I, for one, have every basketball and football (and yes, hand-egg too) game I ever intend to watch saved on this 5.25 inch floppy disk.

Why, yes, it is still sealed mint-in-envelope. Why do you ask?

Piracy isn't the problem. Piracy is the response.

The problem is corporate theft of public matters and material.

In what rational world are major sporting events a locked down massively expensive to even view scarcity?

The actual news here is Trump's obvious lying power grab. "This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat".

Other countries, or citizens of other countries doing business with private American citizens without paying off the rancid mango is about to be a "National Security Threat" with the precedent he's attempting to set here.

Meaning the entire American Government and alleged justice system will look the other way when Trump throws a tantrum regarding thos individuals or their country.

It's BS, we all know it's BS, and the only concern is that BS repeated often enough becomes a republican talking point.

Absolute security on your basic office system? Sure.

Your OS now costs $100,000 per client seat.

Oh, you want basic office apps? Wow. Big spender! Well, here's Word and Excel; $30,000. Each.

Outlook? No. We gave up on securing that immediately. Here's a locked down web browser for an absolute steal at $150,000. Per Year (What? We have to pay a competent "engineer" to stand at your shoulder at all times whiole you're using it. That gets expensive). To access your plain text only hotmail account.

Let's hypothesise.

The patent is granted, and the legal issues sorted so that privately owned vehicles are allowed work as mobile speed cameras, with their evidence admissable in court.

6 months later Ford starts selling them.

3 Days later the full liust of models that can have this feature is public knowledge across the internet.

That night, the fires begin.

I'm not advocating this. I'm just saying that in the modern world this would be inevitable.

Unity 3D, now the engine for bait'n'switch advert delivery "games" and nothing else.

The head of Zynga.

Head. Of. Zynga.

To recover from loss of customers because of deceptive and bad faith business practices.

Well, at least it's shut up the last dissenting voice who was dragging his feet about getting on board with the new toolsets.

Referring to the crypto-scam-ecosystem as an "industry"...

Who paid? And how much did she get?

Likewise.

This advertisement (all plugs are advertisements) is a solid indicator that they've allowed very poor decision makers get final say on what gets built into core tools in the deployments.

Thankfully this was just a red warning flag, and not an actual catastrophe. But the situation where technical decision making is done by marketing is not conducive to actual reliable and secure systems.

Not exactly...
It's more like the manufacturer notes that no unnecessary replacement parts have been added to the car in 2 years, and shuts the entire car down demanding extortion money to re-enable it.

This has plunged rapidly from amusing to tragic.
Another victim of America's appalling lack of basic mental health care.

But with this announcement I'm going to have to throw my weight behind the team pushing to cancel the change.
Salesforce being incompetent or unaccountable enough to declare their move to Digital Tulips, tax evasion and outright fraud? Don't want our BCI & PII stores attached to that mindset.

Honestly, I think he overpaid...

Clippy as was, is, and ever shall be.

There is naught in Microsoft but Clippy.

That's simply not true though. EU laws have done nothing of the sort. Use your non-standard measures all you want, but be sure to put actual meaningfully defined measures alongside.

In the UK that's by BRITISH law, enacted years before joining the pre-EU.