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Hence why I explicitly avoided the word “success”. Despite the many controversies, logistics kept the War on Terror going far longer than it ever needed to. Bush burned a lot of trust and support for war, but the military complex arguably remained fully functional throughout.
Besides leadership you also need to account for the fact that, for better or worse, WW2 & 9-11 united both military and civilian logistics against a commom goal with international support. It made for brutal efficiency anywhere on the planet and gave rise to all the memes we know of now.
By contrast, this orange shitstain has fucked the economy, civilians, geopolitics, and most importantly the international logistics to project that military power in a way that isn’t a complete embarrassment. Even if a competent progressive leader replaced him, this can’t be fixed in a single term either and that is by intentional design of the Heritage Foundation that instructs Trump’s actions under the derangement.
I too wish it was further ahead but when I think of the decades of duct tape MS has built around the NT kernel with horrors such as 95, Vista and 8 drivers, it makes sense that reverse engineering all that in a clean room is no easy feat. Their work certainly isn’t wasted either.
The laws were never meant for children or whoever they put on paper, and they will absolutely not show their hand in its real purpose so soon. Let’s not forget that the US, UK, and AU are part of the Five Eyes and will absolutely share the linked IDs they’re collecting. AU openly admitted the law was not effective as did every expert on the matter, but won’t repeal it anyway.
A recent example of this covert repurposing was the GDID in Microsoft supposedly for (ineffective) DRM that was conveniently capable of de-anonymising Windows users at the whim of authorities.
It’s never been about what they say they’re doing, but rather what they could do to abuse that capability, and that’s what has people up in arms.
Not that it matters anymore. GN summarised it best stating that we’re already long past the point where the extortionate prices matter to even enthusiast consumers who wouldn’t buy this shit at 3x MSRP anyway. Even prebuilts are selling empty case ‘kits’ to keep inventory moving.
This approach only works in daylight with cameras that rely on colour only. Infrared spectrum cameras such as what Australia uses on mobile phone traffic cameras are much harder to deal with. Patterns don’t cut it and it’s a huge part of military research into hiding vehicles from infrared spotters.
Disabling the cameras entirely is much more effective.
That would imply preserving the original. No, they are having their AIs revise history and its literature to whatever they deem ‘acceptable’ in their new world order, hence the rampant book banning spree they’ve been on as of late.
But they did such a great job of feeding the world’s most problematic corporations government IDs and photo identification of minors and storing it in databases ripe for hackers.
Brought to you by the government whose national health network failed its security audit last year, and had 13 million records breached through a 3rd party the year before that.
This is the part that the “walled garden” arguments I see conveniently ignores so often. Humble games and key reselling, good and bad, exist because of this rule. That 30% otherwise covers Steam dealing with sales, key distribution, payment providers, and all the legal liabilities that comes with that for you. Unless you can securely and continuously run your own shopfront below that 30% margin, there’s not a whole lot of incentive to do so… But Steam isn’t stopping anyone, not even Epic in fact. The so-called wall is like a foot high.
The DRM isn’t even that deep either and has known tools to remove it if you want. It exists as a bare minimum requirement for copyright law and Steam friends but not much else, hence why publishers often use things like Denuvo still.
We don’t ‘defend’ Valve’s monopoly so much as they really aren’t doing anything special to maintain it besides making Steam libraries accessible on more hardware. They compete by merely existing in the same space.
Haha get fucked VCs. Valve making sure that SteamDB buyout money ain’t coming back from their now devalued goods. It’s a shame we lost a good service but nice knowing it went out with a poison pill.