Sometimes things have had their run, and their death is ugly and uncomfortable. Remember the good times, try to forget the bad, but above all, let them rest in peace.

The U.S. Department of Justice can now set up a cutout and try to buy that data as part of a criminal investigation and sting operation.

Here's hoping they do, and that they nail these bastards, as an example to the rest of them.

"The change as been reverted as of May 3, but not before 1.4 million commits were made. Unfortunately, those messages cannot be cleansed and are permanent."

Nonsense. It's just ones and zeros. They can be changed. Microsoft just doesn't want to.

$900 USD is just not worth it for me for console gaming. I've already got a PC that works, and games I like for it.

I'm just going into a holding pattern for buying any computing equipment unless I absolutely need to. I suspect I'm going to be in the majority on that.

I'll just continue to purchase games from GOG on sale. My "to be played" backlog is already crushingly large, I'm not at a loss for something to play.

Also, SONY? I still remember that rootkit you and BMG hit people with. Sucks when your customers have long memories, doesn't it?

Whatever court hears Mumbauer's wrongful dismissal case will likely look at his actions post-firing and decide that he doesn't have "clean hands" in this matter. That will reduce the amount of damages the court is willing to award, or potentially end up with the decision going against Mumbauer completely, with him now being potentially on the hook for the company's legal fees.

If you have a legal dispute like this, keep your hands legally clean, even if it pains you to do so.

For those who need a refresher as to how the failure of the Fukushima reactors, see this video:

Understanding the accident of Fukushima Daiichi (from 2012)
https://youtu.be/YBNFvZ6Vr2U

Total time: 13:01. The key bit is at 4:49: "The waves went over the sea wall flooding the lower parts of buildings, and disabled the emergency diesel generators."

Had those generators and fuel tanks been higher up in the structure, things probably would have been fine, but with the reactors in control-rod shutdown and needing to dissipate the residual heat in the reaction chambers, the secondary cooling systems powered by those emergency diesel generators were absolutely crucial.

The tripling of memory prices and watching the domino effect to any computer hardware that needs memory (but can't get adequate supplies) due to the hoovering up of nearly all the memory being produced by data centers used for AI projects.

That's the most stupid, and annoying thing about all this to me. May this bubble pop, and quickly.

My wallet will stay closed to memory purchases for the duration of this price spike.

In a situation like this where the occupants aren't at fault, you honour the reservation for the duration of the stay, and you comp the rest of the stay ("It's on the house.")

In this way you generate a ton of good-will for the Marriott, and positive word of mouth advertising that you only wish you could buy on demand. Marriott decided to take the low road and kick the occupants out mid-stay. Bad form.

Can't wait for another glut of 14 Terabyte SSDs for a unbelievably low prices. Of course the guts of these things are really just a cheap USB stick's memory, with the surrounding circuitry reprogrammed to lie about its size.

Seriously, caveat emptor on any marketplace like this.

Satellites can broadcast to a tight geographic area thus minimizing any potential interference. Basically it's an aimed-cone around the antenna that restricts the signal from reaching any area other than an intended geographic circle on the ground.

Dish Network does this with local broadcast channels. If you subscribe in one geographic area, and move to another far away, you lose access to the old local network channels, not because of any digital restrictions based on zip code plus gps location, but because you're simply outside the area the signals reach.

The same technology could be implemented (perhaps already is) to mitigate any potential interference with ground-to-space signals.

Same as in personal relationships, it is inadvisable to go back to an abusive partner.

Plumber, electrician, welder, mechanic, and a whole bunch more.

See Mike Rowe's take on this:
https://youtu.be/HJRyMQiTJF4

Cloudflare is one of the DNS providers for the "DNS over HTTPS" (DoH) service inside browsers, and it may well be the default choice. If your browser is configured to use DoH, and it's set to use 1.1.1.1, it's pushing its DNS resolution calls through Cloudflare.

As such, Cloudflare makes for a good choke point for the music and movie consortiums to use to lock out resolution of these sites based on the user's geo-located IP.

Me, I turned off DoH as soon as I heard about this new service. I run my own local Bind9 server with protection against malware sites, and I didn't want them doing an end-run around that layer of protection.