Cool so when the water wars kick off and you're trying to sneak into an abandoned military base to steal water to survive you'll be eviscerated by a rat thing. Why do people keep trying to bring the most dystopian aspects of Neal Stephenson novels to life?

In my area hospitals are a bit better staffed than that but the second part is dead-on. I've never seen any other industry where more ancient hardware and software is kept alive because of some obscure software or equipment that is absolutely unreplaceable and the vendor is either long gone or just doesn't care. Sure there are mitigating factors but a doctor or *shudder* board member might not see the utility of an air gap and only see that it's making people's jobs more difficult. Hopefully these very public and very expensive attacks will at least give IT staff something to point at while they're saying something is a bad idea.

The phrase "marital infidelity website" sounds like throwing shade until you think about it for a moment and realize that is the most apt description for the website.

My friend says we're like the dinosaurs, only we are doing ourselves in much faster than they ever did. We'll make great pets.

I'd bet money she winds up launching a version of whatever cryptocurrency fad is around in 2032. It's worked for all the other financial criminals.

I've long postulated that emoji will become an internationally recognized language in its own right, what Esperanto tried Emoji will succeed at. My prediction is some day you will walk through an airport or hotel and see instructions written in emoji. Seems silly to us but kids being born right now will probably have as much fluency in the subtle meanings of emoji as they do in any major spoken language.

"steering precision-guided munition" I'm no expert on GPS but I had always read that in a near-peer conflict GPS was assumed to be jammed to the point of being useless, and that for this reason almost all military equipment is built with reliable backups that will provide a similar if somewhat degraded capability. For this reason I always thought shooting down GPS satellites was unnecessary, especially in a very localized conflict it's pretty easy to just jam it. Obviously spy satellites are a lot harder to hide from, and they're also generally lower and therefore easier to shoot down, but again I understood we had alternatives like the X-37 that can maneuver and would ostensibly be harder to intercept. I'm happy to be corrected about any of this as I find it super interesting, but to me it seems this is a phony explanation intended to deflect attention away from their actual missions whichares probably a lot more closely guarded.

Or if you're Dick Cheney the two statements have the same meaning.

We need to make an internet trend à la Morbius to convince Microsoft that we're all actually super nostalgic for Clippy and it wasn't a terrible idea at all.

Oh they did and they all think they're Jordan Belfort. No one thinks they're the sucker, even once their broke they think 'the next hit is going to be the one!'

A bean counter at a hospital I worked with once explained to me that if you spend four nights in this hospital, the hospital is now operating at a loss regardless of how much you spend on your bill. Same-day operations are nearly the only guaranteed positive income for most hospitals.

IANAL but as far as I know liability waivers only take you so far in the case of gross negligence. I think it would be fair to say the risks of this operation were more than could be covered in good faith.