"Successive budget cuts by Congress are forcing the Internal Revenue Service to delay system modernization that would improve its ability to prevent fraud."

One suspects that might have been the point.

They want attention. That's it.

Were any emails from the GoP hacking group received while N. Korean Internet went dark? It seems to me that might be a piece of evidence, as well.

I wish that were the problem.

From what I can see, conservatives mostly don't like FCC involved because Obama is for net neutrality.

Otherwise, your comment is excellent.

Taxes are at historical lows, especially among those most able to pay (the wealthiest, who have seen their wealth skyrocket while incomes of pretty much everyone else languishes).

Also, inflation is generally responsive to unemployment rates, rather than tax rates.

"the state never has to answer to the market" The parallels between a free market of companies, and a free market of candidates in a liberal democracy, are actually quite strong. When the former contaminates the latter, however (also known as "right wing utopia"), you can have serious problems.

I suspect the culprit is more along the lines of what you exemplify: people were easily misled, probably by slickly packaged marketing of long-disproved right wing ideas.

True - there is some karma at work here, I think. Of course, this doesn't just hurt Sony.

Isn't this the same group/person that called in a fake bomb threat on an airplane not too long ago? I'm surprised they're still walking free.

I think you may be suffering from paranoia.

And I think you need to get out more :)

Unfortunately, such feminists seem to be on the quiet side. Most of what seems to be heard from modern feminists--to say nothing of the SJWs--is as regards areas where women are perceived as being disadvantaged as compared with men. But it's radio silence when the opposite is true (or worse: open hostility towards those who raise issues where men are disadvantaged).

Ensuring women don't have fewer rights than men is a laudable goal, to be sure. But compared with supporting equality, it leaves out half of the equation. At one time, when women really could have been said to have been oppressed and had far fewer rights than men, such a position was probably justified. But in today's remarkably egalitarian society (if we're arguing over portrayal of the sexes in video games, you kind of have to admit we're down to details), things aren't quite so simple. And in my opinion, that is largely responsible for the serious image problem today's feminists seem to have.

Unfortunately, no. I've had to mute several people on my Twitter feed (from whom I normally enjoy seeing updates) because the controversy has not yet died.

If you're talking about the IE vulnerability: according to IBM: 6,935.

Of course, if you want to count from the time IBM found the bug and reported it: roughly 180.

It would appear it's actually a "zero day [plus 18 years]".

"IBM corp's cybersecurity research team discovered the bug in May, describing it as a 'significant vulnerability' in the operating system.

"'The buggy code is at least 19 years old and has been remotely exploitable for the last 18 years,' IBM X-Force research team said in its blog on Tuesday."

http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/se...

I know you guys recently made a big deal out of attacking free software projects, and tried to exploit a couple of recent bugs in them to evangelize for paid development, so this reminder of how bad bugs frequently are in paid development software is pretty embarrassing. But in context, pretending this somehow demonstrates how good paid development models are just looks silly.