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The takeaway: Microsoft forced pre-release firmware onto millions of computers.

How you read that article and came to that conclusion is beyond me. No, that's not the takeaway lol. Microsoft didn't force the pre-release firmware onto people SSD's.

There are a multitude of good and reasonable reasons why it's possible. You can't make companies pay tax on revenue because that would instantly throw 90% of companies into bankruptcy. You can't stop companies from paying licensing fees etc to their parent company and writing it off as a business cost, because that would destroy all franchise stores etc.

The tax "loopholes" exist for a legitimate reason, so companies structure themselves so they can take advantage of them. Getting rid of them would hurt the companies that need them more than the companies that "abuse" them.

Any account passwords that may have been accessed were securely hashed, in accordance with best practices, meaning they cannot be read by a third party.

Rest assured that we do not store credit card data on our servers, so this information was not compromised in this incident.

Sounds like as far as security incidents go, this is as good as they can be. Sounds like someone got in and could maybe see some email addresses and not much else.

Charger.

Lazydocker - https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker - is pretty awesome

you folks claimed AOSP wasn’t going anywhere

It’s not though? AOSP is open source, it can’t really go anywhere.

Google are not required to keep updating AOSP, especially not at an arbitrarily decided upon timeframe by some other developers who piggyback off AOSP.

I dislike Google as a company and have basically moved away from every single Google service apart from Google photos and Waze, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to just demand they do what I want them to.

These devs are upset because their business is almost entirely dependant on Google giving them their work, and fair enough - but they should have known this would happen one day. When you make a business reliant on someone else’s business doing work for you for free, you should have a backup plan.

Corporate pc defender rules are set by the corporation - of course the end user can’t bypass their rules.

Microsoft don’t set those rules, each individual company does. What you’re saying makes no sense.

It’s “tax evasion” in the sense that it’s a company using tax laws to minimise the amount of tax they pay, just like how you and I do when we do our taxes. The differences are it’s much easier to do for multinational corporations due to tax laws, And due to them being able to pay lots of accountants lots of money to find every way possible.

Sure, but the headline doesn’t say it all because you don’t pay tax on revenue.

Well this will not get many comments lol

No it doesn’t. You don’t pay tax on revenue, you pay it on profit. From what I can see before the paywall text shows, they barely made any profit.