cause the enshitification of the grid initially. Although I expect it to get worse in the coming years as a result. So buckle up, welcome to the 3rd world.

I don't think accurate. Yes cloudflare is a proxy, but should not be seeing the unencrypted traffic between you and bank. But if they get to see your keystrokes unencrypted via a javascript program, effectively they see your password with tiny effort. THAT is a problem.

The difference to me is that at least it sounds like cloudflare is getting info that should be private between you and the site. Say I am entering my CC info. Why would cloudflare get access to that? I only run one tab when I'm doing anything financial somehow thinking it is private between me and the bank, or me and the shopping site. If cloudflare is reading my keystrokes then that is a security nightmare.

One of my real issues with the web in general is that any session should be me and the site I am looking at. No import of fonts from google, no external ads, nothing. It is a private "discussion" between me and ?. And only me and ?.

But I do hope they are paying property taxes and asset taxes on the building/contents/land. And if after all these years there are things of value on the property like a camcorder, then they should be paying asset taxes.

If they are getting police to show up to secure the property it is more than I get here when I call. By the time the police arrive if I'm not home, theives could strip the place. And I pay my property taxes and some stupid alarm fee, which circles back to the police get here when they get here even though I'm paying extra for alarm coverage.

Probably true, but I expect the only possible large co that could be given a death sentence, which this is, is something like a meta. The oil & gas, coke, monsato etc are all too intertwined in the US/world economy that they are too important to fail. I don't think the world would stop if Meta dropped dead. And it might send an important shot across the bow of all corp's that we can kill you if we want. I don't think anyone believes that it could happen, just like no one (even here) believes that Meta will get anything close to 1.4T fine. More like 1.4K. Now they will spend 140M in legal fees or buy a trump arch, whichever is less.

No mod points, but true for sure. And I wish there was a mod up called, "Sad but true" or something along those lines. Where a comment is true, pretty obvious and all the same depressing that it is true. "Underrated" just doesn't seem to fit.

This could be called the equivalent of corporate swatting. People have died as a result of being swatted. Even the summary details how the officer knew it was a huge problem. Drive directly home, do not stop, park it, don't drive it anymore. Further the officer says to the man you are lucky you were here and not Minneapolis.

This is most certainly news for nerds as nerds (Flock system) could have easily gotten the man & his wife killed.

As the summary says, "You're lucky we're in Plymouth. If you were in Minneapolis, they definitely would've come at you with guns drawn.". Imagine somewhere in Texas or Florida. They'd be dead.

These are not ARM parts. They are the equivalent of an LC network with very hi-Q for RF. HP, now broadcom, made RF ceramic filters in Fort Collins. These parts kind of resemble IC processing, except on ceramic and just a metal pattern. Now maybe the 1.5B investment is to turn it into a semi fab, but I doubt it. Google FBAR filter.

They acquired an old HP fab that did FBAR chips (ceramic resonators) If I remember right from school, these are for RF filtering. No semi's, so while technically they are making some small chips in the US, they are not the ones the general public would be thinking of.

I had a prof(RL Gunshor) in college in the 70's who did something similar with SAW(Surface Acoustic Wave) devices and I think these are an offshoot of the technology.

Whoa, in my wildest dreams I'd never have predicted scientology helping society. Never.

Well, I was thinking the US, which the founders were trying to do better than England. But then I'm not sure the founders ever believed someone as crappy as trump would get elected with a congress & supreme court that was complicit. Checks and balances only work when there is a check. Maybe mitch dying is a sign of better times to come.

I think you have a typo. The point of a jury trial is to determine innocence or guilt. Penalty is the 2nd phase. Just because someone goes to trial does not mean they are guilty.

I think pretty clear the founders of the country believed in jury's and unanimous verdicts.

Better if someone would hack the cameras, and nail some mayor visiting his girlfriend during the day. Start doing that en mass and I'll bet the cameras would come down tomorrow.

I think fundamentally the Ben Franklin Freedom is Free thing is sunset-ing. Here recently some young men were stealing cars and shooting at people/houses randomly. A neighboring town with cameras caught them. So of course the cry for cameras in my town so we could have nailed the people sooner. But that is the thing, we can either abridge the freedom of everyone to catch one bad guy, or we can not abridge the freedom of everyone and take longer to catch bad guys. You can't have it both ways.

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