3. Sell them at competitive PRICES.

1. Make competitive products.
2. Make them as efficiently as possibly to reduce costs.
3. Sell them at competitive products.
4. Demonstrate their value to the consumer.

I currently create all my firewall/routers from specialized firewall distributions built on FreeBSD. I started creating my firewall/routers by rolling my own using Linux, then shifted to using OpenBSD in the late 1990s, then sometime around 2004 switched to firewalls built as custom distributions based on FreeBSD (m0n0wall, pfSense, OPNsense).

My main reason for using BSD variants is the extreme stability of the operating systems and relative infrequency of remote attack openings in their default installation configurations. These BSD-based firewall/router distributions perform quite well managing my 400mbit Internet data transfers on relative modestly performant small form factor single board computers.

I'd be shocked if the MacOS team didn't have any autistic nerds.
Shocked, I say.

Wrong. Brian Krebs lives with his wife Jennifer in Northern Virginia as it says on the About the Author page on his website.

But there *is* a band named "The Jevons Paradox." I doubt they play heavy metal.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthejevonsparadox.bandc...

Corporate name: DejaFool
Corporate slogan: "We're honestly shameless."

I don't know anything about Giannandrea but think it's possible that Apple decided that their AI effort would require more resources and management effort than currently allocated and having Giannandrea try to do both AI and robotics was asking too much and dividing his efforts.

If Apple decided Giannandrea wasn't doing his job they probably would have replaced him rather than moving smaller parts of his portfolio to other divisions. Doesn't it seem appropriate that robotics code development be done within the hardware division? That code seems pretty specialized and closely tied to hardware functions.

Just reading this submission made me cringe.

He seemed to be a very decent person and certainly one of the better popes.

That's ~4.34 × 10^30 kilograms...superscripting didn't copy over. Argh.

No, a black hole is a black hole, typically originated from the collapse of a massive star. It may have started as a star, but once it reaches about ~4.34 × 1030 kilograms (about 2.17 times the mass of our sun) it exceeds the Chandrasekhar limit and collapses into a black hole, which is way more dense than any star and does not emit light as light cannot escape its mass.

If by "electro magnetic storage" you mean HDDs (hard disk drives) note they also utilize rare earth elements (REEs) like Neodymium (Nd), Praseodymium (Pr) and Dysprosium (Dy). Furthermore, note that just yesterday Western Digital touted their REE recycling program in a press release entitled At-Scale, Hard Disk Drive Rare Earth Material Capture Program Successfully Launched in the United States:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.westerndigital.com...

You might note that Seagate and Western Digital are competitors in the HDD market.

Wait 'till you see my Record-sized Lap Meat!

Ok, here's the deal with Trump's tariffs. It has nothing to do with his stated reasons. The real reason Trump is putting huge tariffs on all these countries is

Trump wants to use tariffs as a huge consumption tax on US consumers.

Trump wants the increased taxes to be used to offset some of the expected tax shortfalls caused by extending the "Trump tax cuts." This will be particularly important in getting the next federal budget with the huge tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations rammed through Congress using what's known as the reconciliation process.

What's the reconciliation process and why is it important? The reconciliation process allows a budget bill to be passed with a simple majority, which right now is possible using only the votes of Senate Republicans without the need of a single Democrat vote due to Republicans having 53 of 100 Senate seats.

So why are the tariffs important? Because under the Congressional Budget Act's reconciliation process there is a prohibition (called a "point of order") against amendments that increase the deficit without a corresponding increase in revenue. In other words a reconciliation budget has to be either revenue positive or revenue neutral.

The trick Trump is trying to pull off is to get the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to allow estimated tariff revenues to "offset" the proposed Trump tax cuts and declare the budget revenue neutral, thereby allowing the tax cuts to go through with a simple majority vote. The resulting budget would shift the tax system from a progressive taxation system to a more consumption-based system.

Note that after the budget with the Trump tax cuts were passed Trump could then decide to eliminate the tariffs.