Does it really matter? The grandparent comment states the bandwidth is becoming even more readily available in the US, while the article itself says the bots were largely hosted by US ISPs, and that's obviously enough bandwidth to already cause global disruptions. But that's just the source of the attack, and who is on the receiving end is another.
I get being too US-centric, but I think it's interesting if the US has the right combination of hosting tons of infected devices and having the bandwidth to use them on a much larger scale compared to other countries and possible implications.
I'm in a zip code that spans two cities and I can think of other ways it gets complicated in different scenarios. There are places where I can throw a ball across multiple zip codes, sales tax jurisdictions, municipal lines, county lines, etc., with varying degrees of overlap.
The problem I've anecdotally seen with autocomplete is there's another property with the same street address as mine but in a different city and different zip code (granted only last digit is different IIRC) about ~15 miles away and on more than one occasion it's caused a few mix-ups.
Life expectancy in NYC is 82.6 vs 78.4 overall for USA. Lots of variables and such, but NYC must be doing something better than the rest of the country and I wouldn't doubt trains (and walkability) are a contributing factor.
Defining what that means exactly is one endeavor. But it's important to the how, because whatever it may mean implies a drastically limited set of capabilities, a ceiling, etc., compared to whatever it may mean - if it weren't the case.
...yes? The way I've heard it from some people is Trump is a business man who got other this other business man to start running the government efficiency, like a business. I don't think these people even knew who Elon Musk was a couple years ago and wouldn't touch an electric car with a ten foot pole.
Guess it comes down to the individual's attitude either way and what they're willing to tolerate but I wouldn't underestimate the aggressive ignorance you can find out there. Vermont is a short drive from the so-called lesbian capital of the world, one of the few parts of the country where democrats consistently win a majority of rural voters, and is in the most secular corner of the country. It's almost the complete opposite of the rest of rural America.
Just within the US you could ask why wealthy people aren't all moving to states without any income taxes more frequently. Plenty do move to certain low tax states but network effects, infrastructure, stability, well-understood regulations, etc., seem to often play a bigger role.
For work especially if it's for a large audience I use Visio or GraphViz. For my own consumption (and a couple co-workers) I really prefer mermaidjs, especially just to have it embedded in markdown files.
I use snippets off & on. They came in very handy at a previous company I worked with. Curious on the other answers because I've had some vague ideas for making snippets better but haven't looked deeper into what else is out there and a little wary of AI.
...yet where I live all the parks, public landscaping, etc., that are owned by the municipality are maintained with electric leaf blowers except for areas where they have it contracted out and then it's a mix. It's totally possible, but I think the larger problem is the sunk money on equipment that doesn't need to be replaced any time soon.
Not sure if this is accurate but I've read he used to sell put options relying on the float from his insurance business as collateral. He could easily be doing this using t-bills as collateral as well. The drops in cash could even partly be explained by having to use that money on puts being exercised.. although I suspect if he is doing this it's probably on a small fraction of that cash.
I've always wondered how beholden the world is to Microsoft. I was once surprised to learn the US military (and probably virtually all others) don't have their own OS to avoid being tied to a particular company.
Normalcy doesn't matter. I think the point is that you're not going to get much sympathy if you leave your front door wide open, leave for work or better yet go on Christmas vacation and have no sign anyone is home, and then come home to find something's been stolen. Maybe a better analogy is leaving a laptop in your car overnight and leaving your car unlocked parked on a busy street.
Obviously stealing is a crime and we shouldn't victim blame. But with a lot of software the business isn't much of a victim so much as their customers are, and there doesn't seem to be much incentive for companies pro-actively securing their software. You could argue in hindsight the developer would've been better off selling the vulnerability and/or data to the black market rather than reporting it.
According to some posts I read on Reddit about this it was likely a retaliation thing after a family member of the victim was beaten to death by a fellow police officer who is now in prison.
The law says it applies if more than 30% of the content is adult content. So won't apply to reddit or Twitter at least but I could see this still leaving plenty of gray area for other sites.