At least in the UK, there is the legal assumption that a computer cannot make mistakes. It is rebuttable in court, but the onus would be on the accused.

Which is of course, a load of fetid dingo's kidneys. This type of presumption lead to the Post Office scandal.

Time for this presumption to go the way of the dodo.

Of course, yeah, UK or no, or Australia, NZ, RSA or just about anywhere, but especially in the US, I'd go directly to an ambulance chasing lawyer. Hopefully a good one. Who smells a fat fee for a reasonable comission.

It certainly might help if the hacker groups were named something like
Pimply ballsack group
Small penis brigade
Lumpy vagina team
Instead of coolish nicknames, like cozy bear.

Or a Fez. Fezs are cool.

But ⦠but, isnâ(TM)t it like this?

âoeIf you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fearâ.

"If Windows was so bad and insecure then why does corporate America use and trust to secure their data and run their apps?"

Because of a committent to backwards compatibility. So long as one doesn't jump of MS fad of the week, Windows programs just keep working. (ok mostly, but not always).

VB for Applications (some monster Excel or Access program) mostly just work between versions. And compiled apps.

So a one time investment in Line of Business apps can deliver value of multiple decades.

(Yes, there are exceptions, 16 bit apps no longer work in 64 bit Windows, for example, but probably can be ported easily. Relying on a specific framework will probably mean unsupported at one point as well).

As Yoda might say "The Corporate World USES Windows, but trust, it does not*

More scarily, the President could probably say "you can do what you want to any court deputies, just stop them, do what you have to, I'll pardon you". All legal protections for anyone acting on behalf of the court count for very little against an armed mob protected by presidential immunity.

It will be economics that does this president in. The masses (via pensions) and the 1% haven't started to feel the stock market pressure ... yet. Stock market down leads to lack of confidence, less investment, less jobs, leading to declining property prices ... and so on. Give it 6 months and most Blue Tie and Red Tie politicians start to look at the mid-terms. Only then might they grow balls.

This is the foot in the door to the end of offline backups.

Backups that are on your own PC hardware, that you control.

Backup your device? That will be 20 beer tokens a month payable to Apple.

No need to let Big AI steal from copyrighted material (mostly Big Hollywood).

Big Hollywood (looking especially sideways at you, house of mouse), been stealing from Public Domain for years. Go to the source and skip the middleman.

Of course stealing from Public Domain and stopping new works from entering Public Domain, but I digress.

Can we just ... leave them there?

I mean, its not like we will be any worse off without these parasites on earth?

Damn

Sadly, Oracle's lawyers would probably swat away any hands reaching for their throat before downward motion had commenced.

Oracle is just a legal team that sells/extorts software licences and (now) crappy database products. Remember kids, Amazon, big as they are, were so scared of Oracle's lawyers that they migrated EVERYTHING away from Oracle. (Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/a...)

Sports stadiums should be built on mass public transport routes. Let the public arrive without a car. Best example the Melbourne Cricket Ground versus Taylor Swift crowd.

Though, still needs some minimal traffic management.

I find about 15 seconds or any Slayer or Arch Enemy, as loud as my phone will go, usually does the trick. Most of the time it makes it so intolerable the call is ended or the unwanted music stops.

All the other time, I use headphones.

Been there, done that. Just leaves you chewed up, pissed off and poor.

At this point, I'd be happy to sell cigarettes and booze to four year olds.

I mean, I still hope for the best, but in the real world it is a combination of nepotism and corruption that lets one rise.

An upvote for you.

Time the LE certs were taken out of the US. And not in the UK. And typically, where the world gets divided into "for-us" or "against-us" camps, almost no neutral "take the good and resist the bad" reasonable and neutral, able to ignore US/China/Russia pressure, place for them to reside.