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You think a country of 1.4 billion people is utterly incapable of metallurgy, simply because some of their products are intentionally designed as cheaply as possible, to be sold on a market that wants products sold as cheaply as possible?

Are you also an expert on 3D nano-scale material science? It sounds like you only know a couple terms about stainless steel on a macro scale.

Re:Dow plunges 2,200 points, Nasdaq enters bear market on Friday April 04, 2025 @06:49PM (#43588577)
So 1 country down, 193 to go? Threatening the entire world with a financial meltdown is not a bluff, or in any way a reasonable thing to do. It's tantamount to a declaration of war, and we'd get what we deserve if the rest of the world treated it that way.

Either way, the stature and role of the US internationally has been forever altered, and not positively.

Re:Why We're Falling Out of Love with Tesla on Sunday February 16, 2025 @12:56AM (#43065723)
How many of those CEOs did Nazi salute at a US president's inauguration?
Re:Why We're Falling Out of Love with Tesla on Friday February 14, 2025 @10:31PM (#43055666)
It's about not supporting a company whose CEO is a Nazi. OP knows nothing bad will happen, and I suspect you know it too.
It's not insane at all. It is the entirety of their business model, so it makes sense that they will do everything possible to keep that sweet surveillance cash flowing.
In what world is a massively profitable company paying almost nothing in taxes polarizing?
Re:Battle Scenes depicted in moving pictures before CGI on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @02:15PM (#42626141)
Can you take your very thinly-veiled racism apology elsewhere?
Re:Battle Scenes depicted in moving pictures before CGI on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @02:12PM (#42626119)
I'm not sure why you think your personal opinions about mentioning that a well-known racist was in fact a well-known racist matter, and why you think you have some sort of say in another person's blog post. This "scale" that you think the author is putting their thumb on does not exist. They are writing on their own personal website.
Re:Portspoof: Emulate a valid service on all 65535 TCP ports on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @04:17PM (#42511223)
I agree, returning legit banners on common ports is likely to get you looked at more rather than less, since most tools are not accounting for situations where every single port is open, indicating false positives. This is a common scenario on penetration tests, and while it does end up wasting time, I'd rather not give attackers any more reason to be looking at my infra. I would prefer port knocking, which is kinda of the polar opposite approach to this.
Re:Scanners Beware: Welcome to the Network from Hell on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @04:23PM (#42445459)
Notably this only works on internal networks that rely on ARP at layer 2.
Re:California teacher dies from suspected rabid bat bite on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @04:48PM (#42311920)
I read just recently that they no longer even recommend the Milwaukee Protocol, as it's not been shown to have any significant effect.
Re:Listen to the whispers: web timing attacks that work on Thursday November 21, 2024 @02:48PM (#42207885)
I look forward to James Kettle's yearly research results, he's the most incredible appsec researcher I know of.
Re:Converted a MacBook into a PC on Monday November 11, 2024 @07:24PM (#42111675)
Come on man, this is hacker news! Because you can is always an acceptable answer!
Re:Converted a MacBook into a PC on Monday November 11, 2024 @07:23PM (#42111671)
The resulting laptop did have Linux installed, it's right there in the screenshot. The point of the post is showing how the modular nature of Framework boards can be used in all sorts of cool and unexpected ways.
I'm afraid that in this country that the desire to convict and see justice/retribution served on perpetrators is much stronger than the fear of convicting and even executing innocent people. And I think police deception is a strong cause of false convictions.
GrapheneOS implements basically this as a security feature against non-persistent malware, and I think it's a great idea that all phones should do. Graphene has your phone reboot after an uptime greater than some value you pick.
Re:Of course we can tax billionaires on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @09:04PM (#41854674)
I agree, and it seems like such a commonsense (and proven!) approach that I can't help but think any opposition is simply from super wealthy people themselves or those they've managed to brainwash.
Re:US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @01:28PM (#41790432)
If ads are the only way people are able to learn about products, then there is clearly a massive failure of imagination, as well as innovation. People know what they need, and have always known. The concept of exploiting human psychology in order to sell more of a product to people who likely don't need it is a relatively recent development in human history. Plus you can just search for stuff you need in a search engine...
Re:US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @01:19PM (#41790308)
What part of being a massive ad company whose raison d'etre is to collect as much personal information about you as possible (with limited or no consent) to enable other people to try to convince you to buy stuff even remotely a net positive for the world?
I've considered writing a Firefox extension that just hides any mention of AI, LLMs, etc.
Re:New York Times tech workers union votes to authorize a strike on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @01:18PM (#41513402)
I've always thought that if a union is good enough for LeBron James and Tom Brady and Mike Trout, it's good enough for anyone. The same reason professional athletes have a union and would not dream of doing without one still fully applies to everyone else.

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