Sounds like a new remit for the NRO. Park a billion dollar satellite over an area to keep an eye out for petty vandalism. Then the sheriffs office can team up with Space Force: papers will be served immediately by LEO MIRV deployment, which may also count as execution depending on visibility and aim on the day.
/s - but it wouldn't surprise me at the rate things are going.
Ownership of paintball guns is regulated under the state-level firearms act in most (all?) states and territories.
You can use them under the direct supervision of the licensed owner, but it's still quite restrictive. If you were to take one and shoot at cameras on the street it would vandalism plus firearms offences, most of which start at inversion of innocence, massive fines and move pretty quickly into prison time.
"Undrain" is not idiomatic, at least outside of Google. One might drain a tank or creek to empty it, the reverse isn't "undraining" to fill it back up.
"issuance flow has been restored" might be a more widely understood phrasing.
Admittedly, a nitpick, however the tech industry has a tendency to invent new words when they could say the exact same thing in plain English and be better understood by a wider audience.
It's amusing that after all this time and (hundreds of?) billions of dollars invested in adtech I still find the adverts in old magazines far more relevant and compelling than any of the "personalised" adverts of today. The industry as a whole has missed the forest for the trees by over-fitting their systems; I might be interested in the broader category, or a tangentially related one, but at no point do I want to see the exact same product I was looking at a day ago on every ad. I didn't buy it then for a reason, so I'm not buying it now.
Pervasive surveillance to make a system that's practically worse than the alternative that doesn't require mass surveillance, and is much simpler and cheaper. Did I say amusing before? Depressing is probably a better fit.
That's inaccurate for standard thickness drywall sheet, which is usually a 20kg maximum parallel load (e.g. vertical for a wall) regardless of fixing method. Orthogonal load is even less. You might be able to attach a TV or cabinet but it would definitely not be safe, any additional weight or dynamic load would quite likely rip it off the wall with no warning.
The recommended approach for anything with moderate weight or above is to anchor to the studs and never rely on the drywall itself for retention.
I suspect they are meaning because it's uniform you can easily find the studs through it and fasten things directly into them.
An uneven wall material (plaster on lathe, or even plaster on drywall as we have in most of our house) can be quite a hassle to find the actual timbers/studs behind.
Modern plaster has the same properties, and works well with stud finders.
On a related note, if you can find a strong rare earth magnet, you can use it as a stud finder. It'll be attracted to the nails used to hold up the drywall / plaster backer boards. They sell purpose built ones with felt backs + built in bubble levels if you want to get fancy.
One needs to only witness an exec team or board meeting to realise that loyalty as a concept doesn't exist at the top for the vast majority of companies. You're 1.8% of the accounts department budget, or 0.02% of the head office budget. Which is looking a bit high in the face of our projected earnings this quarter. Best get HR to trim that by 10% to free up some cashflow for sales and initiatives. Actually, make that 20%. Bonuses were a bit thin last round and I need a new yacht.
They could have taken a more defence-in-depth approach to key storage and encrypted the cloud copy of the Bitlocker key with a random master key itself protected by a user password-derived key arrangement, with any crypto action occuring on the device to avoid knowledge of the plaintext key. That way the Bitlocker key stored in the cloud is opaque to Microsoft, and only by knowing the user's current cleartext password could they access the raw Bitlocker key.
The current approach is weak, and strikes me as a design unlikely to be taken unless all the people involved were unfamiliar with secure design (unlikely IMO), or they intentionally left the door open to this type of access.
Considering the number of x86 machines I've come across in fleet deployments that were put into various states of brickdom from Windows Update, I would not be at all surprised if it was a bad update-rollback sequence.
Laptops seem particularly susceptible to whatever (anti) magic Microsoft utilise for their update rollback process, but it happens to every device class seemingly at random. Besides the run of the mill "corrupt files at random in System32", which is common and simple enough to fix with a clean install, I've had a few cases where it appears an attempt at rolling back a BIOS update has been interrupted by the rollback manager and left those machines hard bricked. They could only be recovered by flashing a clean BIOS image with an external programmer and clip (or hand soldering leads), after which they ran without issue.
As much as it's valid to question the unconditional anti-Microsoft mentality, they are still far from infallible and from my experience they are getting notably more unreliable in recent years.
Likely cheaper to just coat the real drones in an aerogel or similar light weight, high thermal resistance material. It's an arms race still, but one with a reasonable amount of asymmetry in favour of an attacker.
You likely ran into anti-fraud provisions with that scenario, specifically identity theft prevention. Having worked at a similar business for years, a trend for high fraud occurrence is squeaky clean credit file-high income applying for low value credit.
These have a well above average occurrence of identity theft cases, presumably because the guaranteed affordability test pass combined with low value makes it easy to get the loan and subsequently unlikely anyone will bother to chase it when they identify it as fraudulent.
It's easier, and cheaper, as a provider to just reject all originating accounts in this scenario. Similar to applying for a mortgage: if your credit parameters vastly mismatch your affordability you will get a LOT more questions asked.
/s - but it wouldn't surprise me at the rate things are going.