I work for a credit union. I'm part of the team that is responsible for cutting off access of terminated employees. When such a ticket comes in, it usually has a terminate date of some time in the future (for those cases of voluntary separation where the person gave notice). Occasionally, the ticket says IMMEDIATE, which is code for this person was fired, please cut off their access ASAP.

When I get such a ticket, I drop what I was doing and immediately disable their AD account. This blocks them from logging in to any work computer, and it also cuts off access to the VPN. There's a number of other steps to take to completely clean the user out, but disabling their AD account effectively locks them out and the rest of the stuff can be handled in due time.

The sort of thing described in this article would not happen under my watch.

I can count on one hand the number of movies I've seen in the theater in the last decade. Two of those were Star Wars movies. The Last Jedi was so disappointing that I still haven't seen The Rise of Skywalker, and in fact that movie may have turned me off from going to the theater at all ever again.

Movie theaters just don't draw me. I'd much rather sit back at home and watch them on my own TV. The draw of seeing it early no longer has any hold on me - I will wait until it is convenient for me and watch it on my time in my own living room.

I don't think they will completely disappear, but I do think that they will be replaced as the defacto standard for initial release.

At least that's my $.02.

There are certain advantages to having a computer chip incorporated into our minds to be able to seamlessly transfer data between each other quickly without the meatspace limitation on bandwidth. I could see a certain portion of the population jumping on something like this.

That said, how long will it be until those who are part of this network collective decide that their way of doing things is obviously superior, and therefore try to force those not part of it into their collective?

Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

Here's my 2 cents, FWIW.

I have a 5S that I bought when it was the top-of-the-line flagship iPhone. It's served me really well.

Every time a new model has been released, I have evaluated whether it was worth the cost of upgrading given the amount of improvement I would see. With the 6 and 7 series, the only real difference in terms of how I would use it would be the addition of Apple Pay. The technical performance isn't enough better to be worth the price tag (at least to me) and Apple Pay isn't available in the stores that I would use it most if it were an option. So, those are out.

I have no real interest in the X because I don't want FaceID. Let me stick with using my thumb with TouchID. I might have considered the 8, but the loss of the headphones port (something I use often) represents a loss in functionality in a very real way. In other words, for me the 8 is actually a downgrade from the 5s for my use case.

Aside from that, I prefer the form factor of the 5s. I know that the SE would be an upgrade, but it's a case of not being a big enough upgrade to justify the price tag (plus they don't even make those anymore).

As it stands right now, the 5s still runs the latest iOS. I don't know how much longer that will continue, but as long as it does I see no reason to upgrade, and some compelling reasons to stay where I am. I'm not sure what I'll do when the 5s gets obsoleted. I'm hoping for an updated SE that still has a headphone port, but I'm not holding my breath. It's going to be a tough decision.

It's because chess is well-known around the world. Xiang Qi, not so much. Chess has a long and storied history in western society, so for China to produce a world-champion chess player would be like them saying to us, "We're beating you at your own game!" Ultimately, it's all about appearances.

That comment in the summary probably could have been worded better, but I think it was intended to say that it does a better job of preserving image quality per amount of space used when compared to other image compression algorithms, such as .jpg (which is the defacto standard right now).

That would just reintroduce the problem that creating discrete time zones was intended to solve over a century ago. That being that when each locality has it's own clock, it becomes virtually impossible to coordinate scheduling between them (back then it was railroad schedules that were affected). Only now, in the 21st century and the amount of long distance and even international coordination that takes place via the internet, scheduling anything over a distance would become a nightmare in the system you propose.

I, myself, hold a music degree and am working my way up an IT career. While I am not currently qualified to be the Chief Security Officer of a major company, it is a distinct possibility that in the future I will be. I don't like how the article and at least some of the comments are blasting her just because of her educational background.

Maybe she did something wrong in her position at Equifax. Maybe not. It's entirely possible that she was doing her job in the best way possible but was stonewalled by the business people out of properly implementing security. Either is possible. It's possible we'll find out as investigations are performed, but it's also possible that we'll never know. Her music degree has nothing to do with it.

For what it's worth, many of the musicians I know are very intelligent people who have been successful in IT or other technical fields.

(Honestly, I don't think I would want to be a Chief Security Officer. Even if you do your job perfectly, a breach is possible, and when it does happen you're the one to take the fall)

I live in Colorado, and have a 2-year-old daughter. She occasionally gets to play games on my wife's iPad, but we have to moderate how much because if she spends too much time on it she gets cranky. She won't have her own smartphone until she is at least 13 (probably older).

I can certainly see where this group is coming from, but I strongly disagree that it should be made a law. Every kid is different, and every family is different. Parents need to make decisions based on what's best for their kids and their family. Even if I happen to agree with them about keeping kids away from smartphones until they are old enough to mentally handle them, I disagree that it is something that should be forced. I do not support taking away parents' choice on the matter.

If I see one of those petitioners collecting signatures to put this on the ballot, I will refuse to sign. If it makes it to the ballot, I will be voting against it.

He did encrypt his laptop. The agents that arrested him watched him from a distance until he logged in. Then they moved in, making sure they didn't give him a chance to lock it.

They actually are. As of this writing, the non-retina Macbook Pro is still available for sale on Apple's site. Go to apple.com, click Mac -> Macbook Pro -> Buy and then scroll about halfway down the page. That model, which is being sold for $1099, hasn't been updated since June 2012, though it did have a $100 price cut in July 2014.

The vast majority of owners have signed it, yes.

I don't know if all of the logs do, but a substantial amount of them do. This is the "fleet learning" that Tesla talks about. Even when Autopilot isn't active, it's still watching, and comparing what it would do with what the human driver actually does as part of that fleet learning system.

Note that this is opt-in. When you purchase a Tesla, one of the forms they ask you to sign gives them permission to collect this data. You can decline to sign it, which will result in much of the online functionality of the car being disabled, but it doesn't stop the purchase and you can still use the car as a car.

I'd be OK with an editing function if the edit history is also available. Meaning, the old version of the comment isn't buried, and can be easily accessed by anyone that wants to read it. The edited version will show by default, but with a clear indication that it is edited and a link present to view the entire edit history. Nothing is ever deleted.

People will be called out pretty quickly if they try "revisionism", and the edit history would be there to debunk any potential claims about what they really said.

My advice, for whatever it's worth, is that if you are running Windows 8 or 8.1, you should go ahead and update. 10 fixes many of the issues that people have with 8, and it will be supported for longer.

As for upgrading from 7, I used to recommend it, but I've changed my mind on that one. The way Microsoft is being extremely pushy about the update is a huge turnoff, and I don't want to support that behavior. If you are running 7, and you are happy with it, then stick with it. Just keep in mind the end of support date for Windows 7 (January 14, 2020) and make sure you migrate from it to something else before then. You still have 3 and a half years, so it's not yet urgent, but it is something you should have in mind.

(On a related token, no machine running XP should be connected to the internet at all, and if you have one you can be certain that it is compromised. Windows Vista support ends in about a year on April 11, 2017, so it is getting to the urgent stage to replace if you are still running that)