I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you. Well, not that shocked...!

Serial numbers, probably. Or a registration number like a aeroplane's?

Ireland has a homicide rate of 0.65 per 100,000. We don't have surveillance. We also don't have a silly entry in our constitution that just anyone to own guns. Yes, guns are allowed, but licenced and with very very very strict laws around them. And we certainly don't have a gun culture like in the US. If you really want to reduce the homicide rate in the US, revoke the 2nd Amendment.

Well cybertruck is illegal in the EU because it doesn't meet EU safety standards for pedestrians. So the 1st one is true also!

When the "free market" doesn't benefit your companies, legislate...!

Dunno. Starlink matches the current "requirement", and starlink V3 (and V4?) will likely meet or approach the (now defunct) 1GB goal. This is likely more aimed at other networks that can't provide anything near that in remote areas. (Also I don't know if Musk is currently in favour with your government -- there's a S in the month, so, probably...?!)

100MB is plenty for the vast majority of stuff, especially work stuff. Hell, my Internet broke a couple of weeks ago and I had to tether off my phone for a few hours, and I'm limited to 10MB on it (but unlimited traffic), and I didn't notice any difference in Slack, emails, AI Agent (to CoPilot), connections to AWS, etc. etc. (mainly because the company VPN is crappy slow anyway!). So long as your ping times and jitter are low, you don't need high bandwidth most of the time. (Granted you can pry my 1GB broadband from my cold dead hands...!)

So they want neutrality for broadband "technology", but not for network traffic itself. Pick a side, guys, FFS.

really is getting worse...

Can I use it in the rain for a while, or drop it in a puddle? Grand! I'm not using it in a pool or in the bath.

Do you really think apple will ever allow any of their OSes to be run on someone else's hardware???

But it's in, like, the 3rd paragraph. You can't expect someone to actually read 3 whole paragraphs of text!

Google AI tells me "Prior to shutting down on May 2, 2026, Spirit Airlines accumulated roughly 97.5 million customer profiles in its database and about 50.2 million members in its Free Spirit loyalty program". So my $1 was an overestimate by about 1 order of magnitude. 10c is all you're worth!

I guess it's also a price on the "value" of your individual data. Which is about $1, maybe. At most.

They _may_ already have a lot of it anonymised for use with internal tooling. Realistically, though...