Can be stopped? Doesn't sound like this is what happened here, the company paying the ransom is what stopped the hostage. The FBI simply recovered the ransom (and some more), but probably can't cover for the economic damage from the hold-up.
Out of curiosity, why does this apply to US and Isreal residents? Is there a legal framework that makes Isarelis eligible for these kinds of settlments automatically?
I don't get why Amazon would get control of the entire TLD. Can't these new TLDs be managed by some other entity which hands out domains to those that want them?
> Evidence suggests that these are mostly just attention-starved gamers looking to impress one another
What is the link with gaming I'm missing here? Is 4chan simply associated by gaming defacto? I don't see anything else about video games or any evidence of these people being gamers in the article...
Even if you interpret the second one as "new buttons to advertise Microsoft products", it doesn't damage a developer-first stance or independent operation.
Moreover, GitHub has already partnered with dozens of other companies for its Education program for instance [0]. This already compromises independent operation, and displays ads to thousands of students, "whether or not they like these tools" (your words).
> In November Munich city council decided to revert to Windows by 2020 with all systems being replaced by Windows 10 counterparts.
> Reasons cited were adoption and users being unhappy with the lack of software available for Linux.
> A report commissioned by Munich and undertaken by Accenture found the most important issues were organizational.
> In 2018, journalistic group Investigate Europe released a video documentary via German public television network ARD, wherein it is claimed that the majority of city workers were satisfied with the operating system, with council members insinuating that the reversal was a personally motivated decision by lord mayor Dieter Reiter.
> Reiter denied that he had initiated the reversal in gratitude for Microsoft moving its German headquarters from Unterschleißheim back to Munich.
> With a national clearinghouse, students could upload their academic records and accomplishments during their high-school career and then in their senior year simply press a button to apply to colleges. The database would be open to admissions officers at all colleges, so they could see where else students are applying, bringing a level of openness to the process. Under a matching system, students and colleges would each submit rank-order lists of each other and be paired as closely as possible.
This is precisely what we have in France, ans it's run by the government (and is thus prone to the same type of complaints as that Obamacare website).
There's a lot of contention about how well it does or doesn't work, though I'd say it gets the job done. Your results are automatically entered by your high school, and you get your results by "waves" as new spots clear up.