In a strange coincidence of "one thing happening after two other things happen", the "please stop breaking my knees" button becomes available after the ransomware's author has had both of his knees broken.

I love it when liberal hippies are hypocritical (read: always). I thought it was only the gun-loving rednecks that believed paranoid conspiracy theories about the ill intent of government.

So Yahoo, a company that made its name as a search engine, can't search through its own corporate records.

Now we know why Yahoo is no longer relevant to anyone.

I'm not sure what the guy expected from a politician who doesn't even understand the legislation she tables. "Shoulder thing that goes up" is about all you need to know about the senator from Commiefornia.

Your argument is hilarious due to its fallacies.

Maybe private industry didn't go to the moon because there was no compelling business reason to do so. I guarantee you if the government had said "We will give a 200-year exclusive settlement and mining rights to the first corporation to land on the moon", it would have been done faster and cheaper than the government did it.

Maybe the government insists on maintaining its monopoly on road infrastructure and won't allow private roads to be built. Or maybe private industry has no interest in doing it, because the costs to generate revenue from it outweigh the revenue.

Government responds to different incentives than private corporations do, so of course in many cases they do jobs that private industry won't. Being a monopoly or taking on revenue-negative work doesn't mean that the people doing that work are at the top of their field.

Is anyone REALLY surprised that the FBI was wrong? Government doesn't attract top-tier talent. Never has, never will. When your hiring practices, policies, procedures, compensation and benefits are all at the bottom of the barrel, well... that's what you get. The bottom of the barrel.

... but we're going to punish Apple.

Hey, it's just like anti-gun rhetoric. Bad guy does something bad with a gun, let's punish everyone except the bad guy.

If I told my boss that I wanted to revamp our end user infrastructure for the low cost of $40K per user, I would probably be told to go home until I sobered up.

Maybe we should be angry that this type of sensitive information is in diplomatic cables. Why are medical records, credit card info and other stuff being stored and transmitted by government agents in the first place?

So the terrorists win by simply not applying a software update?

In Canada, not filling out the census has not only monetary penalties, but potential jail time. So if you're one of the unlucky 25% of households that got the "long form" census this year, you had to -- under threat of fines and jail time -- provide information like whether you have any "emotional, psychological or mental health conditions" (question 11e), the address you normally work at, how you get to work, what time you leave for work and how long it takes you to get to work (questions 42, 43, 44a and 44b), how much you paid for child care, child support and spousal support (48, 49), if your house needs repairs (F6), how much you pay for electricity, heating and water (F8a-c), and how much your mortgage payments are (F10a).

A company called NuViz tried to do exactly that. It was a HUD device that attached outside your helmet, almost like a Sena does. And they failed just like Skully.

OPM gets hacked... 'bama doesn't care.

His party gets hacked... well, now we need new laws and regulations and procedures!

It's that mobile thingy where you sign up to be astroturfed by celebrities and big brands.

A Muslim extremist wants to cut your head off.

A Muslim moderate wants someone else to cut your head off.