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dnhs47 t1_je7dfxy wrote

Reply to iPhone 15 Pro & Pro Max to be equipped with always-on “micro-processor” that will manage capacitive buttons and more even while the phone is powered down. by AppleXOS

That’s horrible! An always-on security vulnerability. You can’t even pull the battery to make it really-truly off.

A hacker’s wet dream.

And by hacker, I include our government. They’ll love being able to eavesdrop using our “powered-off” phones, 24/7/365.

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dnhs47 t1_je3uia7 wrote

Reply to comment by DarkAlman in ELI5: Everyone knows that Ticketmaster is the biggest scumbucket enterprise on the planet yet no band seems able to avoid their grasp. What's to stop a really major act (e.g. Taylor Swift) from performing in venues that are not controlled by Ticketmaster, or just setting up a parallel company? by havereddit

The US government is already owned by businesses like Ticketmaster. There’s no way Ticketmaster will even be investigated, let alone laws change to limit their actions.

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dnhs47 t1_jd0ner5 wrote

Reply to 10 months after its launch by SpaceX, a $10,000 satellite made by students with off-the-shelf materials and powered by 48 Energizer AA batteries, is not only working, it's demonstrating a way to reduce space junk by lughnasadh

A (small) cubesat that carries several small (packed) sails like this that can be attached to existing space debris would be very useful.

Some investment in cleaning up space is warranted. I grew up in the 1960s, watching the US response to Sputnik, then going to the moon. All kinds of junk was left in space from the first several decades with no consideration of deorbiting. Just as we used to think we could dump an infinite amount of junk in the sea and atmosphere and it would never matter. Oops.

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dnhs47 t1_j8x9feg wrote

Reply to comment by Cold-Reflectionz in Court rejects Kari Lake's appeal of loss in Arizona governor's race by fjbruzr

Nope, I live in Arizona and they’re all psycho QAnon believers who will double down with even crazier candidates next time.

Plus we have Kristen Sinema running for re-election, who’s hated by everyone, but will split the vote and create a real chance of crazy-ass Kari Lake becoming a senator. What a fucked up state.

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dnhs47 t1_ixo7ijv wrote

Reply to If a solar flare were to wipe most if not all technology, what plans/countermeasure could be taken to slow rebuild things like the internet? by Zak_the_Reaper

TL;DR - a major solar flare could end civilization as we know it, with recovery measured in decades or centuries.

A [coronal mass ejection](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronal_mass_ejection) (CME) or "solar flare" like the [Carrington Event](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event) in 1859, or the comparable [July 2012 solar storm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2012_solar_storm) that hit Earth’s orbit where we’d been nine days before, would be devastating.

From the July 2012 solar storm article linked above:

“A 2013 study[1] estimated the economic cost to the United States would have been between US$600 billion and $2.6 trillion. Ying D. Liu, professor at China's State Key Laboratory of Space Weather, estimated that the recovery time from such a disaster would have been about four to ten years.”

[1] That study was “a joint venture from researchers at Lloyd's of London and Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER) in the US.”

The effects on our society of a CME and an [electromagnetic pulse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse) (EMP) are similar. The US Congressional [Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Plus (EMP) Attack](http://www.empcommission.org/) report from 2004 includes in its Overview:

"Depending on the specific characteristics of the attacks, unprecedented cascading failures of our major infrastructures could result. In that event, a regional or national recovery would be long and difficult and would seriously degrade the safety and overall viability of our Nation. The primary avenues for catastrophic damage to the Nation are through our electric power infrastructure and thence into our telecommunications, energy, and other infrastructures. These, in turn, can seriously impact other important aspects of our Nation’s life, including the financial system; means of getting food, water, and medical care to the citizenry; trade; and production of goods and services. The recovery of any one of the key national infrastructures is dependent on the recovery of others. The longer the outage, the more problematic and uncertain the recovery will be. It is possible for the functional outages to become mutually reinforcing until at some point the degradation of infrastructure could have irreversible effects on the country’s ability to support its population."

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