Like the usual liberal, they weep copious tears for people vastly far away, while hating everyone around them.

Let me guess, you despise your family, your school, your community, right?

I'd guess it'll last as long as the cover does?

Yacouba Sawadogo, a farmer from Burkina Faso was known as "the man who beat the desert" for single-handedly transforming 75 acres of barren land into a garden by planting trees.

AFAIK eventually the government was so impressed, they seized the land from him and parceled it out for sale to bidders who more or less ruined it.

You know there are people who travel for - extended - periods of time, right?

And having a power-only cord that you can plug into any airplane/airport/train, etc USB for a charge is absolutely easier than managing a few "power banks" and keeping them charged.

I don't see where Salesforce is at fault here.

"The English-speaking callers would provide a pretense that necessitated the target connect an attacker-controlled app to their Salesforce portal. Amazingly -- but not surprisingly -- many of the people who received the calls complied."

Sounds like end-user stupidity.

If I am storing my data on your server and I send you commands to download that data, that's the normal course of what you do for me.

If you're dumb enough to let hackers into your system to download your data "in your name", then that's on you.

Based on what I read here, Salesforce is on the side of the angels here.

Because it's infuriating digging through a drawer that has multiple USB cables to try to remember which are power only, thus safe to use in public USB chargers.

Let me check: ...nope, I asked: nobody gives the faintest shit about drug runners.
And no, they weren't fishermen, lol. If a guy jumps out of an alley with a knife do you assume he must be a surgeon?

Sounds like another leftist death threat.
You guys just can't resist.

Most of these things are long-known and well-understood principles.

The problem is the McMBA's being churned out by US(mostly) business schools aren't being taught to /prioritize/ these things.

Things like persistence, durability, consistency, reputation - do they matter?

I was told by a near-retirement mid-level manager at Pillsbury in the early 1990s that the MBAs swarming into corporate America simply saw reputation as a piggy-bank they could squeeze. Do you have a great name (cf Pillsbury) that consumers trust because of a century of careful production, high quality, and the best possible inputs?

Let someone who's got shitty factories rent that name and logo!

The more consumers trust it, the LONGER you could go by farming out your production from US (expensive) factories to shitty Asian and Mexican factories, and still have the sales based on that century-old reputation no matter how bad your product.

(profit)
I mean eventually consumers would figure it out that your product was awful now no matter how trusted your brand, but in the meanwhile think of the $$.

Which has nothing to do with repaying of the money they were paid to (not) write that report.

They got paid money in the past to write a report that was later found to have been written with AI.

They have agreed to repay or not collect the final payment for this report.

My point is that they were paid money in the past for this same (faulty) report that they have apparently not agreed to repay.

"The Big Four accountancy and consultancy firm will repay the final instalment of its government contract after conceding that some footnotes and references it contained were incorrect,"

Did you miss that? It's right there in the summary.

They will repay the final instalment.

What about the payments for the work (apparently) not done prior to the final instalment?

"Oops, you caught me. Here's a discount on the final payment."

Doesn't seem to be making the injured party whole.

Lying to your employer and taking active steps to create and sustain that lie isn't "actually expected" of anyone other than a sociopath or a criminal.

Certainly not someone in a position of trust like a police officer.

... Until they can figure out how to wring union dues from AI systems, anyway.

Every company should lock those precious and above all, widely demanded AI resources behind stringent pay walls. Why should the plebs get a browser that anticipates what they want, offers suggestions, and will summarize web content for you? They don't deserve such services for free.

Whatever happens, I certainly hope as a non paying user I'm not left with a lightweight, simple browser that integrated none of those functions, hell, it would probably do nothing more than render web pages cleanly.

That would be terrible.

Are we going to likewise celebrate other cult founders like Jim Jones, or L Ron Hubbard?

I'll credit Jobs with being good at marketing, but I'd genuinely like to know if he did anything for the computer industry substantively. Would we have had GUI desktops without Apple? I think so, Parc was working on that stuff long before Jobs ever said "what if we made computer stuff in white?"