Because when you’re whole job is flying vip’s around DC at night, it helps to actually fly the route you’re being trained to fly at some point.
As for why the heavily used helicopter route goes right beneath the approach path, that’s because people mapped out all the routes helicopters can fly without going through restricted airspace, and along the river is one of the most useful of them, same reason as the runway’s approach path follows the river.
The best part is the campaign to rename it to Denali was led by Alaskan Republicans who hated that it was named after a man who never set foot in the state.
Ok, i’ll bite.
While I get the instance name is lost on some visitors, it’s fascinating to see Republican campaign material posted here in complete seriousness. So much about how dare the government possibly have impeded people heavily involved in far right campaigns in making money off distracting the working class with made up culture war. How dare other private businesses want to throw the out and proud Nazi’s off their platform.
A few offhand points, it is absolutely within the State Department’s remit to identify foreign infuance campaigns, even if they don’t always get it right.
The fact that the Twitter Files also showed that companies can and did push back on numerous recommendations after their own investigation disagreed without repercussions would seem to be pretty damming evidence that they really were recommendations about potential misinformation accounts and not government censorship.
Similarly, the comments on identifying misinformation is based on the ludicrous idea that there is just no possible way for an investigation to tell the difference between a truth and an outright lie, and thusly anyone attempting to do so or tell others about the serial liar much be censoring them.
The best evidence that the government isn’t actually trying to censor these group is government doesn’t use this sort of lukewarm, you might want to take a look at these accounts methods on pleople who it actually wants to censor like leftists, they just declare them a potential terror theat and send the FBI or police in to rough up the environmental group or activists.
But hey, they called the New York Post sensationalist and massive transphobe campaigning to get trans people banned from public restrooms prone to misinformation, so I guess the deep state really is censoring poor Donald Trump and his friends and we should be outraged not at the blatant campaign to mislead the poor into voting against their interests, but of the most lukewarm, liberal, halfhearted response possible to it.
In short, get back to me when they’ve done something more than politely ask the mods to look into a questionable user, like have even approached the sort of things they do people trying to block pipelines on a weekly basis.
As a Fedora user I can confirm that this seems about right.
To be fair, Venezuela also makes a show of wanting to collapse Guyana for its Oil, so at times it feels more like a case of goes around comes around for a dictator who implemented left wing policies for the first few years of their party’s reign before realizing they could do better by not implementing anything that didn’t benefit them and the rest of the party elites directly, and just saying that they really would return to being leftists at some time in the future.
I regret that I have to be the one to inform everyone of this, but I fear MajorHavoc suffered an unfortunate accident caused by a computer glitch in an elevator control system three hours ago. They will be missed.
Crontab dnf update -y and trust that if anything breaks uptime monitoing/ someone will let me know sooner or later.
Honestly, i’m glad whatever nut did this chose such an ineffective method as trying to burn down an office door in front of a fire sprinkler given they could have just gone to a sporting goods store, got an AR15, and actually killed a lot of good people.
Yes, you could technically use email like SMS, while the standard allows for up to five days for the message to go through that’s pretty rare, in practice it’s primarily used to send long messages from one computer to another, not a single sentence or two between phones.
In practice, it is about as secure as SMS, as both require similar levels of dedicated effort to interpret. Most of the actors with the hardware used to intercept and decrypt SMS are the same actors who can compromise a server, or outright have acess to the backdoor they paid 10 million to put in RSA. Not that they need it, as the largest email providers by far do often work with law enforcement anyway. Both SMS and email attacks are seen at about the same rate and scales, which is to say rarely outside of government agencies where both are unfortunately routine.
Signal is primarily designed and marketed to fufill the same basic role as SMS, as evident from just how much of an afterthought anything but the mobile app is, how said app copies the same format as SMS for messages, how it required an phone number to use and sync phone contacts, and how it did support SMS for quite some time. It is emently reasonable for Signal to have continued to have featured the messaging format most of the people it could talk with used.
Why is email less bad than SMS? It’s about as (in)secure.
Email also fulfills a different role, as it is for longer, more formal, and less time sensitive messages. Nevertheless, more modern and technical encrypted email clients go out of their way to still work with unencrypted messages insteand of being deliberately incompatible as Signal is.
