Nice to see you catching up with the rest of the world...just your usual 20 years behind everyone else. Got to be at least 20 years since I last saw a data cap on fixed line internet access in the UK.

If what they are doing is also illegal in the USA then they can be extradicted and be prosecuted. If international law worked on the principle of "well we did it from our country, not in yours" then nobody anywhere would ever be able to be prosecuted for financial fraud, theft etc. Fortunately for people like you it is a founding tenet of international law that you cannot direct harm in another country from your own and escape justice.

Maybe there wasn't one? In my town there is one an hour in each direction that only goes in the direction of the major towns to the south or north, nothing going west and they only run between 6am and 8pm. If I need to go anywhere else than those places or I need to go at a time other than the scheduled time then public transport isn't an option. Welcome to living in a rural community.

But making fuel for vehicles isn't the only thing that crude oil they drill and refine gets used for though is it? Many of the components in products in your home, things like the plastics your food comes wrapped in and even the device you posted your comment from also are made using oil.

Well ICO has just fined 23andMe £2.31m over their data breach in 2023 that exposed sensitive personal information, family histories, and health conditions. They also fined Facebook £500,000, the maximum fine at the time, back in 2018 for the Cambridge Analytica scandal just because Facebook had given app developers access to people's data "without clear consent". So yes we do carry out enforcement when it involves citizen privacy.

Apple were worried enough that they removed ADP in the UK rather than face the British courts for non-compliance.

The IRC servers have nothing remotely like the user count that Whatsapp does, nor do they offer anywhere near the same functionality nor uptime.

CD-ROM. You don't need a computer to use a CD-ROM and the CD-ROM pre-dated the invention of the WWW by a decade. The primary use CD-ROM dwas audio in hi-fi systems, portable devices like Walkmans and Ghetto Blasters, car stereos.

One tech executive recently told me his company had stopped hiring anything below an L5 software engineer — a midlevel title typically given to programmers with three to seven years of experience

2030...."Technology sector in crisis due to a shortage of skilled and experienced programmers."

You're just confirming what they said. You could have got it legitimately but chose to pirate instead because you didn't want to pay for it and all the excuses that you're trotting out is you trying to justify to yourself that you're still an upstanding law abiding person.

F1TV isn't available in my country. I still subscribe to it and pay for it using a VPN. So I'm sorry but the claim that 21 of them aren't available in your country as a justification for piracy is just bullshit especially given that you'll already be using a VPN to hide your piracy. There is nothing stopping you using a VPN to connect to servers in the country where these services are available and subscribing to them.

Murdoch hasn't owned Sky for some time. It's owned by Comcast.

I'm quite sure that the 192/195 countries of the world that use metric will manage to cope somehow.

Did you miss the part of the article where it said that in some cases the AI re-wrote the kill command so it wouldn't work anymore? AI redefines CTRL-C and you're not closing it down.