What, exactly, is the point or purpose of including code in your program that is downloaded from a third-party website every time you execute the program?

If you want to include a function or subroutine or library in your program, why wouldn't you just download it and use that?

"Lets drag in random code every time we run the program" is a huge security hole on its own and I genuinely don't understand why anyone would do that, or would even consider it as a worthwhile idea.

Ok, you can "pin it". Which still leaves you dependent on the remote random website, which could be hacked, changed, redirected or disappear at any time.

A security hole you can drive a truck through? This could accommodate a whole fleet of tractor trailers!

"it is against Meta's Terms of Service, and could void your warranty"

Apparently so.

What do you gain by purchasing a physical disk if playing the game requires a connection to the publisher's server?

Is there something I'm not seeing here?

The headline number here is $150 million but that isn't what it's being presented as.

I assume that by "revenue" they mean gross sales revenue.

So after deducting costs (commissions and profit margins for the retailers average between 30% and 50%, apparently) the remaining amount is likely in the area of $75 to $85 million to the company.

"Winds are caused when matter falling to the black hole is accelerated to near light-speed, generating pressure that pushes infalling material away."

It's always been my understanding that black holes pull everything into them and nothing can escape.

So if this wind is escaping, then that was wrong?

right to left.

Data centers use water for cooling.

Ok, I get that.

But don't you get the water back?

My car uses water for cooling too, and the radiator recirculates it. I'm not pouring in gallons of water to drive across town.

Even if the water comes out of the data center "hot", why can't it be cooled again?

What am I not understanding here?

What, exactly, is the point or purpose of including code in your program that is downloaded from a third-party website every time you execute the program?

If you want to include a function or subroutine or library in your program, why wouldn't you just download it and use that?

"Lets drag in random code every time we run the program" is a huge security hole on its own and I genuinely don't understand why anyone would do that, or would even consider it as a worthwhile idea.

They can easily stop Google from "taking" any of their content that they wish.

robots.txt is a thing, and Google honours it.

If it's not listed in robots.txt, it's not password protected, and it's available on the public Internet (notice the word public there) then why shouldn't Google have the same right to read their webpage as you or I do.

"Oh, but they're telling others what it says."

Yeah, and I just told my wife/friend/dog that my favourite hockey team won their game. I saw that information on a news website and passed it along.

If your business fails you stop doing it and move on to something else.

And if there's a demand for your business elsewhere then you set up over there instead.

Should there also be a law saying that McDonalds or Pizza Hut can't set up shop within four miles of any independent restaurant?

"My business model is failing. Make those guys give me money."

I understand the value of newsrooms and have a lot of sympathy for their sudden lack of viability in today's world, but I'm not convinced that is the answer.

Other than government taxation, monetary transactions in a capitalist society are supposed to be voluntary,

The movie makers built a 30,000 sq ft labyrinth of apparently random corridors and chambers, all carpeted, fluorescent lit and decorated in the same sickly yellow wallpaper on soundstages in Vancouver.

The maze-like sets were reportedly so realistic that some crew members got disoriented navigating through them during filming.

If this guy's problems are all related to the thing being too small, scale it to 125% or 150% or whatever is needed to make it work.

It's a virtual object so it doesn't have a real world dimension so he can set any base unit size he wants and still get an "authentic" table.

Actually, where did he get the size he's working with anyway? Measured it against a background object or something?

My point is there shouldn't be any "likely" or "probably" involved here.

The announcement should clearly state what the threat vector was.

Seems irresponsible to me.

Shouldn't the first order of business be to announce what extension was compromised so others can avoid it?