74 year old boomers are clearly the go-to for insights on current technology.

They compromised a session key of an insider, which could give them access to whatever internal tools they have, which could allow exfiltrating vaults. If they are secured with poor keys (which is likely for most people) they could be offline cracked.
This seems pretty bad, they don't appear to know what was actually accessed internally. The timeframe before they reset sessions was fairly short (a couple of days?)

He's been successful at getting the government to bootstrap his pet projects for free. It's not like Elon Musk invented cars and rockets, he has hundreds of very smart people who actually made all of that stuff work.

The whole Twitter debacle has exposed Musk as basically an autistic midwit, and demonstrates what happens when you give someone like that 100 billion dollars. Instead of curing cancer, he bought a thing so he could make millions of people read his thoughts on the Super Bowl.

The Shuttle orbiter was ~8.5 the dry mass of the Crew Dragon capsule. So yeah, I'd expect you'd get a little more of a jolt trying to dock something almost a magnitude heavier, I don't know why an astronaut who flew both would find the docking differences "surprising".

When the rodents replace us, they'll look back on the age when Homo sapiens invested massive effort to make them immortal with some perplexity. Why did we do it?

>one of our competitors would make the cyanide for the gas chambers if we don't, so we might as well make a few bucks by doing it ourselves

You would be perfect for a management opportunity at I.G. Farben.

It's obviously a move to force people off pre-Quantum Firefox. They must have seen that a large population of users wasn't falling for the WebExtension meme.

This may surprise you, but GPS in-building penetration is zero. Whereas the longwave signals from WWV keep a clock I have in my basement synchronized. So yeah, GPS does a vastly better job at providing location, because that's what it's for, and pretty much is shit for providing cheap time sync.
Oh, and as of the 2012 budget, GPS operating costs were $2M ... *a day*.

The real issue here is that this is something that primarily provides a useful service for the little guy and doesn't have armies of lobbyists shilling it, so even if it cost $1.50/yr, let's cut it, because it's SOCIALISM.

Send the Air Force out to carpet-bomb all the national forests. Once there aren't any trees, the wildfire problem will be solved for good. This will be good for the economy of companies that make bombs, and will probably cost less than the wall. This will also let Air Force pilots rack up "combat" flight time and pad their salaries. And finally, it shows the trees and wildlife who's boss in America.

Thought you were wrong, but this basically just happened, the sale of Rayovac to Energizer Holdings just happened 3 months ago. Obvious move, Rayovacs were generally cheaper than either Energizers or Duracell, although I have had bad batches of batteries from them in the past. Now they'll be low quality batteries that cost just a tiny bit less than Energizers.

Guess it's Amazon Basics now.

That apartment must have been quite a mess.

The OP was pointing out that rich people tend not to spend a lot of time at McDonald's. So if you eliminate the wage tier that does go to McDonald's, the business collapses, automation or no automation because you can't turn thousands of fast-food restaurants into gourmet dining establishments for the wealthy.

Even in the Roman Empire, which was essentially dependent on literal slave labor, 30%-40% of the population were enslaved, and this in a literal plutocracy. So look on the bright side, even in the dream system for the wealthy, you have a better than even chance that you aren't a slave...

What kind of cretin signs up for anything sketchy with their main identity? If this is your concern you have more basic Internet skills deficiencies.

No Browsers For Old Men

Why is this still complex for people after 15+ years? Google's business is selling ads to an audience made captive by "free" email and search (I include Maps here) paid for by the privacy of that audience. The rest of what they do is wanking because they have more money than they know what to do with, the incremental info they get from most of these projects is nil. Google "strategy" these days is to make an inferior copy of other people's ideas, try to leverage their captive audience by strong-arming them and then failing anyway. People have been ripping on Apple lately, but Google is in exactly the same "no-innovation" spiral. They are ripe for disruption, it is only a matter of time.