Building a floating platform specifically so you can do digital crimes against humanity.
Ah the high sea, the place particularly famous for having good internet connection, yes
When you're spending this much money on something like this, running new undersea cable is trivial.
If it's a stationary platform or a barge that's parked in a location for a while, absolutely. It's basically the same as how submarine internet cables between continents work.
it's slightly different because a floating platform is more susceptible to storms. it's pretty expensive to repair those lines when they're connected to a platform that inevitably gets battered about by a hurricane and the cables get damaged.
That is true, but it's what Google and a few other operators do. Usually oil rigs will use satellite, but they're not usually going to need the same sort of bandwidth
“Government overreach not only stalls the pace of innovation, but also interferes with the cosmic endowment of humanity,” the firm said.
I'm very glad these ancap dweebs are just scamming investors
cosmic endowment of humanity
WTF does this even mean?
Think of all the Space Colonialism we could be doing right now! Think of all the profit we could be making, if not for the poisonous overreach of central banks!
I think Bill Gates had some idea about become an interstellar emperor. it was bigged up on "in a nutshell"
This will be complemented by “kinetic risk mitigation” provided by an on-board security team.
THEY GOT WATER COPS DOING THE COP LINGO
if it's on water cops are traditionally called marines
marines were the branch of the navy that suppressed mutinies
it's libertarians I assume they'll decide Plimsoll lines are just big government regulation and sink the ship due to overloading
ive done digital piracy for forever but physical piracy might be cool too
another use for my idea for an underwater drone that attaches to target ship hulls and drills holes
we need mad science to make these things capable of boring through steel hulls https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teredo_navalis
we're gonna want sailboats in the future to move cargo though, might not want to give up on the "target" part of "target ship hulls"
Not even an underwater drone. A small solar powered drone that stays on the surface could feasibly have a satellite connection to the internet for controlling it. Anything small won't be seen in the ocean anyway or will be disregarded as drifting rubbish.
God almighty, I lived long enough for seasteads to come back in style. What ancient SA threads will we resurrect next?
WTYP is gonna have to list off half of the Trueanon rules for life for this one
This reminds me of the WTYP bit about these modern supervillains with their supervillain lairs are just dorks who do dorky stuff like mining bitcoin, and aren't worthy of a James Bond visit.
In fairness, a Bond villain would more likely be some evil genius who wants to blow up all the Bitcoin mines and capitalize on a sudden drop in valuation. One of these dipshits would be represented by a stacked 10/10 hottie who runs a Cyberpunk themed casino/brothel, has sex with him, and is found dead in the following scene after having been stabbed through the heart by a graphics card.
found dead in the following scene after having been stabbed through the heart by a graphics card
rated R for Graphic Violence
AI seasteading? Are you fucking kidding? I didn't think anything could be dumber than seasteading which is the libertarian dream of living on the sea to live without laws or taxes. Stupid me.
Seasteading is the concept of creating permanent dwellings at sea, called seasteads, in international waters outside the territory claimed by any government.
Or unrestricted submarine warfare. Cruiser rules can be set aside for this one, me thinks.
