Or Dan Blocker if Lorne begs off.

Won't we all be relieved when we start getting customer service from Level 3 that is on a par with the fabled service from CenturyLink (nee Qwest, US West, Pacific Northwest Bell).

If the acquisition goes through, we can all rest easy.

At age 64, this article is timely for me. There are sites I would really like to read (example theintercept.com) but can not because they have fallen into the thrall of toney grey fonts as have so many others. In my example, I hardly think the people are bad people, but aren't they interested in getting their message out?

So I looked around on that site for a link like "Feedback" or "Contact Us", but without any luck. Perhaps it was in the same grey font.

Anyhow, I did find a "Jobs" link so I applied for a position of my own invention called "Web Usability Analyst, Part Time" and I explained my great interest in the position.

Haven't heard back.

The planet is FINE.

Obviously, they urgently need to start a new procurement cycle. Then things can get royally screwed up

Yeah, maybe we'll buy some of those sequencers soon, but right now we are working on mosquito control.

This recent book (The Internet is Not the Answer) by Andrew Keen covers this area -- call it "the death of journalism" -- pretty well. A very good, but very sad, read.

From the article, it seems like the exploited cameras are IP-addressable/reachable. That does not sound like Closed Circuit TV as I think of it, with non-ethernet coax-and-like connected cameras connected to a monitoring station in a true closed circuit. I am no expert, but should we be talking about an exploit of "IP-enabled security cameras" or something like that instead?

+1. I didn't see your post and posted below in part to point people to the excellent book _The Box_ by Marc Levinson. I have no connection to the book or author, but was impressed with how interesting his history and analysis were when covering an subject that *might* seem mundane. Hardly.

The shipping container, you say? Dubious? Read Marc Levinson's excellent _The Box_

Think of more malicious use cases, like biological agents.

" signifying a major step towards a future of abundance"

Too late.

Being dead is no problem. It's the dying part that is such a total drag.

"that's great news for the 30,000+ people who die in traffic accidents every year in the U.S."

Great News? Dude, they are DEAD!

I could use the $5K, so don't steal my idea.