So, given the fact that humans will be humans (seems to be the common excuse for taking nude photos in the first place), I'm curious...how many of these celebrities have publicly come out in favor of hardened security devices or other protocols to take to ensure ANY data isn't leaked next time?

Yeah, I'll believe they're serious about protecting themselves when they take appropriate action.

And for you crypto companies who might have a few bones to throw around, NOW is the perfect time for that celebrity endorsement...

Aaaaand this is the part where we find the Royal Union of Camel Jockeys refused to allow Google to use anything but their approved methods of transport across said desert.

Ironically, this has been a camels job for a few thousand years now, so I fail to see any inhumane treatment here. I'm assuming Google also should refuse the use of donkeys when documenting the grand canyon as well, or did they?

In other words, When in Rome...

Uh, I'm sorry. Any company mentioning medical devices and the Internet of Things in the same sentence brings the death knell in my mind.

Whatever pathetic security model they're thinking of shoveling into this device at the last minute before trying to ride the next billion-dollar revenue wave won't be enough.

Keep your damn Internet of Things away from medical devices until you learn to implement at least common sense security. This ain't the next iPod killer, someone's life is at stake.

While you're drooling over the projected revenue numbers, you might want to listen to your lawyers during the risk analysis part of the presentation...

The world is not a laboratory, and since the inception of the virus almost 40 years ago, this is the first true test of just how "easy" it is to contain.

Doesn't look so damn easy right now.

Ebola has been around since 1976. Before now, deaths have rarely numbered in the hundreds, and quite often in the tens during "outbreaks".

Has anyone contracted Hep C, AIDS, or SARS via a brushed glove against the face, as is the suspicion with an Ebola infection in Spain?

Get back to me when we have some actual hard numbers of large Ebola outbreaks to solidify this, because right now it's nothing more than a theory that has NEVER been actually seen widespread in nature. Let's hope neither nature nor mankind takes this bastard airborne through mutation.

The parent is right. Level 4 containment is exactly what the CDC mandates themselves in order to even study this virus or warehouse it. If it were "easy" to contain, you sure as hell wouldn't have those kinds of insanely expensive precautions being taken to store it in a jar.

And I sure as hell hope you're not eating those "easy to contain" words 6 months from now.

And the head of the CDC is like any other elected official. They are not there to start a panic during a crisis, so regardless of the seriousness of it, they are going to downplay it to a level just below widespread speculation and panic, even if the concerns are actually far greater.

Let's not bullshit ourselves here. There's a strong chance said Bittorrent whore is using that protocol to download free content they would otherwise be forced to pay for.

And here you are assuming said person is going to pay for internet service?

Fat chance.

If you're still alive to receive the prize and can feel the sting of the slap in the face when you are passed over, then I'd say that's the litmus test.

If you're dead, well you probably didn't get the email...

Yes, and isn't it ironic that the very reason they don't like technology companies that do this is because of their capitalistic goals to increase financial wealth.

Perhaps it's not so much irony as it is proving his point dead on.

Yes, and that "nation" you speak of that can't arrest or shoot you is called the Military Industrial Complex.

You know, the very same Complex that is now arming Sheriff Bubba Joe and his merry band of misfits in with armored troop carriers and other "necessities" to perform their job.

Oh you mean the 51st State in the US? It's not on too many maps. Kind of hard to miss though, as it's a massive State. We call it Welfare

The citizens don't give a shit anymore. Apathy controls them. You'll see that when the next voter turnout is half of what it was before.

And when elected positions are replaced with appointed Czars (a.k.a. the good ol' corrupt boys club), it's hard to convince anyone that any form of democracy still exists within our elected leadership today.

The Old Government response: We cannot confirm nor deny that we were involved in such activity.

The New Government response: Yeah. We did it. What the fuck are you gonna do about it, peasant. Piss off, or we'll label you a terrorist too.

If that is what you call a defense, I'd sure as hell hate to see them on the offensive.

Government got pissed with the Snowden leaks, and this is their reaction?

Let's put it in a "secure" cloud?

Wow. So it wasn't just a rumor. They actually have a medal awarded for Ignorance.

C'mon. All luxury vehicles are either new or "pre-owned".

Only peasants drive used shit. The yuppies would never stand for such a moniker.

Oh, and that's Certified Pre-owned to you, buddy. You know, 'cause we need another reason to charge $400/month for some used shit...

Uh, that "expensive" pre-paid multi-year plan works out to $450/year.

For an $80,000 vehicle.

From Acura to Volvo and every premium brand in between, you honestly think you can find a stealership that will charge that little of an amount to support any of their luxury vehicles for a year?

Yeah, good luck with that. You'll find out very quickly why we call them stealerships.

If the billionaire who infamously owns the worlds most famous combover has no idea just how bad he looks at this point, then I welcome the continued mocking.

That level of ignorance deserves it.