Or just not let it connect to the internet.

Or maybe it was a competitor who wasn't interested in stealing the laptop so much as stealing the game before its release?

In any event, "The laptop was stored in a cupboard in the booth." The whole point of a laptop is its portability. While the venue and convention organizers could certainly have done a better job, anybody who leaves something that valuable in the booth at night is a fool.

Did you masturbate while you posted that, bot? How does a bot masturbate? Do you have robotic hands, and a dildo? Is the dildo battery operated? How do you know when you're done?

While that is entirely possible, I'm skeptical. It doesn't appear to have enough intelligence to be of any use to them whatsoever. I'm more inclined to believe it's an especially broken bot.

You, on the other hand, are clearly so obsessed with it that you can't stop yourself form furiously masturbating at every opportunity to remind everyone of who obsessed you are.

While I agree 100%, though I'd prefer to see criminal charges against CEOs for the DOS attacks they knowingly commit, with things like changing user agents to ignore blocks as evidence of criminal intent (which it is), while I agree 100%, there would be lawsuits that, in the current climate, have enough of a chance to succeed to result in temporary restraining orders while it takes years to resolve (not too different from when the same tactics were used in the spam wars).

I guess you missed this part:

"Suddenly, the crawlers were coming from millions of random residential or mobile IPs, all pretending to be random modern browsers. An IP like that would make 4-5 requests and then never show up in the logs again"

Calm down. I'm allowed to point and laugh when you do.

And clearly, there isn't a single human being in the entire human race that is different from you in any way?

There is actually a specific exemption granted under federal law that allows that (which Trump is currently trying to withdraw).

Except when they don't. Broadly oversimplifying, states can give additional protections to consumers/employees/the public over and above what the feds give.

And it happens a lot. That's why the federal minimum wage is ~$7/hour, and 30 states have raised it to twice that or more.

I was thinking that, in a perfect world, there would be two parallel (and completely isolated from each other) systems running simultaneously, but capable of handling the full load of both. Upgrades would involve shifting the full load to one while the other is upgraded, then very careful testing before switching.

Still doesn't seem out of line, especially given the things people call 911 over.

For a drug dealer, getting a kid hooked on drugs is creating a customer. For a tech bro, getting a kid hooked on doom scrolling is creating a product.

You can for who he takes seriously.

Comparing your favorite quack to Jesus is classic cult behavior. And one of the most fundamental characteristics of cults is to indoctrinate their followers in irrational beliefs as a way of isolating them from the outside world.

That is what actual oncologists say makes him a quack. That, and his belief that cancer is one single condition, rather than hundreds, many of which have strong similarities, but all of which have unique properties as well.

You sweet, summer child.