The Russians did that ages ago - only announcing missions when it was clear they were going to succeed.

Even back in the 70's and 80's launches were hard to hide, so the world knew something was up, just not exactly what.

... as well as an asset. How about:

* If you have data that can be use for identity theft, and it leaks, you owe a per-person-exposed fine.
* In the absence of reliable records, all unencrypted data held by the company is assumed to have leaked.
* Fines are increased if if can be shown the company knew about the leak for more than 30 days before admitting it publicly.

With something like this hanging over them, companies:
* Might think twice about keeping data they don't really need,
* Might encrypt data at rest to make it harder to steal.

Ya cheap bastards

He may not be completely swapped in, but he has staffers who are aware of what's going on in things like decentralized social media, and are trying to keep up.

As a bonus, thhose staffers are not overtly planning to keep him in office past January 2029.

* Apply a reasonable carbon tax to the alternatives that burn stuff
* Apply a storage cost / carbon tax for peaking power to the alternatives that are intermittent

Nuclear will definitely look better after you do that.

There is a lot of debate about how much better or worse, but there's no denying that intermittent sources have distributed costs that are hard to capture (grid resilience and running power up from consumers), whereas nuclear has centralized costs, making it an easier target.

This project will help us to identify and remove mundane tasks that drain your energy so that you can focus on the most engaging and highest value work to make your job better.

Is this the latest corporate euphemism for "Mo metrics, mo better"?

... for companies supporting open source projects to get paid for their efforts without using the copyright nail-studded bat to coerce their users.

Perhaps by offering excellent paid support for people who need it, and can't wait for the Open Source Fairy to flitter by and fix their issues?

The EU is not 30.4% of Apple's global revenue - see here.

Yes, Gruber is an Apple cheerleader, but his facts tend to be accurate.

When Apple says "Europe" in their financials, they mean:

But there are a significant number of high-GDP countries in Europe that aren’t in the EU—the UK (most famously), Russia, Turkey, Switzerland, Norway, and Ukraine. More importantly, Apple’s “Europe” includes the entire Middle East.

I'm not going to call people "stupid" for not knowing this. Ignorant, perhaps, and ignorance is curable.

"it's mine therefore I have a right to waste it" stops when you have to dump the waste into the atmosphere or the waters.

Now do this to bigger ISPs, and eventually work your way up to Comcast/Xfinity and Verizon, for taking hundreds of millions of dollars as part of a federal program for rural broadband, then lobbying the government to change the definition of broadband to include ASDL (so they could "give broadband" to areas without replacing aging copper lines).

"picture", who is the flasher, her or him?

when they start storing text for bills in a version control system, with every clause traceable to the legislator/staffer/lobbyist who wrote it.

... is "all of the above".

See here.

Good on China for ramping up solar, but they are still increasing their total carbon emissions. The atmosphere doesn't care about per capita - it only sees more CO2 or less CO2.

USA carbon emissions from energy production peaked in 2007, and have been declining (somewhat bumpily) ever since, primarily because we have been replacing coal with natural gas.

... can connect to my house's wifi. I enabled it to see if it would reach out and reset the clock.
Nope - it only resets the clock through OnStar, which I refuse to pay for.

I now see that I should definitely disable that - it does nothing useful, and might be sending data back to GM.
I should crank up Wireshark before turning it off, just to see if it's obviously sending data back.

Has the EU found any companies headquartered in the EU doing similar stuff?