Okay, but - has he "entered" her... um, heart?

One goes better with tartar sauce.

Although, admittedly, some people do like tartar sauce with their fish too...

But that's just a bunch of asterisks?

Somehow, we'll find something to charge you for.

If you are a programmer and you are given clear instructions on what is expected, then yes. If you are a programmer and you are not given clear instructions, then no. However if you are technical lead/architect then you really should be responsible for it.

OTOH if you are a programmer and you raise these concerns then you are on your way to become a technical lead/architect.

In my systems I insist we keep a database table of various common passwords (tens of thousands of these) and we do not allow people using them as well.

Clicking through a few levels, it appears this is based on an analysis of stolen password dumps. It does not say whether they took steps to limit their analysis just to passwords grabbed in bulk as part of data breaches - so, if brute-forced passwords make up a meaningful percentage of the total, it's possible their overall counts are biased and inflated.

Okay, technically it's possible - but those Kryten hardware accessories are prohibitively expensive for most businesses.

How do you know that?

Really? Meet my friends in counter intelligence. They'd like a word with you. They have a comfy room for you in GITMO while they're talking.

Any reasons I'd have for traveling to Monaco would tend to make the actual travel expenses look like loose pocket change. I'd much rather (illegally) characterize a trip as recreational than have to explain to Herr TaxMan what kind of business I was conducting. After all, we are living in a regime of strict capital controls. On the other hand, those who don't know how to move assets other than to stuff them into carry-on luggage don't deserve to keep them.

Anyone?

Asking for a friend in Chinese intelligence.

It's not the company's information. It's mine.

... have its own in-house AI program? Like Google has Gemini and Microsoft has Copilot and (to a degree) OpenAI.

It seems to me that Oracle is just some rich sucker that got invited to a back-room poker game. Like Warren Buffett said: If you're playing poker and after 15 minutes you don't know who the patsy is, you are the patsy.

AI is just a shakedown.

More vulnerable, yes. But if you put it up to a popular vote, the nursing home residents get the PPE and the hospital staff, exposed to higher viral loads don't.
Sorry to break it to you. But grandpa is probably going to die if he catches Covid, masks or not. But the hospitals have to stay open for a lot more people than just the Covid patients. There are heart attacks, traffic accidents, industrial injuries. And yes, here in Seattle, the public hospitals have more then their deserved share of drug overdoses. (My opinion: Outlaw Naloxone. Users demonstrated a desire to die when they took the drugs. Leave them on the sidewalk.) If you put it up to a vote, grandpa wins. The hospital staffs stay home. Lots more people die. This is where the experts were right*.

The whole "listen to the people" exercise is well known here in Seattle. It's a process wherein you have public comment. You sit on the city council and nod your head. And then you ignore the people's shrieks and do the right thing anyway. But this is why we limit the power of bureaucrats. They have their areas of expertise, but we don't want them to accumulate power beyond those we granted to them, which is human nature. So; Sorry. We all know that the people would vote in UBI. But there's this little issue of property rights. And we can't just go squeezing a smaller group of people to keep the majority of voters happy.

*The PPE problem was pretty dire in NYC. Where they came within weeks of running out at city hospitals. Until an NGO stepped in, bought a load of it and contributed it. So my question is: Clearly the supply was there if the NGOs could buy it. Why couldn't the city? My guess: They are a bunch of cheap bastards that refused to pay retail.