What the hell is a "threat actor"?

Why use jargon when "criminal" is a perfectly good word? And if this is a specific type of criminal, say a terrorist or a thief or the intelligence apparatus of a foreign country, then there are very descriptive and precise words for those as well. If it's corporate espionage, then "crook" works well, too.

Why do people who use technology feel the need to create neologisms for the most mundane things? Just the other day, I saw someone from a news web site refer to an "article" as an "explainer cardstack". I'm not shitting you. I immediately took that news source out of my RSS feed because if they're that dedicated to lexical obfuscation, I don't trust anything they write.

English motherfucker. Do you speak it?

The "BDS movement" is nothing more than the continuation of Hitlerism

So, not investing in companies that support the Israeli government is exactly the same as the Holocaust?

That's reasonable.

You can have a smart watch. I want a smart ass.

No, in recent history, these conflicts are resolved by pressure from the international community. It's how apartheid in South Africa ended, to a great extent.

I don't know if you're old enough to remember Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher referring to Nelson Mandela as a "terrorist" and his party as a "terrorist organization". It turned out they were dead wrong. Last year, the philosophical progeny of Reagan and Thatcher hailed Mandela as a hero.

History is not going to be kind to the government of Israel in the first decades of the 21st century (if not longer).

It didn't have to be this way.

Did you read that Wikipedia article you linked to? It makes a pretty good case that it's apartheid:

The analogy has been used by scholars, United Nations investigators, human rights groups and critics of Israeli policy, some of which have also accused Israel of committing the crime of apartheid.[2][3] Critics of Israeli policy say that "a system of control" in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, including Jewish-only settlements, the ID system, separate roads for Israeli and Palestinian citizens, military checkpoints, discriminatory marriage law, the West Bank barrier, use of Palestinians as cheap labour, Palestinian West Bank enclaves, inequities in infrastructure, legal rights, and access to land and resources between Palestinians and Israeli residents in the Israeli-occupied territories resembles some aspects of the South African apartheid regime, and that elements of Israel's occupation constitute forms of colonialism and of apartheid, which are contrary to international law.[4] Some commentators extend the analogy, or accusation, to include Arab citizens of Israel, describing their citizenship status as second-class.[12]

You know the old expression about "looking like a duck and walking like a duck and sounding like a duck"? Well, Israel has been quacking for quite some time now when it comes to it's treatment of Palestinians.

Apartheid. There's an app for that.

And you can by interchangable USB devices that work on multiple operating systems made by over twenty different companies.

When we can buy windows from twenty different companies and it just works, then the two will be equivalent.

I wasn't aware the FAA's mandate went down to 12' in residential areas.

Cool.

From the sounds of his announcement he's been burning too much AzureGreen. Wait, Washington did legalize pot recently! That explains it!

And to the bottom of the ocean, all at the same time.

"we mean to increase the synergistic use of buzzwords to drive shareholder value and customer satisfaction."

Seriously, there's a company I saw one time that had "We strive for our customer's affection." as their mission statement on the building. Nobody really listens to this shit. Net Net, he's going to fire a few talking heads, move some departments around and if you don't like it you can leave.

That's total bullshit. We've had insurance and employment coupled here in my country for almost a century now and none of these clusterfucks have happened. The thing that causes the clusterfuck is a country that can't decide whether it wants to be religious or secular.

But still vulnerable to a ton and a half of vulnerabilities. Sure you can cut your exposure down (like no IE) but that still doesn't mean that the OS can't be attacked in other ways. You also hit the nail on the head, obsolescence and driver support. A lot of companies want to get away from XP but that means upgrading other systems and in some cases processes because there aren't one for one analogs available. That's the bigger problem, when a company gets hemmed in by the tech they may have selected decades ago. I had to work with one customer a year ago to get rid of a couple of SCO boxes that had been running since the late 80s running inventory control. It wasn't just the OS that was the issue, it was also the inventory software that they'd been using for decades. Changing that wasn't as simple as an OS upgrade.