I suspect more could have been done by making an independent startup funded by Boeing, based on the startup concepts of Space X, with specifically hired and dedicated crew in the design, engineering & systems management phase.

When there are "too many fingers in the pot" the stew gets contaminated.

I'm sure that Elon encouraged Shotwell to accelerate by pushing limits, heavy sensing & documenting and learning multiple "things" from each test/flight.

They have done a great job of showing how fast you can proceed in design, trials and production, if you carefully push the limits.

I'm proud that Space X has achieved it here in the US and demonstrated how to succeed, again. We need more of this. Others are also working rather secretly, without being "in public" like Anduril and others, so I know the lessons learned in product development are being used successfully.

Unfortunately, I believe when companies get to the size of Google, Amazon & Microsoft, the C-Suite pressure to increase income per user means that suddenly user "monitization" takes over against all other restrictions which get lowered each time a new "User Agreement" of dozens of pages gets released.

When GAM, can't get more users then they start the GAMING, which is to find ways to start charging each user more and "use more user info" that they can make a profit off of silently.

I simply don't trust them anymore. When I am forced to use Windows, once it is set up it NEVER goes on the local network or internet. That sounds horrible, but for me it is practical for my specific use. If MS ever tries to force me to go on the internet again to keep Windows running, then I'm off Windows forever.

This brings up the question "How do government entities & other competitors of Microsoft safely use their Windows machine for sensitive work?"

Screw them if they do that.

Lebanon is now likely going to be far less "tolerant" of Hezbollah & Hamas as the extensive numbers of their leaders have been effectively "marked."

This wasn't obviously just a couple dozen leaders, but thousands senior staff militants entrusted with encrypted communications.

The average Lebanese has had a whole lot of misery to contend with for decades and this they do not deserve. The Lebanese leadership seems to have been bought off by the militants, by just my way of logical thinking.

I've used it a bit and absolutely no BS, no ads, just direct hits.

We've had a decade of huge DB access by both foreign nations and hackers of all types.

So why aren't these large company systems locked down with advances multi-factor authorization & constant monitoring to detect scraping?

Their business depends on their data, yet every week it is that same story over again.

Could it be CEO emphasis on next quarter's profits are more important than the business data safety costs?

Bejing can always use Tesla as a pawn and threaten to raise their "tariff," but then again, Tesla is the upper end of EVs in China and your average worker will never buy one.

So where is Tesla going? I don't see customers lining up to "RAT" (Rent a Tesla) even though Elon thinks that.

Where is a cheap EV that a 20 something will be able to buy, like when I was young & making low wages? I could still afford a full size Chevy Blazer. You can't do that today.

My Windows 10 Dell laptop simply NEVER goes on the Internet.

All data goes in and out via USB key or other media.

I am not going to waste time dealing with all the crap that comes with Internet connections on a critical computer.

Microsoft ought to reconsider a lot of things, but like Amazon, once they saturate their user base, they want more garbage to earn more money, just like Amazon, because as a public company, THEY NEVER GROW FAST ENOUGH to satisfy the "markets."

At the start of the Shuttle design, RFQs went out to thousands of suppliers in the aerospace sector including a friend & mentor of mine.

Rudolph Kreuger, was an expert is seal design of many types amongst his aerospace contributions. He was a professional engineer and took the proposed rocket stage seal design specifics for the contract seriously and did his calculations.

His conclusion left him concerned about the viability of such a proposed set of conditions for the seal through the range of use conditions so he declined to quote.

The interesting thing to me was that for such a SUPER critical seal, I would have expected that an engineering company would want to find out why a recognized professional engineer sought to not quote the design to learn what they could for future design work.

Doing a critical point analysis ought to be part of every significant highly stressed assembly & I wonder if it was finally done correctly. It seems to have been ignored if it was.

Rudy, died over a quarter century ago, and as far as I know, no one but me and maybe his sons ever knew about this proposed design as he was a very quiet person. Putting yourself into public view can have all sorts of unintended consequences, which I surmise Rudy wanted to avoid.

Another Aâ¦e company has the cash & need to diversify off hardware.

I was actually laughed out of a discussion when I noted My Dell laptop was only on the Internet one time to download my CAD software and I never put it on the Internet again. All data moves out via removable media to my MacBook Pro. Nothing is perfect, but at least I take reasonable precautions.

Now are people going to run to iPhone's?

And, if you want to repair an older MacBook Pro battery that is bonded to the keyboard and it is over 7-8 years old, is Apple going to have those expensive parts with "new batteries?"

I have repaired a few older PCs & Macs with "new" batteries and those batteries really were degraded from sitting in storage.

I and a few friends have older MacBooks and there are specific reasons to keep them running, but batteries & other parts are always a problem.

That is the pits

Noone has explained what these server centers are doing.

Is there some reason software would not have error detection built in before allowing it to "ship?"