It likely isn't. It may be a money grab. (Recall please that corporations that do not seek to forever maximize shareholder profit are subject to being sued)

Looking at just how much money the likes of AT&T* and such get for cell phone information from LEO, it is likely very tempting for Amazon Ring to monetize this rather than continue to use resources and profits to keep it going. Using the excuse of "You need a court order for that" gives them leverage to insist on (increased) payment. Also, Amazon makes a fair profit from other LEO "needs" - such as huge S3 buckets for storing information gathered from dragnet search warrants and ongoing surveillance programs. I read a few years ago (before cloud got big) that the NSA was buying two of the largest EMC SANS available ... per week. (They really should use OpenStack SWIFT since NASA and others developed it.) That is an awesome amount of capacity to consume, so much so I question if the report was accurate.

* It is always worth considering if a particular business is making it's profits from where it ostensibly seems to. Does McDonald's and You Store It lockers make more money from selling food and space, or profits from real estate? Does AT&T make more money from phone service, or selling information to LEO and getting tax breaks from the government? Or are all activities simply profit seeking in differing venues?

I used to work in legal gaming services. At times a winning wager would go unclaimed. This is a problem as most gaming commissions require the establishment fund their on site vault with a percentage of cash to pay (to that time) unclaimed winners. At one establishment, they were required to have over [lots and lots of millions of dollars] in cash in order to meet state law, thus being able to open and accept further wagers.

Unwisely, one establishment brought that to the attention of State Law Murkers [SIC]. Instead of adjusting the law to reduce the burden on establishments, that state confiscated the funds and set it up so after a year for lottery, and 5 for parimutuel, it is forfeit.

Many states have laws requiring abandoned funds be turned into the State Comptroller's office with the transaction details. Consumers then have typically 5 years to claim the funds, after which it escheats to the state.
The fines for failing to do so are quite spectacular in some jurisdictions, sometimes up to the greater of 7 times the funds or a quarter of a million dollars per each count, which ever is greater.

As they say, if buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing.

The story is an exclusive interview with a significant player in the OSS community, and it addresses an important and pressing matter. That is entirely aligned with Slashdot's mission, no matter who's publishing it.

I don't really like El Reg either; its general style can only really be described as a self-parody of whiny bitterness, and I've always found it rather dated, like something that should've been left for dead between the stickiest pages of a White Dwarf magazine in the late eighties. However, this story seems to be free of any of that, which is perhaps a good sign.

I don't disagree with you, but as far as I can tell even the colon isn't necessary for Crockford's syntax to be unambiguous, which annoys me.

It didn't take long to read through the entire Misty spec. Basically it's the software equivalent of a conlang: there's only one short program written in the language, no actual implementation, and it includes a bunch of slightly insane features that would be annoying as hell to actually use. Here are some highlights:

  - The syntax for variable assignment is set foo: bar — I initially let this one slide since Doing Weird Things With Colons is a big part of the Make Parsers Dumb Again revolution of the past 10 years or so, but in retrospect it kinda looks like the creator's imagination is being subsumed by the legacy of JSON...
  - Many operators are not ASCII. Throw out / * = and adopt their Unicode equivalents! Have fun learning how to make your keyboard do any of that.
  - Question marks in variable names for marking predicates and booleans! Schemers, start your grudging!
  - Some very conspicuous Not Invented Here terminology: arrays are either "stone" or "antestone" (immutable or not—just call them 'final'!)
  - Lots of Crockford's other pet projects get screentime: numbers are always stored in his DEC64 format (a 64-bit float with a 56-bit mantissa and an 8-bit decimal exponent), there are native functions for handling strings encoded in a variant UTF-8 format that's slightly more dense, and it seems JSON has been updated to Nota (mainly by making commas and quotes around field names implicit where possible).
  - Probably the biggest pet project, patterns are embedded directly into the spec and don't seem to have any other documentation. The gist is that they're regexes with indenting (not an innovation) and slightly less hairy names for common character classes. The goal of fixing regexes is admirable, but I think more research should have been done on what the state-of-the-art in regex legibility actually looks like, rather than starting from vintage 90s PCREs. At any rate, I don't think the rework is radical enough.
  - An attempt at handling parallelism through a fairly unremarkable message-passing system called actors, which is more like a multi-process RPC API than a threading model; there is no way to have multiple threads sharing access to a variable. Should the sharp knives be hidden from the children? You decide!

Must you refer to Sundar Pichai this way? It's very offensive to the shareholders.

For someone that styles themselves as "IAmWaySmarterThanYou", you aren't.
Live CD/DVD's 20 years ago. Today we have Ventoy for a wide selection, including Kali and Tails.
Sheesh. Difficult to infect anything with a read only file system and no hard disk. Any less aware and you would think Republicans are good for the economy.

In other words, you got your butt kicked by a bunch of little kids and went home to mummy.

For asking such an inconvenient question, you are hereby sentenced to three HP InstantInk subscriptions.

Package service actually makes USPS money. Several times it was shown in congressional hearings.
Wishing it was a money loser doesn't make it a money loser. The biggest factor was Republican insisting USPS fully fund retirement 30 years in advance. No other business or government does that.

Firing De Joy would be a good step. The current issues at USPS can be tracked to his two fold desire to wreck mail in voting while also promoting his private investment in for profit shipping businesses.
That's why Trump appointed him.

Texas doesn't think you need a water break working construction in 125 degree heat either.
I'm sure Texas' policy on time off for health care are equally enlightened.

...And, to clarify my own remark, the issue is literally an artificial 5-second delay in a javascript file that was added out of pure spite:

setTimeout(function(){c();a.resolve(1)},5E3);

(5E3 = 5000 ms)

That's not even the half of it—the summary is missing the heart of the story. Changing Firefox's User-Agent string removes the delay.