This is a threat of referral to criminal prosecution. Criminal prosecution is a government, not personal or corporate activity. What I say here is that such threats are empty.
People do get that wrong a lot though. Apparently even Microsoft, the FBI and US Attorneys these days.
In Microsoft's case, I always assume it sucks and let them know about the rare occasions it doesn't.
BOTH of them?
There's a lot of speculation about life as we don't know it. And that's what it is: speculation. While there are microbes that don't rely on oxygen, and one animal, they are utterly dependent on environments that do require oxygen. So no abiotic life origins here.
Without knowing for sure what to look for in a chlorine based life form even with it live in front of us, performing the forensic search with the body cold billions of years is all but impossible. We will get there some day but people are looking for signs unambiguous, and that means life as we know it.
In the US this is protected speech. There is a flaw in published software such that x and y... This is a statement of observed fact no matter how obscure.
Poor form, yes. Illegal, no. To threaten or intimidate rather than fix the fault is reliance on the ancient Microsoft trope security through obscurity. Tolerance of that oppressive behavior makes us less secure, not more.
Closing their account on your service is fair game though. No obligation to host anyone for any reason.
Dealing with aggrieved customers is just a part of doing business with the public. No matter how well you behave some people just have issues, and some will have legitimate complaints. Microsoft is a multitrillion dollar multinational corporation. That comes with the turf.
>And they will have arisen long long before the explosion.
I am no expert but... At a propellant feed rate of 2,300kg per second and a turbine speed of 19000 rpm that's a lot of mass in motion to come to a sudden stop. At 350 bar of turbopump pressure I can see there being a lot of bang at the first sign of trouble. The engineering limits on these devices may not be fully characterized until mass production has rolled for a while.
The core of Microsoft's complaints is that the researcher did not attempt to report the bugs so that the company could fix them.
The exact scenario we warned about when the discussions about this "responsible disclosure" nonsense started. Someone needs a reminder that letting you know your software sucks is a courtesy, not something you can demand.
So Meta == a tobacco company
Even if that happened, absolutely nothing of consequence would happen to the people that actually did it.
No more fines. No more sanctions against organizations.
Criminal charges, multiple years of very punitive jail time - against the people that ACTUALLY did it - from Zuckerberg right on down to the SRE that deployed the changes. Every single one of them made an active decision to be a complete shitbag and they should be treated as such. I don't really care if the SRE was ignorant or just doing his job - if you don't expect people to put effort into it, they won't - AND ALL OF THEM could have spoke up and done something to stop it. But they didn't. It was easiest FOR THEM to just do what their boss said, and screw everyone else
No legal protection of any sort for any of them.
Theres a reason the only people on the planet that speak out against Luigi are CEOs and politicians - not the rest of us who are all basically like 'Yea, that was wrong, murder is never the solution - but he deserved it for being a pile of shit who profited from letting others die with 0 compassion, we aren't really going to punish Luigi'
We're spending trillions on AI. If your business plan is sucking wind on 0.3 of an x, you lack the vision to stay in the game.
JPG 10 year is at 2.6% yield. US Treasury 10 year is at 4.44%.
Whose debt burden is the problem here?
Each state that gets money in a judgement or settlement, should use that money to make sure their public education system teaches kids how to block ads.
By 2030, I don't think anyone should be able to graduate high school in America, unless they've learned how to be ad-free (on screens under their control; obviously they won't gain superpowers to blank out billboards or the sides of buses).
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Word is a second booster at the site in the horizontal integration facility was also destroyed.
Impacts go beyond the rocket and pad. This was development for lunar landers to be launched this year, Leo internet satellites to be launched in the coming days, Blue Moon lunar landers for the Artemis lunar program, and on and on. An engine may have been the cause of the mishap and that casts shade on the Vulcan Centaur that also uses the same engine.
It's likely not bought with tax money. The company has various means.
The US government has a few people who do some things that require large quantities of gold bars of blind provenance, indicators of affluence and no accountability. They go to places that don't take US government checks or credit cards. When you have an administrative turnover at war with everything predecessor, some of these people get cashed out.
For some government agencies the ability to get away with fabricated backgrounds is a mandatory qualification. Somebody knew and decided they were cool with this.
I came, I saw, I deleted all your files.
