So now China can just say we are purposely provoking them after one of their APTs adjusts the tool to trick the US into allowing actions that provoke them. Or they can just go low tech and overreact to everything.

If you need a computer to tell you if you're annoying someone, you've got a bigger problem to solve.

Rent a room somewhere and contract someone to stick a sign on it. Good luck getting any human being to man it. Nothing pays well enough to be the person Putin has arrested when the home office still tells Russia to f*ck right off.

When corporations are making demands of governments instead of the other way around it gets easier to see how much of an oligarchy we've become.

... shut it down if it becomes the slightest bit successful. Can't have people outside the party getting influential.

Fraud isn't condoned by the first amendment.

Seriously. The company known for hiring highly educated people to work on its algorithm are going to pull an "I didn't know" like they're a 5 year old?

This is the same company that hasn't done anything (meaningful) about the child port on Kik. Does this mean Imgur is the next peadohaven or is it already one and they figure it aligns with their other properties?

Good luck finding anyone willing to staff it. Hell, I'll bet they could go in with all the other "giants" and get a shared (empty) space.

The only problem is that most Credit Unions I've spoken with only allow accounts for personal use, not business. A little ebay selling on the side probably wouldn't pose a problem, but if you're running enough money through there to live on, they might close the account or cancel your membership outright.

Well they no longer have the PayPal option. They can piss into the wind until they get dropped from eBay or find a solution to their problem they can live with.

Turns out banks don't typically restrict their customers to a single account. If you're worried about eBay having access to your account, open a new one, set eBay to use that, and move out any money they put in there. Keep only the minimum necessary to keep the account open.

If Qualcomm follows their usual plan, these things will be junk in 2-3 years with no resale value and no upgrade path.

Seconded. Can probably piggyback on their own C&C if all you're changing is the language restrictions.

They'll just delay the start of the encryption process so going back to a supposedly good boot will still have the payload waiting in the background. Or they'll find a way to alter the snapshots or outright wreck them so you can't go back. Plus, it's not like you're going to keep too many snapshots around. With a long enough fuse they could be in weeks worth.

Ford's vehicle quality has been in decline for a while. Had my last new Ford for less than a year before I traded it in for an equivalent Chevy model and couldn't be happier. The used one got donated to a mechanic for parts and replaced with a VW (not a dieselgate model).