Lessons once learned and now forgotten must be re-learned in the modern age.

On the one hand, it is good that justice was finally served.

On the other:
-Vigilante Justice: taking the law into ones own hands when the police/government can't deliver justice is a cool trope in film, but harmful to society in reality.
-Outsourcing actions that the police/government are forbidden from taking to private citizens/corporations is the wrong solution. If a thing is important to do, we should re-examine why we forbid the government/police from doing it -not simply find a workaround where someone else does it for them off the books.

On balance, I will say: No, it is not good.

The bloggers you remember were claiming causality, where the science only shows correlation.

Walmart is down about 10% after revising their expectations for the rest of the year. This is after their sales went UP 7% in the first quarter.

Walmart is anticipating a retail-pocalypse with the poorest among us no longer being able to afford to shop at Walmart. Not because people are going to a cheaper store -there isn't one, but because people will not be able to afford to shop at any store. They have committed to applying any tariff refunds to lowering shelf prices in an attempt to recruit/maintain customers. Walmart also cited rising costs due to fuel prices as a contributing factor.

All of this is from their (legally mandated to be true and accurate to the best of their knowledge) quarterly report to stockholders. You can google it for exact wording, if you care..

The stock market is not the economy. The cracks are beginning to show.

Are you sure? I expect the CIA knew exactly what they were getting when they hired him... and that it was not a problem until he crossed someone higher up who decided he should be removed.

The speed of sound. It creates a supersonic shockwave.

This type of explosion is known as a deflagration (as opposed to a detonation).

I'm pretty sure they are the manufacturer of the pump in the well at my off-grid cabin.

They make stuff ranging from consumer to massive industrial products. Regarded as a manufacturer of high quality reliable equipment.

Yeah... thats the one I would like. But as I said, my current htpc is good enough to play steam games on.

edit: Nevermind... this is their handheld gaming device. I don't want one of those. I was thinking of the new livingroom gaming box..

I'd like to buy one, but not at that price.

I will wait for the price to come back down, and probably lose interest before it does -my current htpc does a good enough job of gaming for my needs.

I do not see those words in the summary above.

I did not say "evil" nor did I say it was illegal. I said it was abusive.
-If they do in fact upstream the fixes (as you assert) then it is not abusive.

These capabilities will be offered through commercial subscriptions, allowing enterprises to integrate secure patches directly into their existing software supply chains with enterprise-grade validation and lifecycle management.

Selling security patches as a subscription service instead of submitting them upstream to fix the problems for all users.

An abominable abuse of open source.

"Is it insider trading if the AI does it?"

Asking for a friend...

"It is better that a hundred guilty men escape than that one innocent suffer." -Blackstone
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -Franklin ...

Shall I go on, or do you get the concept?

Yes. Those are ALL gambling. Even the stock market. Owning stock is fractional ownership of a business; the stock market is gambling on the future value of a stock. Some gambling is legal, taxed and regulated.