I used to know C++ fairly well in the late 90's, but when I look at the current state of it I tend to shake any head in wonder as to what it has become. Not only have there been so many new additions to it, there have also been completely new paradigms in how to approach it.
Same here. I used to program C++ with my eyes closed and get things done rather well and safely. But the language has moved beyond the realm of what I feel inclined to catch up. I do like some of the improvements in C++11, but wow, so many ways to blow your own foot now (as it if wasn't bad enough 20 years ago.)
"The question is "is this microflora harmful to people on the station and operations there"."
Well, how many astronauts are getting infected by bacteria and fungi in ways that are affecting their performance, or lives?
It seems that we don't hear of very many astronauts getting sick, so either there's a media blackout, or they don't often get very sick?
Suggesting that the microflora is not that harmful. Yet. Maybe?
Astronauts get a cocktail of anti-germ shit injected on them (on top of them being in excellent shape as a job requirement.) They aren't necessarily a good sample from which to deduct cause-and-effect.
We just don't know. And it is not clear if the density/concentration of biota in the ISS is that different from what occurs naturally in the world. Think of the biota under a rotting log in the Amazons, the Russian Taiga, or the Pacific Northwest for instance.
I'd say this: "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." It is possible that on a zero-grav environment, an abundance of those pesky lateral-gene-transferring bacteria and fungi (and thus viruses) exposed to humans super-juiced with anti-bacterial and anti-fungal cocktails could generate some awful shit.
It seems... logical.
It is a distinct possibility that needs to be investigated. But at this point, we simply do not know.
A UAE cyber espionage contractor staffed with several former U.S. intelligence agents hacked journalists or news executives at Al Jazeera, the BBC, Al Arabi and others throughout June 2017, Reuters reported Monday.
What an irony. After the fall of the Soviet Union, we had this fear (not that irrational mind you) of unemployed former USSR agents selling their (insert Liam Neeson's voice) "very particular set of skills", nukes and shit to whatever rogue state, terror groups or criminal syndicates.
Drive better pricing for everyone? I applaud cuts but the example prices are still about double market rates. They need to cut prices in half again just to be on par.
Not necessarily. Whole Foods (WF) is banking on a mission statement: selling products with a given image, customer services and other add-on services. That comes at a premium. They are not just selling veggies like Walmart.
Whether WF is actually living to that mission statement, or whether customers are wise or fool to pay that premium, that's another topic.
For now, it is obvious that WF charged too much for its services (or that customers want something else in addition to those services, for that price tag.) It's also obvious that it can never match Walmart prices (nor it should.)
More importantly, Amazon is using WF as a beach head to advertise and sell its home-oriented products - Prime, Echo/Alexa and what not. So it seems to me that Amazon will do the same thing it did with Amazon Fire and Kindle: sell them at a lost to reach customers that will buy some other stuff using that platform.
So WF will simply be another platform for Amazon in which to sell other services. It has the pockets to sell "in the red" for years while it builds a new customer base.
Wrong. Taiwan has been part of China for longer than most countries in the world have existed.
And the people of Taiwan do not give a shit about that. And I don't know about you, but people's will is supreme, and states that crush it do not have much of a soapbox in which to stand and criticize other nations.
* Mind you that here in the West do not have much of a soap box in which to stand, either, and that Taiwan is facilitating loans to the Nicaraguan regime (which has been found have committed "crimes against humanity" against its population - google "Mother's Day Massacre.")
The EV's are no longer EXEMPT from taxes. Gotta pay for all the infrastructure somehow. Eliminate gas vehicles and gas taxes and the money will HAVE to come from somewhere else... Just saying...
Oh and ask the Norwegians what the battery life is in those vehicles with the harsh winters. I live in Wisconsin and our winters make batteries have short lives. I have to buy batteries for vehicles every 3 years. EV's are not a good solution for areas with harsh winter cold temperatures - period! People with their Toyota Prius's are using more gas in them as the batteries don't run as long in the harsh winters - I know 3 people with them. I went kind of in the middle and got a Smart car. The only problem with them is they don't do well on snow and ice covered roads. They are small and lightweight. But I get 50 MPG with it and an 8 gallon gas tank actually gives me a decent driving range.
Winters in Norway aren't as harsh as in many areas of North America. Just FYI. Weather and shit ain't just about latitudes and how close people live from Santa's toy factory.
