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34% is 155% of 22%, so an even bigger increase!
34% is 155% of 22%, so an even bigger increase!
The NSA has two jobs.
The first is to break into any computer or communications stream that they feel the need to for “national security needs”. A lot of leeway for bad behavior there, and yes, they’ve done, and almost certainly continue to do, bad things. Note that in theory that is only allowed for foreign targets, but they always seem to find ways around that.
The second, and less well known, job is to ensure that nobody but them can do that to US computers and communications streams. So if they say something will make your computer more secure, it’s probably true, with the important addition of “except from them”.
I won’t pretend I like any of this, but most people are much more likely to be targeted by scammers, bitcoin miners, and ransomware than they are by the NSA itself, so in that sense, following the NSA’s recommendation here is probably better than not.
If you can’t monopolize, the next best thing is to make sure nobody else can.
Maybe it should be. At least part of the package that’s signed.
OP said “no hardware vendor”, not “ no networked hardware vendor”.
“Why does this microwave oven cost $1500?”
“Two reasons. The first is that it has to have a full network stack to allow it to download software from competing appliance vendors. The second is the cost that the manufacturer had to bear to develop software for every single other microwave sold. There are some pretty weird architectures out there, and they had to hire a whole bunch of programmers.”
People keep complaining that solar and wind give us “too much electricity at the wrong time”, causing power prices to go negative (as if this is a problem). Having a beneficial process like co2 removal that you can do at any time of day (the co2 isn’t going anywhere) that would soak up all that energy seems like a win win.
One side benefit of embalming is that you never bury somebody alive. You’re definitely dead after embalming.
He can’t be worse than the ones that are already our overlords.
Pretty much all of human history would like a word.
There’s an old saying: “Graphene is so versatile it can do anything except leave the laboratory”.
“We hear you, American consumer! You say you want a sub-$40k, small, basic EV. So here’s another luxury SUV/pickup truck/yacht crossover starting at $90,000.”
Are they going to give him his $60B bonus now?
Full self crashing
No, the question is why not?
Light emitting diode -> smoke emitting diode -> flame emitting diode
You are eaten by a grue
CopyMeThat https://apps.apple.com/us/app/copy-me-that-recipe-manager/id956800243 is great. Give it the url, it extracts the recipe. It not only gets rid of the ads, but also the obligatory family history of how the recipe was brought by Nana from the old country, followed by a tedious retelling of a touching story about her. And optionally saves it to your account so you always have it. And there’s web access so you can use anywhere it and a safari extension on the Mac.
“I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.”
You’d think they of all people would understand the concept of data leakage.