Exactly... as has been opined about dozens of times before... you can never fully protect against hacking, so automakers are always going to fail at it.

I said nothing about people being forced to see it, and that has nothing to do with my argument. My argument is one of morality, and it is my opinion. Society has always defined a line of what is moral, and what is immoral. That line has moved back and forth through history, and depending on ideology. Scantily clad women don't bother me all that much, but more importantly it doesn't bother me that others take pleasure in watching it. That's the line I draw. But for me Murder is on the other side of that line. It bothers me that there is an element of society that gets pleasure out of that, and therefore I feel compelled to speak out against anyone who makes that type of material easily available. If you saw the video, ask yourself: what did YOU get out of it. Did you enjoy it? Did you get off? Did you get outraged, but in some weird twisted way, you enjoy feeling that rage? Societal acceptance is perhaps the purest form of democracy. Each member asserts a little pressure on the line of what is acceptable and what is not, and the line moves a little to the left, and a little to the right. It's just the way of things. But never forget: What you allow, you encourage. I am appalled by what FOX is currently encouraging.

Wow, I'm not even sure what to make of what you just said, but I think you misunderstand my point. I'm saying that people who will be emotionally moved by these events, don't need to see the whole clip. People who get off on violence and hate do. This doesn't have anything to do with Jordan, or Japan, or the US, except to serve as the background for the debate about how much proof do you need to provide the "news" vs. how much proof you need to "sell" the news. It has to do with FOX, and their motivation for showing the whole thing. What is their purpose in showing any portion of the clip, and what is their purpose in showing the whole thing? If you say that 30 seconds is the same as the whole thing, then you truly don't understand ISIS and you truly don't understand evil. They are terrorists, and by showing the whole video and whipping people up into a frothy argument, Fox has played directly into their hands. As another commenter above has stated, Fox is practically the marketing department for ISIS now.

So why do you think it is, that when a news reporter opens a story, they start with all the salacious details first, and then just seconds before cutting to the video, they say "this video is pretty graphic, so discretion is advised" and then instantly cut to the graphic video? I think it's their expectation that everybody children included are going to watch it, so really all they are doing is feigning concern for the younglings, while deep down, they're advertising to your sense of the macabre.

In order for the warning to be fair, they'd actually have to give you time to get your kids out of the room before cutting to the blood and gore. It'd be hilarious if a newscaster said "so pause your DVR and get the kids out, then resume watching this horrific video"

The debate in my mind is this... sure it's important to see the barbaric nature of the ISIS group, but on the opposite site, you know there are people in the world who get off seeing this kind of stuff. So the issue is one of "do we show the truth, in an effort to raise sympathy for the victim, when it will inevitably become a source of enjoyment for some, and a source of sympathy for the enemy for others.

In my mind, I think you can show enough video to prove that it really happened, such that it raises the outrage of those who's outrage Fox wishes to raise, without showing the entire 22 minutes of it. At some point, it stops being evidence of a crime, and instead becomes an orgy for masochists.

To express this another way, imagine you were called to sit on a jury where a man was accused of producing thousands of images of child porn. As a jury member, would you want to be forced to watch EVERY SINGLE image/video, or would you at some point say enough is enough, I don't need to see that to know the guy is guilty? In some cases, it is actually necessary to do so, to ensure that justice is done. But the court certainly isn't going to release all those images to the media to convince the court of public opinion that the guy is truly guilty.

Similarly, someone in the Japanese government should probably see the whole thing just to confirm that it wasn't a fake, and it really happened, but at that point, what purpose does it serve to show it in it's entirety? None really, except to gratify those who either support ISIS or get off on this kind of thing. If knowing it happened, and seeing a short clip of it isn't proof enough to stir up the national outrage to finally put a stop to it, no amount of video will.

While I agree, it would be nice... It's a reality that we can't move backwards on this. Nobody is going to dismantle the idea of "credit for everybody", because to some degree, everybody needs credit. The only reasonable path to take is to move forward with this and improve the system.

To some degree, what you have said is already available to you. If someone uses your identity to get credit, you can dispute it. You are welcome to sue the credit company, and you are welcome to sue the credit agencies who incorrectly besmirched your name. But it is pretty unlikely that you are going to win enough statutory damages to break even.

The point is, you can live off cash, and not participate in the "credit" system, and by doing so, you can largely ignore any letters from creditors asking you to pay up... because if you never take credit, it's pretty easy to prove it. But in the end, you are either in the system or out of it. You can't go to an agency and ask for credit, but tell them to their faces that you intend to buck the system they have put in place. Right or wrong, it's the system we have. Change it or GTFO.

The trouble here is that there are HUGE fines for allowing PHI to leak out... but it's a tiny slap on the wrist to leak everything else. So whether it's true or not, this press release appears to be a bit of PR in hopes of evading the HIPAA penalties, or at least calls for HIPAA penalties, which at this magnitude would probably crush the company like a beer can.

It is truly time to pass two laws: 1) leaking identity info should be punished similarly to PHI, and 2) We need to move away from SSN as a credit identifier... it was NEVER EVER intended to be that... it was strictly for government identification for the social security program. It was later co-opted by creditors for lack of a better method of identifying individuals. A secure national identity where access is strictly controlled by the owner (not the government) is needed.

Whew... what a relief! I was really worried there for a minute...

Run-on much?

I'm ROFL right now that you capitalized "the One True Way."

Challenge accepted: I will write a script that locates ambiguous usage of commas, and will replace them with the correct oxford comma usage. I bet I can surpass his edit count in a couple of weeks. :)

You'll make a fine young capitalist!

I can sympathize that there are fewer than 100 songs that YOU like released each year, but there are lots of people who like stuff that you don't... I would argue that there are in fact thousands of songs released each year that SOMEBODY really likes.

I haven't seen this guy's material, but I got the impression that his work was a big improvement over the super-generic MOOC offerings. Maybe he wasn't first to market, but at least he's in a rarefied market now, and because there is no protection for it... it won't be rarefied for long.

LOL I wish I could mod this up, but I've already commented here. Dead right!