Absolutely, but unless your country starts out with high car taxes it will be very hard for others to replicate these results. It is much more popular to give a tax exemption than to give a tax hike. The reason Norway got here is that we have historically had very very high car taxes, then essentially dropped them all for BEVs.
A history note: The reason that was done was to support Think! a now defunct norwegian BEV startup from a time when there were much less EVs than today.
A country does not need to start with high taxes. It can start incrementally with an announced plan and road map to get from point A (low taxes) to B (high taxes) for the purpose of getting to C (moar electro-rides, less dino juice!11, or whatever the goal might be.)
From there, peoples and governments will have the political will to get that shit done... or not.
What's wrong with this picture?
Oh yeah, the same thing wrong with "the cloud"
I still can't believe "the cloud" ever took off with the IT world...
The cloud took over IT because it made sense.
The problem we are seeing here (not security your shit), that's been an old problem since offices started giving workers PCs connected to a LAN or whatever. Hell, I'll say this is just another manifestation of the same old problem of someone lending badges and id cards to a co-worker (or someone else) in the good old days of timesharing and mainframes.
What we are seeing here is not a problem of "the cloud" or "IoT". It's product designers shipping products that do not require an authentication setup. There can be no product accessible with a default password over the wire.
Then there is the issue of IT monkeys setting up IoT devices unprotected. I can understand someone leaving a smart thermostat unprotected. A iSCSI? On a cluster? C'mon, what's the excuse?
Roasting meat and vegetables are in NO WAY similar to Asian Smog!
Or smog from anywhere from that matter. Let's think what's on 3rd-world smog: gas exhaust, kitchen exhaust, coal/wood smoke, garbage burn-out smoke... which inevitably involves household chemicals and human shit (yeah, there's human shit particles in 3rd world smog.)
I sure don't want to breath particles off roasted meat and veggies, certainly not oil when it gets accidentally burned (another reason I'm not a fan of cooking some things indoors.)
It's well and good, but these people need jobs. They are more likely to give them what they want than be out of the street wondering where their next meal will come from.
People's security is very important to them, and companies know this.
The best way to stop this is via the law, preferably Federal law.
Basically it sounds like he just took an existing process/job and did it on a computer. Prior to this a person would've gone into the contact spreadsheet or database and marked the entries as invalid. All he did was take that existing job and put a computer readable barcode on stuff and had the computer do it faster. Very useful for the companies as it saves payroll, but it does not sound like something that should've been patentable to me.
It's amazing how many slashdotters go for the "all he did" argument. It's as if automation is not a thing, or just a trivial simple thing even a caveman can do.
I thought the US Government reserves the right to make use of patents for themselves? I don't know how this guy has any legal leg to stand on. You can't patent something and then expect the government to pay your patent licensing fees.
Yes you can. The defense sector is diligent in paying for patents it utilizes.
and the patent looks like another example of stringing existing tech together for it's exact intended purpose. Similar to "one click shopping". It's just computers doing computer stuf. e.g. I think it would fail any test of novelty or newness.
So obvious and yet no one but the guy in the story that connected the dots. Seems like a legit patent to me (since no one else, not even the postal service put the elbow grease to get the existing pieces to work.)
Replacing bottleneck-points in Python with C (and lately Rust or even Go) extensions has been well understood to be the Goldilocks approach for many years.
You optimize for power only in parts of the project where the trade off in simplicity and ease of maintenance is justified, and enjoy the benefits of Python the rest of the time.
I have found it useful to give them questions that they may not know.
I had a test that seemed to be rather good at judging ones ability. And it took people an average of 4 hours to complete.
Question 1. I have an HTML file with a Picture of two boxes overlapping each other, and a box with two empty Div's asking them to make the other box look like the picture. (Non Web people will need to google to learn how to use style sheets, and position properitys)
Question 2. A simple Application form, that asks for the address, validates that the format is correct, and just pops up a text box giving the errors or showing the address in a proper US mailing address format. (The zip code with leading 0's gets them every time. )
Question 3. A SQL Stored procedure, that returns a table where the rows become the column. The code works correctly, however there is a null in the data, preventing it form working correctly. (So they either will need to do something with the null, or exclude it, extra bonus points if they state how insecure that code was.)
This seemed to have allowed the company to get some good employees, but still it isn't fool proof, a few people slipped threw the cracks, mostly because they actually had experienced those particular issues before, so they knew how to handle them, but turned out they would struggle on new problems.
This is the correct outlook.
