This has been around for a long time in fast food. They cut your hours to just a few a week so you quit and they don't have to pay unemployment for firing you,

That's the thing. Linux has been captured by corporate interests. It's not longer the regular user friendly OS it used to be. The vast majority of changes being made benefit multi-thousand machine use cases. I don't need or want "Enterprise Linux" and all of the baggage, complexity and code bloat that comes along with it. I need small-medium business Linux.

Why would a government be reliant on a locked-in platform like FB for essential government services? Australia put themselves over the barrel. The good news is that they can now see the danger of relying on such platforms. It's like a business that relies on their Google search ranking and Google changes the algorithm. It's a huge business risk.

Apparently you don't count as a person. If you do not have the affluence to own a phone, you're not a very good potential customer, so none of the big tech companies care about you. If you''re not a profit center, you're not a person.

I received a phishing email yesterday via Gmail that was encoded in AMP. It made it impossible to look at the source behind the convincing phishing attempt to see where the links really pointed. If we're going to obscure the source of an email, why don't we just encrypt them and be done with it?

If anything, the officer would be guilty of copyright infringement for an unauthorized public performance.

Chuck Palahniuk said that the Chinese edits actually make the movie closer too the book and wasn't too upset about it.

He said that people were censoring his work all of the time but it wasn't "news" until the Chinese did it.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hol...

Once they have this capability, it will be just one small step to scan for copyright infringement. Gotta wonder if MPAA/RIAA etc is backing this.

Is it going to be more cost effective to upgrade SSD, motherboard, CPU and RAM to get PCIe5, or just set up a RAID array of more affordable SSD drives, in the near term? I'm guessing the latter.

Maybe Apple should fix their security issues and wipe out the NSO group that way? If Apple sues the NSO group out of existence, the security vulnerabilities still exist and someone else will eventually find them. Maybe Apple should pay the NSO group to help them secure Apple devices?

I automatically give a 1 star review to any app or website that does review begging.

I used to keep a small hand full of change in my console but now keep two or more rolls of quarters in my car because the price has increased for everything coin operated and there has been low adoption of the various dollar coins.

In some machines, its very easy to switch from a coin validator that only accepts quarters to one that accepts quarters or tokens, or tokens only. Then they just have to put in a machine that changes dollars for tokens.

There is a huge volume of water there (average discharge 265,000 cu ft/s ). There's not water shortage in the traditional sense, there's just a limitation of plant capacity, that was designed for a city of 15,000.

The problem is mostly with internet connected devices, from a security point of view.

"Forever" is hyperbole, but mandating 10 years of security updates for internet connected devices is not unreasonable. Another approach might be what percent of devices are still actively in use. Provide updates if 10% are still in use, or 10 years, which ever is greater (or lesser).

I think the bottom line here is making devices with a longer life-cycle. It's better for consumers and better for the environment.

We also need a law like, "Bring in your old device for recycling and get 10% off the replacement." Manufacturers could use incentives to get old devices off the market and reduce the time they have to provide support.

FTA:
The police carried out their own independent investigation into who accessed the documents and how, and have now concluded their investigation."

The prepared police statement did not explain whether investigators tested Leathermarket CBS's version of events before arresting the campaigner.

"Surely the Met police cybercrime unit, the first thing they do is check the website for security before they go arresting somebody? Is that not a rational thing to think?" said Hutchinson, who added that the documents disappeared from the company's website (and thus Google) in March â" three months before his arrest.

Apparently, the police didn't verify CBS's claims and "raided" the guy instead of simply asking for his side of the story.

But my main point is that CBS seems to be alleging a hacking offense where none existed and that should be illegal. CBS basically swatted him because of their incompetence.