Correct, just the Director of IT

It was the Director of IT that they fired.

The Director of IT was the one that was fired.

You know it was the Director of IT that was fired, right?

If you click on one of the sources for the article, it clearly says the Director of Information Technology was fired. Not a regular IT employee, the director. That seems like one of the appropriate people, in IT in this case, that should've been let go. Most comments are making assumptions about who was fired and ranting instead of looking for the info. If you don't like your job that much and have to rage on Slashdot because of a story that triggered you, quit and go somewhere else. IMO, the person who opened the email should either be let go or be the spokesperson for the education effort to prevent it in the future.

Maybe she'll give all her audience members a free year worth of YouTube TV. You get tv, you get tv, EVERYBODY GETS TV

Categorize all stories like this as "trolling"? They seem to pop up every 6 months or less and tout the same thing. The demise, the demise. *eyeroll*

A slow, steady decline of PC sales doesn't indicate the demise. Just ban these stories as there's no purpose to them other than to rip the editors for allowing it.

I'm not a lawyer.

I would think the US government could put sanctions on that country to prohibit businesses from operating in that country. Although, if the business entity is separate from the parent and all workers are located in the country, I don't know how or if sanctions would/could prevent that.

Regardless of ethics or controversy, someone will always be willing to do a job. Not saying it's right for Google to be doing what they are doing but China will get their "Great Search Engine" whether Google helps or not.

You obviously did not watch the whole video. At 1:13 of the video, the drone clearly moves towards them, the mother bear looks directly at it, freaks out and swipes. After that, the drone backs off. It's likely the drone operator knew what they did which is why they didn't move the drone toward them again until after the baby bear was safe at the top.

You forgot:

No support after the next model is released.

They could care less about people who own previous models once their new one is out.

Never Again.

Features....to certain 3 letter agencies

I know you stated you don't need recommendations on the laptop itself, but why not setup bootcamp on a Macbook? I have one setup today and game on it just fine. When I just want to use it casually, I boot into the OSX side. It might help you with less troubleshooting to do if they are only using Windows to game. If you are worried about a non-mac gaming laptop overheating (which I have rarely seen) just get a cooling pad with fans. Otherwise, just make sure there isn't crap surrounding the laptop and not letting it ventilate properly.

Someone else mentioned it but Thurott's guide will be decent. Wipe whatever system you get and start from stratch. Install latest drivers and firmware. Use ninite.com to easily install common applications. Chrome, notepad++, Teamviewer, Skype, 7zip, VLC, Java, and CutePDF are typical things I have installed from there for everyone. Steam is also on there to install. Sophos Home (setup an account) is what I use. Free and decently secure. It can alert you about possible infections, etc. You can also use it on your current Macs. Sign up for Office 365 Home if you haven't already. $100/yr for latest versions of office and up to 5 people/accounts can have their own installations. Everyone gets 1TB of OneDrive storage as well. If not yet already setup, have them use a password manager like Lastpass.

And here I thought the poll had moved again to the story feed.

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Because I hate going to a site to go to a site to...you get the point.

I think the point was that a lot of smartphones are capable of high-quality videos. Facebook's response basically said the API wasn't meant for streaming through mobile devices (smartphones) while the FAQ says any camera, which one would assume would include smartphones.