U.S. personnel with security clearances supervise foreign engineers, including those in China

Again, working on a codebase doesn’t give you access to the production systems. Neither does being Chinese affect whether you are a reliable third party contractor.

If the workers were supervised and the supervisors were competent, there was no real security risk. Both of those are the big “Ifs” though. And that’s why doing layers of outsourcing creates risks regardless of who you’re outsourcing to.

This is about giving chinese nationals root access

Not how software development works. I don’t have root access to every production system because I can submit pull requests to a Dev instance of the code.

It’s actually terrible opsec

One of the principles of FOSS is that you shouldn’t need security through obscurity. Knowing how a system works won’t compromise its integrity if the security protocols are sound. Having third parties participate in a project shouldn’t compromise the project if the lead developers are doing proper code review and QA. A system that is predicated on being a black box to a hostile government in order to maintain security is rigged for failure.

But, more importantly, the idea that a foreign government can only obtain information on the inner workings of a system when people of that national origin work on the project is severely shortsighted. Do you genuinely believe there aren’t significant numbers of domestic American developers of European ancestry who wouldn’t happily sell access to a foreign government for the right price? Do you genuinely believe there aren’t numbers who could be gulled into exposing the inner workings of their software inadvertently?

Nothing about Hegseth’s complaint improves operational security. He’s hinging his whole worldview on the notion that every other white person at Microsoft is as much of a nationalist as he pretends to be.

The US has long since had a practice of outsourcing labor many times over in pursuit of the lowest labor costs and maximum profit.

Getting your girdle in a twist because you found out the guy on Fiverr debugging your middleware has non-White ancestors maybe misses the root of the problem.

He’s got a master’s degree in Getting Cucked by Elon Musk.

This just proves he’s smart. He hasn’t been brainwashed by Marxist Biochemistry

Ah, my mistake. I know it got outside the Voyager 2 got to the interstellar medium. Thought that was beyond the Ort Cloud.

I would 1000% start making that order.

It’s not a practical order to fill, logistically. You won’t have 18k cups, just for starters.

Anybody today can go to any drivethrough and ask for whatever and then simply drive away.

Many drive thrus take payment before processing the order.

The fuck are they gonna do?

Arrest random teenagers and claim their browser history or installed app list marks out as pedophiles

An attempt to commit a crime is a crime. Planning it is not.

There are so many actions that are crimes. Doing X with intent to Y is a crime. Proving intent can be tricky. But that’s up to the DA to argue.

How is talking to a bot a crime now?

Planning to do a crime is criminal misconduct. If you’re talking to a bot with the intent to gather resources to perform a crime, you’re in the process of committing the crime you intended to perform.

No no no. My Good’ole’Boy high school curriculum told me the slaves were forced off the Plantation by the mean Union thugs in their War Of Northern Aggression.

Clearly, this picture is just out of context or propaganda or idk he was clearly doing drugs and the police were just trying to help him out but he wouldn’t stop resisting.

In fairness to the Sci-Fi writers, we’ve launched so many probes into deep space since then.

We’ve sent satellites to Jupiter and diving bells below the clouds of Venus. We’ve retrieved soil from Mars and sent signals from beyond the Ort Cloud. We’ve recorded Gravity Waves and captured light off the edge of Black Holes and recorded the touch of Neutrinos.

We don’t have six guys drinking coffee and staring out a window overlooking the moon of Titan. But that is largely because our signaling and robotics has made automated exploration more practical than manned missions.

And also because SciFi writers of the 1950s didn’t understand how much radiation humans would need to shield themselves against once they left the Earth’s magnetosphere.

RRR is the greatest action movie of this generation