<blockquote>Seizing names just makes it harder to find sites, but if users are expecting to have to find the current site name, then it starts to get more futile.</blockquote>

And then helpful Wikipedia editors conveniently document for posterity the current site name, so users always know where to look.

Why would it be illegal to give them a discount? I understand not wanting to undermine the relationship with the other vendors, but illegal?

Why would you want to forbid them? Who are you, the hostname police?

This cannot be legal in the EU, right? Or even if only one of your employees works remotely from EU?

Well it's an answer; no one said the answer is correct.

How good are mitigations to speculative execution attacks (Spectre, Meltdown) on the new Apple processors?

Do they beat Intel in this respect, too?

Microsoft is rebranding every one of their products "Copilot", so at this point it seems hard to avoid using it.

Can someone ELI5 what they are trying to build? Is it something similar to Android's verified boot + attestation or Play Integrity?

Because it's trivial to circumvent this security feature with a Faraday bag.

You were lied to. It's a fun lie, but still a lie. Companies are made of people and reflect the values of those people Mostly top-down. Some companies are villainous. Some are fine. Some are great.

Disney always believed in changing the world for the better. And I think they've done some great work. That's a top-down corporate value. Straight from the head.

The problem with trying to change the world for the better is that sometimes -- often -- we just don't know enough. It's the "fatal conceit", that our imaginations are somehow more powerful than billions of individual decision makers. Kennedy had an ideology. She believed in it. A lot of people believed in it. It was a lemon. The Star Wars IP was trashed. (And same with every Lucas Films IP.)

Corporate values are the values of the humans that work there -- mostly the leadership.

It sure was beautifully shot. If only they put 1/10th as much work into the characters and their motivations.

If you block Cloudflare, you block about 25% of the internet. Good luck with that.

Can't you do the same in a more standards-compatible way with CTRL+c, CTRL+v?

They have no need for it, when they always have a phone in their pocket. Are we also surprised people can't use a slide rule, ride a horse, or light a fire with a flint stone?

Oof I forgot that Slashdot is stuck in the second millennium ASCII era.