P.S. One can only wonder why./ editors choose less informative posts over more informative ones.
Maybe they get some form of benefit like kickback from the ad-revenue generated by linking to some sites over others? There certainly seems to be a bit of a pattern of which sites are linked in the versions of accepted stories vs. those that are rejected when you see dupes in the firehose...
Black-holing garbage domains (ad sources and trackers especially) is definitely a good idea but the problem with a hosts file is that you can't do wildcards, so while you can easily block "foo.domain.com" and "bar.domain.com", you can't block "{random string}.domain.com" unless you know what "{random string}" is in advance - to do that requires either a DNS based blocklist or some other software tool. That's getting to be a problem given that marketing/tracking companies are slowly (and it's taken them long enough) waking up to the possibilty that you can use "{random string}" as a wildcarded DNS entry to track whether a link was looked at or not just as effectively as a custom URL or cookie.
Also, to add to the GP's comment about the importance of an Ad-Blocker, let's not forget blocking auto-run of certain browser plugins and the ability to whitelist sites that can run JavaScript / save cookies.
It's got nothing to do with corporate arrogance and everything to do with boosting sales numbers. The ".99" thing is psychological and is connected with how the optical cortex processes the sequence of numbers we see into a value that we then equate to. Apparently, enough extra people will purchase an item priced at $x.99 instead of ${x+1}.00 than is necesssary to offset the $0.01 loss of profits, and where people are becoming aware of this marketing technique the simple trick of using.98 supposedly tricks the brain and brings the sale numbers right back up again.
(b) and (c) are part of the problem, although many places are still failing badly on their attempts at (b) which isn't helping either. Survival of the fittest also applies to bacteria and viruses, so as our countermeasures have become progressively more potent they have collectively evolved to be more resilient, and since their lifecycles are much faster than our product development cycles it's a race that we were never going to win.
There are far too many other notable sci/tech omissions amongst Wikipedia's list of 2016 deaths. I started to list and link them, but it just got too damn depressing.:(
David Davis withdrew from the case in July when he was appointed to the Government to oversee Brexit, supposedly in order to avoid the conflict of interest as Cabinet Ministers are expected to toe the line on government policy or resign, and as this puts his personal opinion at odd with the government his silence is only to be expected. Still, given that Theresa May had spent over a decade trying to get this legislation passed it's entirely possible that Davis' appointment to her Cabinet was done specifically to get this result as part of some kind of "deal". Fortunately for the UK's people Tom Watson is more than capable of keeping the pressure on, but the decision now rests back with the UK's Court of Appeal who *should* agree with the ECJ since they referred it to them for an opinion in the first place and are bound by their ruling. Ultimately, it looks like Theresa May will be resorting to the Supreme Court to try and get her way, again.
Now there's a common courtesy mentality that could have done with catching on more quickly in the UK. The major supermarket chains finally caught on to the possiblity of co-locating a small store with a forecourt a few years ago, so instead of the typical "motoring essentials" you used to be able to pickup in the garage you can now plausibly do a full grocery shop... and people do. Often without moving their car from the damn pump first. The "solution" to this seems to be a lot of CCTV with ANPR and pumps that have a built-in credit card payment systems to try and encourage people to fill-up, pay, then re-park before they shop - all expensive items that will no doubt have their costs passed on to the consumer - along with a reduction in required staff headcount due to fuel-only transactions that are now automated, naturally.
Pretty much. This seems like a very reasonable move from Tesla given the fuel pump analogy and it applies to everyone; today you might be the jerk hogging the pump, but tomorrow it might be you doing the waiting. I'm not familiar with the App, but presumably Tesla owners also get some kind of indication through the App of when charging is expected to reach 100%, and should have some kind of idea of charging times after a few cycles anyway, so it's not really a case of "You've got five minutes to move your car!" so much as "You *should* already be on your way, so this is just a polite reminder in case you 'forgot'."
Verizon buys rights to the Yahoo! name and other assets, properties, etc. A small dessicated husk of a company remains that assumes any legal liabilities and so on... then promptly gets wound up as soon as the money from the sale can be shuffled away, leaving all Yahoo!'s former users that might feel inclined to sue legally high and dry.
Amongst other groups, I think that more than likely. Most crop circles in the UK tend to occur in a belt across the South of England that includes GCHQ, several stone circles including Stonehenge, several universities including Oxford and Warwick, then London, and is well served by arterial roads to facilitate fairly rapid access to suitable fields. Factor in that the crops ripen in autumn, just after the new intake of student happens each year, and there are some pretty obvious potential sources of perpetrators who would have the necessary math, ingenuity, inclination and sense of humour necessary to pull it off.