SMS is also the common standard for talking to people.
For the vast, vast majority of people, the technical security of, ‘hey, you want to catch a movie next saturday’, is far less important then the message actually getting through.
Qute simply, it is far more important for a communication method to be easy and universal then to be secure against attacks the vast majority of people do not think they will ever encounter. When most people want to tell their neighbor two houses down that the dog has gotten out again being able use the app they already use to communicate is far more important to them then then a bunch of technical jargon about end to end encryption.
Yes, the market decides how useful it is, and given many online platforms that once accepted crypto payments have quietly dropped such features do to a lack of actual demand, and physical retailers, transit agencies, etc haven’t seen enogh customer demand to accept such payments when the vast majority of an already small number of transactions is between speculators rather than consumers buying real world objects.
Bitcoin and Bitcoin Lightning are centralized systems, in that they are a single central way of doing things that is dictated by the majority of the people processing the transactions. These rules have changed and updated over the years, and a 2024 mining node would not be compatible with 2012 one for instance owing to the migration from BerkeleyDB to LevelDB.
Similarly, while we’re not taking about Etherium, it is a very similar in concept and up until recently consensus mechanism, and was forked to reverse a series of whale transactions back in 2016. Ya sure, Etherium classic maintained the transactions, but its also a tiny fraction of the size and relivence of the one that bowed to whale and miner pressure.
Back in BTC land, as of 2023 Antpool and Foundery together own 53.4 percent of the gobal bitcoin hashrate, which pretty directly translates to mining power. You say that if a mining pool acts unethically it will be abandoned in short order, but historical precedent seems to suggest the opposite. If a majority of miners decide on an alternate transaction history, historical precedent is that they win. This is hard to do by outright threat, but historically easy to accomplish by greed.
Yes, if you are scamming people on Facebook marketplace, elemanating all after the fact consumer protections is great. If you are honest, then it is not an typical problem because consumers are limited in how they can use chargebacks, and small claims court can deal with such matters, where as proving jurisdiction can be vary hard in crypto transactions.
The vast, vast majority of people, especially common people, are consumers, and consumers should always be inherently protected over businesses.
You should not have to pay a premium for fundemntal transaction security measures like disputability, reversibility, and hold times. An attacker which gains acess to my account should also not be able to bypass such measures, seeing as that is both the most likely and most damaging form of attack.
You suggest that no one is selling high value goods overseas in fear of fraudulent chargebacks, but actual market behavior doesn’t seem to be effected by this, likely because most international transactions use backed in fraud and holding checks instead of credit cards.
Bank transfers also have a several day going period during which they can be reversed, large transactions often have to be approved in person, and even smaller yet major ones by phone. Someone hacks into my computer and gains access to my wallet it’s empty while I have no recourse, if they do the exact same thing to my back account it’s an triviality to get it reversed if it’s even possible at all. That is why it is unheard of for anyone to be extorted, hacked, or otherwise loose acess to their bank account directly, yet people loose access to their crypt wallets every single day.
Neglecting the absurdly of claiming inflation is theft, you realize that the actual total supply of currency is completely decoupled from inflation and deflation outside of hyperinflationary and hyperdeflationary death spirals, right? One would think that this would be pretty obvious to someone with a knowledge of BTC, as what was enough coin to buy me a pizza in 2010 is now enough to buy a mansion worth nearly half a billion dollars in 2024, and yet as you say the total supply of currency has remained largely the same between thouse two dates. That is an absurdly volatile shift value on par with a small nation in complete economic collapse, not something which is posturing itself as a serious gobal one world currency.
I don’t know about what holidays there are in your part of the world when you can’t use cash, checks, debit, or credit cards, but they don’t seem to exist here in North Amarica. Massive bank transfers sure, but thouse take days anyway to ensure that all or most of my money can not be stolen, being unable to loose that much instantly is a key security feature, not a bug, and one should never be in the position where one needs to loose that much money in a day.
Cash still works when i’m offline, as do checks, debit, and some credit cards. They can all be used when both parties are offline, no internet involved. I don’t give a shit what the monitary system backend is doing during a gobal apocalypse when the gobal internet splits in half, I care about being able to by food after a hurricane or when the store’s internet is down, and my card or cash can do that while BTC by its very nature can’t be used without acces to the internet.
