How is it that out of every possible whataboutism you could have chosen you pick one that is completely and utterly irrelevant? I mean this has to have been on purpose. You couldn't accidentally have made such an idiotic statement could you?

The point of SAF is that you *don't* change the aircraft. In order to market something as "SAF" it needs to meet ASTM D7566. The primary purpose of ASTM D7566 is to produce a fuel that is re-designated under ASTM D1655. I.e. if you make SAF to the SAF standard you can pump it straight into any engine designed to take Jet-A1.

And there have already been demonstrations that you can fly a 100% SAF fuel on an intercontinental flight without any changes to the airplane.

I find this one dimensional thinking amusing. You are right the countries are vastly different. There are 13x as many potential customers in the USA to pay for that infrastructure.

I suspect you get paid like someone who lives in Chile too. The average monthly income in Chile is less than half the average monthly income in the USA. I suspect a person working for Entel gets paid a fraction of what someone working for T-Mobile gets. In fact the minimum wage is roughly 5x higher in the USA.

Supply and demand does actually work both ways. It's a economic student's fantasy that it is a corporate race to the bottom for your dollar. In the end a balance is struck between forgoing more customers and sustaining high revenue. When you have a supply of wealthy people willing to pay for something, you charge for it.

At least that explains about half the price difference, the USA has some peculiarities that push the prices slightly higher.

You're begging the question. You only need to look at the cost of a mobile plan now vs pre-merger you *are* better off now. Based on inflation alone the average $60/m plan should be $12.93 more expensive. Except they are going up by just $5, most are going up by less than that. In fact on the lower end of their plans over the past 4 years even now that the price increase freeze is lifted the plans will on average have gone up at half the rate of AT&T.

Now I'm not saying that your point about mergers and acquisitions is incorrect. In fact it is mis-based. The technology services sector does not benefit from economies of scale in any significant sense since the scale is based on infrastructure build-out cost. So all you're left with is efficiency increases, but they are ultimately insignificant. There was no reasonable expectation that consumers should have lower prices post merger.

Yet... that's kind of what happened when you look at the data anyway.

That's beyond stupid.

I'm no fan of Google or Apple, but here they're collecting radio signals YOU choose to broadcast. It's like saying you didn't give other patrons permission to listen to what you're saying in a crowded bar. If you don't want them listening in, your only option is to shut up.

Well I'm sure you can work with your IT department to ensure that the pages you need to send for compliance reasons are not blocked. You realise this is in your company's control right? It's a feature for companies, if it doesn't work for you, then you have your own implementation to blame.

Indeed. And they will look suspicious pointing them at their own computer while doing something involving secret information.

Incidentally we don't all carry high-resolution cameras around. Some people work on sensitive things. I hope you can see the overlap here.

Edge already has DRM based screenshot blocking features. Seriously go try it, log into e.g. Netflix or Disney+ and take a screenshot, see if any content shows up.

If you're dealing with sensitive information you are significantly more likely to be found out in a public office environment by pointing a camera at a screen (weird thing to do) compared to typing on your keyboard (normal thing to do).

That is assuming you're allowed a phone in the first place. Some people working on secret information aren't even allowed to have their cell phone on them.

False. MS provide organisations the choice of either. They don't have a say in this. It's a corporate feature and you are *NOT* the master of your PC in a corporate environment regardless of what OS you run -- if your IT department is even remotely compentent that is.

Actually you do. There's no middle ground here. Either you trust Microsoft and need to understand how recall works in detail (in which case the fact that data is encrypted locally stored should be good for you), or you don't trust Microsoft and you have already sold yourself out to them by virtue of running their OS which is at the whim of their updates and their data harvesting.

Either way you look at it Recall does not represent a change in risk to you.

It's really not. You also have the option of two different paste buttons on the top, two paste buttons on the right click context menu, and two paste options in the menu if remembering a shortcut key is too complex for you.

Wouldn't be /. if someone without a sense of humour didn't attempt a serious reply to an obvious joke.

Humour is a personal thing. There are those people with a sense of humour, and then there's you.

If understanding security risk management makes me a troll I'll get that printed on my lunchbox and display it proudly.