This was my thought. I hope they get good representation.

I'd really like to know what TBD54599875 is supposed to signify. Did they ask a password manager to come up with their company name?

For who is OUTRAGED that they would take away the ability to shuffle albums- THEY DIDN'T. They didn't remove shit, the only difference is it defaults to playing the album in order. The shuffle button is right there on the player where it always is. Source: I'm using it right now.

It's embarrassing how easy it is on the internet to stir up a bunch of outrage over shit that didn't even happen. Honestly, I shouldn't even blame slashdot, it's the BBC that made the headline, but wouldn't it be nice if the editors actually checked these things?

Everyone thinks about the forums, since that's what spawned 4chan et al., but does anyone remember the writing? For a while SomethingAwful had some of the best short form fiction going, along with great bits of humor writing. It's a shame it doesn' seem like that style has any place on the internet anymore, everything now is tweet-size.

For all the people screaming how this was obvious, why was it then that the TSA only started doing this after it was demonstrated to them? Evidently they found the process so useful that they replicated it at all their locations, so why did it take years for them to figure it out?

Never admitting to any kind of failure while attacking anyone who points out your mistakes, along with nebulous threats of legal action? This seems familiar to me somehow, I wonder if the governor picked this up from watching someone else.

Don't you realize why they are more than happy to deliver you a single tube of toothpaste? Charging shipping and making you bundle your orders makes you stop and think about what you're buying rather than just pressing the "BUY" button. The money they lose on shipping is offset by the money they make from encouraging reflexive spending.

It doesn't. It is (allegedly) a hashing system that scans your phone for the hashes of known images of child pornography and then alerts if it finds one, presumably allowing the image itself to be reviewed. The hashing works in such a way as to be unaffected by simple image manipulations.

Everyone is saying this is no longer a story, but frankly I think this makes the story more interesting, who stands to benefit from impersonating reddit and getting this service shut down? I could easily see this being a ruse by one of the big copyright holders worried that this will be used for "piracy". It's not like they haven't used dirty tricks in the past. As an alternative, maybe someone was hoping to impersonate SaveVideo after they shut them down and spread malware/shitty ads.

I really think people are sleeping on Biden as president, maybe because he's old and doesn't seem that dynamic, but I feel like so I've seen actual concrete policy direction and leadership coming out of his office at a faster pace than maybe any other administration in my lifetime.

I remember when the American Lung Association et al. were concerned about smoking because it was damaging to people's lungs. Now they seem to not really care about that but are on a moralistic anti-drug crusade. Addiction is the real enemy, lung cancer gets a pass I suppose.

As a non-smoker, I'm unimpressed that this has seemingly turned from a push for public health to a push for public morality. I'm not doubting nicotine is addictive, a quality it shares with alcohol, caffeine, gambling, and a host of other things-many of which have significant social costs. The question should be does that addiction result in adverse health effects? If the answer is yes, then show the research. (popcorn lung from knockoff THC juice is not really an indictment against e-cigs and isn't germane to the topic.) If the answer is no, then what are the ALA and ACS actually doing here except trying to raise up the flag of prohibition yet again?

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You are reacting to this like it's an unprecedented new policy that Amazon just thought up. I can assure you it is not. Most of the objections people are raising were found in previous examples like Motorola, IBM add Microsoft. I remember when stack ranking was causing literally the problems discussed at Microsoft in the 2000s, and they have since ended the practice. Abandoning it has certainly not hurt their stock price.

Does anyone know the extent of the damage beyond "They got hacked"? Are they having to rebuild their SCADA system from the ground up? Or did they not actually have any way of reaching their various remote PLCs without just hooking them up to the internet, and now they're trying to figure out some other way?

It endlessly fascinates me how we have decided to target the one group of people in this world who are consistently happy for elimination because we feel they aren't productive enough. Really puts the lie to the whole "It's for their own good" justification.