Actually... If Facebook or Twitter were to fail, apart from employees and shareholders, very little parts of the economy would suffer. Marketing would have to reinvent itself and find new ways of reaching people, end of. WhatsApp could be replaced by almost anything else (is Viber still running?)

Google, Apple and Microsoft would be a bit different. We'd all lose our emails, support for our phones / computers / wearables etc. But that can be restructured/sold under Chapter 11 proceedings.

Amazon is "just" a bit marketplace. People would find a way to start selling stuff elsewhere!

TL;DR: Nobody in the tech industry is too big to fail. Let them.

From the reports I've been reading this morning, the data was stolen at transaction time, so most likely some kind of MITM attack or code injection on the payment page.

Also, it seems that cards saved on the website might be alright, which points to the fact that saved cards are "tokenized" in some way, and not sent across the network in that case. Which would actually good practice in this particular case...

I have a feeling a lot of companies will be watching this one closely. IIRC the regulation states anywhere between 20m EUR and 4% of revenues, which would be just under half a billion euros on 2016 figures. (And almost 1bn dollars if directed at parent company IAG).

Actually, someone in the EU should be able to send a GDPR request to find out what their score is. It would be a good test case :-)

Everybody knows, darling, it's better down where it's wetter, take it from me...

The mention to YouTube Red made me smile, I thought I'd misread :-D

This. Exactly this. I almost missed a flight because I'd forgotten I was booked on the earlier one, but their reminder saved me.

For the rest, they know what I spend money on, and their ads are still irrelevant. So either their AI isn't very good yet, or they don't actually link them to the ads I see.

You forgot one point: " I'd pay the artists something if I had a chance, but the majors eat up all the revenue along the way, so why bother? "
Otherwise it's a good sum up of the last 10 years of /. regarding copyright, indeed.

But I remember when sites used to get Slashdotted :-)

Score: 5, Fuy

I was going along the lines of Quit GoPro and Quid Pro Quo, but alright :)

Other solution is for these agencies to pool funds together to create their own platform and then forbid the other ones from linking to their articles. In reality it only moves one almost monopolistic situation to another, but it gives them the freedom to fund it. If people like the new platform more than the old, happy days for them. Otherwise, they need to review their business model (and we lose the 4th branch of power)

The interesting point in there is

What it really shows is that Americans are just Germans who speak bad English.

Coal country, in a civilised country. It's just backwards.

Acutally it's sensible. They know there's an issue, and they're doing something about it. Continuous improvement.

Peter Principle applied I guess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...