Remember when the church used to sell “indulgences” for cash as pardons for sins? What trump is doing is the modern day version of it and its just as disgusting.

Before the TSA existed (pre-911) airport security was run and paid for by the airlines.

I’m glad it was helpful!

In the USA at least, apparently the Amtrak Auto Train is one of the largest passenger capacity trains and can hold about 692 people.

A single Boeing 777-9 can hold 426 passengers.

So yes, a passenger train can carry more, but only about half again as many. So because of how much slower it is, the plane can carry more in the same amount of time.

The cost problem for medium or long distance trains is the cost of human labor.

In a given 10 hour work day (apparently common for airline flight attendant) how many flights can that worker work? Let say New York to Los Angeles flights. So the answer is about 2 flights per day. Compare that to the time it takes by train for the same distance, which is about 77 hours. Because of this length this means you also have to have more than one set of crew available to the train passengers.

The staff have to be paid significantly longer on the train to transport far fewer people simply because of more elapsed time. It may be worth it for a nation to subsidize long distance train travel, but understand that that is the problem with profitability vs airplanes that can simply move more people in less time, requiring few paid human hours of labor.

Kent Walker suggested that this initiative would stifle innovation and deny people access to the “best digital tools.”

Perhaps in specific scientific or engineering situations the “best digital tools” may be needed, but isn’t that just a tiny fraction of the European userbase? How many office workers need bleeding edge tools to make a quarterly report or send an email?

It was probably a law written expecting the use case to be temporary power perhaps for an event or temporary maintenece need. The drafters of that law likely didn’t think someone would blatantly skirt the spirit of the law by simple placing the generators on trailers as a permanent fixture.

In short, the state needs to update its laws to remove this loophole.

Use the Google flag of “before:2022” added to any search. This will limit returned results to only those captured before 2022, which is when AI slop feedback started. Obviously this doesn’t work for current events, but if the data you’re looking for doesn’t need to be recent it can be useful.

Example:

TP-Link

I hope its not one of the 32 TP-Link cameras that have unpatched auth flaws allowing malicious actors to reset the admin credentials in them.. This is a local exploit, so you’re probably okay, but these exploits could be used in concert with others to compromise your security/privacy.

Yet being able to uncover what they did after the fact seems hella sketchy.

Not really if you know how this kind of computing/information technology works.

A file consists of the data itself, and a pointer to the data location on the storage device or index record. When the computer wants to retrieve the data, it looks at the index to get the data location, then goes to that location to get the data. This is how the majority of computers/devices work. When a file is “deleted” the index is usually the only thing that goes away, not the data itself. Over the course of time, the data is eventually overwritten as its in areas marked as “free space”. So other new files will occupy some or all of that space changing it to hold the new file data.

If you want to get rid of the data itself, that is usually considered “purge” where the data is intentionally overwritten with something else to make the data irretrievable.

What the Google engineers were able to do was essentially go through all the areas marked as “free space” across dozens (hundreds?) of cloud servers that hold customer Nest camera data and try to find any parts that hadn’t been overwritten yet by new data. This is probably part of why it took so long to produce the video. Its like sorting through a giant dumpster to find an accidentally discarded wedding ring.

And the NEST camera apparently has some sort of free tier that saves a short amount (the last few hours) of video by default, so NEST users shouldn’t be surprised at all that their video feed is sent to the cloud as its one of the features of the subscription-less model.

I covered both in my post. One explicit one implicit.

Did he think priest were exempt os something?

I’m not sure the priest thought this, but I’m sure many (most?) MAGA do. Remember, MAGA thinks ICE only bothers “MS-13/V3nuzualianG@ng!!/VicousMurderers/WhiteWomanRapists”.

I’m sure there are MAGA reading this thinking “why is ICE going after the church?!”

It was an invasive species.

I’ll say probably yes, but the world will look very different for them than it did for us. There will be far fewer younger people than today on most continents besides Africa.

They’ll have far more power to shape and change society than most previous generations. Boomers will be almost entirely dead when they Alphas reach adulthood. GenX would be next on the death chopping block, but GenX is far smaller. So lots of jobs will be open and Alphas and Millennials will be holding those positions with GenX mostly in retirement homes. Millennials are saddled with debt and a lack of lifetime earnings while Alphas are looking like they’re skipping a good chunk of that debt burden.

Taxation on working Alphas and Millennials will be monstrous dealing yet another setback for then aging Millennials. Climate change will also wipe out lots of opportunities. Alphas I think might be the generation to finally give the finger to the generations prior that kicked the can down the road and simply let parts of society they don’t care about fall away. Part of that will mean not caring for multiple generations of aging parents and grandparents where the declining birth rate means a single Alpha may have 8 to 10 aging relatives still alive and in need of some kind of support exclusively relying on the Alpha. This would mean 16 to 20 aging relatives for a married Alpha couple. There’s just no way they can support that.

This is a pretty decent article and answered some of the exact questions I had when I heard about the recovered video.

or a cloud service that offers end-to-end encryption, which means not even the provider can access your footage.

That’s not what “end-to-end encryption” means. End-to-end encryption means only the sender and receiver have the ability to decrypt the message. The definition the author provided would be a match for “Zero-Knowledge Encryption” instead.

I’m not sure how much you follow the history of IT, but this has happened at least 3 times in history, and it has always swung back to local processing. What has always been the force that brought local computing back is that compute power gets cheap. RAM and GPU costs are pushing the distributed (cloud) model right now.

Too criminal to fail?

Moderna also has a vaccine production facility in Canada. So maybe a family vacation north might be a good idea this year.