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  • Have you rented a car for a week? It's prohibitedly expensive for most people, especially if it needs to be big enough for the family and a week vacation. I'm considering getting an EV, but it's only because we'll have my wife's gas powered SUV to use for our longer trips, which are 1-4 times a year. That not an unusual need, and one that make exclusive EVs a no-go for a lot of people. Hybrids are an option of course.

  • Communicating what happened and how they would do that is an interesting problem. Knowing which machines are infected is simple because they were contacting the control servers regularly. Knowing where the machines are and who they belong to is not. I suspect it would a lot of work and expense to discover the physical addresses of all the machines to communicate officially outside of leaving something on their computer, and writing software to leave some kind of official "calling card" behind that would inform the user what happened is neither trivial and would likely also be upsetting to people. Most would assume the message itself is some kind of scam or mal-ware itself. I'd personally still want to know, especially since I might have the actual mal-ware on backups or other infected machines that are offline, but I'm not altogether surprised if they chose not to inform the users at all.

  • The intentions and the specifics of the granted warrant does matter. It's like someone placed a bunch of remotely controlled booby-traps in homes across the city. Law enforcement discovers the booby-traps and knows all the homes involved, and that the threat is real and imminent. Granting a warrant allowing law enforcement to remove the traps before someone is injured is not unreasonable.

    The scope of the warrant is very specific... they can enter the property to remove the threat, and for no other purpose. That would not be unreasonable and nobody is going to complain that LE wasn't acting in everyone's best interest, even if residents didn't consent to having the booby-trap removed. Nobody wants it and it poses a continuous threat while present. Removing it asap is the right thing to do.

  • They uninstalled a malicious bot-net from people's machines that they never consented to either. The bot-net posed a serious and persistent threat to essentially everyone on the internet.

    While having law enforcement writing code to run on people's machines unwittingly is definitely extreme and absolutely should be heavily scrutinized, leaving the bot-net active is not a better option. And in this case law enforcement has been public about their actions so there's plenty of opportunity for what happened to be reviewed.

  • Fyi, in Phx you're using AC in Fall and Spring too. Quite common to hit 100F at some point in April and in October. It's so sprawling too all the asphalt and concrete turn the "heat island" effect into something more like a "heat continent"

  • If that were allowed, 95% of the GOP would be locked up behind bars.

    I'm a registered Republican and at this point, that sounds like an improvement. Fuck all the spineless Republicans that have refused to call Trump out, and I have worse thoughts about Trump and his congressional supporters.

  • Nothing backdoor about this. The wheels of justice always move slower than we like. The GA interference and Jan 6th investigations started shortly after they occurred in 2021 and they've finally culminated in charges. The jury will decide if Trump committed crimes, and thankfully in GA at least we'll all get to hear the arguments and testimony of both sides.

    Nobody is above the law. We have all heard Trump attempting to manipulate the GA secretary of state to throw the election. We have Pence stating clearly Trump wanted him to illegally invalidate state electors. We've heard Trumps claims the election was rigged but none of his lawyers have submitted any evidence of that in any of the states, so was he intentionally lying? I'm sure we'll hear much more during the trial. The jury will decide.

  • If you're trying to make money invested in US oil and hoping to keep money in the US, you need the price to be > $3/gal. During the pandemic Russia killed us and our fracking oil fields with the cheap gas. Many US fields had to close, many permanently because damage is done to the fracked wells when operations stop. Below $3/gal it's cheaper to import and we're sending our money to the Saudis and elsewhere.

    High gas prices makes the US oil fields competitive. Low prices sends US money over seas.

  • Lol... no worries. I have no doubt I'm with the woman I was made for. 14 years of marriage and we've never even had a harsh word between us and we love each other's company. It's a rare match and both of us, having been in bad marriages the first time around, know just how fortunate we are to have found each other. As I said, I wouldn't go back in time and change a thing.

    Besides, my wife and I both know there's no such thing as coffee that's too strong. It'd be a fight every morning! 🙂