This isn't the larger concern right now.

The larger concern is the fact that empathy and human emotion still exist on the actual battlefield today, and we are looking to remove that from warfare as we look into the future of automation. Where we have a soldier making those face-to-face decisions to pull or NOT pull a trigger today will be replaced by a robot wired to a PS4 controller thousands of miles away, being driven by a "soldier" who may not even know they are engaged in actual warfare as they "play" the "game".

These things are coming. And ironically as you call this future inhuman and disastrous for mankind, it is the tears of crying mothers that help justify this, because these "solutions" will be sold as the answer to bringing our boys back home every time.

What they are doing is HIGHLY ILLEGAL by the Constitution, and yet you're concerned that what they're doing isn't on the website job description.

Whew. For a minute there I was worried we were focusing on the wrong thing.

No wonder Jack Shit is still in charge. He's getting things done alright.

As if Democratic-flavored fuck-ups taste any better than Republican ones. It's practically funny watching two groups argue while both of them shove shit in their mouths purporting theirs tastes far better.

When we can start talking about how the next asshole-in-charge won't write even more checks instead of pointing fingers, then perhaps I'll start giving a shit as to who's name is on the signature line.

Oh yeah, because the average bearded fat-ass is so desirable today to the rest of the world.

Americans cornered the market on obesity. If there was value there, believe me we would have capitalized on it years ago.

Well, that's great and all, but what the average American really needs on their refrigerator is FatBlock.

I wonder...does a spam filter on a fridge prevent you from ordering meat-like substances in a can?

We may have to start using another four-letter word to describe unwanted email. I have a few in mind...

No, but I think you might be on the right track.

Since they were American microbes, chances are some McMicrobes survived.

Therefore, our biggest fear now is the moon getting too fat for its own orbit, quite possibly crashing into the Earth.

Oh, the irony in that demise...damn McFries.

Yes, I seem to recall a similar race standing about staring at these insanely accurate pyramid-shaped structures.

You have a pretty extreme example by comparison there, too.

We can't explain how rocks got stacked so precisely thousands of years later.

Them finding Curiosity would be equal to us finding a 10,000-year old Tesla Roadster sitting in a monastery garage right next to the cold fusion fridge.

Uh, I think you perhaps missed the entire point of this article.

Richard Humphrey was sent to prison for pirating movies.

Finding the prison system engaging in the same illegal activity isn't just ironic, it's a slap in the face, and actually justifies a lawsuit.

That my friend, is a matter of perspective.

The average user staring at a freshly re-installed computer void of all personal data would not even remotely claim to see a difference.

The redness in their face and the volume of their voice as you try and claim otherwise would reaffirm that belief, especially if you have to tell them that the tape backups only captured the lost data on the servers...

My point here was the focus on the amount of destruction that was caused by an "oops", not to shine a light on some batshit theory about uber-secret state-sponsored malware mass-injections.

Besides, we've already seen it's far easier to just compromise CAs anyway, and that's no batshit theory.

When update servers can be "weaponized" that easily against your own environment, it makes you wonder who really needs to be holding those keys, or perhaps why you even need to drive such a fancy update service.

I guess that would depend on what the intent was.

In this particular case, if the intent was maximum damage and disruption, I've got a two word summary.

Nailed it.

Knowing that people have been running various kinds of centralized update services, perhaps across multiple OSes, and spanning several years now, listening to a story about an update server literally going rogue and nuking everything attached to it, and then for the coup de grace, basically committing suicide at the end by reformatting itself, does not sound like an accident.

If it truly was, I'd hate to see what the hell purposeful intent looks like.

I see a lot of concern here about backwards compatibility with any new interface. Why are we really concerned about this?

Your brand new server with quad-port Gig-E interfaces still auto-negotiates down to 10Mb speeds. Why? Because you might hook up your new $10,000 server to a $20 network hub you bought off eBay? Uh...no.

Apple had literally billions of devices in the market with the old sync connector. Then, they came out with an all-new connector, alienating entire lines worth of products. Did they go bankrupt? Was there some massive revolt in the industry? No, not quite.

My point is we should learn to move on. Stop worrying about backwards compatibility to ensure that we address scenarios that rarely happen, if ever. What exactly was Thunderbolt compatible with when it came out? Or Firewire? Didn't stop them from innovating.

Besides, there's a damn good chance that every single piece of computing hardware in your hands today will be replaced within 3-5 years, so I fail to see why we care even from a logistical standpoint. You won't even have the hardware in your hands to worry about backwards compatibility, and vendors will always see replacement as THE solution, so don't expect many long-term favors from them either.

California, land of the Fake and home of the Plastic , was concerned about people...wearing masks ..in public.

Wow. Pot doesn't even recognize Kettle anymore. And that's Miss Irony these days, thank you very much..

The answer was already provided; budget cuts.

Damn, do none of you know who Darth Stewie is?!? And you call yourselves fans..