No, that was my point - I thought I'd emphasised that in the last line. It might - quite literally - have come out of a field of study riddled with hoaxes and kooks, but it does appear that Hawkins discovered a set of previously unknown Euclidean-style geometric relationships in his meticulous study of the various designs the perpetrators used.
I recalled something on this too, so I did a little Googling. Turns out that a former Chair of the Astronomy Dept. at Boston University called Gerald S. Hawkins did indeed propose some theories based on designs found in crop circles. There's more than a little kookiness in the search results because a lot of the nature of the topic, not helped by some echos of Gödel Escher Bach with some musical connections in his findings, but there does appear to be some genuine math behind it - although it's questionable whether the perpetrators of the crop circles were just using trial and error or actually doing the math first. Basically, it all comes down to relationships between nested regular polygons that touch at each vertex or mid-point of an edge, e.g. a circle that touches all four corners of a square and so on. Euclid documented many of these, but Hawkins supposedly found a bunch of new variations that he (or anyone else) failed to find any evidence of past proofs for; it's hardly up there with Pythagoras' theorem, but they are genuine geometric theorems.
Not really, they are *all* part of the problem, including all of the people pointing fingers - no one is perfect at security, nor will anyone they ever be if you are realistic, although I do agree that lax end-user ISPs are playing a huge part in this particular instance with Mirai and its derivatives - e.g. TalkTalk is still a huge source of the Mirai traffic being dropped by my firewall, whereas Eircom and Deutsche Telekom are now dropping off fast. The security principles of defense in depth, while normally applied by an individual organization, can be applied on the large scale as well, and that's what's ultimately needed here - the issue is coercing people who are able to do something but can't be bothered to actually do it, and that generally means some form of legislation. *Everyone*, regardless of whether they are a device maker (of IoT devices and routers), end user, service provider, or backbone carrier, needs to assume that their devices and/or users are dumb, and put appropriate security and mitigation measures in place to the best of their ability. You're never going to completely fix the problem, so the best you can do is to try as hard as you can to mitigate against the damage with the resources you have, and hopefully that will be enough to reduce the problem to a mere nuisance.
Yeah, I'm waiting on Samsung too. Supposedly it's coming late this year or early next year, but if you didn't want to wait and were on the ball and in the right country you could have signed up for one of the limited number of slots on the Galaxy Beta Program a few months back. Apparently that pushed out a Beta 3 release a week or so ago which focusses on bug fixes and enhancements, so other than a couple of outstanding bugs mentioned in the link we're not too far from release.
The article is light on details as to how the emergency unlock got overridden - maybe the guy was just high and was tricked, but maybe BMW's double-pull safety/security feature gave them a window of opportunity that let them do this. If BMW were repeatedly sending the central lock signal to the car at a faster rate than the recently woken (and potentially also doped up) thief could do the double-pull, then perhaps that would be enough to keep the doors locked. We also have no idea from TFA how long they kept the doors locked for; it might only have been a few minutes, or possibly even less than that. It's entirely possible it was less than the time that the recently woken thief would have taken to gather hits wits and try something else like, say, opening/breaking a window and climbing out.
Sure, there's always a subpoena (or more likely an NSL), but before it gets to that point Trump will need to have passed some form of legislation to actually get the database off the ground and into reality, and that's going to require a considerable amount of support from Congress, Senates and (almost certainly) the courts, because you just know this would get challenged in multiple jurisdications and head towards the SCOTUS. Or, I suppose, he could maybe try and do it off the books through one of the three letter agencies and a whole bunch of NSLs, in which case the US is absolutely done as "The Land of the Free" and we'll just have to repeal Godwin because the Nazi Germany / Stasi comparisons will be absolutely justified in that eventuality.
Having multiple parties whose co-operation would be useful, if not essential, to making the project viable basically stating up-front they don't support the idea and will almost certainly challenge any data requests through the courts, again likely all the way to SCOTUS, just as Apple recently did with a certain iPhone is quite likely to undermine at least some of that support. If there's one thing you can particularly count on politicians for, and especially so in Trump's case, is not wanting to back a losing horse, so the less likely the project is to succeed the more likely it is to be stillborn, and that's the best way for it to be.
