I think adblockers are great - for the end user to own and maintain. I've been running filtering proxies of one type or another since the last millennium. (And nothing will teach you the nuances of regex like the challenge of stripping out unwanted HTML tags.) It's for me to decide what I want my browser to display.

But just as it's wrong for my ISP to inject their own ads, it's also not the place of my ISP to censor them out of my data stream. That's my decision, not theirs.

Yes, they *could* have used some kind of special 'data diode' isolation device, but then the researcher probably wouldn't have been able to jump networks in the lab, or, as stated in TFA, "He told WIRED that he did access in-flight networks about 15 times during various flights but had not done anything beyond explore the networks and observe data traffic crossing them".

Car networks (CAN bus) have a similar weakness in that the infotainment systems have previously been breached, allowing attackers access to cross over to security systems and unlocking the doors.

If there is no tie between the entertainment and nav systems, then it becomes difficult to explain the seatback display of the current flight information. At some point the data has to move from one system to the other. That takes a lot more than "no tie".

Religions were created as the first rudimentary forms of government or control over other people, and are still remarkably effective at that task. They only require an ongoing group of leaders to ensure obligations are continually felt by the members, as it's difficult to create a new religion quickly with a large enough number of committed adherents to wage an effective war.

The entire process is well understood and practiced worldwide.

"Climate change" is a term that fell into vogue after focus group studies discovered that people would worry less about "climate change" than "global warming". Can we call you a "Global Warming Denialist" instead?

This is how a corporation goes to heaven: First a hedge fund manager takes out a short term high interest loan from a bank through a shell corporation, then approaches the corporation's executive management and proposes [...insert references to stuff that sounds illegal but still boring as hell...] ... and since he's the first in line to get paid, he takes his management fees out and walks away with 10% of the initial loan value after the corporation has laid everyone off and entered the afterlife.

Were slaveowners ashamed of themselves for getting free labor? Probably not, but being "ashamed of yourself" isn't really a relevant question to pose to people who are proud of what they did.

Because Keith Moon is dead.

Your stuff's cargo container was not heated during shipping. If it was stacked below the deck line, where it was not exposed to the sun, it didn't reach 55C during the journey.

Arthur Anderson was primarily an accounting and auditing firm. The entire reason that firm existed was to be trustworthy. If people can't trust the auditors, they blame it on instructions coming down from the top that said "anything for a buck comes before an accurate audit." So there was no way to trust the rest of the firm wasn't uninfected with the same corruption that led to Enron.

At Green Mountain, the decision to put DRM into coffee came from the top. While it doesn't translate the same way to the line workers, the trust in the company was similarly lost by their clients.

And yes, people might lose their retirement savings. Employees often have a lot invested in company stock. And if Green Mountain has a pension plan, those employees are at risk as well.

What would be ironic is if Green Mountain collapsed, but other players in the marketplace continued to thrive while using the K-cup (1.0, of course) as a de facto standard.

> They were also able to precisely track a virtual reality headset with the same precision.

One does not "precisely track" a VR headset with two centimeter resolution. I'll guess that they continued to use the IMU tracking that is built into the Samsung Gear VR, and they used it to display the tracking of external objects that were measured with two centimeter resolution.

FOIA requests can be used for targeted denial of service attacks, yes. Look at what this chick is doing to a public library: http://dc.uwm.edu/cgi/viewcont... She's just a dumb blonde (look at her kooky museum tour videos) but she's still managed to deluge the library with hundreds of FOIA requests (demanding shit like "all the data produced on all employees' computers over the past year", etc.) She's a lone kook not even employed by a major industry, and the library has to hire two full time employees just to respond to her FOIA requests. If they are legally required to respond to them, most small research teams would easily be shut down by a torrent of FOIA requests coming from deep-pocketed industries.

Well, one specific reason is that the legislation has been designed to allow any nutjob out there to shut down any government-funded research they don't like by harassing scientists with thousands of FIOA requests.

Carly spouted off on Saturday about net neutrality, and claimed that it was forced down our throats by lobbyists from Verizon and Comcast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

And she says this as a former CEO of HP. I hope her campaign fails soon because her voice gives me faceslapping injuries.