A few years ago my city installed a bunch of bike maintenance stands, comple with tools (attached to cables) and within a month all the cables had been cut and the tools were all gone. The tire pumps were destroyed and the signs were obscured with spray paint.

They tried to repair them a couple of times but the shitbirds just trashed them again.

It’s frustrating that this crap keeps happening

Canadians are used to forgiving stupid Americans.

We’ve run out of patience from having to constantly do that.

Beyond the power requirements for the computer, there is also the power that will be needed to transmit back to earth.

A wireless link that can pass the amount of bandwidth needed (and do it reliably) will need huge power as well.

getting large datacenter level quantities of data from earth into space and back, and at low latency, is no triviality.

Latency is a huge issue, but so is bandwidth.

Land based data centers will have multiple hundred gig (and faster) fiber connections to the outside world.

Replicating that level of bandwidth on wireless links to a satellite in any sort of stable way is (as you said) no triviality. I would even classify it as near impossible.

My local Sobeys also has rental units.

I wonder if the US will ever start to properly reckon with the fact that they are also the baddies in this world

Their deeply ingrained American Exceptionalism won’t allow that to happen.

It would take a couple of generations of good quality education to make a dent in a century (or more) of conditioning that has convinced them that their country is the bestest there ever was, and that they can do no wrong.

now they can tell the future?

Maybe he just read a history book?

The government would have got a payday when they sold off the prisons in the first place.

I see a Carney plan as actually happening, in the long term

I agree, but…

The only problem with that is governments change on a shorter time scale, and new governments frequently hobble or completely eliminate the previous government’s long term projects for ideological reasons while claiming that they haven’t shown results and therefore are useless.

It happens all the time, and it is a large part of “this is why we can’t have nice things”.

Any government that can financially profit from its prisoners also has an incentive to imprison more of its population.

Which is why it is important for facility operators to pay attention to the forensic audits of the compromised systems, and react appropriately.

And, obviously, it is also important that those audit reports be made available, and not hidden away because of some sense of corporate embarrassment or claims of “proprietary information”

I never claimed it was the ideal.

But it would be an improvement over what we are confronted with now.

The smaller the municipality (and the older the system), the less likely that they have a robust IT department managing all the access controls.

Then again, I’ve also an encountered office (not utility infrastructure) where some random employee had plugged a WIFI access point into their desks ethernet port and set it on the window ledge so they could use their phone on the company network while they were outside having a smoke… (yes they faced consequences when management was made aware)

As we all know, security is only as good as your weakest link.

I’m surprised too. At my former company, to get access to the infrastructure took at minimum 3 different passwords (4 if you were coming in on the VPN) to get at anything. Even within the O&M system, different subsystems were segregated from each inherent. There was a lot of nested VLANS going on.

Made it interesting to configure new stuff, and there were regular audits to make sure you couldn’t simply telnet (or SSH or whatever other protocol) from one device to another.

And we weren’t anything near as important as a water utility.

Hit them with an anti-trust suit!

Again

And the president isn’t supposed to be telling the justice department who to target.

That leads to weaponizing the justice department against political rivals.

Who’s job was it to prosecute the domestic terrorists

It’s not the president’s job to dictate to the justice department or courts who to target.

“If you pirate games, you’re part of the problem.”

False equivalent.

Nobody is giving Pirates money.

Or install Steam OS if you want the closest approximation of a steam machine.

(Like them or not) LTT already showed how to do that last week.