Besides, since we're entirely talking about hypotheticals here, if Twitter were to do a Lavabit how is TheRealDonaldTrump going to get MSM to jump and report any <140 character bit of random thought as front-page news?;-)
Build the (still hypothetical) database, not so much. Help *populate* it though? Twitter, like all social media companies, undoubtedly has a lot of data on its users, and that data is going to include stuff that would help identify someone as a Muslim, even if it's just "Went to Mosque today..." type tweets. Think about how this (again, hypothetically) might work - voluntary registration first (the most harmless), mandatory registration second (the weaker-willed protestors to add to low-grade watch lists), then a trawl for those that didn't register (the activists and other "red flags" for the high-grade watch lists... and beyond). Care to guess where Twitter et al in the social media/data gathering trade come into that?
It's absolutely the pointy end, and hypothetical as the question might be "No comment" doesn't even come close to the correct answer of a completely unequivocal "Fuck, no!", so kudos to Twitter for being the only company with the balls to do the right thing. Hopefully, they'll still have those balls should they actually have to follow though on that position.
What's new about it? This is the same FUBAR cluelessness we should be used by now from large consumer ISPs like TalkTalk (who also run the Post Office ISP network), although I thought KCom knew better - maybe they've lost the cluefullness they had when they first set up and were at the cutting edge of high-speed broadband. The only reason this was a problem for them was because they thought it was a good idea to provide their customers with routers with the remote admin ports active and exposed to the Internet at large. Now, the first part of that (the remote admin) is fair enough; we are talking mass-market consumer ISPs here, so being able to remotely push firmware and other updates out to the CPE is generally a good idea, but just *how* long has it been best current practice to restrict access to admin ports to known and trusted IPs again? Defence in depth stuff like that was the "done thing" back when I was working at an ISP in early 2000s, FFS. It's not hard, and there are multiple implementation options; you can do so in your internal distribution network somewhere, you can do it on the edge, by pushing out some sane rules to the devices internal firewall, or (better still) a combination of more than one of the above, but there's simply no excuse for not doing it at all, especially after the last decade and change of major Internet worms.
Of course they are. That's the display department. You'll find the documents located in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard”, oh, and don't forget to take a flashlight and rope; the lights and stairs are both out.
Maybe the purported state-sponsored hackers are not so much interested in what the likes of Krugman or Olbermann write, but in what the people they are corresponding with are writing?
No, it's not Nazi Germany, although there are plenty of parallels there too; it's more like the Fall of Rome. Not Trump specifically (he's just another data point), but the last several decades of US history in general. Seriously, get some history books out or a decent website loaded up and do a comparison - there are so many quite direct parallels in the way the military got overextended, entire regions went into economic decline, politicians got complacent/corrupted, and the peons eventually rose up to storm the gates of Rome, and more, that sometimes it really does seem like history is repeating itself. On the flipside, the Eastern Empire did linger quite a while in Constantinople (Istanbul) after the Western Empire fell, so maybe that's good enough reason for a successful attempt at Californian succession...
Of course, if you look hard enough you can find parallels in anything, but it's pretty clear that Trump is going to try and deliver on Obama's promise of "Change you can believe in" - whether you'll *want* his particular changes, or how you'll look back on the results, however...
You can quibble over the semantics of the "murder" part (maybe combine this with the euthanasia angle), but you can't really get around the "death" part. The body is mostly water, and when water is frozen it expands, so what you get when you freeze meat is a *lot* of ruptured cell membranes. Barring some pretty amazing nanotech work during the defrosting process it's extremely unlikely that there's any way back from that. Ultimately, the only thing this ruling and expense has done is to help ease the passage of a child with a terminal disease, and only her immediate family and the girl herself are/were in a position to say whether that was worthwhile or not, but from a practical point of view there's little point in keeping the cryo power on.
It's not a very well written piece, as there seem to be several key points that are likely to have a significant impact not considered:
Where is the factory going to come from? How much does that cost, and how long will it take to get online?
Have they considered the 45% tariff Trump is planning on putting on goods from China? Apple will still need to import the parts, I assume, unless they are planning on making those in the US too, and components are still goods, just like finished products.
Where do the staff come from, bearing in mind that Trump is planning on deporting many of the immigrants that are actually prepared to work for peanuts. What about the costs and time required for any training (such as it is)?
Given the lack of details, it seems far more likely that someone did some quick numbers on a napkin that are unlikely to have any real basis in fact, than a detailed analysis of all factors likely to be applicable.