Unfortunately, there are enough "interviewers" out there looking for canned code monkeys, that it really makes an already stressful activity (job hunting) into an even worse hassle.
Foxconn Is Reconsidering Plan For Wisconsin Factory
Not to fall on a "No True Scotsman" fallacy, but c'mon, anyone with half a brain knew this deal was crap. Only gullible yokels would fall for this mendacious nincompoopery (who keep voting against their own interests in favor for oilsnake peddlers who sell them this shit.) OMG ME BUBBAH GUNNA GIT MAH JAWB, WINNING LUK HER UP! (But you know who actually had actual economic plans for Flyover Country? HR-fucking-C, but whatever, reap what you sow.)
A sucker is made every minute. I can sympathize with an illiterate peasant in a 3rd world country not having the means to discern the fallacious nature of such promises.
But people in the richest nation the world had ever seen, with public education available for free all the way to HS, and in the 21st century, with access to the damned Internet. Nah, you fall for this shit, you are systemically on par with the Dodos in "Ice Age."
Could An AI Conceivably Create Futureproof Product Designs?
My CS is rusty, but I'm sure this is homomorphic to the problem of creating a program that can tell if another program is going to halt with the right value (ergo, mathematifucking impossible.)
But beyond that, in the general sense, headlines starting with a question must be answered with a categorical "no." Damn writers need to do a bit better with their homework.
What I find interesting is that it seems the worst impacts of the shutdown are being felt by demographics that tend to vote Republican. That makes the political fallout for this shutdown potentially disastrous for Republicans.
Maybe they'll forget come 2020. But we'll see. The Republican party's behavior has been pretty uniformly reprehensible, and there's a chance that these events will cause a few Republican voters to open their eyes and see the party for what it is: a party for the rich, by the rich, who only panders to non-rich voters by promising to harm "those people". When they find that they're often in the crosshairs, maybe they'll start expanding their news sources beyond the conservative bubble and actually learn something.
Not many, of course. It's rare for people to change their minds like this. But it does happen. And it could be the beginning of the end for the Republican party (aside: if the Republican party ends, it will be replaced by another party: our system is only stable with two parties in power; hopefully that other party will be less terrible so that we can actually have a reasonable national political discussion for once).
I chance that it will not be disastrous. We are talking about a core that's been willing to commit socioeconomic seppuku for years as long as someone blows wind through the right whistle.
This problem is sociological and cultural in nature, and it is not one without precedent. Cultures have been known to walk off the proverbial cliff, engaging in self-destructive and self-defeating customs and practices in the name of identity.
It's high time we need to recognize their voting patterns as another manifestation of said types of cultures. Shades of J.D. Vance's "Hillbilly Effigy."
Even if perchance this causes a Republican blow-back in 2020, for as long as these social dynamics persists with these voters, they will continue with these patterns, with these exaggerated outlooks on what America is supposed to be, and animosity towards anything and anyone that doesn't fit the mold.
Cruelty is the point. It's not a side-effect, not a tool. It is the point.
Probably I link to a blog with run-on sentences and a high ALL-CAPS to words ratio at realtruthyredbloodedpatriotfreedomnews.blogspot.com titled "You Won't Believe What Happens in Commie China! The Incoming Yellow Peril11".
The EULA basically only allows for you to host your own servers, or your own instanced servers from a cloud provider, unless you're a platform partner.
That Improbable agreed to those terms in the first place shows very bad judgment, and shows that Unity indeed is the villain in this story. That Improbable would partner with another villain (Epic Games) shows additional bad judgment. They're really just substituting one abuser for another.
Uh, dude, just no. Stop it.
If Improbable agreed to the EULA, then Unity is not the villain. One can criticize the EULA for many valid (and invalid) reasons, but if you agree to an allegedly faulty EULA with full usage of your mental faculties about the terms in said EULA, the other party is not the villain. There was no deception.
Unless we are invoking some sort of "Inequality of bargaining power" context here, I'm sorry, this characterization doesn't fly.
Slashdot Mirror
Are people still fighting that battle for having a Linux Desktop? Jeez.
I used to know C++ fairly well in the late 90's, but when I look at the current state of it I tend to shake any head in wonder as to what it has become. Not only have there been so many new additions to it, there have also been completely new paradigms in how to approach it.
Same here. I used to program C++ with my eyes closed and get things done rather well and safely. But the language has moved beyond the realm of what I feel inclined to catch up. I do like some of the improvements in C++11, but wow, so many ways to blow your own foot now (as it if wasn't bad enough 20 years ago.)
