Why does it always have to be weapons? Why can't it just deliver pizzas or groceries autonomously?

whoosh

Half-Life 3 is the new Duke Nukem Forever.

No, the only thing this means is that they're still not working on Half-Life 3.

Netflix routinely touts all the stuff they do to make sure they have high availability - including loss of a whole zone - yet they are still often impacted by AWS choking. Something's not right.

No, you have to manage your own redundancy and failover on AWS. Look at all the effort Netflix has put into programming failover and stress testing and yet they still have frequent outages with AWS.

Outages with AWS and cloudy friends are becoming so common it's almost a non-story at this point.

I'm familiar with that as signing, not encrypting.

No, they don't need the sender's public key to decrypt. The sender encrypts using the recipient's public key which is tied to the recipient's *private* key. That private key is used for decryption. And nobody should have the recipient's private key but the recipient themselves.

The last straw for me disabling them was when it wouldn't shut up with repeated alerts or obey volume settings. And it was for custody battle crap where I was still getting emergency alerts long after the news had reported finding them safe at a restaurant and were never in any real danger. Yeah, this probably makes me a terrible person for not caring about the children, but I don't need to be walking around with my phone constantly blaring loud noises, either. I signed up for SMS news alerts from local stations long ago which are far more effective for this kind of thing IMO.

Not entirely true, you can negotiate such things with many providers, but it will cost above and beyond the default contract.

A decade ago I would have cared about the ability to swap cards and redo the internals on my computer in 6 month or less intervals, but honestly performance changes these days are slow and trivial by comparison that by the time I feel a part needs upgrading it's probably to buy a new computer anyway.

Microsoft has staff lawyers that won't cost them anything other than the fee to file the dispute. Since the domain just goes to some GoDaddy parking page filled with ads it's more likely to go in Microsoft's favor. I'm sure their lawyers are aware of this.

Toy Story.

Go read Title 47.

It doesn't matter. The jammer is transmitting on a licensed band of which the operator is not the licensee. That alone is illegal in any licensed band irrespective of the jammer part.