Ok, they were testing the limits of my extraordinarly finite patience for ads of any kind on content I'm paying to see....

*Warms up the soldering iron*

Time for some brain surgery on my "smart" Roku enabled TV and turn it into the digital equivalent of a potted plant.

Tell me you're someone who has never worked for a company that is grounded in modern reality without telling me you're someone who's never... you get the picture.

As someone who's directly experienced exactly what you say "doesn't happen" more than a few times in his life and sadly observed the same in most all of my friends and family; I can say you're dead wrong.

If a company can make 30% more money with zero additional expenditure; they will... then demand an additional 5% out of their existing workers.... which turns into 8%.... then 10...

This is how it works. There may be exceptions to the rule; but it's still the rule.

I just start using that service and now I need to abandon it completely.

Because there is no way IN HELL that they would manage to make 3 bucks a month off of ads for how little I watch and I refuse to pay more than they would make from me in ad revenure to make ads go away.

Gimme a pro-rated rate and I'll -consider- not unceremoniously dumping this bullshit directly into the trash where it belongs.

While human error is, with near absolute certainty, the trigger; it seems laziness and/or sloppiness is a large part of the cause of this breech. Not only was the investigation on the data that was stolen was completed in october, but the file itself was unencrypted and open to anyone who had access to that share to see, the fact that the file share seems to have been widely accessible in the company and the date was even still around are all severe marks against Orrick.

I understand there is a balance between convenience and security, but when you're a cyber security law firm dealing with sensitive data; you err FAR to the side of security.

My money is on a company wide public file share, the attackers phished a lower level dunce and made off with the unsecured plain text digital loot...... for almost 3 weeks.

Boy howdy, now there's a security company that really knows how to run their business.

In a fairly open and unsecured fileshare too...

Short answer? They're idiots.

Long answer? They're friggin' idiots.

... well. I was having a bad day, but now.

*Starts popping antidepressants like candy corn because damn that truth is a bit too true for me right now*

I mean, I like standards for hardware communication, but this is not something that should be OS level (yet) because there is NO standard for communicating with RGB and other decorative elements.

These are also not things that are used by MOST of the computing world...

When the standards are established and it's more common than a niche of a niche of computer use; this particular feature should stay driver and userland software level.

I'm going to be the old grouch here and say "You want us to avoid X, Y, and Z... but you have exactly zero suggestions as to replace those goods and services with? F**k every kind of off until you have an actual, workable solution and alternative."

Fun background fact; I grew up on a farm. When the calves were really hungry they tended to stick their tongue out as far as they could while making a dopey expression as the only thing on their mind was getting the rubber cap of that bottle in their mouth so they could eat.

The longer it took to feed them the more frantic and single minded they'd become and the more they would thrash and struggle and the toungue would flop around as they scrambled for food. "Need it NOW!" *mlalamlamluamlam*

That's how I see every single internet connected device these days. If it CAN talk to the internet; it's beyond useless if it cannot.

Almost everything short of my Linux desktop just becomes a useless lump until you stuff that connection teat in its mouth so it can suckle.

So when someone else's computer or the network goes down; nothing works at ALL.

Not even a little bit.

Not because most tech can't be designed to work locally, almost everything processing-wise could be handled locally to some extent with modern devices, even in a less robust form; but because it's designed in such a way that local handling of ANYTHING is "abhorrent" to developers.

"Gotta cloud everything!"

I can not help but think that it's intentional decisions to have almost everything become useless when a lightning storm removes the internet for half a week.

How is that a sane update process?

I don't think I've had the displeasure of using Windows for 8 hours in the last year... cumulatively.

I don't miss dealing with this kind of hostility.

Ok... Now I'm not, and never will claim to be, a PROFESSIONAL waste materials handler, but how in the flying fark do you -NOT- notice that more that three quarters of a MILLION GALLONS of something goes missing in your process inventories? That's almost all of one of those 50' around and 35' high tanks.

I've worked at more responsible companies what stored waste liquids and not only did everything nasty had secondary containment (Leaks are a "when", not an "if"), there were pretty friggin' strict inspection schedules and routines, usually monthly, but some were more often.

You're telling me that not one single person thought to themselves "huh, that tank doesn't seem to be filling up as fast as normal", or there wasn't regular enough inspections to notice the level dropping in a longer term store?

Either I call bullshit on this being an accident, or someone needs to have their ass held accountable for gross negligence.

"Increasingly" is an amusing term and ignores that, since the inception of WinNT it wasn't necessary, but yes, if you really want to faceplant over this; you're correct...

In that it's an available solution and rarely the ONLY one available, often to a problem or feature that's been added or removed by MS as they try harder and harder to lock down their OS and ape a mobile phone in all the worst ways possible.

But, yes, command line interaction is indeed becoming more and more a valid option for problem solving in Windows, even if it's almost never the ONLY one... unlike Linux where all too often it's the only option that ever has, or perhaps ever WILL, exist for doing many fairly common tasks and basically ALL troubleshooting.

But "score one" for you if you want it that badly.