Just who will get those lucrative contractsâ¦

While I appreciate that some of the government run sites removed the problematic trackers quickly, Iâ(TM)d really like to know the reason why it was ever there in the first place and the full story of how it got there.

"...iRobot cut 31% of its workforce and moved 'non-core engineering functions to lower-cost regions.'" -Gee, I wonder what Amazon would have done had they got the company...

For those who dig, you will still find the data readily available (for most addresses, business addresses seem to be a bit different). https://firststreet.org/

Kim Jong-un says North Korea is the best nation in the world.

The fox guarding the hen house says the hen house is secure.

Vladimir Putin says Russia is performing a special military operation.

Benjamin Netanyahu says there isn't any genocide in Gaza.

I don't need a precog or an AI / ML algorithm to predict who is going to make an offensive social media post. It is obvious enough as is.

This made me chuckle. I remember a particular Recruit Division Commander in boot camp. I was proud of my work the first time I completed an assigned task properly. I reported the status to him. He came over, checked out the work, and said "Nice job! Congratulations! You've graduated from worthless.... to useless!" He then smiled and walked away. That was high praise in boot camp.

I wonder if OpenAI will defend their Chinese customer against copyright claims if they are the source of the claim. LOL. https://techcrunch.com/2023/11...

This seems to me the logical outcome of an _enforced_ "Corporations are people" type policy.

I see you are new to the government work environment.

Sounds like what they did with Amazon Prime Video and ads. They did this before, they will do it again.

This strikes me as the company pursuing the best course of action when they determined that it is not financially feasible to put in place enough protections to prevent this kind of activity on their systems. So... instead of protecting against it, they allow it and make money from it. I'm sure there is nuance here, but this smells like PR spin on a business decision to me.

I hear you on the sales growth math. If I had to guess, I'd say that this was probably likely to people waiting for the new EV tax credit rules to kick in. Knocking several thousand off the purchase price makes a big difference, also in the amount of interest paid.

For what it's worth, you can subscribe to F1TV for around $11/month or around $85/year. It is more expensive than the ESPN+ subscription (depending on how you get it), but you get access to some features ESPN+ can't give you. I had the F1TV subscription for years and liked to have my laptop screen showing the lap times, laps on current tire, when the last pit was, and some other data. You could also get the in-car radio for each driver. It's a way to get out of the ESPN+ subscription and you get a lot more data, but if all you want is the race, then ESPN+ is kind of hard to beat. Especially if it's bundled with the other Disney+/Hulu junk. This is the first year I'm going back to ESPN+ (as now I have the Disney+ sub), but I'll go back to F1TV for sure if the cabal above releases their streaming bundles together at an outrageous price point... or with ads. In the end, this is a math equation. I just hope they don't drop broadcast TV for events too in order to help drive subscriptions. I installed a TV antenna last year, and I get just enough of the other one-off sports games I watch on it that I don't have to subscribe for a month to to watch an occasional event like the Army Navy football game, Daytona 500, or the super bowl.

+1. It is like reporting "People go over the speed limit on the Interstate" at this point.