"You cared enough to comment" is always a stupid reply. As is patently obvious to anyone capable of higher thought processes, what I care about is the fact that nonsense is on my news feed, not some clown doing sports related anything.

Since when did slashdot become a fucking tabloid? Just because the guy in question is notable for his connection to Microsoft doesn't mean we should give a running, leaping, twisting, gyrating fuck about him buying a sports team. What is he going to do, turn the players into programmers? It's not important that we be aware of every time someone related to technology farts or coughs.

How many ways is this ridiculous? In the summary alone, you have quite a lot of nonsense. First, they brag about secure software. Your software is supposed to be secure, especially for something like this. You don't get bonus points because you thought about security where weapons were concerned. That's like bragging about not shitting your pants. Of course their security software is designed to prevent hacking - that's the point. Then you have the mathematical proof, which is just a fancy way of saying they ran a code analysis tool and their software totes doesn't have buffer overflow vulnerabilities, guys! If they really got fancy with it, maybe they could test it against real life security penetration testers, but let's not get ahead of ourselves.

Want to give me a free refrigerator, subsidized by ads? Sure! Other than that, you won't be getting my business if you want to put ads on your refrigerator. Take it or leave it.

We have some lovely elements coming together right here on the slashdot blurb:

1. Stupid pun instead of a descriptive title
2. Full caps in the article excerpt
3. Trying to bring up coding "culture"
4. Assertion that it totally could have been caught beforehand, but they aren't sure exactly how.

Somehow, I don't think I'm missing much by not reading the article.

"an smart phone"

And let's not forget that massive run on sentence at the end.

Is it because they used youtube? Because internet based language exchange programs have been going on - at least in southeast Asia - for quite a while now.

Nah, Bennet in the workplace would show up to work for a company that never hired him and start fucking around with things no one asked him to touch.

Because digital goods don't carry physical properties, you fucking tool.

Don't you just love how they present it without bothering to tell us what Uber is, as if we're already supposed to know and/or care?

Horrible summary doesn't even bother to tell us what Uber is. Massive summary + complete lack of useful info = no clicky. Find better clickbait.

In Taiwan, I can go to the cops and say I lost my phone. They'll ask me to help them backtrack where I've been. Since most businesses and apartment buildings have security cameras, they can usually catch it on camera. Most phone thefts happen here because someone dropped their phone and someone else picked it up, then took out the SIM card. Also, people generally show security camera footage to cops without a warrant if they're looking for a lost phone. So they put the pieces together for me, pick the guy up, and get my phone back. Meanwhile, in the states, you hand them the location and they tell you to go fuck yourself. What the hell is wrong with your country?

Guy recklessly operates remote control machinery in populated area, causes property damage and comes close to causing injury or death in innocent bystanders, and this dipshit reporter pretends the FCC is the devil for coming down on him?

You've got a sci-fi sitcom, which already sounds iffy as hell, and it's made by Yahoo? That sounds like a combination from hell, but maybe it'll start off awesome and then only become a pile of crap later. You know, like they did with Launchcast.

"I have no idea how much data plan bandwidth is used every day on content that users would have preferred downloading at home in advance, but it seems like a non-trivial percentage."

You have no idea. So why the fuck are you wasting everyone's time?