It generally falls on the victim to sue, which means that if you aren't rich enough to hire your own lawyer there's a very large incentive not to seek justice for harassment. The exception sometimes is criminals with deep enough pockets to be able to pay a large claim, but not such deep pockets that they can simply buy their way out of trouble.

To be fair, humanity has come a long way since "Kill the guys next door, kidnap and rape their women and make them your slave/wives" was the social norm.

Well, except in China, anywhere, where they are still pulling this crap with their minorities.

If this was the US, the outgoing commissioner would retire to a cushy chair on a digital advertising corporate giant, where she would spend ten years quietly doing nothing before cashing out on her golden parachute.

But I'm not familiar with the situation in the UK.

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Tennis player accuses party official of rape, disappears for three weeks. Reappears in China, assures people "all is well" after news about her is suppressed in China.

China is evil. Free Hong Kong, may all evil be vanquished.

Large impactor hits pluto, ejects a bunch of ice on an extra-solar voyage, oumuamua is born.

This isn't, "We shot a laser at the rock and it turns out it wasn't what we thought." This is, "We made a bunch of assumptions that show that whatever this rock is, there's no way this other guy can possibly be right about what it might be."

Wake me up on data.

The issue is, if you don't want data synced between computers -- like, say, you have a work PC that has proprietary, non-disclosable information you access through a browser, and a home PC that has personal websites you'd rather your co-workers not see, have access to and make fun of -- Microsoft still grabs all of that information from both computers if they are Windows machines.

Does it matter? Once Microsoft starts auctioning it off to every spam marketer on the planet it'll be in plaintext and released into the wild soon enough.

Six months after first public rollout we're going to see a wave of identity thefts as Apple's "completely secure" ID storage is broken into by every major state actor. This provides a large, low-risk, high-reward payday to anyone who can compromise those databases.

To use an extreme example, if a company can profitably turn human corpses - a waste product by any measure - into tasty, nutritious protein bars, then a modern company will feel it has a fiduciary obligation to its shareholders to do so.

And if the supply of corpses begins to run low and thus affect production, the company should feel no compunctions over inciting gang violence, high-risk behaviors and other methods to increase the supply of corpses for its protein bar manufacture.

Morality gets into -everything-. Pretending it doesn't is just another kind of morality - usually called being amoral.

No, do a hard reboot and then dump your log files. If that doesn't work you'll need to blow some air through your ventral port to make sure it hasn't been blocked with dust.

If someone wants to use the bathroom without Tim Cook knowing about it, monetizing that data and taking a 30% cut, clearly they have something to hide. It's like a supermarket -not- putting cameras and a peep show in front of their bathroom stalls. No sane supermarket would fail to monetize on their bathrooms in this way; it would be fiscally irresponsible not to let whomever wants to pay for a show, pay for it at the expense of the bathroom users. They would never think about doing that in today's time; it's just too risky.

Employees have the right not to work for an abusive, megalomaniacal company who decided to discard the slogan "Don't be evil" because it was impacting their profit margins. Employers do not have the right to force people to work for them.

Back in the day, if you wanted to steal a work of text, you had to go through a fairly laborious process including copying it out by hand. And the payout wasn't likely to be very big. Nobody was making a living selling bootleg books out of suitcases two hundred years ago. Now, you copy, paste, and you have an entire CD-ROM full of books. Hit print, and your CD printer starts churning out bootleg data for the masses. Or just publish the contents on your hyperblag for ad revenue.

It's also a training ground where less-extreme moderates can be trained in extremist and jihadist behavior, and where extremists can be trained in passing as socially-acceptable normalites.

We've been fighting jihadist Islam for 20 years, this is straight out of their play book.

The ISS is an important symbol of peace - two enemies working together for a common interest. Destroying that tenuous symbol, at this juncture, would be a tragedy and could cement Russia into a position of active hostilities.