They can easily be downloading and using it locally/airgapped to get an open weights and measures system.

But that's the problem - an organization as big as the DC regime needs to control what its agents think to maintain discipline.

Marc Andreesen spoke about this when the Biden admin told him to not invest in AI startups because they wouldn't be allowed.

Controlling the Big Three is much more manageable but with hundreds you can't maintain an effective hivemind.

What's good for the country isn't usually what's good for the government.

Buzz has spoken on more than one occasion about a radio source and a structure on Phobos that is being kept hush-hush.

Then he stopped talking about it and won't say why when asked.

"I got bad information from a dope playing a practical joke on me" would have been easy.

Maybe Japan will show something interesting. Maybe the probe will mysteriously fail at an inopportune time.

I'll be glad to see the question resolved if it can be.

Mysteries are fun but discoveries are more interesting.

They might pick-and-place here ro fool the regulators and politicians.

Truly a kakistocracy.

He's right, you know, but the demand is self-feeding.

It's necessary to have more successful non-MBA companies outcompete the race-to-the-bottom companies.

We need better social systems to punish the psychopathic impulse. It needs to be more profitable to not exploit people.

I've lost track of how many companies I'm boycotting but most people don"t have time to think abour that.

Companies that sell control systems with proprietary software running on Windows could distribute their software running on Wine/OpenBSD as an appliance without reengineering the application.

Windows updates/hardware abandonment etc. are real headaches while control systems ought to be secure.

GPL virality has many vendors scared of linux appliances, warranted or not.

AIUI they need to grab the cryptokeys too to be usable.

What a shame that would be.

> The proposition was shocking to CISA's career staffers,

Security people don't know about redteaming?

They don't know about the Executive Branch hoarding vulnerabilities?

This story can't be accurate unless they're unqualified.

Gell-Mann Amnesia seems most likely here.

They could breed the algae separately and load up a UAV with "bath bombs" buoyant at the correct depth to deploy them where it sees bleaching. One of the large solar powered planes wirh giant wings would suffice. Speed isn't valuable, just range and payload. Payload can be multiplied with increased numbers of aircraft.

With polarized lenses and sufficient ML cameras it should be quite precise.

Some work would need to be done to work out dispersants and adhesives.

It wouldn't be conceptually different than the fish breeding and stocking operations already common in most states, just more complicated.

Yeah, would a smart speedbag be illegal, if held?

More importantly this is all clearly theater, not a contest.

It almost seems like a MIC play to get people to be OK with humanoid soldiers.

The real Terminators can't lose to a human in martial combat.

Perhaps the boxing commission is complicit in the psyop.

I remember reading sometime around '98 his projection that by 2012 it would be less expensive to unicast video than to reach the same person by broadcast.

It seemed fantastical to those of us paying $200/mo for a 128K line and a 320x240 QuickTime was impressive.

A few smart people may have paid attention and skated to where the puck would be

Sure enough Youtube and the like really exploded around that time.

I'm pretty sure in '98 I didn't understand the sheer variety of content that would emerge and thought he meant the big networks might move their shows to the Internet. I remember investigating the mbone around then as unicasting didn't make sense to me. In some ways it still doesn't.

Bob got it, though.

Somewhere I have a Marc Stevens book on atomic energy collecting dust on a book shelf. I should probably see how much he got right in retrospect.

By time an hour would be needed we'll have to factor in the relatively different passage of time on various colonies and have a standard that accounts for timekeeping in different reference frames at least throughout the Solar System.

Hopefully ... if we don't allow politicians to kill our civilization first.

Somebody who works that out now and proposes a correct mechanism will have their name remembered.

I've heard from a guy involved in the bond market thst the economy is in major recession outside of the Mag7 and AI stocks.

Apparently secondary markets, insurance reinvestments, private credit, pension funds - they're so heavy in AI stocks to just beat inflation that when Sam said tokens aren't selling fast enough with the decreasing cost of generating them to turn a profit they started bracing for an Everything Crash.

Like insurance companies failing, CRE going into foreclosure, pension funds defaulting, bond-issuing companies liquidating equity to meet obligations, etc.

Treasury would have to hyperinflate to bail them all out, transferring massive wealth from the People to the Corporations, yet again.

That's gonna get spicy and probably stabby.

Shout out to the few folks here who remind us that they block just about everything on the web that could cause problems - the only ones of us who are probably safe.

I bet a few don't even allow stylesheets.

Yes, check out the Business Reform Youtube channel - he reviewed a couple of sonic jammers recently.

Also "Bee Gone" from our friend group if somebody tries this. Might be more effective.

Congress has exercised Inherent Contempt powers as recently as a hundred years ago but they turned the Congressional Jail into a speakeasy/conference room which roughly reflects their sense of duty.

Which, to your point, they now refer the DoJ to the DoJ for prosecution.

But also that illustrates why prior Congresses held the power to be essential.

It would have been grand if "The Dow, the Dow is over fifty thousand!" landed Bill Barbie in jail until she had time to think abour her duty to respond truthfully.

I've reminded Paul about his duty but they're all weak on such matters.