"The Elite Yak Clones" would be a good name for a rock band...

The savings come from the rate Oracle (or any other vendor) charges for a single Enterprise license, compared to the rate Oracle would charge each customer/project separately, summed over the set of projects. Is that clear enough?

(Frankly, that's a surprisingly low number for the savings.)

DoD has been doing site licensing for Oracle for at least 25 years. On my project, we found a site license that covered our selection & use of Oracle back around 2001/2002. So NO NEWS HERE.

Without a site license, one would expect each Service and each Program to negotiate a separate contract with Oracle (or any other software vendor.) Enterprise site licensing is pretty common, both in government circles and in industry, with savings over a collection of individual purchases. So there's nothing unusual about this.

LG slips McAfee adware via Windows Update. What a collaboration of scumbags!

"TDS" is what you blame when you don't want to address the actual content.

No. They'll just say "that's how it's supposed to be". What you'd need is to make them use stuff that's better. Tesla is pretty good, according to a friend. Make them drive Apple CarPlay or Android Auto fully enabled.

I think part of the problem is that a lot of the people who design and manage user facing interfaces don't know how bad their stuff is.

This is well put. I'd also add that people are relentlessly marketed to to consume more to support that economic growth. People from the 19th or early 20th century might well consider the amount of psychological pressure we get to buy things to be a relentless propaganda campaign.

I think there are some other points worth considering here. The "chasing arrows" logo was originally intended more for labeling material content than recyclability. And there is evidence that plastic/petchems industry has used this state of affairs to promote plastics as being much recyclable than they actually are.

Everything I've learned suggests that only plastics # 1-3 are "practicably recyclable" in that the material recovered from these has decent purity and can be used for a meaningful range of purposes. That's because plastics vary hugely in terms of their actual chemical composition and how they react to common recycling methods. In fact AFAICT really only cardboard and some metals recycle "usefully" at present. So if you are going put energy into recycling, aluminum cans and cardboard give the most ROI.

So there is merit to the argument that those arrows are, as they currently exist, misleading to consumers.

There's also merit to what you are saying in that tying the state of recycling facilities for a particular set of materials is inherently complicated.

IMHO the key question is how to get more materials to be actually and meaningfully recyclable, and how to set up waste collection so that more materials can be usefully recovered from existing waste streams.

I haven't read enough about this bill to figure out whether it's likely to help or hinder, but that's the benchmark that I'd apply.

There are considerably more than two sides to this issue...

That's the argument I heard when a defense contractor about why so many DoD systems specified Microsoft products, particularly Active Directory.

Of course, "following industry standards" relieves one of the responsibility of actually thinking about what you're buying, including life-cycle costs and security & quality of the products. In that way, DoD was no different than all the other CIOs. Microsoft understood that CIOs were their real customer, and did everything to convince CIOs that Microsoft (regardless of cost) was 'the least risk alternative."

I regret to inform you that you have woefully underestimated it. The actual retail rate offered to consumers is closer to $2200 US per gallon. Sources: internet-ink.com, cbc.ca. This $14 million fine is only worth like, seven thousand gallons, or less than 200 oil barrels of ink.

Ubiquiti's Firewall rules have a 'simple' interface and a more detailed interface.' The Simple Interface lets me select 1 or more "apps", from quite a long list, along with a search mechanism. I'm -guessing- that might be tied to ASN. The more detailed interface allows me to choose from "Any", "App", "IP", "Domain", "Region" and port ("Any", "Specific", "List"). Again, the same list of "App".

That strikes me as the appropriate level of abstraction for someone who is not a network guru, but who has basic understanding of IP addressing, etc.

That's -1-. Let me rephrase: How many commercial products support this? Does pfSense? I spent some time on my Dream Machine interface looking at the Firewall rules. Seems they use this in the background, but I don't see a way to explicitly use ASN. And a Dream Machine is not exactly a 'cheap home router'.

This strikes me is a great capability. But if you have to 'roll your own', it's not going to be suitable for The Masses. And of course, someone who can and would roll their own router would also probably know other ways to accomplish this.

Hmmm... How many (home) routers/firewalls support blocking by ASN This does strike me as a useful feature, now that I've looked at it a bit.