"The question is "is this microflora harmful to people on the station and operations there"."
Well, how many astronauts are getting infected by bacteria and fungi in ways that are affecting their performance, or lives?
It seems that we don't hear of very many astronauts getting sick, so either there's a media blackout, or they don't often get very sick?
Suggesting that the microflora is not that harmful. Yet. Maybe?
Astronauts get a cocktail of anti-germ shit injected on them (on top of them being in excellent shape as a job requirement.) They aren't necessarily a good sample from which to deduct cause-and-effect.
We just don't know. And it is not clear if the density/concentration of biota in the ISS is that different from what occurs naturally in the world. Think of the biota under a rotting log in the Amazons, the Russian Taiga, or the Pacific Northwest for instance.
I'd say this: "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." It is possible that on a zero-grav environment, an abundance of those pesky lateral-gene-transferring bacteria and fungi (and thus viruses) exposed to humans super-juiced with anti-bacterial and anti-fungal cocktails could generate some awful shit.
It seems... logical.
It is a distinct possibility that needs to be investigated. But at this point, we simply do not know.
That this post was voted 'interesting' is a sad indictment on our public education system (and slashdot posters in general.)
A UAE cyber espionage contractor staffed with several former U.S. intelligence agents hacked journalists or news executives at Al Jazeera, the BBC, Al Arabi and others throughout June 2017, Reuters reported Monday.
What an irony. After the fall of the Soviet Union, we had this fear (not that irrational mind you) of unemployed former USSR agents selling their (insert Liam Neeson's voice) "very particular set of skills", nukes and shit to whatever rogue state, terror groups or criminal syndicates.
We even made movies out of that shit.
And yet, 2019 comes and says "hi, here you are."
Drive better pricing for everyone? I applaud cuts but the example prices are still about double market rates. They need to cut prices in half again just to be on par.
Not necessarily. Whole Foods (WF) is banking on a mission statement: selling products with a given image, customer services and other add-on services. That comes at a premium. They are not just selling veggies like Walmart.
Whether WF is actually living to that mission statement, or whether customers are wise or fool to pay that premium, that's another topic.
For now, it is obvious that WF charged too much for its services (or that customers want something else in addition to those services, for that price tag.) It's also obvious that it can never match Walmart prices (nor it should.)
More importantly, Amazon is using WF as a beach head to advertise and sell its home-oriented products - Prime, Echo/Alexa and what not. So it seems to me that Amazon will do the same thing it did with Amazon Fire and Kindle: sell them at a lost to reach customers that will buy some other stuff using that platform.
So WF will simply be another platform for Amazon in which to sell other services. It has the pockets to sell "in the red" for years while it builds a new customer base.
It is a smart move.
Wrong. Taiwan has been part of China for longer than most countries in the world have existed.
And the people of Taiwan do not give a shit about that. And I don't know about you, but people's will is supreme, and states that crush it do not have much of a soapbox in which to stand and criticize other nations.
* Mind you that here in the West do not have much of a soap box in which to stand, either, and that Taiwan is facilitating loans to the Nicaraguan regime (which has been found have committed "crimes against humanity" against its population - google "Mother's Day Massacre.")
The EV's are no longer EXEMPT from taxes. Gotta pay for all the infrastructure somehow. Eliminate gas vehicles and gas taxes and the money will HAVE to come from somewhere else... Just saying...
Oh and ask the Norwegians what the battery life is in those vehicles with the harsh winters. I live in Wisconsin and our winters make batteries have short lives. I have to buy batteries for vehicles every 3 years. EV's are not a good solution for areas with harsh winter cold temperatures - period! People with their Toyota Prius's are using more gas in them as the batteries don't run as long in the harsh winters - I know 3 people with them. I went kind of in the middle and got a Smart car. The only problem with them is they don't do well on snow and ice covered roads. They are small and lightweight. But I get 50 MPG with it and an 8 gallon gas tank actually gives me a decent driving range.
Winters in Norway aren't as harsh as in many areas of North America. Just FYI. Weather and shit ain't just about latitudes and how close people live from Santa's toy factory.
Absolutely, but unless your country starts out with high car taxes it will be very hard for others to replicate these results. It is much more popular to give a tax exemption than to give a tax hike. The reason Norway got here is that we have historically had very very high car taxes, then essentially dropped them all for BEVs.
