kavi87

How would you even do that ? I doubt any criminal organization just trust the platform for encrypting their data, they do it themselves using well known algorithms that have no backdoors. People who seriously want to encrypt will always be able to do it, you can hide data in pictures, files whatever and have a custom algorithm to reassemble it if you want. The only one who will lose is the user who do not really care, being now more weak to man in the middle attack. That is the majority with data that cause no threat.

That's pretty much the webauthn specification that is already available in most major browsers.

Yeah well just try to use XML as your config format and spit JSON out of it for your frontend, if you are using Java you'll quickly realize how obsolete and inelegant is this horror that they dare call JAXB.

That's another design flaw of this terrible mess that is "Ethernet" and these horrible protocols that we cannot change ever

I am actively preventing anyone from buying from Samsung

Flamanville reactor in France was supposed to cost 3.3 G€ in 2007, it is now at 19.1 G€ in 2020 and called a "mess" by energy minister (https://www.montelnews.com/en/story/french-epr-is-a-mess--en...).

Nuclear energy is great but it is a pain to build, maintain, manage, decommission etc.

A national public cloud then. Paid by taxpayers for taxpayers. As a nation we are thousand of times wealthier than Youtube.

That's the internet, it's just computers connected together and each computer belongs to someone. The more you have, the more traffic you have. The only way I can see this working is if the internet or parts of the internet become a public asset, a national cloud (like roads etc) paid by income taxes. Your videos would be on this public storage, common services would work like AWS services etc. It will be hard since this means additional taxes but at least the government will not be interested in competition (in theory).

I don't think we have dealt with Mars problems at all, the road is still very long for any manned mission and I'm pretty sure the Moon will get its own base long before we even consider the possibility to explore Mars with humans. The base on the Moon being by itself a problem that we have not dealt at all. I mean we started space exploration like yesterday and each new problem seems to go on a logarithmic scale, they are hundred of times harder each time.

As a note, Red Mars is the first volume of a trilogy (there's also Green and Blue Mars). It is quite hard SF with systems that are or were considered as solution for Mars terraformation, very good recommendation !

It's not just about bragging, we are pretty sure that there aren't any life on Mars but Venus is another story. All we know is that the temperature is too high even for earth extremophiles but that's not an actual observation of the absence of life like on Mars, it's a conjecture. No entity has ever looked around on Venus for more than a few minutes and nothing has moved even 1 m at the surface. Venus won't have the potential for economic wealth like Mars colonization may have but at one point we will have to look and confirm scientifically if there is life or not.

That plus the ~500°C at the surface and we have a little paradise to explore

Work ? Maybe a diver can stay inert or do some small movement at 500 m but picking up rocks maybe not

It's 2 or 3 times what we use for "sterilization", if there's life it really loves the extreme

That's not a solution; making simple stuff is harder than doing complicated stuff, and it costs much, MUCH more.

You get what you pay for. I would blame companies first for asking fast deliveries of features at minimum cost. When you are not paid enough you have no reason to care about the performance of the software. I would go as far as to say that you would be an idiot to do so.

The author does not own a smartphone apparently.

I misread you, it's fine for the current password. But they can alternate between two.

You'll need to store passwords in clear for this, not a good idea.

That's dangerous thinking, you know it.