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.

They are if you never do anything outside of the click click drool UX.

They used to be pretty simple even then, but now they have all the complexity of any other system.

This is the console release, but even the last GTA game required connecting to the internet occasionally for a blessing, though it did/does run on Linux including the online component. However, the game is also absolutely full of cheaters, so I won't be surprised if the new version requires kernel DRM.

Rich folks like Elon, who broke USAID, killing tens of thousands so far and projected to add up to millions?

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.

Certainly don't tear anything down. Mothball those plants in case they are needed in wartime, during unprecedented weather activity that disrupts solar production for long periods, etc. Maintain a reserve of fuel for them in the bargain. Coal is great for this because it's great at lying around. You certainly don't want to use it if you don't have to, but it would be foolish to dismantle it. It's worth paying to store it.

No, this isn't a thing. It's either being increased or reduced. The USA is doing worse by increasing, but we also need to be actually decreasing the use of fossils.

What customers need is information, so Apple has decided to bury some, because customer needs run contrary to Apple greed.

I had a B&W G3 with the Rev.1 logic board defect which caused data corruption on UDMA transfers. Apple elected not to include their page on remedies when they brought the old TechInfo Library into their new Knowledge Base, because instead of replacing the defective hardware, they told you to buy an expansion card and use up one of your four slots for it, at a time when literally the same card was $20 for PC or $100 for Macintosh.

Hiding information is what Apple does. That's how people can think their hardware is high quality.

America would be doing better if we hadn't killed off passenger rail or had high-speed passenger rail like China has. When people have to drive from point a to point b, it adds a lot of emissions that the typical Chinese person wouldn't have to use due to rail/air. Pew says only 17% of Chinese households have a car. This is changing, which will make China look worse, I suspect, in the future (even with EV you need power to charge batteries).

I realize that there are heavily populated corridors in the US where passenger rail exists, but for most of the country, with an extremely long east-west axis, it isn't practical. China also benefits somewhat from having a population distribution heavily leaning toward the eastern side of the country. The USA has significant populations on both the east, south, and west coast.

Bus service has also been declining. Most places where people live also don't have good mass transit options leading to more vehicle emissions. EV vs. ICE also plays a big part. The blame for these differences is widespread, but also not something that will be easily changed,

I put WiFi 7 in my PC for twenty bucks, counting the antenna. They've got WiFi 6 that can only reach 24'? What year is it?

Increasing the energy demand is their problem, though. We can and should build societies in ways which use less power, like designing them to not need commutes. China wants to call itself Communist, let's see some Communism! Let's see them Commune! But the best they've managed so far is to do some minor riffs on the western strategy like building their big square skyscrapers with bamboo. (Yeah they have some amazing buildings, so does everyone else, let's not get into a dick measuring contest because that would be too ironic.)

As you say, the west is totally repugnant in this regard. The USA exemplifies this. But it makes me sad to see others repeat our mistakes.

There's no fair measure, there's only equivalent ones.

Measuring per-capita is only fair if the capita is making the decisions.

That's not a "but", if anything, it's an "and".

Learn to read. Five months of deflection is not due to a single employee. It's due to a single employer.