A history note: The reason that was done was to support Think! a now defunct norwegian BEV startup from a time when there were much less EVs than today.
A country does not need to start with high taxes. It can start incrementally with an announced plan and road map to get from point A (low taxes) to B (high taxes) for the purpose of getting to C (moar electro-rides, less dino juice!11, or whatever the goal might be.)
From there, peoples and governments will have the political will to get that shit done... or not.
What's wrong with this picture? Oh yeah, the same thing wrong with "the cloud"
I still can't believe "the cloud" ever took off with the IT world...
The cloud took over IT because it made sense.
The problem we are seeing here (not security your shit), that's been an old problem since offices started giving workers PCs connected to a LAN or whatever. Hell, I'll say this is just another manifestation of the same old problem of someone lending badges and id cards to a co-worker (or someone else) in the good old days of timesharing and mainframes.
What we are seeing here is not a problem of "the cloud" or "IoT". It's product designers shipping products that do not require an authentication setup. There can be no product accessible with a default password over the wire.
Then there is the issue of IT monkeys setting up IoT devices unprotected. I can understand someone leaving a smart thermostat unprotected. A iSCSI? On a cluster? C'mon, what's the excuse?
Why ask rhetorical questions?
Because it makes them feel cool or something.
Roasting meat and vegetables are in NO WAY similar to Asian Smog!
Or smog from anywhere from that matter. Let's think what's on 3rd-world smog: gas exhaust, kitchen exhaust, coal/wood smoke, garbage burn-out smoke ... which inevitably involves household chemicals and human shit (yeah, there's human shit particles in 3rd world smog.)
I sure don't want to breath particles off roasted meat and veggies, certainly not oil when it gets accidentally burned (another reason I'm not a fan of cooking some things indoors.)
But the analogy in the title is just f* bonkers.
It's well and good, but these people need jobs. They are more likely to give them what they want than be out of the street wondering where their next meal will come from.
People's security is very important to them, and companies know this.
The best way to stop this is via the law, preferably Federal law.
Class. Action. Suit.
Basically it sounds like he just took an existing process/job and did it on a computer. Prior to this a person would've gone into the contact spreadsheet or database and marked the entries as invalid. All he did was take that existing job and put a computer readable barcode on stuff and had the computer do it faster. Very useful for the companies as it saves payroll, but it does not sound like something that should've been patentable to me.
It's amazing how many slashdotters go for the "all he did" argument. It's as if automation is not a thing, or just a trivial simple thing even a caveman can do.
I thought the US Government reserves the right to make use of patents for themselves? I don't know how this guy has any legal leg to stand on. You can't patent something and then expect the government to pay your patent licensing fees.
Yes you can. The defense sector is diligent in paying for patents it utilizes.
and the patent looks like another example of stringing existing tech together for it's exact intended purpose. Similar to "one click shopping". It's just computers doing computer stuf. e.g. I think it would fail any test of novelty or newness.
So obvious and yet no one but the guy in the story that connected the dots. Seems like a legit patent to me (since no one else, not even the postal service put the elbow grease to get the existing pieces to work.)
Replacing bottleneck-points in Python with C (and lately Rust or even Go) extensions has been well understood to be the Goldilocks approach for many years.
You optimize for power only in parts of the project where the trade off in simplicity and ease of maintenance is justified, and enjoy the benefits of Python the rest of the time.
This. This all the way.
And this is insightful?
I have found it useful to give them questions that they may not know. I had a test that seemed to be rather good at judging ones ability. And it took people an average of 4 hours to complete.
Question 1. I have an HTML file with a Picture of two boxes overlapping each other, and a box with two empty Div's asking them to make the other box look like the picture. (Non Web people will need to google to learn how to use style sheets, and position properitys)
Question 2. A simple Application form, that asks for the address, validates that the format is correct, and just pops up a text box giving the errors or showing the address in a proper US mailing address format. (The zip code with leading 0's gets them every time. )
Question 3. A SQL Stored procedure, that returns a table where the rows become the column. The code works correctly, however there is a null in the data, preventing it form working correctly. (So they either will need to do something with the null, or exclude it, extra bonus points if they state how insecure that code was.)
This seemed to have allowed the company to get some good employees, but still it isn't fool proof, a few people slipped threw the cracks, mostly because they actually had experienced those particular issues before, so they knew how to handle them, but turned out they would struggle on new problems.
This is the correct outlook.
Unfortunately, there are enough "interviewers" out there looking for canned code monkeys, that it really makes an already stressful activity (job hunting) into an even worse hassle.
