Given the short time span between announcing they will accept and no longer process transactions, I don’t think any meaningful number of people bought a Tesla using the bitcoin option.

My question is why is this shit even connected to the internet? There should be 2 separate networks. One for outside communication, and one for running the pipeline systems, which would be completely isolated from the outside by everything but secured and encrypted drives. The military does something similar with…

Yeah, but in this country, going to the hospital means being in debt for the rest of your life.

There is probably a hidden target quota for billings.

Have you ever seen what an ambulance can cost? If I’m conscious and not in imminent mortal danger, I’d just get a ride to the hospital from someone else.

One less Hummer on the road. Cool!

Cryptocurrency is a scam.

My experience is that until a company gets burned, IT departments are the lowest thing on the totem pole and security is ignored. I worked for a company back in the 90s where a guy was running a massive Napster download site from the company network. Something like 90% of the server was pirated music and videos.…

When I worked for a utility and FAC-501 got release to start governing InfoSec with million dollar fines, the response of the utility was to unplug all their substations from the internet. Given the general competency level, it wasn’t the worst idea, but it still cracks me up.

my bank card not working between the hours of 3am-4am ET every Sunday night for “maintenance and upgrades to systems”, which turned out to be quite annoying whenever I tried to take cash out of an ATM overseas at the strip club during that time.

Your home network is also running modern, non-embedded equipment. Big industrial security is not at all like a nimble home network, or even a large corporate network. These devices are built and certified to work in very specific ways and for the most part it’s security through obscurity. Also there is very much a ‘if…

Of course, that’s understandable, but I work at a SaaS company that needs to have its services always up, and our IT department built a parallel system for services before transitioning everyone over at some off-peak time like 1am on a Sunday morning.

Plus if it worked once I’d start doing this monthly.  5 million a month sounds nice.

Waaait, didn’t Colonial say they shutdown their network and control systems as a ‘precaution’? That was clearly a lie then, it looks like they got pwned after all. I don’t care if the hackers are “robin hoods”, why would anyone trust them with a tool they wrote to restore their network? Backdoors much? 

“Once they received the payment, the hackers provided the operator with a decrypting tool to restore its disabled computer network. The tool was so slow that the company continued using its own backups to help restore the system, one of the people familiar with the company’s efforts said.”

Some states don’t offer any state incentives for EVs, so in some places it’s even cheaper to buy a Bolt right now than here in VA. The number I gave was the “drive off price”, so also accounts for state taxes and fees. Do remember that just because a dealer advertises all the possible discounts, not everyone qualifies…

40% of the population is stupid and poor for a reason, news at 11.

yah you have to buy the Premium trim, then pay another $2200 for the super cruise option, which requires a subscription. fuuuuuuuuuuuck you, Chevrolet.

*Reads your comment regarding Buick building great things*

So, being respectful, considerate, and clean is considered a lifehack now?