Musk wanting control? Who might have guessed?

The term "honor" has always been somewhat flexible in interpretation in criminal organizations.

The current miscreants appear to live by a different code than the reported approach used by the mob (and their families).

But the PE firms can make a lot of money (and that is all that matters in the late stage capitalism stage we are in).

As I understand it, the carrier has to carry the encryption request across its network to the target phone carriers network which passes it along to the target device, and then carry all the agreements to encrypt back along the path to the originating device. In the US, it would appear most (all?) of the major carriers do support that capability, but of course not all phones may currently support encryption. Once both ends agree/accept, one can establish E2EE.

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe" - Einstein

cURL is apparently well written with minimal security vulnerabilities. I am not sure all other software can make that claim (and if the reports are accurate, Firefox had it's share of vulnerabilities identified by the tool).

Maybe Debian will just commission Pixar to write yet another Toy Story?

I wonder if UNiDAYS / Apple has closed the loophole where staff and alumni who used university email addresses (and for alumni those email addresses sometimes lasted forever as the university wanted you to stay connected (and send them money) long after you graduated) were considered eligible for various education discounts. I never actually wanted any product (from Apple, or from other vendors) for which such discounts applied, so I don't know for sure whether additional checks happened later in the process, but I do recall UNiDAYS validated my affiliation all those years ago as meeting their educational requirements.

Threats of lawsuits (especially to open source products, which do not have deep pockets) are the new corporate approach to what would appear to be appropriate reverse engineering. The only way forward, if you disagree, is to refuse to purchase any Bambu products.

You make it sound like the rich getting richer using insider information is a bad thing? You must not be among the fraction of 1%.

USPS had one monopoly, first class letters, delivered across the entire US for the same price, 6 days a week, which supported their existence. I do not know when the last time you received a 1st class letter, but it is now rarity for me (maybe two per month, and one of them has a historical mandate for physical letters that no longer really makes sense), and I suspect most have a similar 1st class letter experience. Delivering such 1st class letters once/twice a week, and packages only on demand, is the only method that could result in a viable USPS, but that will require hard decisions, something some are unwilling to make.

Ignoring your hyperbole regarding actual prices, the answer is that you are supposed to be willing to pay up, or not to purchase at all. Just like C-3PO, your lot in life is to suffer.

The AI is not convinced that Richard Dawkins is conscious.

There is an entire category of e-bikes that are officially sold for off road riding, whose top speed may be 25mph (and higher in some cases or with trivial mods). And in more urban and suburban areas they are commonly used on sidewalks and roads (their top speed is approximately the same as some road speed limits). They can be a danger to others, and to the riders (who commonly don't wear helmets). I have personally seen them racing around a school yard park (technically after school hours, but some children are still playing). It may not be the fault of the e-bike that the riders are not doing the right thing, but catching (and citing) the riders is hard, so forcing additional performance limits and registration may be the only way forward. All part of the "This is why we can't have nice things" world (it only take a few people to ruin it for everyone).

So how long before some new AI passes the Spotify test and becomes verified?