You're amusingly optimistic...

Many people are too lazy to turn off the feature or don't know how. And then complain loudly that all their money is gone.

People that come up with this stuff are NEVER trying to be nice to the end-user. It's about getting money out of people. Plain and simple. If they can get away with it without too many complaints (some complaints are ok), they will do it.

The streaming services are a prime example in the current era. Keep tightening the screws on people. As long as the money gained from those that stay exceeds the amount lost via attrition, they will continue on the path of gaining more money. Period.

Part of the problem with that argument is the definition of a living wage. People complain that they can't have what others have. So, raise the minimum wage.

Everyone gets paid more. Everything costs more to make. Costs go up, prices go up. Everyone gets the same stuff they were getting before because everything costs more. The lowest tier people complain that they can't have what others have. Raise minimum wage.

Cycle continues. Now it costs $20 to get a hamburger at McDonald's.

The argument usually then turns to the top tier making too much money and we should take that away from them... I don't feel like going down that rabbit hole. But, the basic argument of just pay everyone more isn't "the" answer, either. There are consequences. Mostly the fact that everything ends up costing more because everyone has more money.

I don't have an answer. I'm just pointing out the flaws in the "just pay everyone more" argument.

That was kind of my thought, as well. I'm surprised I had to scroll down so far to find that one. Why does a website even need to "officially" support firefox? That's like talking about Netscape vs. IE from days of old. I thought we were passed the designing for a specific browser phase.

If this is all about just saying the devs for government websites don't have to specifically test against FF anymore... So? If the site is broken in FF then one of two things are happening. Their developing away from standards and targeting what Google or Microsoft are pushing at them. Or, FF is broken in regard to accepted standards...

The second is easy to fix. The first... not so much. And I hope you we don't go back to the Netscape/IE battles of old where websites will work in one browser and not another because of proprietary "stuff".

So, I steal property required for your business to do it's daily tasks. I create another company that is better than yours using the stolen property to do it. Since, my new company is doing better than your company, the theft should be forgiven and all rights transferred to my new company.

That is the basic idea of your argument?

It's not silly. The idea behind it is sound. They are simply talking about skirting the issue of Redhat yanking the license for anyone distributing the code intended for customers.

This is actually a fairly significant thing to understand, in my opinion. It turns Alma into a "best effort" RHEL clone. They are pulling code from the CentOS stream which is essentially the BETA version of RHEL. Which is fine if it's all vetted and validated. But, if I have a piece of commercial software that's supported/approved on a version of RHEL, I run it on Alma and have a problem, try to replicate the issue on RHEL and find the problem isn't there. Good luck figuring out what's wrong and I'm not going to get any vendor support.

It's a hypothetical. But, depending on your industry and related work, it may matter to you. Or not. To each their own. I like what Alma is doing. But I can see where I need to understand that it's not a 100% RHEL clone.

Simple answer: There's nothing driving a replacement hard enough to make people change to something else.

Right now PDF has become the standard everywhere. I know if I get my hands on one, I can view it. PC, Tablet, Phone, etc... Everything understands and displays PDF. Trying to implement something new means getting a reader into everything that currently supports PDF. And, if there's no driving reason to abandon PDF... it's not going to happen. Not easily, anyways. Philosophical reasoning isn't going to get you there with 98% of the population.

PDF sucks for the content creators and people that do more than just reading a user manual. And even in that case, if I can print to PDF, good enough. For those that are just consuming the content, PDF is good enough and nobody really has any complaints about them.

Get people to stop producing PDFs or creating something with some new whiz bang feature that everyone actually wants and PDF can't provide. That's the only ways it will be replaced with something else.

How is this some great disaster for old forum posts and such that link to long forgotten images on a random hosting provider?

This is pretty much how the internet has been for as long as it's existed. Some service pops up, becomes popular, hosts lots of things, goes away, gets replaced by something else. That's just the way this thing evolves.

Sorry that the random image link you put in a post 10 years ago is no longer going to be available if someone looks through those archives. Nobody ever said it would be permanent. Especially if you're linking to something hosted off-site from where you posted it to begin with. Using a free service, even...

People will get mad about this. People will find something new. Life goes on...

Except they aren't claiming copyright infringement. That's the amusing bit...

They have money.

They want to invest.

They think it will result in a return on the investment.

That's all there is to it. What else do you want them to "do with it"?

You're not reading that right. They aren't coming in as root through ssh. They are gaining root in an ssh session. Sudo can be used for this exploit.

See an example screenshot of the exploit in action here:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.c...

Sometimes it's just a reason to be alone with my own thoughts. My mind can be a very entertaining place to be sometimes. Not always in a good way...

But I have spent many miles on the road with nothing going on but enjoying the scenery and whatever my mind happens to come up with.

This also mostly happens when traveling in locations I don't know. Not my daily commute.

What is your definition of "generates most of it's own power"? The power of stupidity? I'd grant you that one.

What power sources do they own? I've read things about their partnerships to source power from renewables, etc... But they don't actual run/own any power producing sources...

They are a consumer. Not a producer. Unless you have other evidence...

Apparently they didn't care about the poor Omicronians being singled out...

https://futurama.fandom.com/wi...

Fair enough.

Thanks for the clarification.

So... your argument is that she did too good of a job, set a standard nobody can live up to, left without leaving us with anything, so she did a bad job?