It would be mutual assured bankruptcy. The minute Chinese start selling off their T bills, USA would cancel them in whole at once. Such a step would make it difficult to ever finance the US budget deficit again, but it would also tear a massive hole into Chinese budget and finances, which likely bankrupts them as well. This may well be the reason, why China never played that card.

Allegedly this was a permitted practice; but the speed with which they said that they will be abandoning it once it became public knowledge; and the number of federal IT people ProPublica was able to find who had never heard of it, suggests that either the proposal that was approved was not entirely candid about what the plan was; or the approver was too low or obscure to actually approve.

This certainly wouldn't be the first time that something perfectly on the up and up was abandoned for PR reasons; but MS would probably be loathe to give up the ability to whitewash whoever into sensitive projects by having an $18/hr copy-paste pal in the loop; so they must see the exposure as potentially serious.

> How does someone get access to his location data?

  You pay $50 to a data broker, AIUI.

Half of the convenience apps you download include tracking libraries. Free apps often make their money by selling your location data to surveillance companies.

Ads are included so you don't think to ask what their revenue stream is.

Stock ROM's don't prevent most of this.

The merits aren't the point - bankrupting the little guy and sending a message to the other little guys is the point.

"The process is the punishment."

It's interesting to watch old movies and the credits are maybe 30 people.

If you see a modern CG flick there will be thousands of people in the credits including the barista at the coffee shop down the street from where the IT backups subcontractor's office is.

Similar idea with IMDB and basically everybody lying on their resumes otherwise.

Interestingly software had credits pages in the 80's but California prevents noncompete agreements and poaching was rampant so the opposite occurred.

They're reeing about cuts to funding for medical programs in Africa that American taxpayers were funding.

When 25% of Americans can't even afford to get their own medical care.

At least Medicine stopped injecting kids with SV40 promoters from green monkey cells from 1970-2021. Massive cancer cause.

"Sony didn't make its compact camera bigger. Waaaahhh."

Imagine just buying the bigger camera.

What's worse is that Steam could obviously make certain titles crypto-only but MasterCard gets to tell them they can't sell those either.

It's a hostage situation by Fed member banks.

In his ZFS use case you want to flash your HBA to 'IT mode' which gets rid of all RAID logic on the card.

ZFS is much more reliable if it can see the disks directly. And more reliable than HBA-based RAID too.

Let them pass.

I drove 3 hrs once to see a film in IMAX only to find out it was liemax.

Imagine how happy I was.

The only IMAX I've paid for since then was "Sully" at Air & Space. Or "Avatar" in Omnimax. I was a huge fan in the 90's. They burned my good will.

The primary theme seems to be tattletale outrage bait from them. Easy content.

Maybe there's something more interesting behind the paywall.

It's an obvious standards violation to not call themselves 402 Media.

Anyway do they address the Doppelganger Problem?

For the lawyer cost of these audits every one of those companies could have an OpenJDK Core developer on staff and get first-class support in-house.

KLED

Every TV sold in the stores today has xxLED in the branding.

Only the akshully crowd would be triggered.

It would be interesting, and possibly useful, to know how these reports break down in terms of affiliation and motivation.

It's obviously a problem regardless; but, in terms of behavioral change, it seems likely that the well meaning but confused would have different incentives than someone taking advantage of the speed with which a bad bug report can be automated to spam everyone who has a bounty program of some kind in the hopes of getting lucky; someone in over their head and attempting to farm cred as a 'security researcher' would be sort of a hybrid of the previous two; and someone using OSS projects as guinea pigs for some 'AI securifies your code!' startup's training/hype process would be basically the worst case scenario; since they don't need to be motivated by the idea that they are being helpful and their financial incentives are separate from any bounty program.