Notably, the KitSound feels reassuringly well built. It has a solid weightiness in the hand, although it is definitely portable — at only 8cm tall, I can easily grip it between my index finger and my thumb. Apart from a slight tendency to collect visible fingerprints, it does not suffer from any rough edges. Bonus Box Kit sound provides a high-quality protective case. Ryan Knutson: Welcome to The Journal, our show about money, business and power. I'm Ryan Knutson. It's Wednesday, February 1st. How gun control works: There are several barriers to buying a gun in America, but there are generally so many loopholes in the current laws — even fairly restrictive city and state laws — that most people can buy a gun without too much of a problem.

Bob McMillan: Traditionally, they can put the perpetrators in jail and stop them from committing the crimes. But ransomware is a different kind of crime. It's really, really, difficult to actually get your hands on a lot of the ransomware purveyors because they operate in Russia and Russia is not going to extradite anybody to the United States. So they've been playing largely with the Russians a game of let's wait till they travel and let's try and nab them in Cyprus or nab them in Holland. And the ransomware people know about this, right? And they're not traveling. And so if they don't travel, even if you know who they are, you're not going to arrest them. So what do you do? Enter Hub ID and wait (potentially up to 15 minutes) until firmware update is complete. The hub should not be unplugged until the update is complete, otherwise it may be corrupted Ryan Knutson: That sounds like an oxymoron. Ransomware as a service? Ransomware is like a disservice.

Ryan Knutson: It seems like in some ways it's a shot across the bow from the US government to say, "We're going to prioritize this kind of crime and we're going to try to take different tactics in this fight than we've used in the past." Bob McMillan: So the fact that we don't have those arrests, that's caused some observers to say, "Hey, this group, without being arrested, could just pop up in another couple of months." Bob McMillan: I think it probably felt very similar to the way it felt for victims of ransomware. So instead of this humming little corporate ransomware business, everything went dark for them. So the tables had turned, right? Bob McMillan: They're considered to be extremely mercenary. There are words used to describe them that I probably can't say in a Wall Street Journal podcast, but they're just bad, bad, people. If NATO approves the membership, Sweden will ask to determine if any Nuclear weapons and permanent bases can be placed on Swedish territory.

We always recommend that a Hive Thermostat is installed by a professional. One of our expert partner engineers will come by and do it all for you, saving you time and giving you a little extra peace of mind. At a press conference last Thursday, the US Justice Department announced that together with German and Dutch police, they'd seized control of servers associated with Hive. Well Regulated. In The idiot rights interpretation, lead by idiot right Supreme Court justices, the entire part about a well regulated Militia was thrown out entirely. It doesn't even appear in a conversation. It is as if the words doesn't even exist, which is absolutely moronic. Ironic isn't it. While they gaslight this nation and push the limit on reason; me as a fairly reasonable person now feel like I have to get something I've never entertained before. You can't argue with these idiots. So you might just ensure that they don't have the final word.

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The first step to getting your smart devices installed is setting up a hub, and it only takes a moment or two. Let’s take a look at that first. We’re going to show you how to set up a Hive Hub as an example but other brands are very similar.

Bob McMillan: So they made their name by being particularly ruthless. They went after hospitals during the COVID pandemic. And this was at a time when some ransomware groups were drawing a red line and saying like, "Look it. We're not going to be jerks. If we know that you're a hospital and you're a victim we're not going to try and put our ransomware on any hospital networks. It's too important. We don't want people to die because of this." Hive wasn't like that. They infected hospitals. They infected schools. Russia was scary up until it proved just how impotent their entire force was. So now people are joining NATO to not suffer the same faith as Ukraine and with the knowledge that Russia is a psychotic mass murderous paper tiger who cannot win an offensive war and is only capable at terrorizing people, murdering civilians and rape and torture women and men without guns. So there's little chance Sweden will agree for any such weapons in Sweden, not that there's a specific advantaged of doing so, over say allowing for Allied subs to operate in the Baltics. For sure. The combined Navy and air assets of the entire Scandinavian part should be able to contest incursions by Russia which would free the rest of NATO to focus on central Europe. It would also take very little resources in the baltics to stop Russian expanses and there would be direct access to Russian naval bases in Northern Europe. Personally I've thought for a while now about getting a hand gun for personal protection and target practice. Never had a reason to get one, but given that there are so many rightwing nutbags everywhere, I'm getting to the point that I might just need something for my family. I realize that statistically I'm more likely to get shot in an accident or by a family member than in a burglary or whatever. But as we see right now from the mental breakdown on the right; I might just have to defend myself and my family from them.

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Speaker 4: From schools, hospitals, and financial firms, the Department of Justice says Hive has targeted more than 1500 entities in over 80 countries.

Bob McMillan: In July the FBI found the servers that were being used to run Hive and they got into them. We don't know how, but they got a perch that allowed them to not only see what Hive was doing and collect information about them, but to get these extremely valuable decryption keys that were essential for any customer that wanted to get their network operating after a Hive infection. May 16, 2022 8:45:26 GMT -5 mrobvious said:Sweden will apply for NATO membership. It was almost given since Finland did, but it is still a massive step over very little time given Swedens truly messy history with neutrality. They met Sunday to discuss mainly 2 points. Bob McMillan: Well, it's hard to accurately quantify the ransomware problem because a lot of people that are hit with it don't go give us public numbers, but the public numbers we have, it's hundreds of millions of dollars are paid to ransomware companies every year. And so it's easily a billion dollar industry.

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Private gun ownership generally requires a license, for which an applicant "must be at least 18 years of age, may not have been placed under guardianship, may not give cause for suspicion that he would endanger himself or others with the weapon, and may not have a criminal record with a conviction for a violent crime or of several convictions for nonviolent crimes," according to the Library of Congress's review of Swiss gun laws. The license is valid for six to nine months, and it's usually valid only for one weapon. Bob McMillan: They're basically saying, "All right, fine. These are businesses. What is the thing that affects the business?" So yeah, throwing the CEO in jail is one thing, but if you disrupt their business model, you can actually have an effect. You can make it not as lucrative for them. And at a certain point, you got to ask yourself, "Okay, is it worth me doing this really awful activity where I can't travel and I can get thrown in jail and it's not as profitable as it used to be?" Maybe they can get some people to retire that way. Ryan Knutson: Bob says that one of the ironies of Hives criminal operation is that they try to come across as if they're a legitimate business. I haven't spoken to Mitch McConnell about the rain on Oaks Day, why it took nine months to recognize Mandaloun as last year’s Derby winner, or why nobody bothered to tip us off to Rich Strike’s superpowers. But after reading his op-ed last month in The Courier Journal—and knowing him for more than 50 years—I can tell you with certainty his explanation for all three. Those darn Democrats! That's because Mitch will take any calamity and blame Democrats no matter how laughable. In-laws overstayed their welcome? Baby has colic? Leaky basement? Democrats, Democrats, Democrats! The Bottom Line: A genuinely portable, genuinely impressive portable speaker, which offers outstanding value.