Are all the driverless kinks worked out? How well do these handle ice, snow squalls, loose gravel and dirt on the roads? Have people tested brake checking them in these conditions? Truckers have to deal with clowns brake checking them far too often.
A flash board is interesting. How many browsers still support shockwave by default? Somewhere I still have an archive of SWF's from the early 00's. Most in my collection are probably too offensive by todays standards.
I agree with the sentiment but it's tricky. Logically and technically it totally makes sense but it's expensive and companies look at cost, maintenance, accessibility. Above ground is easier to maintain, less legal hassles and easements among other things. Even when it made sense to bury everything that would affect the investors. There are some rough laws around impacting shareholders. Oh and people are greedy. I probably could have just said people are greedy.
What type of business is this for? While I am not a fan of it, I found most developers liked Slack. The general consensus I received when trying to switch to an internal chat system was "You can take slack from our cold dead hands". This was in a financial company with a lot of developers. Compliance were OK with Slack after we had them add a lot of features, audit capabilities and limits.
For non developers people seem to like Discord for the freedom, options, ability to chat with whomever. It's not great in terms of compliance in a public company but maybe your company is small and this is not an issue.
The natural transition from Skype would be Teams and should be free if you are a small group. It is also free if you buy O365 or whatever they are calling it now. I can't keep up with the name changes.
Without understanding your business model it is hard to suggest anything that fits into your regulatory and audit requirements. Beyond that it would also matter what you put in your SOC1/SOC2 documents and what policies and procedures they reference.
Probably not? I could think of ways to hide the controls but the most likely targets would be Linux forks and firmware that run in cell phones, cars, appliances, IoT's, etc... Those are more likely to be in the path of monitoring something interesting. Even in the case of cell phones, cars, etc, I would expect the control to be in firmware that one could tickle with JTAG over bluetooth, USB, WiFi, LoRa to take full control of the OS and bypass all security controls rendering encryption into a placebo or a CPU warmer. Why waste processing cycles on brute forcing when you can tell the application that the encryption key was successfully decrypted without ever even looking at the key.
I guess a simpler way to say that is, why control Linux when there are always so many proprietary things are in the path that only have a handful of people controlling them, especially when one could replace said people whereas replacing all the Linux developers would be hard. Firmware that provides a CPU ring -4 shell can bypass absolutely every security control anyone could imagine in microseconds.
I've only had one incident of someone trying to defraud me using my card in the last few decades and the card vendor instantly blocked it and texted me. I am obviously only one person but I have been careful where I use that card. If I suspect anything I just report it stolen and get another one. That only takes a few minutes at the bank. With exception to Amazon I only use it in places that everyone knows me and I know everyone. Most of the time I use cash, especially if buying anything the government may wish to track. I will never tie my fondle-slab to a financial institution. To many entities have access to it.
Netting spread across tall poles are about the only thing that is not outright illegal. HOA's and some towns will throw a fit about the netting. Using radio weapons outside of a war-zone will likely result in fines if it interferes with anything revenue generating and possibly even arrest.
Only if their scientific minds and governing bodies lied to and gaslit the population repeatedly until all that was left was to come up with their own albeit wrong answers. In this case I put the blame squarely on the NIH and WHO, both of which need some serious reformation.
Oh, and the witches hammer. [1] That book killed millions of women and girls. numbers are often debated
Probably more appropriate would be ~Older people who keep their mind active have lower rates of cognitive decline~ Even crossword puzzles are probably sufficient.
Phones have displaced paper money and credit cards as the preferred way to pay for a bill at the end of a meal.
In Europe maybe? I've never seen anyone pay with their phone. Not in big cities and not in rural areas in the US. I will never do financial transactions with my government spy device. To each their own obviously.
As for when I am ready to pay, I go to the counter and give them cash or I might use a debit card if I am picking up everyone's tab. If they give me grief then I simply do not return to that establishment and they will get negative reviews.
What's to stop them from changing it, after a few months, when people are used to it?
Exactly. If the software is loaded then enabling the service is just a feature toggle. The only way someone would know it is enabling itself is if sites like HN start talking about it.
A couple of browsers can connect to Tor without installing anything extra so maybe as the internet is tightened down more browsers will add this ability. To your point though it is still slower and people despise latency so the faster sites will likely win out.
In terms of legality it is not clear to me that countries will enforce the laws of other countries even if they are allies. Global trade is changing and I suspect that could affect international enforcement as dependencies shift, maybe. Time will tell.
Another possibility is to have shaken the stock market so friends of friends can buy up stock cheap then back off the tariffs and sell but maybe I am just being cynical.
It absolutely is. There are many dash-cam videos truckers have uploaded to Youtube of people finding out.