BeauHD is bending the knee to Microsoft, let me fix that.

Correct title: Microsoft forces more customers using Windows 11 to share their data.

Ahh, the left-wing has to drop everything and obey the centrists. You sound like the right-wing.

The centrists had power not too long ago and while they worked tirelessly to impeach Trump, everyone knew that Mitch McConnell would kill it: Making the entire activity, pointless. The centrists did nothing to stop the real problem: The glorification of Trump's dishonesty and thuggery.

Software isn't created because no-one will pay the cost of bullet-proofing, testing, and updating it.

Selling stuff cheaply, creates a need for more stuff and thus, more employees. That's not the plan, here: Like most tools, it's a way to increase productivity (output) without increasing costs (wages).

If the above tasks can be done cheaply, then everyone can create (using AI) the custom software (with open-source drivers) they need. Of course, then there will be no jobs because a machine can write the OS/system-level/middle-ware/application-level/UI software for all other machines.

Improved technology, always reduces the number of employees (per unit of output). Thus, if output (sales) remains constant, the number of jobs, decreases. Software changes this dynamic because increasing output (sales) has a unit-cost of pennies. Vibe-coding AI (if it can be invented) changes this dynamic, again because everything becomes a sunk cost. It's almost free to own the IP and almost free to make.

For one neighbouring shop, the opening/closing time is seasonal. Worse, the month the change-over happens, depends on the amount of maintenance they require. Gooogle maps fails to report the seasonal change and the this-year change. To be fair, they don't update their business web-page either.

Never trust Google maps.

Phone companies are politically sensitive: Government wants to send secure messages to its departments, with ease. Also, to spy on the not-so-secure messages of everyone else.

The US (federal) government, not being allowed to own anything, must do a deal with privately-owned infrastructure.

You're demanding results and efficacy: They're demanding a philosophical position using a known (faulty) implementation.

What is their philosophy? They need rich people (to save them), profit is the only (universal) incentive [essentially true], results cost (money) and are thus limited [essentially true].

When Obamacare was passed, what was the complaint? "Death panels": That the government would deliberately give less care to you. The willingness of insurance middle-men to give care to you, was not relevant. The real problem was failure to denounce that propaganda but the fact that such double-standards exist, is a uniquely US problem. With so many American philosophies, cruelty is the point: Many Americans demand that cruelty, in the delusion that it is the only system that works.

The cost of hardening against malicious damage is astronomical, so it isn't attempted. Besides, the best answer to a malicious attack is multiple-site redundancy.

Where were the warning signs/poles? Did the carrier not erect them? Plus, there should be protection against incidental damage. (Eg. a brick corridor offering limited 'hardening'.)

Even then, I've heard that carriers 'lose' their cable, telling farmers to dig in the very spot holding the cable.

That's probably, foreign-currency exchange (For-Ex) but since countries rarely go bankrupt, and it's easier to diversify, it's far more stable.

Like a casino, the rules ensure one side always wins. The problem is, losses are confined to the business, the owners/managers don't have to pay. So, government makes tax-payers gift a bail-out to the billionaires who 'lost' their money. (They own the business, so they own the money. As we saw in 2008, they continued their lavish spending, now with tax-payer's money: They had no responsibility to the tax-payer.)

The lottery is like sport betting and poker: Someone has to win. It's why lottery players, sometimes, can buy every ticket and still make a profit. (In poker and lotteries, the player wins a fixed percentage of the pot. In sport-betting, the agent must change the per-person payout/odds so that winning players do not win more than the pot.) That is very different to a casino where all players lose, frequently.

The threat to UK privacy is particularly interesting because they've already experienced cloud storage that was cracked on a weekly basis. I'm talking about voice messages. News of the World was allowed to spy on celebrities' phone calls for (about) 5 years because no-one was interested in stopping their criminal behaviour. Then suddenly, the police were very interested.

One year, when local Tv. still existed, they decided to broadcast the local boat-race. It had been happening for a decade and was now, a party event. Like many large, semi-organized parties, undressed women happened, which the local broadcaster dutifully displayed. Next year, the boat-race had 6 trigger warnings at the promo and introduction. The movies containing sex-scenes (common during the 70s and 80s) didn't have that number of warnings: What did they think the purpose of the extra 5 warnings, was: On second thoughts, viewers would be horrified by the thought of real people on Tv. and stop watching (making their broadcast, pointless)? That everyone would magically start watching during a 5-minute window and could be dutifully informed that real people would appear? The Tv. station stopped broadcasting the boat-race after that.

Like many parties, 10 years ago, it converted into a 3-day festival, an international event, where undressed women were not welcome.

The point was revenge and stealing whatever the USA wanted: American Exceptionalism doesn't give the weak, anything else.

By voting for Trumpism, a second time, the USA proves my point: If girls continue to be tortured for going to school, no amount of toys/propaganda will stop it. The torture stops when the government puts people on the street that punish the torturer.

You can never really trust a country you invade but the USA always pretends to create Little USA, regardless. The problem is, US culture is designed to ignore the dishonesty of US culture: A shit-hole country isn't, so Little USA collapses under the violence of its own contradiction.

That would include the cost of bullets and fuel and food. Also the cost of factories that never worked and buildings the Taliban destroyed.

Instead of training an over-priced consultant to teach your IP to his next customer, just allow Mistral to copy your IP. Yay: What could go wrong?

I'll allow it, as long as the Subject box ends with a "..." and the Body box begins with a "..." (not a quote).