You are reacting to this like it's an unprecedented new policy that Amazon just thought up. I can assure you it is not. Most of the objections people are raising were found in previous examples like Motorola, IBM add Microsoft. I remember when stack ranking was causing literally the problems discussed at Microsoft in the 2000s, and they have since ended the practice. Abandoning it has certainly not hurt their stock price.

Does anyone know the extent of the damage beyond "They got hacked"? Are they having to rebuild their SCADA system from the ground up? Or did they not actually have any way of reaching their various remote PLCs without just hooking them up to the internet, and now they're trying to figure out some other way?

It endlessly fascinates me how we have decided to target the one group of people in this world who are consistently happy for elimination because we feel they aren't productive enough. Really puts the lie to the whole "It's for their own good" justification.

Frankly, India is in the state that they are in because of their own highly nationalistic leadership.

You are posting this in a thread about a 9-0 court decision. Think about that.

It's sad that there was a time when all slashdot would have seen this the way you do, but looking through the comments that time has unfortunately passed.

This is very well put and gets to the heart of how these companies are trying to pick and choose which established norms apply to them, trying to claim neutrality in a process they very much have a hand in.

was in Swift's tweets: They intended to block a certain address as personal information, i.e. "Hey everyone let's go kick this guys ass at 12345 example drive in Memphis!" but accidentally blocked the individual components. So you might also gotten blocked for "12345 example drive", or possibly for "12345", "example", and "drive", in addition to "Memphis". "Memphis" was just the part that people ran into first.

The reduction in speed was intended to be applied to all customers, not just 20%.

This article is nonsense. Whatever Sapiens' faults, it isn't merely repeating general knowledge. Harari is greatly overestimating the average person's understanding of human history. The article also says that Darwin didn't discover evolution, but only wrote a book about what Wallace found out, but the consensus today is the same as it was then, that Darwin and Wallace both had all the key ideas figured out independently.

Every time I hear about one of these cascade account bans, it seems to originate from a YouTube account. The last big one of these I heard about was when a ton of Markiplier fans were banned for "spamming" in a livestream chat, likewise getting their entire google accounts banned. Nevermind that they were asked to do this by the streamer, and it was hurting nobody; account bans for spamming a livestream chat is insane. This is why I don't and won't post, comment, or do anything on YouTube. I watch quite a bit of twitch, and YouTube has been trying to move into that space, but it will be a cold day in hell before I do anything interactive there. I might migrate to afreecaTV or whatever the hell the chinese are offering, at the most they might try to scam me out of my money. Google seems interested in trying to steal your whole life.

Good luck, from my understanding it was a walled-off echo chamber.

Can you link one? I'm curious what they look like.

I like the picture of no surface adhesion, with the print head just dragging the foundation around the site.

Some walls are more than 8 feet thick, which the architects claim will allow the house to stand in all but the most intense earthquakes.

Well that is a blast from the past.