The issue is video game reviewers and sites providing unearned positive praise for a product due to:
    - Bias from personal relationships, including those of a sexual nature
    - Political pressure to over-represent games which claim to be the product of a given minority group

If the 'customer' in this case, is the person expecting a fair and non-biased review of upcoming and current games, they are not served by these biases, especially when they're not revealed from the beginning. This is a basic failure of journalistic integrity.

This was further compounded by a backlash that centered around censorship of any discussion of these issues, no matter how applicable or tangentially related, which pointed these issues out, which is seen as patently unfair - not to mention draconian.

Perhaps the worst part of it all is that those trying to hide this discovery - or promote their side with no argument - chose something ethically sound to stand against, Women's Rights. This is unfortunate, because women's rights have nothing to do with this issue, and pretending it does only weakens future ACTUAL complaints that involve Women's Rights.

The point is, it still doesn't let people get completely off the hook, and requires very elaborate schemes even for your best case (for them) scenario. It seems like a reasonable compromise to me, especially when going any further is impossible without severely compromising security ("backdoor" is just an euphemism for "known security hole", and carries the same implications).

The last panic justified flu outbreak was 100 years ago.

Normally, the flu only kills that many people because you give it a long enough timeline. It's the proverbial turtle. It's nothing like Ebola or even more interesting strains of flu that can kill millions of people in a single outbreak.

You're simply trying to distort the numbers to create a false sense of panic.

I'm using government's own data. Where's the graph on YOUR page?

Funny, that page says it's "below normal" but doesn't say how much.

The fact is, it's barely below the 1981-2010 mean.

It's about normal.

OP is pretty funny since there normally isn't ANY sea ice within about 100 miles of Alaska this time of year.

Utter nonsense. Microsoft won't certify your product UNLESS you store certain things in the registry.

Certainly you can write your programs a different way (as I do), but don't expect to get your software Microsoft certified.

The (1st) missionary doctor that contracted Ebola because he was treating people in Africa is from Texas. Although he's feeling much better now.

He's been giving blood so that serum can be made from it.

Nothing I wrote contradicts this. What makes you think it does?

Talk about a retard. The flu is a virus and as such is not something that even responds to current forms of medical treatment. You might be able to stop the spread of it with vaccines and extreme isolation but that's about it.

The flu is transmissible BEFORE you manifest symptoms. You can be wandering around infecting friends and coworkers before you even know you are sick.

Ebola is not like that.

The flu also spreads much more easily from person to person.

Two entirely different situations.

...and the OS should have promptly informed them that they were about to run a program.

HELL, the OS probably should have informed them that the file was named in a suspicious fashion likely to cause confusion. Something like ".*." should be easy enough to spot and be on the lookout for.

The file is obviously suspicious. It does not require strong AI in order to see this.

This little bit of nonsense has been a problem for so long that Microsoft should have adapted to deal with the situation by now.

It also highlights the stupidity of hiding file extensions.

There should be no problem downloading DATA from the skankiest sources. The very idea that anyone needs to be paranoid about that sort of thing just demonstrates just how badly things have gotten both with platforms and the level of ignorance we expect out of end users.

There should be a clear line between data and programs. Operating systems should enforce it and end users should be aware of it.

I think the last batch of infections around here came from programs masquerading as DATA. These programs masquerading as DATA were "installed" by trying to view the DATA as it came to the user in the platform vendors email program.

This is not quite your Android style Trojan.

Someone chose to blur the line between data and programs and confuse the end user and to seek to keep them ignorant.

DATA (untrusted) being treated as a program is also the essence of the Shellshock bug and is boneheadedly intolerable for the same reasons.

Way back when each individual part was serialized (and for such guns an "all matching" gun is indeed worth a premium), but these days its just not efficient. Plus we've come a long ways in parts interchangeability. 100 years ago if you bought a part for a gun it needed to be fitted to that gun to work (and that is still true today for many "old" designs from that era, such as the 1911 handgun). On most newly designed guns parts just drop in and work. Being able to match it to a certain gun just isn't important.

Israel is our extra special hand puppet^W^Wfriend and we would never hack them because we own them and we don't need to hack them. They're doing precisely what we pay them for.

HAHAHAHA. There's no way that this went down without the blessing of the superiors. None. They knew what they were doing, and they did it on purpose.

Sure, but by "suspension" you mean dampers and maybe springs, and anti-roll bars are fairly inexpensive and trivial to upgrade. Bolting on the turbo is more work by far. And as stated before, you need a better tire and wheel package. So what, 1-3k depending on provenance? Before you get to the turbo, obviously. Since there's no cars to pull parts from, you do have to buy everything new, not actual Subarus where everything interchanges and they about snap together like Lego. I'd rather have an Impreza, anyway; I prefer my Subarus with AWD. I bought an A8 D2, which is kind of like the Impreza's classy uncle. I suspect that if you put the D2 next to a GC5 the similarities would leap out. Off to go do that in an image.