Nothing, they wind up paying for most of the fees thanks to card users getting a 'reward'.

Um, the PC has a keyboard.. All they did was relabel the job from 'typist' to 'data entry'.

NO, the big banks want to own their own DEBIT card network so that they are not limited on the fees they can charge, those fees are government limited when using the existing third party networks like Visa, MasterCard, and American Express.
How does this get modded insightful, it is completely ignorant of the facts stated in the summary.

This, Cash payers get taken. The reward is the way the card companies push the actual costs onto those without cards.
If there we a 'don't be scum' law, the card companies would be in big trouble.

which is unique to the install/owner/system board, we also know they track various things, and no one really believes this to 'anonymized'. Why is anyone here acting surprised?

Most hardware has a serial number, even your USB mouse. Main components might hide this by firmware option, but not that mouse.

We lost sight of the whole reason for scientific research. Publishing is just the game now, content quality has fallen to background noise level.

Anyone remember those?

Computers are high maintenance, even if the hardware is fine the software side is always creating more work because it always needs fixing.

All AI does is add more software maintenance and more people running around putting out it's fires.

The would work, 40 or 50 years ago - our government has outgrown the need for citizens. We don't need vigilantes, we don't need crying at the circus (council meetings), we need to change the fundamental way our government responds to citizen concerns by making corporations legally powerless to interfere with all aspects of government.

Perhaps redact exact info to the public. (yes I remember because the global internet was always full of scum)
There are ways to provide the owner's name and non-exact location and provide a protected contact path to the owner through the registrar. But that contact path through the registrar must work or the domain should be disabled until that is fixed - this would require more effort on the part of GoDaddy but that is their fucking job as registrar.

Right now you get 'info redacted' - that's it. This is useless and abused.

Even though a record setting deadly heat wave is ongoing, and forecasting severe storm damage - Union IBEW Local 614 decided to walk out anyway.

Now that is just selfish. Hard to root for those that abandon responsibility during a crisis.

Find something else to blame as an effect of ongoing 'wars'. Like dead people.

Bring back the requirement of public whois records with an actual verified address. The modern internet is too much of a scam to hide any website's owner.

If you are worried about news reporters and whistleblowers there are already sites for that to provide anonymoty - but the website owner itself NEVER needs to hide ownership unless it is some sleezy scammer or thief type site.

This is just 'baba saber rattling after being outed for using Claude itself instead of doing it's own development.

- it's the China way - just don't get caught.

If you had an email account through Verizon internet, even going all the way back to when they were still Bell Atlantic - you are now stuck with AOL mail servers if you want to keep that decades old email address. (I am here).

I don't know what the deal included when Verizon handed the addresses to AOL, but I hope it has guarantees of continuation regardless of which shady owner controls it.