Agreed, on our family NYC / Florida trip, we decided to visit the Orlando Universal Studios park and stayed at a connected hotel for several hundred bucks, but then we got early access, which helped avoid the queues at the start, and at the very end, the park was emptying, and we took the best rides again. No skipping the queues in a paid way, just decent planning. Tickets were USD 180 I think, times 4, so it did cost an arm and a leg. However, we all found it worthwhile (the Bourne show was the best show, rides weren't unanimous), and we all decided on our California trip that we weren't going to visit any theme park.

It's actually not much of a compliment from an anonymous coward, so now from a named poster: well worded, thank you.

Thanks, useful links, as a bystander I can say that your energy is wasted on the denier, which is likely his goal, but serves a useful purpose in that bystanders get more educated. I've informed the denier of this too, since it implies his goal wasn't achieved and might trigger him to insight - nah, who am I kidding. Anyway, well done.

Simply the Forbes link was enough to confirm this point. You have merely done the equivalent of la la la I can't hear you. That makes you a denier of the worst kind: you pretend to engage in discussion, but you purposely ignore the arguments, thereby getting the other side to waste energy and wear out. Luckily, as a bystander, I found the links very useful. So it wasn't wasted energy after all.

Anthropic confessed they Broke Into Computers at 3 Organizations

Let's stop giving out of jail free passes to corporations.

Exactly, they take out plenty of human factors.

Reminds me of an expensive training I once got, sent by my company, and the trainer complained about always picking the slow (wrong) lane at the supermarket checkout. The short one will invariably have some older lady searching for the correct amount of coins, etcetera, and so you're wasting your life...
Nodding faces, except me. Guy asks, "you always pick the short lane and always get lucky that it's really fast?"
"No, I pick the lane with the prettiest cashier so however long I spend in the queue doesn't feel wasted."

But otherwise, the 0.01 cent or percent more expensive won't sell anything... Right.

Yeah, I once was on the hardware side for mobile, got the info that my designs got produced and sold about 500 million times. Sure, I made just a tiny part with dozens of other developers, but still, it's cool. Not much of that went into Android phones, those were still doing baby steps...

The way I remember is that he was (usually? mostly?) pro Microsoft and anti Linux, anti FLOSS, which is morally and ethically wrong for any individual, even if they have no use for FLOSS and enjoy using Microsoft products...

Not sure what exactly they convinced you of, but it apparently means you ended up on the wrong side in gweihir's mind, so tread carefully. Or just ignore the guy. Either way, been there, done that,...

Thank you for you explanations and the good work to make Android secure.

No need to steel, just share, and I'm glad to have made sense. Happens all the time to myself, but to others, well ... ;-)

Yeah, thank you for answering. I was still a bit sleepy in morning public transport,...

I later realised it's like seeing a twirling baton moving forward in stroboscopic light, then figuring out what area it paints.

I've not finished wrapping my head around this, but is my intuitive assumption correct that for a 360 degree rotation, one should pass through the point of 180 degrees? Or does one stay in the same 2d plane?

In visualising this, the triangle is actually how you invert a parked car. Well, doing it twice might be just for exercise...

Hate to break it to you, but it sounds like only now your eyes have been opened.

Personally, I don't get people being fans of corporations. None of them truly have your (the little guy) best interest at heart.

In the digital world, this means you have to take the choice of free and open source software wherever possible.

Whenever that's not an option, go for the second or third biggest, to put your consumer money on the right side of the balance.

Meanwhile, in Korea Samsung is really really big and into everything and anything. Former coworker story, who joined Samsung Semiconductors for a couple of years, working in Seoul, dropped by at the department secretary to inform her he'd been ill. She types something on her computer, turns sideways back to him and says without blinking:
Your story checks out, I see your pharmacy credit card transaction that confirms it.

Yeah, speechless or wtf are the only reactions to that...

Reminds me of a former coworker's T-shirt, which would totally fit that: