... are they the CORRECT instructions?

This is interesting so it raises the question of whether other hurricanes strengthened last time this layering happened and one passed over.

That this storm strengthened /exactly/ when a solar storm hit Earth seemed like a more promising anomaly but a strong dataset would support their hypothesis and rule out a massive coincidence.

As the meme says, "we knew more about the Coldplay Kisscam couple after one day than we know about Matthew Crooks after one year."

Be careful about what people find interesting but be even more careful about what people find anti-interesting.

Especially the "free press".

Re: Your sig "Yes, but where do you think the chaos came from?"

Answer: From the minds of Thomas Knight and Jack Holloway.

Get your popcorn ready, this should be fun to watch.

Unless the company winds up losing so many customers they go bankrupt before the regulators can look into it.

Yeah and those people would have thrown a bricked bike through the front window of their corporate headquarters.

Amazon tried real hard to upsell me a wifi sprinkler timer yesterday.

Ha, no, the $18 microcontroller-based timer will do just fine. They could have temped me with a Matter/Threads unit but no, they don't try that hard. Doesn't "Work with Alexa".

Imagine my garden dying because a tree fell on the Comcast line and it took a few days to rebuild. Such weird expectations! I wonder how many "smart" households went bonkers during the 4hr Starlink outage?

Which ones?

In the GSR (Gossip, Shame, Rallying) Model this is a biological imperative.

So you would expect high costs to be easily paid if the model is accurate and the service fills the need.

Some might say the theory fits the data.

I'm that weirdo who won't save fifty cents on a can of Spaghetti O's by signing up for a "loyalty" surveillance card but most people aren't in the slim minorities.

A subset of people are really against DANE which lets you self-attest your TLS cert without a parallel PKI. DNSSEC was the PKI in that model.

There are pros and cons but a big con was people not paying for certs.

Now with LetsEncrypt we have DV certs almost everywhere, few people pay for certs, and two PKI's with little protection for anything else that uses DNS.

Oh, and LetsEncrypt would be marginally better off with DNSSEC. Their new observation standard at least helps mitigate BGP shenanigans.

And that's supposed to be the rule (with some specific exceptions for allied nationals in some cases). I've had to do work on a government cloud, and question one was "Are you a US citizen physically located in the US". I'm not sure what (or if) Microsoft was thinking.

The problem with this idea is that 39% of the transaction volume and probably about a third of active accounts are "transactors". The credit card companies lose money on these people, and yet they keep trying to attract more of them? It doesn't make sense; the credit card companies are not trying to lose money. More likely that report is simply wrong. Here's another report showing a small but positive profit for transactors (and less risk).

If credit card companies were losing money on transactors, they would discourage them. No-fee cards wouldn't have rewards programs, or wouldn't exist at all. There was some talk of this happening a while ago (maybe around the time of the GFC), but it never came to pass. Obvious conclusion is credit card companies are making money on transactors, -- not as much as on revolvers, but it's safer income.

I've seen this movie before.

1) This isn't news. The "recent" announcement was posted a year ago. No new links have been added since 2018.

2) A better transition would be to make the forwarding non-automatic for a period of time. Keeping a non-auto-forwarding, read-only (no new entries) link-forwarding service in place for a long time shouldn't be a burden for a company like Google.

As a courtesy, it would be nice to include an explaination/warning that the "short link" was set up in or before 2018 and that the destination link may or may not be what it was back then.

If Proxmox et. al. had a mole inside Broadcomm they couldn't do much better.

Microsoft was too overt and sloppy.

Even the Vice President is calling out their pivot to an Indian H1-B labor force as bullshit.

On top of just being caught using labor in China to administer US DoD systems.

Nadella is going to become the poster boy for unAmerican behavior by immigrant management.