Thinking about this a little bit, I realized that I practically never use my USB port for anything, and only rarely use it for charging. On Pixel, is there any app that will just disable the data features of the USB by default unless I explicitly turn it on?
I assume that a feature like that would eliminate vulnerability to tools like cellbrite.
I view the patent process as furthering the ability of others to benefit from the results: without patents, the only way to keep clones of your product from immediately appearing on the market is obfuscation and trade secrets. Patents grant a limited monopoly, but at the price of full disclosure. That full disclosure serves a useful social benefit as others can learn and innovate on what was done before. The limited monopoly encourages innovation because it helps people get exclusive rights to sell their work.
There’s a lot of bad patent behavior with patent trolls, etc. The duration of the patents should be relatively short and not extensible. But I think the disclosure aspect of the patent process does further overall innovation.
I’d like to get back to ‘for limited time’. Patents 10 years, no extensions. Copyright, 10 years, no extensions. Trademarks indefinite as long as the owner still has a meaningful business still operating and using the trademark ( this one is tricky to define well).
I think it’s fair to say that not enough was done about the coup attempt, but there were hundreds of cases successfully prosecuted. That’s not ‘nothing’.
Isn’t a much simpler answer that China started dumping bonds, and they’ll dump a lot more if the tarriff situation isn’t resolved soon?
As a real estate investor who’s mortgaged to the max, Trump wants high inflation to increase the nominal value of his properties, and low interest rates. China has extensive US bond holdings and at least some ability to drive up 10 year rates by selling those bonds. Trump doesn’t want higher rates, even if you only consider his direct, personal situation.
Why can’t they deport you? Does the jail in El Salvador care what the nationality is of the people the US is paying to hold and torture?
No, every single member of that chat should have pointed out that the communication violates multiple clear, long existing federal laws about how communications about federal government business is to be conducted, especially about military operations, and refused to communicate via signal instead of approved channels.
All of them violated multiple laws.
Trying to make it seem that they’re not actively breaking all the laws around record keeping for government business.
There’s no excuse for this.
The judiciary could shut this down pretty quick by referring DOJ lawyers who attempt to enforce this inappropriately for disbarment.
My particular flavor of that is he realizes he was going to prison or worse based on all the legal proceedings against him. The only way to prevent that was to become president and redirect the DOJ. He was desperate.
Now, his goal is to remain president because if he loses office, he’ll be prosecuted again, at least at the state level where he can’t self-pardon. Therefore he will do literally anything to remain in the presidency until he dies. I think that’s his plan and nothing else really matters to him.
What follows from that is he needs enough people around him to support the plan until he can disarm any part of the government that would remove him from office. He’s willing to do anything Musk wants because Musk demonstrated that Musk will dump a practically unlimited amount of money into any political race as needed, and Trump needs that to hold Congressional seats and eventually governorships and state legislatures.
The rest of it is Trump playing out his vindictive nature, the side effect being the fewer people in government, the more likely they’re able to maintain control, perhaps by suspended elections, martial law, etc.
There’s going to be plenty of unemployed people in DC with time on their hands. We’ll see if that turns into a situation like the Bonus Army.
Ah, but it’s a credit card, emphasis on credit. The bank issuing the card is making a short term loan that will either get paid off by the card holder at the next billing cycle, or will automatically turn into an indefinite length loan at what is usually an exorbitant interest rate.
The bank is always taking a risk that they won’t get paid. That’s why the amount they get paid for this risk needs to scale with the size of the transaction.
Debit card doesn’t have this specific risk; the money is either immediately transferred from the cardholder’s account or the transaction is declined.
I’m just going to throw this out there as an option for recurring maintenance drugs:
If it was in DC, pretty sure that’s a federal issue.
I think the teach tech bros think they have enough bitcoin that they’ll come out ahead in the event of a dollar collapse.
I think they’re wrong.
People have to work to live. They’re working to make money to buy food at the grocery, or at the other end of the spectrum, they’re working by hunting and gathering food.
I’m excluding people with enough wealth to buy their food indefinitely from this discussion. At global scale, not many people are in that category.
You’re right, but neither would we.
Riots trigger martial law, suspension of habeas corpus. That’s part of the first 6 monh plan for Project 2025.
What you’ve described is often referred to as a rainbow table and is generally not considered to be GDPR compliant:
https://skymonitor.com/why-hash-dont-anonimize-an-ip-address-and-what-this-affects-gdpr/