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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I feel like a broken record reminding people that the TAO (Tailored Access Operations, now Computer Network Operations), part of the NSA, has been doing this for 20 years. Except they implant spyware instead of explosives. Probably.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hey, yeah, Skinny Pete did warn us over two decades ago…

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago (9 children)

They going to tear open the battery while they are at it? It’s not like there’s going to be a small lump labeled “RDX” with wires sticking out of it.

While they’re at it, why not incorporate the explosive into the body of the device? Has no one else seen Up in Smoke?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (22 children)

The pagers that detonated were the latest model brought in by Hezbollah in recent months, three security sources said.

I wonder if Israel has a unit similar to the NSA’s TAO (tailored access operations) where they inserted people into the manufacturing plant to tamper with devices before they even left the factory.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Only took 8 years.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I used to work for General Atomics; started as a division of General Dynamics to figure out nuclear power plants, then, after a few oil company owners, landed in private hands. They bought a small company working on drones back in the 1980s, and now the Predator and Reaper are the biggest part of the company.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was recently told that this is a hugely controversial topic in the Zelda community.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (8 children)

The Legend of Zelda 2 was the worst entry in the whole series.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No puppet, no puppet, you’re the puppet!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

“10% of a plan”

[–] [email protected] 256 points 1 week ago (10 children)

This is how we know that he thinks he lost.

 

I just got my first bill since going to a community choice power provider. Here in California, the investor owned utilities (commercial companies, not the publicly-owned utilities) act as retailers of energy. They buy power on the open market from generators, then sell it to their customers. They bill both for the cost to generate the power, and also for power delivery (which includes maintaining the grid). An option that recently became available is for a city government to join a community choice power provider, which then buys power from generators on our behalf. The utility still delivers it, so it’s not real competition, but partway there. The community choice provider then bills the utility, who passes that bill along to individual customers.

So, the generation cost went down by about 30% for power used during the day, and a few percent for power delivered at night (three different time-of-use categories). Our community choice provider has an option for 100% renewable power, which I chose, so this is a pretty tangible demonstration that renewable power really is cheaper than fossil fuels.

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