I saw the headline and then moused over the link thinking "Yep .. its a dice click bait story"

Dice a company that runs a market matching candidates and employers, promoting that a large group of people are well suited as employees. And doing so on a website that they own.

First, there's a crapton of legacy software out there.

And there you have it. In this day and age we should be using "Metric crapton's", not the older imperial standard.

That particular one goes back a bit further than Reagan by a couple of decades itself. 1953 Iranian coup d'état IMHO Putting the puppet dictator in power in the first place is the root cause of a hell of a lot of radical islamic behavior.

Oh the irony

You think that's bad? They follow Ars by about 3 days

They are starting to. And the first place that I ever used my chipped CC at was Walmart. (Which confused the hell out of the associate who was insisting that I swipe the card, rather than inserting it into the chip reader slot)

What sort of company allows their marketing department to show their product in a bad light? Especially when they are in full control of showing things that are easily verifiable.

And I didn't "spend time to figure out where the map was". I am simply very familiar with the city and the route that was shown. Funnily enough if you show something from an identifiable, real world location in your advertisement, there exists people who know that location.

Seriously, do you really think that Apple would allow one of its flagship technologies to be compromised by another company?

And I laugh out loud whenever I see the add for Cortana on TV that gives the user the reminder that he has to leave now in order to get to his date on time.

The map shown on screen is of Richmond, VA, .. a city of 210,000 people
The route shows going from somewhere in Church Hill to the Fan .. about 3 miles
The time of day is around 8PM at night

And Cortana suggests that this will take 20+ minutes.

Sure, the map and the reminder are nice, but factually the trip duration is out the window unless you are considering driving during one of the 3 days in the year where there might be enough snow to impede you - in which case why aren't you at the supermarket, buying everything in sight like everyone else??

Hmmm .. you know .. that could just as easily describe a Bennett Haselton story

But then .. from TFA

So for all I know, this could either be a world shattering event where by zero day exploits are being used on OSX to leverage malware.

OR it could be like the HK protesters where by you needed to J/B your phone first.

So I am reserving my panic until I know more.

Except that there are whole classes of FB profiles out there that do not have real names attached to them and were not targeted .. EG Profiles named for/after pets.

This is not a case of PC gone wild, but genuine discrimination.

That was what came to mind when I saw the headline .. Invaders .. possibly from space!

I could rattle off the names of a half a dozen programs used by people all over the world that you probably know nothing about. Does that make you out of the loop?

But if I was posting a story on /. I'd at least say what domain the subject worked in.