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Crabs in the Chesapeake Bay are the same. About 80% of tidal segments there are contaminated with PCB's and heavy metals. Regulators describe them as "impairments", and recommend not eating them more than once per month. Cod are bottom feeders and are affected by pollution that settles to the bottom.

Mobile is a deliberately second-class platform, in many cases to prevent closing an obtrusive window to serve an advertisement, or to provoke an inadvertent click on an ad. Many ads with malware simply don't present if the platform is not mobile, by design, from the creator.

> I had served as a field supervisor over a counterintelligence squad in the Washington Field Office.

Counter-intel has a shelf life of around three months in the DC area. It isn't like there weren't multiple opportunities for the FEEB to do something. Oleg Deripaska had multiple properties in the US, including one in NYC and one across the street from Kellyanne Conway near 30th and Massachusetts Ave in DC. Deripaska visited the US on a diplomatic passport multiple times in 2017-2018 and no-one found anything on him? And Charles McGonigal, a retired NYC FBI agent pleaded guilty in 2023 to providing services to Deripaska, who was under US sanctions?

Storage over copper used to be sub optimal but not necessarily due to the cable. UDP QUIC is much closer to wire speed. so 10 GB copper and 10 GB fiber are probably the same, but 40+ GB fiber is quite common now.

I've totally sat through one of these "dry run" VP presentations before they do it before an exec audience. "All the metrics and dashboards are green". Next day: Layoffs and reapply for your job, also introducing Dopinder who will shadow your succession.

It could be sold as an "as-is", intended for knockdown/ demolition and replacement, or removal. That's why the 20% minimum open space requirements for new homes.

Given that your ISP is monitoring your DNS, is wifi motion (usage is probably as valuable) really that bad?

Yes, absolutely. This is mostly a legal/enforcement decision. If you avoid Russian authorities, they avoid you. Also Russia is nowhere near as fertile ground as the US. There are plenty of low paid entry level office workers in the US who will gladly update their AP payment information for business email compromise (BEC). $2.77 billion lost to BEC in 2024, the most lucrative category. Total losses in the US were $16 billion from 859,532 complaints.

One investigation I worked a threat actor in China socially engineered their way into getting an employee account in a US company created for them. They were so persuasive they also got their account inserted into the approval process as a manager for creating other new employee accounts (at a specific location) in the identity workflow. They did this only for the purpose of siphoning discounts that are available to employees, and they resold those which resulted in about one million dollars loss over a period of a couple of years.

https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/elpaso/news/fbi...

Tetraethyllead was introduced into gasoline in 1922, and lasted about 70 years. The effect would have been greater after WW2 due to there were more cars and a larger population with greater desire for mobility and closer proximity to cars.

During the Depression there were fewer cars for economic reasons, and during WW2 fewer for reasons of rationing and recycling, raw material went to the war effort.

IBM was big on Rexx when OS/2 2.x was released in ~1993.

"IBM also once engaged in a technology transfer with Commodore, licensing Amiga technology for OS/2 2.0 and above, in exchange for the REXX scripting language. This means that OS/2 may have some code that was not written by IBM, which can therefore prevent the OS from being re-announced as open-sourced in the future. On the other hand, IBM donated Object REXX for Windows and OS/2 to the Open Object REXX project maintained by the REXX Language Association on SourceForge."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rexx

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2#Petitions_for_open_source

https://www.oorexx.org/status/index.rsp

Imagine toiling all those years to make J* products usable, only to have Larry Ellison bigfoot everything.

> why the US thought that it'd be a good idea to vet social media accounts for visa applications.

The catalyst was the campus takeovers by people wearing masks and causing disruption for months. That was a gift for the Republicans, delivered on a silver platter. They made that an issue every day in Congress from October 7 2023 until November 5 2024. It coincided with the resignation of several university presidents.

Columbia University President Minouche Shafik Cornell Martha Pollack Liz Magill, University of Pennsylvania Claudine Gay Harvard

Additionally, the US has a statutory requirement for biometric exit scans when a visitor leaves. It was completely ignored. There were entry scans, but no exit scan.

The simple fact is they don't want anyone not like them coming to the US, and unauthorized entry has diminished significantly. It's also the reason for rejecting birthright citizenship, and deporting unauthorized persons to third country staging areas.

The UK is in the same boat. The UK is currently spending ~£3 billion per year on accommodations, and costs are expected to triple. It's created profiteering companies and waves of human trafficking across Europe. France only recently agreed to stop them when they line up a row of 20 zodiacs to assault Dover.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_a_Nation

https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-college-presidents-who-ha...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/07/uk-asylum-seek...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2720n2kkjo

Lake of the Woods in northeastern Minnesota is probably nice two months per year. It's where Moosylvania is located, and there are Canadians for neighbors. Wikipedia says "conditions are said to be harsh and unpleasant.".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moosylvania

I thought the "hardened images" were a step in the right direction. It's a pain to have to deal with vulnerabilities on ephemeral short-lived containers/instances. Having something hyper up to date is welcome.

https://www.docker.com/blog/introducing-docker-hardened-imag...

Prisons are ancient history. The latest chapter is the tough on crime states have glorious high speed pursuits. All those Challengers blasting away at 140 mph in the breakdown lane, rollover 10-50 pits, suspects at gunpoint, now published in 1080 on YouTube for some state and county agencies. A single pursuit may result in two or three disabled police vehicles that need to be replaced. A prepped vehicle is over $100k. In 2024 Arkansas had 500+ high speed pursuits, resulting in three suspect deaths and three civilian deaths. Additionally, nine civilians, 14 troopers, and 83 suspects were injured. and easily over 1,000 vehicles trashed.

