Beat me to it. Referring to her as a "reporter," or, even more sickening, "journalist," frames her as a thing she hasn't been in decades, if ever. She's a PR flack.

I'm pretty sure it didn't save him.

If something vengeful and final should befall him, there's a non-zero chance that it'll be done by people--possibly plural--whose boss (or boss's boss, or...) "replaced" them with ChatGPT, or frankly any other of these hokum technologies being used to discipline work forces.

It doesn't even matter which technology was the pretext for depriving them of their livelihood. By the time people are ready to do violence, they are not, as a general rule, in a mood to make fine distinctions.

If you check with black hats, you will noticed that there are two tactics that they use approximately never:

- network packet sniffing, and
- break-ins to email

What they're saying by this is that passwords sent in the clear are not an interesting target.

Just trying to bring this conversation back down to earth.

The area of the state of California is 163,696 square miles.

$ units --verbose
Currency exchange rates from www.timegenie.com on 2014-04-02
2866 units, 109 prefixes, 79 nonlinear units

You have: 11 trillion gallons
You want: 163696 in mile^2
        11 trillion gallons = 3.8666624 * 163696 in mile^2
        11 trillion gallons = (1 / 0.25862097) * 163696 in mile^2

I find '4" over the entire state" to be a little bit more manageable than some unscaled number with a bunch of zeros, but maybe it's just me.

not the holding of the device, as anybody who'd thought this through even for a second was saying back when "hands-free" was being touted as a safety feature.

I suppose that's better than wallchan...

How is alleging something about his mother's situation in life helping?

Good for you guys! I'm betting this will really improve officer behavior, but only if the penalties for "malfunctions" are severe, e.g. disciplinary actions against the LEO and never pressing charges against anyone during whose arrest a "malfunction" has occurred.

I just love how people who constantly complain about how buggy and unreliable everything is--and justifiably so, by and large--imagine that there's no way to activate a booby trap by mischance or hostility.

Speaking of arrogance, it takes quite a bit of it, that, or paranoia, to imagine that people in a data center know or care what you're doing with your equipment there. They all have jobs to do, and if you're doing something so sensitive that you think the risk of being spied on in the data center is that high, you should probably have your own data center. That, or lay off the meth^Wcoffee.

Everybody was kung-fu fighting.

Your assumption that content people might find--Facebook or elsewhere--that is more harmful to them than a censorship policy just handed down to them--is false. This is your chance to confront the people asking you to implement the policy with a couple of questions:

1. Given all the ways people get uncensored internet even under autocratic regimes where the penalties are brutal, what makes you think any censorship policy could work?

2. Which feasible projects are you willing to divert resources from in order to tilt at this windmill?

Don't let them answer 2. until they've got 1. well in hand.

Yep. Fast. Cheap. Good.

Pick two.

That's actually the optimistic perspective. Given skill, experience and good will, you could pick up to two. Frequently, the most you could have is one, or in sadly common cases, zero.

Um, excuse me, but did it escape your notice that the vast majority of terrorists in this country are white "Christians" on the extreme right?