Hiding money flow from public view. It is trivial to automatically trace all transfers on the blockchain. And the same way I don't post my banking history to the Internet, I have a reasonable need to not have all of my Bitcoin transactions fully transparent to everyone in the world.

So tl;dr: The legal use is: Protect my privacy.

That doesn't mean I am doing anything illegal. I might be doing something perfectly legal but socially controversial - maybe I make campaign contributions to the communist party, or consume an unhealthy amount of furry porn. It might also be legal but I have a need to hide my finances from someone specific - maybe an abusive spouse, maybe overly controlling parent, maybe a stalker.

For the moment, Bitcoin is still a bit of a niche thing, but the more it moves into mainstream, the more people will have the interest and the capabilities to use Bitcoin to breach people's privacy when they use Bitcoins to pay for something.

Yes, because $10B state-of-the-art semiconductor fabs grow on trees. Just go pick a new batch of fabs and make millions of RAM modules, right?

Still wrong.

There is a base value to any college degree that employers are going to look for: that you demonstrated the ability to show up where you were supposed to show up, and do the work you were supposed to do, and the work was accomplished to enough of a satisfactory level that you earned passing grades. And you didn't quit before getting it done, even with all of the other distractions that surround college life.

It shows that you are a mature enough adult to show up to work on time and solve problems with quality. Even with an English Lit degree.

Funny how you quoted my own company to me, when I'm working on the team building connected aircraft platforms right now, and our primary partner is Airbus.

Funny how you think every airline operates the exact same way.

Hint: they do not, and you're an idiot if you think Cathay Pacific does things the exact same way that WestJet does. And that either of those are the same way that Delta, AirFrance, KLM, Alaska, United, American, etc. do things. They all have their own fleet management, and they all operate their fleets of airside hardware in the manner they choose.

Yes, connected aircraft platforms are coming. No they aren't here yet and won't be in the next year, at least. Stop acting like you know what the fuck you are talking about and trust those of us that actually do.

You mean MS has outsourced QA to AI. I would think volunteers would have found that issue quickly.

Depends on what "preview” means. If it means an alpha build meant to be internal, such a bug is fine. To me this build was meant to be shown and tested by customers and closer to a beta build. Nothing ruins testing like the inability to test anything.

One time my company was asked to test some software for a supplier. The software would not run after install on any of our computers. There were no errors displayed to give us hints about what could be wrong. Despite weeks of correspondence with their development team, we could never get the software to run. After the testing period was over, they sent us a questionnaire. Unfortunately we could not answer most of the questions as we could never get it to run. One final question was about the readiness of the software for production. We said the software was not ready for production.

The development team was not happy about that and emailed asking for reasons why we said that. I assume their supervisors read the questionnaire responses. We told them that any software that would not work after weeks of correspondence and no hint about what to fix was not production ready. They responded they had since fixed all installation issues in the latest version. We answered back that we could only test the version we were given and that version did not work.

I did not say that. The OP specifically said there were no "Unix desktops." Read the thread.

That's not where the money is.

They would crack down on the restaurant / bar for violating their commercial license.

Whomever is running that place has exposed themselves to legal liability if the lawyers come knocking.

You are mixing delivery paradigms.

You don't own Netflix software. You rent it.

You owned Office 2005, so you have perpetual license to use that version of the software.

Why do you think Microsoft stopped shipping discrete versions of Office to the retail channel? They can make much more money perpetually renting it to you, while denying the ability to continue using old versions as they age out of compatibility with modern platforms.

Especially since commercial redistribution and public display without license is actually a violation of the broadcast license. Watch any NFL or NBA game and they'll remind you of it at one point coming back from a commercial break.

Yes, that would be nice.

But that doesn't offer the same DRM control. And that's what they are concerned with.

If they could have the encryption present on the screen and the information only gets decrypted in your eyeballs with a valid subscription, they would.

All you have is whataboutism.

What the fuck does Hunter Biden have to do with Putin very clearly being a despotic war criminal? What does it have to do with the ever increasing mountain of evidence that the current administration is compromised out the ass when it comes to dealing with Russia?

Pull your head out of your ass.

I'm just wondering if NASA is going to hold this over Russia the way Russia tried to be dicks to NASA between Shuttle being retired and Crew Dragon being able to ferry people to the ISS.

What goes around, comes around.

So what would you call it if there is a software defect found in a critical safety system?

Pretty sure "recall" isn't the actual term being used in aviation anyway - that's probably some hack writer translation. The real deal is an "airworthiness directive" being issued - meaning "to be airworthy, we are directing you to do this action" and if you don't by the time on the airworthiness directive, you won't be certified for revenue service - you'll need to get a "ferry" permit to fly the thing to the closest destination where you can effect the directive with the least crew possible.

There is nothing wrong with the ground service crews that know how to fix aircraft, actually fixing aircraft. And yes, loading new software into safety-critical systems is part of regular maintenance.

Airline ground ops don't fuck around. They have to get into the electronics bay to load new entertainment options all the time anyway, so this is just plugging their data loader into a different port once they had the certified image to load.