Each of these videos puts most film car chases to shame. There must be 20 channels dedicated to this. Participating states I've seen are mostly Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, Michigan, and California. But any agency can publish a video, particularly if there is a shooting death and an official investigation.

Sudan exports about one ton of gold per week to the UAE. That's how the conflict is funded.

Even the most modern country (South Africa) is an economic basket case. 42% unemployment. Stealing from the electric utility costs hundreds of millions per year. The most senior elected person in the legislature was charged with corruption and is pending trial.

Microsoft's problem is they still make products. Meta creates $70 billion net profit per year and they don't create much and have minimal overhead.

There were also a caravan of trucks removing large amounts of items before the raid. There are estimates Iran has 600 kg of enriched uranium. One kg of uranium is about the size as a kg of gold, or the size of a phone. So they probably removed some of the harder to replace equipment. Could have been anything. Servers, weapons and ammunition, etc.

Centrifuge manufacturing has come a long way in the previous 20 years. Precision machining has newer models with up to 200,000 rpm. "Centrus (formerly USEC) plans a centrifuge with 60 cm diameter, 12 m height and 900 m/s peripheral speed." Even with their centrifuge manufacturing facilities hit/destroyed, they could reconstitute within a year or two and continue the refinement process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippe-type_centrifuge

I'm not paying for something that is more annoying on mobile than on a notebook or desktop. You want money you should learn how to interact with humans.

The product is a vehicle. Governments are looking for an assurance. That comes from the reputation of the system integrators/contractors.

That said, Birmingham UK turned a £38 million Oracle Financials project into a £90 million failure after including re-implementation costs. That kind of stuff probably isn't replaceable, simply because they spent all the money.

1985 Kinko's had a bank of Macs available for anyone to use. I used to go there late thinking it would be less busy but they were usually in use all the time.

> The way you know this is that there are no record highs or lows in 1788 or even 1828.

This is not specific to weather, although one interesting example would be California in November 1861 - January 1862. Most people think of the gold rush, but there was also a 20 year drought that ended with the largest flood in recorded history. 10 feet of precipitation in California, in the form of rain and snow, over a period of 43 days. It was followed by a huge bloom in vegetation, and the rancho cattle population quadrupled. Then another drought in 1864, that wiped out most of the cattle. And a smallpox epidemic that wiped out 90% of the remaining native population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_of_1862

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-13-nc-780-st...

Your credit score can decrease if you pay off your credit card balance or pay it down too quickly. For example, paying off the last $10k on a home loan. The score is also a reflection of your value to them as a paying customer. How much money you can make them, and how reliable you are with regular payments based on past data. These types of businesses may seem off, but if the customer is reliable and makes you money, assigning a low score based simply on the business type is a recipe for litigation.

He was only describing hardware that was available at the time in businesses. Around that same time, Digital had a product called Pathworks that was very popular. All the PC's used standard unshielded twisted pair Ethernet. It wasn't that expensive. The Pathworks license was about $3,000 per VMS server though. This was great due to Windows NT didn't become popular until 3.51 in 1995 or so. Even then it was 100% interoperable with VMS LANMAN file servers and vice versa. NetWare 3.1 was also popular starting in 1991, although that far back the slim coax cable was still in use.

Why end it? Ukraine is the most successful proxy war in the history of war. Ukraine has destroyed much of Russian ground forces and armor, and eliminated the only advantage that Russia did have, which was artillery. Now artillery accounts for only 20% of casualties on the battlefield. Even if the war ended today, Russia will not receive any of their funds frozen in Europe for decades, if ever. Russia has no military or technology advantage, and no way to rebuild it. Europe is safer than it ever has been.

On the Beach (1959).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(1959_film)

Most government positions could use almost anything. The reason many places use Windows is familiarity and cost of government licenses. Also note that modern services may have a term, for example Microsoft has licenses based on a six-year commitment.

There are scenarios where Windows may be problematic. Sometimes drivers for odd equipment are not available in Linux, or only some Linux distros due to fragmentation and not maintained very well.

The map shows a location of a line of deliberately scuttled ships to block the harbor between Rose Island and Battery Park. Most of the ships were salvaged, the Endeavour was not.

The weather is nice, and there are public services. No-one wants to be homeless in Bakersfield. It is expensive for people with money.

Remember that 25% of unauthorized immigrants live in California, mostly in the south. Last year, California made them eligible for Medicaid for health care (MediCal). It probably is attractive that people there can get health care and providers can get reimbursed.

https://www.laalmanac.com/social/so14.php

> rarely is it the actual cost of the home that’s the problem.

It used to be rare. But LA managed to make $700,000 the minimum cost for housing someone. That is a studio or one bedroom, without laundry. That is why LA City and LA County terminated the current housing organization (LAHSA). LA and San Francisco spent billions and accomplished very little. They probably housed two or three people/households per day. Now they get to stop the easy way, due to they are out of money. LA has a $1 billion budget deficit.

Two years ago, a small part of San Francisco with camps was so bad, two people were dying per day from overdose, and that was with handing out hundreds of doses of free narcan daily.

https://southpasadenan.com/l-a-county-moves-to-strip-funding...

As an added bonus, 33% of fires in LA were started by homeless. When asked about this, the fire chief pointed out that the city budgeted more funds for the homeless ($961 million) than the fire department ($837 million).

https://abc7.com/post/third-las-fires-last-years-involved-ho...