What's a better answer?

Become a NEET autodidact

That's like for the most part true

@Beemann Find the things that you have passion for and spend your time on them.

How's that for a _non-monetary penalty_? ;- )

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies

Chinese are killing 30k people a year with Fentanyl

you're watching Scott Adams!

Yes

RIP his stepson

TL;DR The CIA, Amazon, Apple, the IOC, and many other customers supplied with a certain series of SuperMicro boards were compromised by a deep hardware rootkit inserted at the board assembly plant in China.

All the more reason to stop trusting China 😛

but hey Russia is the bad one guys!

Looks like SuperMicro is going to be hiring some

American assembly workers!

To make things right, or less wrong, with their customers.

At least, I hope it's that rather than them going out of business.

The funny thing is, a chip like what they're describing here could be taped out for less than $20k by just about anyone.

(as long as they were competent enough to know what it should include)

The actual cost of infecting ~1,000 boards like this could be well under a million dollars, even if it were done by spies in the U.S, at a U.S. factory.

true

you can buy treason

This is a very cheap and effective treason.

Though I suppose the stakes would be higher for U.S. actors on U.S. soil participating knowingly.

yeah but you can't prove intent,

These assemblies aren't done by engineers, its plebs having to just glue part A to part B

Though something like this could be executed with a certain degree of plausible deniability.

they'll just say "i was told it was like this"

Well, that's how this was introduced

they had another reel of components added to the pick 'n place, and modified the PCB design. (this bit takes engineers)

Other than that, as long as it doesn't interfere with anything or stick out like a sore thumb to anyone, they'll be delivered without any fuss, and nobody will be the wiser until they are inspected by competent people (which is what uncovered this).

yeah

Funnily enough, this audit was conducted in Ontario, which as far as I can tell is _dripping_ with Chinese state propaganda and influence.

just shows you cant get them all

I know they've looked into me, since people report having received phone calls from their embassy claiming that I was attempting to enter China (which I was not), and that they needed to do interviews about me before I'd be cleared.

https://books.google.com/books?id=C9df6Ouv5Q4C&pg=PP4&dq=boof+fart&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwizz_ikyO3dAhUS0FkKHZ-PBFMQ6AEILzAB#v=onepage&q=boof&f=false

@ryuplaneswalker sometimes you have to do things you aren't passionate about, either to fund your passions or for basic personal upkeep

@brunobronosky Yeah, found that the other day.

My mother was going on about how she knew that boofing was about inserting hard drugs into one's rectum.

I just did a quick search on google books and showed her that.

What is agreed upon is that "boof" has to do with the anus.

@Beemann Yes of course, but the things I take away from Peterson's discussions is that "men need to be men, and to manly things like raising boys to be men and traditional things."

No offense, but your mother sounds like a party.