A thousand login requests every four to five seconds is definitely something that was considered in the era of floppies. If anything, people thought about that kind of thing MORE often back then because bandwidth was scarce. A common approach would be to use exponential backoff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

There are obviously design issues in the billion dollar system.

I notice you completely omitted what Bush was thinking.

It's click-bait. You know the equation.

Money + Beauty = eyeballs

Indeed, but it was accidental. I'm not sure the significance either way.

Maybe they should fix reviews on their own site before trying to handle the entire internet.

Amazon isn't trying to do anything. Amazon execs are trying to make proposals that increase their impact factor, hoping to get promoted.

His latency is high but you have to admit installing him as a router would be an improvement.

Bush harnessed the chaos of 9/11 to invade Iraq. What a waste of a crisis.

Wow, I would have done it for $1 billion.

It might be.

They are, they do. It's called "responsible disclosure," but it was named that by gaslighters.

If Microsoft cared, they would have implemented standard practices to avoid security bugs.

They didn't, they don't.

Accessory to a crime unless you can plausibly show that you thought it would be used for non-criminal reasons (like if you sold it to the government).

When a CEO builds a company from scratch, he usually cares about it more than a CEO who is chosen by shareholders.

Seems great game of business kind of strategy.