Yeah no, we should use this money to fund energy research. Trying to woo idiots is a stupid game already won by youtube, online advertising and TikTok.
I wonder if this telemetry is also unencrypted for launches carrying sensitive government payloads? Very cool stuff though, rtl-sdr.com has been a great source of entertainment for many years!
Darn, this stock would've been a great buy in Nov and I watched a youtube video from an automotive channel in January that went into quite a bit of depth regarding the post office vehicle trials and their opinion that Oshkosh would get the contract!
This is likely a move so they can continue to either a) import firearms from outside of the US for sale or b) to gain traction and tooling to produce CZ products domestically in the case that the Biden Admin actually gets some form of "assault weapon" ban passed. It's important to note, they'll include pistols that hold more than 15 rounds as "assault weapons".
I still use pipenv and it's great. Python version management is a hell hole when sharing a project with other devs, pipenv solves this issue and is easy enough to containerize.
I'm not sure if you're kidding, but smashing your devices with a hammer will not damage the cold storage unless you directly hit it and sufficiently deform it. It's much more likely that you just damage the screen, casing and mainboard when randomly smashing on it. Especially with a laptop. So the storage could simply be ported to an undamaged phone/laptop and effectively all you achieved is turning the device off.
Similarly with a microwave. The reflections and sparks might kill the microwave before the hard drive in your device is actually damaged. Please correct me if im wrong, but the microwaves shouldn't actually be able to flip the bits, but just heat up the material.
A shredder strong enough to tear the metal/silicon/plastic apart in small enough pieces sounds reliable.
IANAL, but my understanding is that obstruction of justice via spoliation, tampering, or destruction of evidence is a charge that requires your investigation to have already begun, the raid to have already started, or the arrest to have been made, and that you are free to destroy any of your own property prior to these events.
Specifically, you need to knowingly be the subject of an investigation. I'd assume destroying the phone when you see the cops coming but before you've seen the warrant would be a grey area. Please, lawyers, clarify.
I suspect that a judge/jury would not be sympathetic to a complaint along the lines of:
"I had no idea I would be under investigation when I saw the cops arriving at the door. I just decided it'd be fun to beat the shit out of my laptop with a hammer at that exact moment."
I consider myself “recreationally paranoid”. I like to consider possible avenues of attack on me, and work out mitigations where possible. I’ve always considered it a subset of some people’s “hacker mindset”. The question of “How would I break into my stuff if I were motivated to, and what can I do to prevent it or make it more difficult to break?” provides me with a lot of satisfying thinking, even though I’m not planning to overthrow a government or move shipping containers of narcotics across borders.
I’m far more concerned about a thief trying to rob my house than I am about the government coming in for my computers. In fact, in that scenario I’d rather let them have my computers unharmed as it would prove whatever they’re looking for doesn’t exist on my machines. My concern is how do I sufficiently back up data for replacements.
I have practically zero concern about thieves robbing my house. I lock the doors when I go out, and pay for insurance.
It’s happened only once to me in over 50 years, and that was because I foolishly assumed a 3rd story window was safe to leave open, when there was enough plumbing on the wall that a determined enough petty thief could climb through it. All I lost was a computer (a PowerMac 6100) but had recent-enough backups at work that it was only minority annoying to replace and deal with insurance. (There was personal email and the like on it, and stored passwords. I monitored the email server carefully for 6 or 12 months after that, and never saw a single login attempt. Whatever they did with it, they wiped it before they connected it to the internet and the email logged I automatically).
I’m also not so concerned about my government coming in for my computers. They’re too incompetent to do it well except for major targets. I do enjoy the thought experiments around “what would happen if the government ‘went bad’?”
(I’m also aware the I, like probably everybody, have data on my machines that if cherry picked by prosecutors would be awkward to have to defend myself against in court. I often rant about wanting to stab my idiot co workers in small group chats for example. If I were a prosecutor trying for force me into a plea bargain or an leo attempting to coerce me into doing something I’d prefer not to do, I have no doubt that a fairly damning looking case could be constructed by choosing only the parts of my data that when put together paint a bad but fictitious/out-of-context story...)
As someone who used to like team happy hours / events when we had offices - team "events" via zoom are weird and awkward. I spend so much of my time at home working, that the last thing I want to do in my free time is pretend to want to talk to my co-workers.
