How are Sony's private memos, emails, and employee information a "matter of public importance" ??

Some if it is, some of it isn't. Employee social security numbers are not. Details of possible gender inequality in pay clearly is.

Boies may be a douchebag, but he's a douchebag who actively practices law and apparently reads the cases in full, unlike the good Professor Volokh, who has never actually practiced.

You know that he lost a case to a gardener, who was unrepresented by a lawyer, right? His firm did not cover itself with glory in the SCO cases either.

IANAL but I'm pretty damned sure that if I were to go to the Pirate Bay (RIP) and find a link to the latest Debian distro, there is absolutely nothing illegal about that regardless of which site

Legal: yes, sensible: no. Get your links from a reputable Debian mirror.

Google is the target du jour.

Because that is where the money is

My worst experience was with a 1TB WB "Green" drive. From brand new, SMART said it was perfect, but I could not write over about 900GB to it. This was not a GiB vs. GB issue -- the failures occurred before reaching 931GiB and manifested as drive I/O errors, not filesystem full errors. Writes were consistently failing before I reached the nominal size of the drive.

I haven't bought a WD drive since then.

That's a hell of a bargain. Take 1 beating, then don't have to work for the rest of my life!

This may not happen to you. Looking at TFA, I see that the victim was guilty of a heinous offense: DwB (Driving while Black). Unless you have the correct skin colour, your plan may fail at step 3.

This is why it's so hard to get corrupt/bad cops out of the system. The entire system is built to protect them, at all costs.

Perhaps some types of disciplinary records should be published. For example, any record that the cop tampered with evidence, hid evidence, lied in court, etc.. should be available to any defence lawyer.

I've rotated my screen 360 degrees :-)

Does it improve the picture now that you have twisted cables?

Waterboarding is regarded by many countries as torture.

Even the Spanish Inquisition regarded waterboarding as torture.

Like its Windows counterparts, the Linux trojan is extremely stealthy. It can't be detected using the common netstat command. To conceal itself, the backdoor sits dormant until attackers send it unusually crafted packets that contain "magic numbers" in their sequence numbers

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Even a regular user with limited privileges can launch it, allowing it to intercept traffic and run commands on infected machines. Capabilities include the ability to communicate with servers under the control of attackers and functions allowing attackers to run commands of their choice and perform remote management.

Both of these statements cannot be true. Linux requires root privileges to listen on a port without opening it (essentially, packet dumping).

Let's be pragmatic. Kaspersky has no interest in there being a widespread view that Linux is less likely to be infected by malware than Windows.

Someone told him to ask me what was wrong, and what he could do to fix it, and I said "Concrats, you now own a very very fast 16-bit DOS machine. Enjoy DOOM".

It booted? Wow. The one time I accidentally did that to that class of processor, it blew apart -- very quickly.

At any house brand computer store in China the computers come windows installed and activated but no disks.

When was the last time you bought a PC with Windows in the USA? Install disks have not been included for several years.

Personally, I'm not sure that I need to be protected from this type of vertical monopoly given the strength of Toyota and Honda in the US. If the big three from Detroit don't treat me right, I'll just buy a Toyota.

Exactly. It's not that such rules were never required, but they are not required now. The current effect is not to protect consumers, but instead, to protect incumbent dealerships. Look at all the states that don't have such rules. The auto market hasn't imploded in those states.

why does Tesla not think they can compete on equal terms as the competition? Sounds like they feel they need help being competitive.

Perhaps for the same reasons that allowed society to exit the feudal era? The current rules favor incumbents. The current rules are against progress.