Yes, but reduceing demand spent on frivolous projects also cuts down on waste immediately, instead of the decades it take to physically make things.
Electrical waste is the fundamental value that underpins the entrity of Bitcoins exsistance. Bitcoin has a per transaction energy cost of 767kwh per transaction. That is enough to physically drive an electric suv like the Ionic 5 from Seattle WA, to Jacksonville FL, for every single transaction. Visa can handle nearly a million transactions for the same energy cost, and is part of a global banking system that handles the needs of billions of people, not a hobby project for a few tens of thousand of speculators.
While chasing very cheap energy is critically important to miners given the vast amount of energy consumed, most poor countries would like to phase out more expensive sources of energy like coal and gas in favor of cheaper solar already, but cannot do so because they need to supply the demand of miners who generally need to be operating for as much of the day as possible to make the cost of the back. If these electrical grids really were to that point, then they would be consistently running with or at least hitting zero fossil input, something which is incredibly rare even in developed nations withs decades of building out renewables.
While transactions are secure in a technical sense, as far as any user is concerned they are vastly less secure than traditional transactions because they inherently cannot be reversed or disputed in any way, unless your a whale and can convince everyone to fork the entire monetary system of course. Anyone who gains access to an account can take all its contents and you have zero recourse, not to mention that disputing transactions is the primary security against fraud and deception, and hence why a system that eliminates all aspects of it has been overrun with fraud and deception.
Bitcoin is a massively centralized system. Not only because it is a single central system, but over fifty percent of that system is controlled by just five groups, who by definition have complete control over that system and are accountable to exactly no one.
Market cap is irrelevant, just the current price people are willing to pay times the total amount of bitcoin to ever exist. It has nowhere near that liquidity, and no fundamental value to hold beyond its speculative nature.
No bank is going to have a money holding money for someone, the problem is that the someone doesn’t have money or any need to spend it beyond a five minutes walk around thier village. You would know this if you actually researched the reason poor people in remote and developing areas might be unbanked instead of just using it as a talking point to liquidity into a speculative asset.
Moreover, most major cell providers in poor nations also already allow customers to store and transfer funds directly from their account to others. Other nations like India have things like their Universal Payment Interface, which allows any two business, customers, or people to make instant free transactions.
It is also inherently only as reliable as ones internet connection, and in many developing nations that is no where near 100% uptime. If the power or internet go out, all acess to your money does aswell, as you can’t make changes to an allways online database without acess to the internet.
Ya, in all seriousness, it is amazing to me how hard some people are pushing the idea that the US helping stop an far right dictator at the head of an imperial empire from annexing it’s neighbor and systematically destroying its culture is just like the US helping support a far right almost dictator amex its neighbor and systematically destroy its culture.
I get why it happens and why milk toast neoliberals want to equate Israel’s occupation of Gaza with Ukraine’s defense of its own long established borders, but as far as I can tell the ones pushing the idea that both interventions are bad tend to be either isolationists how forgot how that ended last time, or are just starting from everything the US does it bad and working backwards from there.
The Osprey definitely has had its fair share of trouble, it’s record means it’s most dangerous plane in the US military fleet while also being the safest helicopter in its fleet.
Hay look, i know that nut.
Playing chicken with millions of people’s lives, and the GOP’s base will thank them for it becuae they think it will screw over minorities more than it does them.
To note the obvious, nearly three hundred thousand of us voted against this, just as we have for years.
Given the sudden change in course after being instructed to cross behind the CRJ, the pilot likely misidentified the plane before the CRJ in the line that was just landing as one they were being instructed to watch out for, and because they were focused on the wrong plane didn’t pick out the right one directly in front of them against the city lights. Between the limited FOV of night vision goggles and the light they needed to see not moving at all from their perspective this seems more like a demonstration of the limits of see and avoid at night than gross negligence on the part of the pilot.
All that being said, the helicopter appears to have been a hundred and fifty feet above the upper bond for that route, but when the routes only two hundred feet high to begin with you don’t exactly have very much in the way of a margin for error either way.