I archived all my posts. I was right there with you - posting just before getting married.

Ugh, Kinja being Kinja.  We had two Blu-ray players this happened to - identical models (BD-J5700 or something like that).  Both were connected to a network at the time they started wigging out.

I’m guessing poorly written software. It wouldn’t be the first time something odd has caused issues for Samsung: https://hackaday.com/2020/06/15/samsungs-leap-month-bug-teaches-not-to-skimp-on-testing/

Expired SSL certificate makes a lot of sense.

We had two identical players - BD-J5700 (or something like that) start doing this early Friday morning.  One was in use earlier in the morning, and it started wigging out, so we swapped it out for the other one, and it started doing the exact same thing.  Both were…

Poor badgers. :(

You’re right. Decals are for peasants.

The conspiracy theory nut part of me wants to think that it’s actually US government contractors that are doing their best to keep Trump asleep at the wheel - when it comes time, they could make absurd profits selling arms to Saudi Arabia, if they do enter a war.

SO what you are saying is that it will be staffed by Russians? :P

Or gold sharpie.

To a certain extent yes, but also no. Maybe not the best source of information, but for an interesting perspective, watch the The White Hats on Netflix. There still (at least at the time of the film) seemed to be a ton of people living there. If a bunch more of those people decide to leave because Assad takes…

I thought part of the reason was to prevent another mass-exodus - I can imagine there’d be a lot more people wanting to leave the country if Assad took total control. The whole thing has humanitarian disaster written all over it no matter how you look at it.

When in doubt, follow the money...

“...be witting or unwitting agents...” 

Knowing Trump, it sounds a lot like the latter.

You aren’t on Jalopnik, you are on Foxtrot Alpha. Check the URL.

In my mind (keeping in mind that I’m not an American), I’d say sanctions. Hit them where it hurts most - in the pocketbook. I doubt Trump would ever do that though - Trump and Putin are far too buddy-buddy for that to happen.

I’ve seen plenty of Masters students that would get stumped by things like that.

Never confuse having an education with being smart. They are definitely two different things.

By the sounds of it, they are doing their own chip designs. It’s still quite possible to buy off-the-shelf CPUs or GPUs and put together something with some pretty monsterous computing power. Creating CPUs specifically for particular cracking operations sounds a notch or two above that.

That does sort of make sense. Digital imaging equipment has had some pretty impressive advances in the last 20 years.

Is it safe to assume the helium was used to cool the imaging sensor?

I was just thinking that same thing. :P Gotta be clear of those tubas when everything heads south.