No, phishing is not illegal.

Sure it is. It is called "fraud". If you are using a company's trademark that too is a crime.

They need to review in the same way the media distribution companies and cell phone companies the same. Not just the big tech companies. Hell, I even say do it for every proposed merger. Otherwise they don't have the whole picture of the consolidation that is going on out there.

Voter ID in no way denies any citizen the ability to vote.

It sure does unless the ID is free for voting purposes. It also does if the person can't get to the location where IDs are.

It does, however, make sure that only citizens are voting, and only voting once.

Which is solving a problem that doesn't exist. In-person voter fraud isn't where the fraud is occurring. It is occurring in absentee ballots and in the electronic systems that are tabulating votes. And again, the requirements for proving "citizenship" should be free for voting purposes.

All these are barriers to voting solving a problem that isn't a problem.

This wasn't a brute force attack. It was people using the same password for their device that they used on another site that had their password lists compromised.

But the anti-vaxxers do harm others and that is not acceptable.

You see this argument a lot. What it leaves is the question of why you don't trust the vaccine you got? If someone has a suppressed immune system for whatever reason, then it really doesn't matter if they get vaccinated since it won't work. They should take special care to not put themselves in situations where they can catch something or protect themselves in other ways (such as masks and gloves). So again, either you trust the vaccine you get or you don't. Presenting that argument puts the onus on everyone else for the stupidity of a few.

On the other side, if someone gets a disease that a common vaccine exists for, then the treatment costs should be solely on the one who caught it. Insurance shouldn't have to pay for it.

I for one trust the vaccines I got so this is a non-issue for me.

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If they won't boot Alex Jones for inciting an armed simpleton to enter a pizza place demanding to search the basement for Hillary's secret child sex trafficking ring, they sure as hell won't boot Trump for anything.

From the list...

Promoting the sale or use of streaming devices with KODI installed

(emphasis added). So it is against this policy to even describe how to do it. What this will do is kill the developers who use FB most notably the build developers.

Try working Emergency Management. Then you will know real pressure.

Anyone want to take bets on how long it takes for the security flaw to show its ugly head that will allow anyone to read your SMS messages?

"Focusing on users' needs" is not what the OSM Foundation does. OSM simply hosts map data in a database. That's it. Their only software is an API into that database, plus a web viewer and a couple of web-based map editors.

OSM does not make a mobile app, or routing software, or host a traffic conditions database. They didn't even write the rendering libraries that turn the map data into the image tiles you see on their own site! They use a renderer called mapnik. All those tools that exist today were built by independent third parties.Some are open source, while others are commercial.

The field is wide open for a Waze-like company to come along and use the OSM data as their map source. A couple have even been tried; I understand there's a fairly popular one in use in Germany.

Minnesota has always had pronounced extremes of weather, from -60F (-51C) to +114F (+45C). And this wasn't simply a single ten year rise in averages - the temps have been steadily rising since my childhood (several decades ago), back when we were Zone 2B. I was just noting that the last decade has not only continued the rise; but the old extremes no longer contain the current temperature range. Given that our average annual temperature has been rising by an average of 0.776F per decade, it's not all that surprising.

Also, we should be taking into account that plant hardiness zones aren't defined by the average temperature, but by the coldest minimum temperature experienced during a winter. It's those periods of extremes that kill off the non-hardy plants and animals, and that give the native plants the chance to outlast the invaders.

This has long been a concern of mine. Our area used to be in agricultural "Zone 2", meaning we'd usually experience a few day snap of -22F winter weather. This killed off a wide variety of non-native pests, such as those that arrived here on trucks and railcars from warmer clones during the summers. After a decade of record warm winters, we've been re-classified as Zone 4 and the transient beasts never die off now. So we've now got emerald ash borers; gypsy moths; new wasps, bees, and ants; and various roaches and snakes we've never had to deal with before, They're killing vast numbers of native trees and plants.

Reread the summary above. The card numbers weren't on an "internet facing database." They were taken by malware implanted in their cash registers.

I take many similar precautions, but not all. (I have some utilities on my iPhone and will purchase on my credit card through it, but i don't do banking on it.)

One thing I also do is distrust certain certificates; generally those I recognize as having been issued by countries run by despots. For example, I'll personally never have a need to a secure connection to any site in Turkey. So why should I trust their national issuer, when their government could theoretically abuse it to issue certs valid for any domain name? While widespread issuance of fraudulent certificates would certainly result in their removal from the browser and OS trusted root certificate lists, if they abuse their power to issue very specifically targeted certificates for spying purposes, they probably wouldn't get caught.

Just because Turkey convinced Mozilla or Microsoft to trust their issuers, doesn't mean I have to.