Subscription fees for a bunch of different services.. it's not the greatest result, but as long as it keeps the mind rot that is broadcast AND cable station commercials.. I'm ok with it.

Besides, no one said you have to subscribe to them all simultaneously. Subscribe to one, watch what's on it until you're bored. Cancel. Subscribe to another one. Repeat.

Also, you can outright purchase a lot of the most popular serials and movies on Vudu, so there's that route if don't like paying sub fees.

No. Just no. More personal freedom is exactly what we don't need. We have way too much already. The levels of personal freedom you're advocating for result in things like Jim Jones, and that entire Waco Texas fiasco. Need a more recent example? Jeffrey Epstein. See what he did with nearly limitless personal freedom?

You're advocating for anarchy. If human beings could be trusted with unbridled level of personal freedom, we wouldn't need laws, police, militaries and.. oh here it comes: GOVERNANCE.

Grow a brain cell or two before you post, ok? The level of personal freedom you're advocating for would be disastrous for humanity. We need rules and laws and limits, or humans go off the rails. Every time.

And Bitcoin is no exception. Personal freedom gone off the rails. Personal freedom tends to equate to no accountability for one's actions. Freedom to screw over your fellow man is what you're asking us to accept. And no. We won't accept that.

Since when can you buy detergent with SNAP benefits? That is for FOOD ONLY. You can't buy anything else with it.

This from USDA's website:

And the items that you can't buy with SNAP:

Emphasis mine.

Afraid I have to consider your entire post to be BS at this point, since you're not using your noggin. OP needs some massive downvoting. He's full of it.

The currency of criminals, terrorists and other undesirables. Please, just ban this goofy bs, already.

It has absolutely no redeeming features. Everything it does for society is bad. Make it go away already.

Crypto currency has always been kind of a joke. It's migrating from amusingly stupid, to not-so-amusingly dangerous.

FTP was never a very good thing. It's always been dodgy with certain network configurations.

There's just so many better ways to do this, these days. Like... HTTP for casual browsing of file repositories and unauthenticated transfers.

And SCP, SFTP for the authenticated transfers.

And TFTP for network boot. Though I think we should move this to HTTP as well.

FTP just has no real place any more. Let it die.

Really this should surprise no one. There is absolutely no incentive for these companies to invest in improving the quality of their devices. There's very little real consequences for having gaping security holes in your products. The general public just has no clue. They just buy whatever, with no research.

Without actual market share and bottom line consequences to poor security and the bad PR revolving around that (which again, the General Public is completely unaware), well, this is totally the expected outcome.

Good security isn't free. Companies have to invest money into developing their products, and testing them for issues. Why would they bother to do this if it makes no difference regarding the public buying or not buying their product. It doesn't, so they don't.

Yeah, I noticed this too. Though, I would go further and say certs are all about identity. There's lots of ways to encrypt. You don't need a cert by any stretch to do that part of the security. Certs are about the site you're connecting to being the site you expected to connect to. They frankly have very little to do with actual encryption, other than being the 'key' for the encryption, which loops right back to identity, the cert holder is the only entity that should have the private key after all.

...is about how much time I estimate it will take for software to be updated to deal with these...distractions.

FTFY.

I would go even further to say, this is a Trumpian sort of thing to be doing. Deny you're doing something you're obviously doing. By extension, I'd say, any video game studio that goes out of their way to declare their games don't have political messages in them, most certainly do have just that.

So they want Google to refuse to contract with the government to do...stuff.

So what? This prevents nothing. Some other company will step in and fill the need.

You've done nothing but deny the company you're working for a good contract. There's no social justice to be had from this action.

Now if every cloud server provider did this simultaneously then that would have an effect. Otherwise this is just an empty action that does absolutely nothing.

Pre-paid burner phone.

Yet another exploit that requires the machine to be compromised already. Who cares! If it's compromised, it's compromised, there's no degrees of being compromised. It's an on/off thing. You either are, or you aren't. If you are, all bets are off. The machine has been made vulnerable ALREADY, who cares if there's more vulnerabilities on the inside. You're already in.

When the command prompt says 'root@localhost>' there's is no point in typing 'sudo blah blah', you're already it. That's what this is, imho.

Vulnerabilities that require another vulnerability are just stupid. If it can't be exploited from the outside, then it's not really a vulnerability, is it?

At first this seemed dubious. But if one digs through the article, at least to answer this question:

I was curious precisely how Amazon goes about penalizing the merchant. Turns out:

Now that is just shady and quite frankly, a very dick move. And this sort of seals it up as a 100% dick move:

But I suppose I'm still mildly surprised it's taken this long for one of these big retailers to turn to bullying. This article will definitely be in the back of my mind the next time I consider Amazon for a purchase.

Another nail in the coffin that was equal justice under the law?

It's not the litigants fault the system can't handle the burden. Increase the capacity of the system, instead of depriving entities of their day in court.

I don't care what you're litigating. My opinion about the matter being litigated is irrelevant. It deserves equal attention from the courts as anything I feel is important. That's equal justice, after all.

If you're a judge and getting tired of these cases, may I suggest a new career if you're unable and/or unwilling to carry out the duties of your current one.

Something the US constitution is supposed to guarantee for all citizens. We're not required to like the litigants or the matters being litigated.

Ok, this article shouldn't have made it past the firehose. This author is a complete moron.

It's flashing cuz the OS is swapping memory pages to disc. Alternatively, it's dropping memory pages and then has to reload stuff it dumped cuz memory pressure. Geezus, who let this guy write technology articles?

And DUH.. Any OS is going to be quite upset if there's not enough memory to run all the crap you're throwing at it.

What is this? Click bait? GEEZUS.