First off, fuck Jeff Bezos.

Second, how could removing customers from the market entirely, other than a small handful of massive corporations, possibly be good for hardware manufacturers?

I had a recent convo with one of our sysadmins at work recently, one of his main job duties is maintaining the servers in place for email and he had asked in a rhetorical way how long email has been around (since the 70s) and given the massive increase in spam/phishing that the Internet has seen especially in the last 1-2 years, how realistic it is to expect email to continue on as a service 15 or 20 years down the road.

It hadn't occurred to me before then that this was a possibility, but I see his point -- if it is largely untenable to maintain an acceptable amount of control over who uses the platform and what it is used for, it may at some point simply cost companies more to maintain a high quality of service than it is worth in the long run to fight the proliferation of spam/phishing (3.4 billion messages/day according to various sites, ex. https://earthweb.com/how-many-...) and compromised accounts.

https://www.justice.gov/epstei...

They did some kind of network update that degraded the service to the point of being unusable, were unable to fix it across multiple support calls and when I finally called to port my number and phone to a new carrier as a result, said that since I had only had the phone for a few months instead of the 1.5 years that I actually had been using it for, they refused to unlock it.

Unlike the person in the article, since the phone was very cheap and I needed it fixed immediately, I just bought a new (unlocked) phone and sold the old one to recoup some of the expense, but they are now on my list of companies to never do business with again.

...Individual people actually see a value in not destroying the planet and everything that lives on it.

Pretty obvious why corporations and (some) governments don't, especially when the corporation has a hand in the operations of the government.

Does the FCC even still have employees at this point?

But hell yes

I might not have cared when I was younger, but as the years go by, the "spring forward" change is more and more disruptive and for a longer span of time.

I've been able to mitigate it somewhat by setting my alarm incrementally earlier in the weeks prior to make the adjustment gradual, but it is still quite stressful and irritating, and the reasoning behind it is outdated and pointless (in my book).

This strikes me as an incredibly evil and underhanded way to get coding projects done without having to actually pay someone to do it.

1) Applicant submits interest in job
2) As an "aptitude test" they are assigned an extensive coding project the company wants completed
3) The company gets the completed project back from the applicant, who is then turned down for the position

Presto, free coding work....

Some say we'll see Armageddon soon

Certainly hope we will

I sure could use a vacation from this...

If you get your news from facebook, you're doing it wrong.

I think it has more to do with the information existing in such a widespread manner in the first place, because once it does, it can't be lost somehow -- for law enforcement, the government, foreign governments, the highest bidder, Amazon employees, enterprising hackers, etc.

...when my phone isn't connected to any data networks. I keep it offline all of the time, unless I am actively using it. Then it gets disconnected again as soon as I am done.

I don't have a mic physically attached to my machine, nor would I ever consider enabling voice chat in a game.

Source: Have played multiplayer games on the Internet publicly with other people; those people display highly irritating behavior.

...is Winkelvi

This is all fine and good, but until or unless there is a specific change to Microsoft company policy (like to the employee handbook or at the HR level), nothing will change.