Foxconn Is Reconsidering Plan For Wisconsin Factory
Not to fall on a "No True Scotsman" fallacy, but c'mon, anyone with half a brain knew this deal was crap. Only gullible yokels would fall for this mendacious nincompoopery (who keep voting against their own interests in favor for oilsnake peddlers who sell them this shit.) OMG ME BUBBAH GUNNA GIT MAH JAWB, WINNING LUK HER UP! (But you know who actually had actual economic plans for Flyover Country? HR-fucking-C, but whatever, reap what you sow.)
LOW. VALUE. ADDED. MANUFACTURING. AIN'T. GONNA. FUCKING. COME. BACK. EVER.
A sucker is made every minute. I can sympathize with an illiterate peasant in a 3rd world country not having the means to discern the fallacious nature of such promises.
But people in the richest nation the world had ever seen, with public education available for free all the way to HS, and in the 21st century, with access to the damned Internet. Nah, you fall for this shit, you are systemically on par with the Dodos in "Ice Age."
Could An AI Conceivably Create Futureproof Product Designs?
My CS is rusty, but I'm sure this is homomorphic to the problem of creating a program that can tell if another program is going to halt with the right value (ergo, mathematifucking impossible.)
But beyond that, in the general sense, headlines starting with a question must be answered with a categorical "no." Damn writers need to do a bit better with their homework.
What I find interesting is that it seems the worst impacts of the shutdown are being felt by demographics that tend to vote Republican. That makes the political fallout for this shutdown potentially disastrous for Republicans.
Maybe they'll forget come 2020. But we'll see. The Republican party's behavior has been pretty uniformly reprehensible, and there's a chance that these events will cause a few Republican voters to open their eyes and see the party for what it is: a party for the rich, by the rich, who only panders to non-rich voters by promising to harm "those people". When they find that they're often in the crosshairs, maybe they'll start expanding their news sources beyond the conservative bubble and actually learn something.
Not many, of course. It's rare for people to change their minds like this. But it does happen. And it could be the beginning of the end for the Republican party (aside: if the Republican party ends, it will be replaced by another party: our system is only stable with two parties in power; hopefully that other party will be less terrible so that we can actually have a reasonable national political discussion for once).
I chance that it will not be disastrous. We are talking about a core that's been willing to commit socioeconomic seppuku for years as long as someone blows wind through the right whistle.
This problem is sociological and cultural in nature, and it is not one without precedent. Cultures have been known to walk off the proverbial cliff, engaging in self-destructive and self-defeating customs and practices in the name of identity.
It's high time we need to recognize their voting patterns as another manifestation of said types of cultures. Shades of J.D. Vance's "Hillbilly Effigy."
Even if perchance this causes a Republican blow-back in 2020, for as long as these social dynamics persists with these voters, they will continue with these patterns, with these exaggerated outlooks on what America is supposed to be, and animosity towards anything and anyone that doesn't fit the mold.
Cruelty is the point. It's not a side-effect, not a tool. It is the point.
Case in point , read this story of a voter saying "Trump is not hurting the people he's supposed to be hurting". It is quite revealing of the type of shi-that-never-dies we are dealing with. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/8/18173678/trump-shutdown-voter-florida
People disappear in China HOURLY
Citation needed.
Probably I link to a blog with run-on sentences and a high ALL-CAPS to words ratio at realtruthyredbloodedpatriotfreedomnews.blogspot.com titled "You Won't Believe What Happens in Commie China! The Incoming Yellow Peril11".
The EULA basically only allows for you to host your own servers, or your own instanced servers from a cloud provider, unless you're a platform partner.
That Improbable agreed to those terms in the first place shows very bad judgment, and shows that Unity indeed is the villain in this story. That Improbable would partner with another villain (Epic Games) shows additional bad judgment. They're really just substituting one abuser for another.
Uh, dude, just no. Stop it.
If Improbable agreed to the EULA, then Unity is not the villain. One can criticize the EULA for many valid (and invalid) reasons, but if you agree to an allegedly faulty EULA with full usage of your mental faculties about the terms in said EULA, the other party is not the villain. There was no deception.
Unless we are invoking some sort of "Inequality of bargaining power" context here, I'm sorry, this characterization doesn't fly.
Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS
This reminds of that Motorola exec (what's his face?) that claimed Apple could not make a phone back in 2006-2007, or how RIM missed the boat.