Tell me you're a fucking idiot, without telling me you're a fucking idiot.

Yes, they do. Almost everyone.

This one's for search engines.

There are 194 other countries. How the hell would I know if any of had tax credits expire?

Apple doesn't really make money on the data they hold. Unlike Microsoft and Google, Apple makes a lot of money on hardware sales, so they don't need to monetize the data as much. It's one of their selling features, if you ask me.

Not quite...

I would argue that regulating the humidity in the crisper drawers, and moreso the freezer (keeps freezerburn to a minimum and eliminates the need to remove ice buildup), and to an extent, some icemakers, are all useful functions. I don't want an icemaker in my fridge because I don't want to bring water to it, as it's one more thing to break and cause a flood, but a lot of people find that very useful; it removes something they otherwise need to remember and attend to. A water dispenser too, for some people.

Agreed on any kind of smart function though. No problem is solved bu putting those functions on a fridge.

You read the article?

You must be new here...

TOS had one black character, which provided some great storylines - some "woke", some not.

Had it made half the characters black as part of some diversity mandate, it too would have flopped.

(And actually, it didn't do too well during its original run anyway, which is why it was cancelled, which somewhat invalidates your point.)

Kinda hard when the family is in the middle of Arkansas and your employer is in Redmond, and you've just been ordered back to the office. Or if every employer you can find is inexplicably governed by the laws of Delaware.

And therein lies the problem. On the Internet, Cloudflare is that law. Whom do you propose to replace them with, without also allowing the same problem to exist (that being, that Cloudflare can too easily act as a censor)?

How?

I can close an entire street by ordering five hundred pizzas to the same address at the same time (assuming I can find five hundred pizzerias within the delivery area). How would we design a street to prevent this kind of DDoS attack?

Likewise, I fail to understand how the Internet could be designed in such a way that would be impossible to overwhelm any given target with a volume of traffic it can't handle.

No. It literally isn't. To any engineer, nothing but zero is zero.

You're a fucking idiot.

My theory is that Azure and AWS are having issues due to a large number of multi-cloud GCP customers failing over. They're just overloaded - it's not one or two GCP regions that are down. It's all of them.

Although I've been having issues with AWS all day, since before GCP went down. So I'm not sure.

Leopards ate their face.

I hate to victim blame, but don't put your genetic data online. My sister did, and I share 50% of mine with her. I am (IMO) justifiably angry about that (we're still cool though, but this is not something we'll ever agree on).

Everything, and I mean everything you put online, or send anywhere, including to government, will be leaked eventually. Share your data with that thought in mind.

That's great, if it's an option. It's a government overreach if it's mandatory.