Don't forget that the Telegraph is an extremely conservative newspaper which is very cosy with the British establishment.

The key phrases in the article, "the Daily Telegraph can disclose", and "a senior security official said", imply that the Telegraph has been explicitly briefed knowing that it will big up the story. You know the quotation:

"You cannot hope to bribe or twist
(Thank God!) the British journalist.
But, seeing what the man will do
Unbribed, there's no occasion to."

Mind you, the fact that they're talking about drug gangs is especially significant as on the one hand it's an attempt to deflect attention from the political nature of GCHQ spying whereas on the other it's suggesting that GCHQ has a routine role in what would normally be considered police work. They're obviously proud of their mission creep.

Exactly right, tactile feedback and muscle memory. So you don't have to look.

Context-sensitive menus (so you have to look) is a fundamentally bad idea in this situation. Unfortunately, chasing fads over functionality plagues nearly all industries, not just automotive.

Wouldn't an impact wrench have been a more appropriate tool in that case? Or a regular wrench + a good number of firm taps with a hammer? An 18" lever and floor jack sounds like a good recipe to break off a frozen bolt.

"The best socket wrench is the one you have on you"

Sure, information needs to be passed back and forth between the office and the plant. The first step in security is to assume that your office network is the same as "the Internet": you don't know what's on there, it is full of malware and hackers, and they are actively out to try and get you. Assume your office network fully compromised, and secure the production network accordingly.

I don't know how Sony Pictures internal systems communicate, but I'm pretty sure they don't need to have direct access to world+dog in order to do so.

What seems to have happened here is that by network-based manipulation of external firewalls, direct communication routes were established between malilcious hosts on the Internet and internal systems. You can avoid that and still maintain e-mail communication by relaying your mail over something other than TCP/IP between your internal-facing and external-facing systems, for example.

And there are actuallly very good productivity reasons for restricting Internet browsing to dedicated computers on physically separate networks - it considerably reduces the amount of the day your staff spend on facebook and amazon.

I'm amazed the "Internet of Everything" mentality still prevails. It was a utopian dream of the 1980s and 1990s but we now have very clear evidence of what happens in practice with universal connectivity - a dystopian nightmare in which governments and criminals are in competition to gain the most effective control over people and commerce.

Perhaps we can ask Sony Pictures how their present productivity is looking compared to, say, RKO?

This is nothing short of Opportunist-gate.

I disagree. Not all women are feminists, and getting more ladies into game development is not even one of the goals of these feminists. Their goal is to turn all gamers into feminists, and impede any gaming that isn't conforming to the dogma By force, if necessary.

>>>Why do you believe the gaming industry will be turned into a "radfem mandatory inclusion" platform?

I believe this based on precedence in other similar industries, like graphic novel industry. The crux of the issue is that there is no concise set of demands that could be accommodated. Once you achieve a set of their goals/objectives, next one comes along and pressure re-doubles along with the effort to vilify you for not bending over backwards to satisfy it. It is just like blackmail, once you pay, you will keep paying forever.

I'm firmly on the side of "let me enjoy my games".

Imagine, if every time you sat down for dinner some obnoxious person started to yell at you about starving Nigerian children. Annoying? Well, this is how gamers see SJW.

I personally believe that this issue is worthwhile of further attention. Why? Because as a gamer that does not associate with GG, I still don't care to have gaming turned into radfem 'mandatory inclusion' platform.

If you thought Jack Thompson was bad, read up on what radfem thinks about boys and gun play. If they have their way with gaming, next BG of CoD will have pink waffle bats and dolls instead of guns.

>>>FBI confirmed somewhere else that at least 2 of the feminists in distress have sent death threats to themselves and then pretended it's gamers doing it.

If this is true, that would very very damning. Who was involved? Do you have any proof of this, like links to FBI reports?

Exactly, I really hope they find people who were engaging in criminal behavior so both sides can move on and continue engaging in the debate if gaming is an appropriate platform for broadcasting feminist agenda.

Some people prefer hardware keyboards. I'm not one of them; I prefer to have a slimmer device with a larger screen instead, but I've tried one of the old BB models (one with a trackball) and found that its keyboard was rather good for typing longer messages. I can see the attraction if most of what you do is email and messaging.

What a lot of people (myself included) didn't appreciate is how much people hate having to carry two devices. Where I work, many people had a BB provided by the company as well as a personal cell phone (smart or otherwise). As soon as the company offered corporate email and calendar on personal smartphones, pretty much everyone dropped BB and continued to use their personal device. And pretty much no one choose BB as their personal device either. TFA praises BB for not trying to appeal to the mass market with this device, and instead offer something that does a couple of things really well, but BB need to understand that in the world of bring-your-own-device, the reality is that your device needs to service personal needs as well as business needs. Having a physical keyboard and a great messaging app clearly doesn't cut it anymore.

Adding the ability to run Android apps on modern BB phones is a great move though. That may be exactly what is needed to make them good enough for personal use.

That "word" needs to die a quick and painful death... If you want to use that saying as a verb, just write "have been eating their own dog food".