I hope he finds excess Polonium in his toilet paper.

I think you significantly overstate the gravity of their announcement. You can entirely bot the process of finding a flight to suit and handing you a link; open it, pay with stored credit card, and you'll still be entirely within what they explicitly allow.

In practice they don't necessarily have much incentive to do anything about bookings they have some sloppy-implementation reason to suspect are fully botted(in their ideal world comparison searching would presumably be harder; but cat is obviously out of the bag on that one an concealing that almost all of the work was automated will be relatively simple so there's a high false positive risk); but since you were specifically directed to not do that they are better placed to deal with cases where someone's openclaw fiasco buys them a nonsense route and they want to try to make it the airline's problem.

Alleged professionals checking secrets into github and shipping them in retail binaries is at least as old as 'devops' being a thing people say with a straight face; and standards in 'AI' and for amateurs are even lower than in software development generally. There's some diversity in terms of the ignorant vs. the negligent; but in practice egregious mishandling of secrets is to be expected.

And if people were generally smart, they would not need to even state that. But people are not and some idiots will sue United for things they essentially did to themselves. So this ban.

Sure, if you can prove those discount plans are starving higher tier plans of bandwidth. Otherwise it's more corporate whining.

An alternative to your conspiracy theory rabbit hole that still addresses "why now?" - it could be as simple as the Chinese told him "we need you to do X or we'll expose your affair with our spy" and he basically said "publish and be damned".

More likely, he probably just got caught one too many times and the board said "we can't ignore it any more".

Because you seem to ignore the per capita rate in favour of per country. It's a lot easier for an American or Canadian to cut their carbon emissions then a Faroe Islander or Somalian.
And my apologies if I mis-understood you.

Yea, they also produce 4X the CO2 as Canada while the point is that per capita is a better measure then by country

Is anyone else surprised that the DoJ ended up asking; rather than Satya just giving Dear Leader the access as part of a lobbying effort?

I don't think linkedin has, or has ever claimed to offer, any sort of protection of user data against administrator access, and the broligarchy has been nothing but eagerly cooperative.

Yeah, the damn poor get all the breaks! /s

Fair enough - I should probably have taken a more "congrats, you're one of today's lucky 10,000" approach.

It's the guy on the left.

You did check the link I provided, right?

Nobody's physically relocating servers beyond the mom-n-pop scale; well, at least not until the much later "rebuild" phase, if that's what you meant. I work for nobody special, for example, and the most important servers little ol' me controls are replicated across three geographically-distributed data centers with an RPO of 20 seconds (more like 2-3 in practice).

The per-site problem with drone strikes is no different than any other DR scenario; where it gets ugly is correlation. We tend to assume disasters will be independent and localized, in exactly the way an intentional attack on infrastructure very much is not. But there's simply no realistic way to plan for every alternative site being simultaneously compromised - That's a matter for underwriters, not geeks. Or rather, the "solution" is trivial, but ridiculously expensive and wasteful... "Oh the fools, if only they built it with 6001 hulls! When will they learn?"

Well, if I were interested my questions would have been:
1) Can you play it off-line? and
2) Does it run on Linux?

It's partially Apple's fault, but it's partially the kind of jungle most social media have become. I haven't used it since I was on dial-up, but it's not a problem unique to Apple. Look as what happened to newsgroups before they died.