Do these studios know anything about something called VPN? People who are big time pirates are not coming close to any of these sites without a VPN. And if they are after punishing the grandma, clicking on a link without knowing what she is doing, good riddance to them while they are chopping branch they are sitting on.

Nobody is cancelling anybody's debt. They are just offloading the debt to those who has no benefit from spending all that money.. Wealth distribution at its best as expected from a socialist government. I hate them for it.

.. Say hello to new taxes, which will do nothing for the climate at the end.

Who is paying for those charging stations electriciy and more importantly maintenance. Did you say the tax payers ? Here is your fall out.. Less than 1% of US drivers drive electric cars. Baiscally you are collecting money from 99% of the population and giving it free to the remaining 1%. Does it sound like a fair exchange to you ? To me, it doesn't. In california, every hour my car is charging, on a public charging station, it is costing me more than even the Biden gas prices to fill it up, mile-per-mile basis. If someone offered me free charging, hell yes I would jump on that. Alas no luck. So, they are right wantin to remove public money sinking contraptions. Biden's new green deal agenda doesn't work well in mostly conservative states. Go NC...

As a Turkish expat US citizen, I am ashamed to share the same national heritage with this scam artist. People like these give us the bad rap in the western world.

For how long? When Vudu and Canal+ relationship goes sour, you will kiss your media goodby, just like play station store shoppers did. Count your days.

I am a cybersecurity professional, with electrical engineering degrees under his belt and I am in the IT trenches for almost three decades. So, when I am asking you this question, I am not a dummy, who somehow got certified by some questionable organization by passing a idiotic test. My question is, how are you going to hold me responsible for the actions of others? Let me explain. I am in cybersecurity operations. I have about 20-some odd platforms to maintain and ruin day-in and day out. My team, on its best day is 5 or 6 people big. My organization is Fortune 500 company with 40,000 enterprise users to give you an idea. We run SIEM, Network Security, Password Management , Firewall and few other obscure platforms. We are in media industry. So, attacks to steal copyrighted content and attacks to cause financial damage to our infrastructure, by the garden variety of miscreants is an expected day of work. Yet, I generally have no say in what platform is chosen to perform a specific task. Most of the time, these platforms are chosen by the bean counters, because they are cheaper than their counterparts and my IT organization reports to the CFO organization, if this gives you an idea, how moronic it can be. And to add insult to the injury, if an application doesn't run as expected, my team is responsible to find a justification why it is not running as expected or get publicly berated. So that the same people go out to buy another half baked product as the next best thing. And the cycle repeats itself. My question is, why don't these people who make decisions about the cybersecurity infrastructure or infrastructure in general, get to be held responsible for the decisions they make but the peons like myself have to pay the price by getting certified to run a certain environment, regardless how bad it is ? Being an armchair quarterback is easy. Come work in the tranches for a few years and let's hear how your tune changes. People in high horses like the author of this piece makes my blood boil.

As an ex H-1B holder (now citizen through marriage) I can attest to this. Starting around my 40th birthday, I endured a 6+ months long unemployment. I can't remember how many interviews I took and how many recruiters I spoke to, but there was nothing. (to me that is, while I see people getting hired for the position I applied for, much younger and probably much cheaper) At 50 years of age, you have another stigma that almost no one can over come and I got unemployed few months short of my 50th b-day. Again 6++ months. Not that I was asking for more money but when people see someone in his 50s they don't give him the time of the day. In both times of unemployment, I had to buck up and take a no benefits, lower paying contracting position. Thank god my wife had a job with health insurance so that I was not left to die. Then crawled my way up to permanent employment. Now that I am past my mid 50's, I am shaking in my boots about the day my employer is going to go for lay off. Because I know I am done when that happens. Not a nice feeling, while these bozos at the helm of tech giants are crying for cheap labor supply. They can do with 80,000 less cheap seat-fillers for a year. Screw them. US has an obligation to its citizens not to the corporations which hoard money to their off-shore tax heaven subsidiaries.

Started with Biden administration funneling money into California and now the old crony Bloom-ass-berg is publishing how great of a state CA is. I advise those people who think this is such a great state to come here and live her while paying the highest taxes in the union and watching those dollars being funneled into illegal aliens' rights rather than fighting wildfires or alleviating water shortage, or even the simplest thing: repairing the roads which look like an obstacle course in my neck of the woods, here in so cal. But of course these are trivial things that the liberal elite could not be bothered or rather prefer to turn a blind eye to. \California is a dump. And deserves to burn in hell, which I am sure will happen in the next few decades. Then those who are doing this rah-rah campaigns will need a proctologist to remove the feet from their asses. Good riddance liberal charlatans..

Since there is no higher power than the government in this country, they are or the people they choose will be the landlords for this new cockamamie called publicly owned housing. And we all know how well the government manages money. Some cronies of the people in power will get paid for doing nothing while the so called public-owners paying their exorbitant salaries to live in crumbling housing. If you don't want to believe in this premise look at the US highways. There is a DOT to take care of them along with local entities, collecting taxes promising to make the infrastructure better. Still, my tires and my shock absorbers are being decimated by the potholes and uneven pavement every day. This is just another wet dream of liberal politicians, who hate to see some people doing better than others, hence they need to be forced into crap like this to punish them and discourage them from getting ahead. Socialism at its best.

The question is, now that all industrialized nations are waking up to the smell of burnt coffee, called china, I am expecting they will look closely into their own infrastructure and weed out the industrial spies. After that, whatever china has stolen from the west until today is their base point. Without free information flow from the west, how fast will they be able to go. That is the question.

Because, china and Russia are doing the same thing, just without the advertising part, i.e.,they do not let people know what they are working on unlike the US. If you think the nuclear armament is over, what a naive person you are. The moment that your oppressive regime enemies know that you are weak, they will pounce on you like Sylvester on Tweety Bird. I am glad US spending money to deter those countries. By the way, consider the employment opportunities such a project will open for engineering and manufacturing. You can not outsource your national defense.

Amen to that, H-1B abuse by the Desi sweatshops got rampant during Dubya and Obamuh administrations, not the other way around. We owe rubberstamping of H-1B visas to everyone who wins the lottery, to those two idiotic presidents. H-1B was a good program at its inception but Indians, made a mockery out of it. I hope this lawsuit sticks and be the opening of floodgates for all H-1B abusing companies. Enough is enough.

Why does the US model has a price tag of $1K extra, for what looks like the same unit, is baffling.

This article I read on tech crunch is making it sound like the new generation of so called power-users are going to be the savior of IT departments and in turn, the whole businesses. And they will be element who will bridge the digital divide. In reality, it is far away from that. Why you may ask. Well, no code doesn't exactly means things will drop out of the air to your whims. If you are not coding, someone else needs to do your dirty work. Computers, to everyone's dismay, are still hundreds of years away from understanding natural human language, spoken or typed, to operate. Someone, i.e. the coder, needs to translate human speak into computer speak. If you are a no-coder, you are no more than a user with a little more analytical prowess than the standard doorknob.Considering no code is error proof, what will happen when your no-code application barfs and locks up? Will you be able to communicate what happened to the person in charge of the computer system intelligently? Or are you going to throw your hand up in the air and say "I did what I always did but this thing locked up on me" ? My bet is on the latter for the no-coder generation. And in order to prevent these errors, the coders will try to build bullet proof code, a.k.a. idiot proof. Then the code behind the no-code will become exponentially more complex, beyond understanding of few chosen ones. This will pave the way to the rise of the IT elite, like the sysop of the glory days of computing. Nobody will be able to question the elite, risking alienating them and getting left behind with a big temperamental mess. For what ? So that the new generation of no-coder's can give themselves titles like "developer" or "IT architect" etc ? It is just ridiculous. This is akin to buying an electric car to save the environment while the electric generation is dependent on burning the same fossil fuels up the food chain. You look good on the paper but in reality, you do nothing. Prizes for all participants... Horray...