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Maybe they get some form of benefit like kickback from the ad-revenue generated by linking to some sites over others? There certainly seems to be a bit of a pattern of which sites are linked in the versions of accepted stories vs. those that are rejected when you see dupes in the firehose...
Black-holing garbage domains (ad sources and trackers especially) is definitely a good idea but the problem with a hosts file is that you can't do wildcards, so while you can easily block "foo.domain.com" and "bar.domain.com", you can't block "{random string}.domain.com" unless you know what "{random string}" is in advance - to do that requires either a DNS based blocklist or some other software tool. That's getting to be a problem given that marketing/tracking companies are slowly (and it's taken them long enough) waking up to the possibilty that you can use "{random string}" as a wildcarded DNS entry to track whether a link was looked at or not just as effectively as a custom URL or cookie.
Also, to add to the GP's comment about the importance of an Ad-Blocker, let's not forget blocking auto-run of certain browser plugins and the ability to whitelist sites that can run JavaScript / save cookies.
It's got nothing to do with corporate arrogance and everything to do with boosting sales numbers. The ".99" thing is psychological and is connected with how the optical cortex processes the sequence of numbers we see into a value that we then equate to. Apparently, enough extra people will purchase an item priced at $x.99 instead of ${x+1}.00 than is necesssary to offset the $0.01 loss of profits, and where people are becoming aware of this marketing technique the simple trick of using .98 supposedly tricks the brain and brings the sale numbers right back up again.
(b) and (c) are part of the problem, although many places are still failing badly on their attempts at (b) which isn't helping either. Survival of the fittest also applies to bacteria and viruses, so as our countermeasures have become progressively more potent they have collectively evolved to be more resilient, and since their lifecycles are much faster than our product development cycles it's a race that we were never going to win.
This is just the first step. Eventually, we'll have systemd-browser and the OS will be redundant.
Whoever gets my liver also gets some fava beans and a nice chianti.
There are far too many other notable sci/tech omissions amongst Wikipedia's list of 2016 deaths. I started to list and link them, but it just got too damn depressing. :(
David Davis withdrew from the case in July when he was appointed to the Government to oversee Brexit, supposedly in order to avoid the conflict of interest as Cabinet Ministers are expected to toe the line on government policy or resign, and as this puts his personal opinion at odd with the government his silence is only to be expected. Still, given that Theresa May had spent over a decade trying to get this legislation passed it's entirely possible that Davis' appointment to her Cabinet was done specifically to get this result as part of some kind of "deal". Fortunately for the UK's people Tom Watson is more than capable of keeping the pressure on, but the decision now rests back with the UK's Court of Appeal who *should* agree with the ECJ since they referred it to them for an opinion in the first place and are bound by their ruling. Ultimately, it looks like Theresa May will be resorting to the Supreme Court to try and get her way, again.
Now there's a common courtesy mentality that could have done with catching on more quickly in the UK. The major supermarket chains finally caught on to the possiblity of co-locating a small store with a forecourt a few years ago, so instead of the typical "motoring essentials" you used to be able to pickup in the garage you can now plausibly do a full grocery shop... and people do. Often without moving their car from the damn pump first. The "solution" to this seems to be a lot of CCTV with ANPR and pumps that have a built-in credit card payment systems to try and encourage people to fill-up, pay, then re-park before they shop - all expensive items that will no doubt have their costs passed on to the consumer - along with a reduction in required staff headcount due to fuel-only transactions that are now automated, naturally.
Pretty much. This seems like a very reasonable move from Tesla given the fuel pump analogy and it applies to everyone; today you might be the jerk hogging the pump, but tomorrow it might be you doing the waiting. I'm not familiar with the App, but presumably Tesla owners also get some kind of indication through the App of when charging is expected to reach 100%, and should have some kind of idea of charging times after a few cycles anyway, so it's not really a case of "You've got five minutes to move your car!" so much as "You *should* already be on your way, so this is just a polite reminder in case you 'forgot'."
Verizon buys rights to the Yahoo! name and other assets, properties, etc. A small dessicated husk of a company remains that assumes any legal liabilities and so on... then promptly gets wound up as soon as the money from the sale can be shuffled away, leaving all Yahoo!'s former users that might feel inclined to sue legally high and dry.
Amongst other groups, I think that more than likely. Most crop circles in the UK tend to occur in a belt across the South of England that includes GCHQ, several stone circles including Stonehenge, several universities including Oxford and Warwick, then London, and is well served by arterial roads to facilitate fairly rapid access to suitable fields. Factor in that the crops ripen in autumn, just after the new intake of student happens each year, and there are some pretty obvious potential sources of perpetrators who would have the necessary math, ingenuity, inclination and sense of humour necessary to pull it off.
