You most certainly deserve a prize for actually clicking on the article.

Or deep suspicion for possibly being an alien.

I'm not sure which.

Sherlock has managed to highlight the already well documented fact that the US has under-invested in its power grid. For their next trick, there will be a page-turner on the sky being blue.

MSFT wants to sell you and your enterprise the tools and capacity to bug hunt your own code and allegedly help you "drive costs" out of your operations. I suspect this is more of a "look, we are eating our own dog food!" exercise to drive sales.

They're trying to slap the copilot moniker on anything they can lay a hand on to further that goal. Someone's gotta pay for all that capex they're pushing into their datacenter infrastructure....might as well be you.

and perhaps more to do with them failing to shake down their customers for incremental subscription-based revenue streams. Confronted with heavy handed "we're bundling all this extra stuff you don't want or use in with whatever you currently have and we're going to charge you more for all that 'additional value you're getting'....even if you've been shrinking your overall IBM hardware/software footprint."

Hard pass.

I don't believe that shit for a nanosecond. Spare me.

It is. And the market is ultimately going to push back. I will have zero sympathy when the the value of these companies comes crashing back down when reality returns to the market.

copilot is still a mess.

Better interpretation is why there wasn't flexible hours offered for full-time? Why should flexible hours incur a pay reduction?

Cable TV was initially ad free too. And so was Amazon Prime. The slimy advertising folks always find a way to "add value" by disrupting our viewing experience. Except for the people selling "advertising" you'd be hard pressed to find anyone that actually wants to see ads.

Why would the earth huggers think that an American regulatory body would have jurisdiction in this case? Outer space is OUTSIDE of the United States.

No mention of a handle of bourbon every night so I guess that's just fine as long as you're not camped out on your phone. :P

To be fair, IBM has jumped on the rent seeking train with both feet as well.

That alone probably kept me on windows longer than I should have.

Yes yes yes, there are managers available for linux, but none come close to the ease and integration of IDM.

This isn't news. Look up the history of the Rothschild family and now how their private banking interest was tied up in just about every war in Europe from the 1770's on.

If it is national strategic importance, why are these companies overseas? Why isn't it nationalized?

National security is corporate security, but when you have trans-nationals, governments only serve as whores of the corporate class.

Beyond lamenting the potential loss of markets, what difference does war make except moving headquarters?

Can't have it both ways.