You would think that law enforcement would be involved in releasing this sort of 'ransom'ware. What better way to disrupt this sort of crime industry than to discourage users from paying to recover access?

And it took 7 years to discover the bug. This is not a win for OSS security. Couple this with heartbleed and it's been a horrendous couple of years for trust of OSS code review.

There are only two cryptocurrencies with any real momentum today: Bitcoin and Ethereum. The former has a huge head start, while Ethereum is more ambitious and attempts to offer a broader platform for running smart contracts. On the fringe you can add Monero or possibly Zcash (doesn't exist yet) as more privacy centric options. If you believe that any of these have a chance for broader adoption and use then you're still very early in the game as far as investments go. On the other hand, they could all fail and go to zero.

Does anyone work for a defense contractor or otherwise secure institution that's using Windows 10? If this data leakage does end up resulting in lost sales for Microsoft, then that would be the biggest factor in changing their minds. So far, I'm not sure that there's been any downside to Microsoft for their choices in end user privacy.

Unless the device knows what bandwidth utilization is like on the connection, this is nearly useless. The measurement needs to be done at the router or egress port level or for all the raspberry pi knows, there a dozen other devices on the network segment using 90% of the bandwidth for torrents, netflix, etc.

This is not Satoshi and he was not arrested for bitcoin related tax problems. Until someone wants to sign a message with Satoshi's PGP key or his well known private BTC key, then there's no reason to believe this is anything more than a hoax/prank.

Coincenter, a firm established to help guide policy creation with regard to crypto currencies, has a excellent response. https://coincenter.org/2015/11...

Orkut was great! I got an invite, logged in and forgot about it for years until Google announced that they were killing it. Google+ on the other hand annoys the crap out of me. Lets hope that eventually Google will get back to their Orkut roots.

I find Seinfeld and That 70s Show, both filmed in front of a live studio audience to be funny and the audience laughter doesn't bother me in the slightest. There's something different about TBB. Maybe it's the writing, maybe the audience is prompted to laugh at every joke no matter how mediocre - either way, it's missing something or this thread wouldn't exist.

As a self professed geek, I get a lot more out of the sophomoric humor in Friends than I ever have out of the BBT. Or maybe it's all just a moo point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Or "White Chicks" for Monty Python writers.

OK, so if they have a live studio audience, how is it they managed to make it sound exactly like the laugh track from the Brady Bunch? The outcome is terrible regardless of whether the source is recorded or live.

Maybe not all drug users are thieves, but most addicts will eventually turn to desperate measures to obtain drugs including thievery and violence. Taking the funds that are currently used in the war on drugs and providing substance abuse assistance is likely to be far more effective than attempting to curtail the flow of drugs through other means.

Time to add taking off that watch in addition to firing up VPN and private browsing before visiting your favorite adult sites now.

Well, it has one major competitor for criminal activity - the US Dollar. Yeah, I'll take that endorsement.