No, that was my point - I thought I'd emphasised that in the last line. It might - quite literally - have come out of a field of study riddled with hoaxes and kooks, but it does appear that Hawkins discovered a set of previously unknown Euclidean-style geometric relationships in his meticulous study of the various designs the perpetrators used.
I recalled something on this too, so I did a little Googling. Turns out that a former Chair of the Astronomy Dept. at Boston University called Gerald S. Hawkins did indeed propose some theories based on designs found in crop circles. There's more than a little kookiness in the search results because a lot of the nature of the topic, not helped by some echos of Gödel Escher Bach with some musical connections in his findings, but there does appear to be some genuine math behind it - although it's questionable whether the perpetrators of the crop circles were just using trial and error or actually doing the math first. Basically, it all comes down to relationships between nested regular polygons that touch at each vertex or mid-point of an edge, e.g. a circle that touches all four corners of a square and so on. Euclid documented many of these, but Hawkins supposedly found a bunch of new variations that he (or anyone else) failed to find any evidence of past proofs for; it's hardly up there with Pythagoras' theorem, but they are genuine geometric theorems.
Not really, they are *all* part of the problem, including all of the people pointing fingers - no one is perfect at security, nor will anyone they ever be if you are realistic, although I do agree that lax end-user ISPs are playing a huge part in this particular instance with Mirai and its derivatives - e.g. TalkTalk is still a huge source of the Mirai traffic being dropped by my firewall, whereas Eircom and Deutsche Telekom are now dropping off fast. The security principles of defense in depth, while normally applied by an individual organization, can be applied on the large scale as well, and that's what's ultimately needed here - the issue is coercing people who are able to do something but can't be bothered to actually do it, and that generally means some form of legislation. *Everyone*, regardless of whether they are a device maker (of IoT devices and routers), end user, service provider, or backbone carrier, needs to assume that their devices and/or users are dumb, and put appropriate security and mitigation measures in place to the best of their ability. You're never going to completely fix the problem, so the best you can do is to try as hard as you can to mitigate against the damage with the resources you have, and hopefully that will be enough to reduce the problem to a mere nuisance.
Yeah, I'm waiting on Samsung too. Supposedly it's coming late this year or early next year, but if you didn't want to wait and were on the ball and in the right country you could have signed up for one of the limited number of slots on the Galaxy Beta Program a few months back. Apparently that pushed out a Beta 3 release a week or so ago which focusses on bug fixes and enhancements, so other than a couple of outstanding bugs mentioned in the link we're not too far from release.
The article is light on details as to how the emergency unlock got overridden - maybe the guy was just high and was tricked, but maybe BMW's double-pull safety/security feature gave them a window of opportunity that let them do this. If BMW were repeatedly sending the central lock signal to the car at a faster rate than the recently woken (and potentially also doped up) thief could do the double-pull, then perhaps that would be enough to keep the doors locked. We also have no idea from TFA how long they kept the doors locked for; it might only have been a few minutes, or possibly even less than that. It's entirely possible it was less than the time that the recently woken thief would have taken to gather hits wits and try something else like, say, opening/breaking a window and climbing out.
Sure, there's always a subpoena (or more likely an NSL), but before it gets to that point Trump will need to have passed some form of legislation to actually get the database off the ground and into reality, and that's going to require a considerable amount of support from Congress, Senates and (almost certainly) the courts, because you just know this would get challenged in multiple jurisdications and head towards the SCOTUS. Or, I suppose, he could maybe try and do it off the books through one of the three letter agencies and a whole bunch of NSLs, in which case the US is absolutely done as "The Land of the Free" and we'll just have to repeal Godwin because the Nazi Germany / Stasi comparisons will be absolutely justified in that eventuality.
;-)
Having multiple parties whose co-operation would be useful, if not essential, to making the project viable basically stating up-front they don't support the idea and will almost certainly challenge any data requests through the courts, again likely all the way to SCOTUS, just as Apple recently did with a certain iPhone is quite likely to undermine at least some of that support. If there's one thing you can particularly count on politicians for, and especially so in Trump's case, is not wanting to back a losing horse, so the less likely the project is to succeed the more likely it is to be stillborn, and that's the best way for it to be.
