It's been clear they've been looking for an exit strategy since they gave up on Arc. Seems they found it. Too bad for us. They had some good ideas.

Tax just walked into the room and shouted, What about me?

If you use a penny 100 times, then its value is $1 and its cost is negligible. It's a durable item that lasts for years and provides value every time it's used.

So, of course they want to make as much room inside for paying passengers. And no one ever thinks their code has bugs, it's the other guys you need to be concerned about.

What court will this be tried in that would convict them, and what possible punishment could they get that would hurt them more than the profit they'll make by screwing up the planet?

I'm thankful to Cory Doctorow for giving me the word "enshitification" to make talking about it so much easier.

Solutions seems so easy and obvious until you start to think about exactly how to do them, and what obstacles will be thrown in your way should you actually start to get it done.

Please consider the next time you're inclined to start a sentence with "They should just..."

It's never the normal traffic that causes these things to make the news, it's always the things that no one anticipated. Humans still improvise way better than any machine.

There's precedent. Remember CDDB? IMDB? All the other DBs?

Why are they manufacturing three-year-old chips? Do they even make any new products that use them? Why wouldn't they want to make something newer?

Is it not possible that students are actually smarter today than they were in the 1950s? Today students have access to computers, and a good percentage of all recorded knowledge is available to them all the time just for asking. That might not account for all of it, but I have little doubt it's part of it.

Do they have any data that shows how this will be beneficial to all? Personally, I hate working at home, but I get that I'm in the minority.

>Face-to-face working is hugely important to a people business like ours
Prove it. Let's see the data.

This is the news I was waiting for! Maybe now we can all just go back to doing it the right way. The idea of storing and running all your stuff on someone else's computers. It's ludicrous.

(BTW, this is only about 25% sarcasm).

Why does MasterCard and Visa never go down? Because if it does they lose lot's of money their customers lose lots of money, and that monet might be gone forever. Oh, and they have redundancy up the ying yang.

Why did this happen? Less redundancy, and what did UHC lose beside their reputation? But so what? They'll still get paid it's not like we can go somewhere else!

Because it seems to work.