Besides, since we're entirely talking about hypotheticals here, if Twitter were to do a Lavabit how is TheRealDonaldTrump going to get MSM to jump and report any <140 character bit of random thought as front-page news?
Build the (still hypothetical) database, not so much. Help *populate* it though? Twitter, like all social media companies, undoubtedly has a lot of data on its users, and that data is going to include stuff that would help identify someone as a Muslim, even if it's just "Went to Mosque today..." type tweets. Think about how this (again, hypothetically) might work - voluntary registration first (the most harmless), mandatory registration second (the weaker-willed protestors to add to low-grade watch lists), then a trawl for those that didn't register (the activists and other "red flags" for the high-grade watch lists... and beyond). Care to guess where Twitter et al in the social media/data gathering trade come into that?
It's absolutely the pointy end, and hypothetical as the question might be "No comment" doesn't even come close to the correct answer of a completely unequivocal "Fuck, no!", so kudos to Twitter for being the only company with the balls to do the right thing. Hopefully, they'll still have those balls should they actually have to follow though on that position.
What's new about it? This is the same FUBAR cluelessness we should be used by now from large consumer ISPs like TalkTalk (who also run the Post Office ISP network), although I thought KCom knew better - maybe they've lost the cluefullness they had when they first set up and were at the cutting edge of high-speed broadband. The only reason this was a problem for them was because they thought it was a good idea to provide their customers with routers with the remote admin ports active and exposed to the Internet at large. Now, the first part of that (the remote admin) is fair enough; we are talking mass-market consumer ISPs here, so being able to remotely push firmware and other updates out to the CPE is generally a good idea, but just *how* long has it been best current practice to restrict access to admin ports to known and trusted IPs again? Defence in depth stuff like that was the "done thing" back when I was working at an ISP in early 2000s, FFS. It's not hard, and there are multiple implementation options; you can do so in your internal distribution network somewhere, you can do it on the edge, by pushing out some sane rules to the devices internal firewall, or (better still) a combination of more than one of the above, but there's simply no excuse for not doing it at all, especially after the last decade and change of major Internet worms.
Of course they are. That's the display department. You'll find the documents located in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard”, oh, and don't forget to take a flashlight and rope; the lights and stairs are both out.
Maybe the purported state-sponsored hackers are not so much interested in what the likes of Krugman or Olbermann write, but in what the people they are corresponding with are writing?
No, it's not Nazi Germany, although there are plenty of parallels there too; it's more like the Fall of Rome. Not Trump specifically (he's just another data point), but the last several decades of US history in general. Seriously, get some history books out or a decent website loaded up and do a comparison - there are so many quite direct parallels in the way the military got overextended, entire regions went into economic decline, politicians got complacent/corrupted, and the peons eventually rose up to storm the gates of Rome, and more, that sometimes it really does seem like history is repeating itself. On the flipside, the Eastern Empire did linger quite a while in Constantinople (Istanbul) after the Western Empire fell, so maybe that's good enough reason for a successful attempt at Californian succession...
Of course, if you look hard enough you can find parallels in anything, but it's pretty clear that Trump is going to try and deliver on Obama's promise of "Change you can believe in" - whether you'll *want* his particular changes, or how you'll look back on the results, however...
You can quibble over the semantics of the "murder" part (maybe combine this with the euthanasia angle), but you can't really get around the "death" part. The body is mostly water, and when water is frozen it expands, so what you get when you freeze meat is a *lot* of ruptured cell membranes. Barring some pretty amazing nanotech work during the defrosting process it's extremely unlikely that there's any way back from that. Ultimately, the only thing this ruling and expense has done is to help ease the passage of a child with a terminal disease, and only her immediate family and the girl herself are/were in a position to say whether that was worthwhile or not, but from a practical point of view there's little point in keeping the cryo power on.
It's not a very well written piece, as there seem to be several key points that are likely to have a significant impact not considered:
Where is the factory going to come from? How much does that cost, and how long will it take to get online?
Have they considered the 45% tariff Trump is planning on putting on goods from China? Apple will still need to import the parts, I assume, unless they are planning on making those in the US too, and components are still goods, just like finished products.
Where do the staff come from, bearing in mind that Trump is planning on deporting many of the immigrants that are actually prepared to work for peanuts. What about the costs and time required for any training (such as it is)?
Given the lack of details, it seems far more likely that someone did some quick numbers on a napkin that are unlikely to have any real basis in fact, than a detailed analysis of all factors likely to be applicable.