The Internet is a communication medium. It allows faster and richer content. Before that was television. It allowed faster and richer content. Before that was radio, still faster and richer than what came before it -- newspapers on the backs of horses and carried by steam trains, with black on white text painstakingly typeset and out of date before they hit the street so you could "read all about it." today your phone reads to you the best of CNN, MSNBC, Wired, Fox, USA Today, Facebook, 4Chan, and whatever swill X has and big Orange Julius Caesar says.

The Internet was never the problem, and one day it too will be as obsolete as a newspaper, just something you use as a large soaking coffee coaster or a Fish N' Chips wrapper. The real problem is the untethered hostility represented by people using the 'net to spew. It's not enough that they have running water and even sinks and toilets. They think it's their right to take a dump on anything and any one -- particularly if told to by Trump. Dumb.

I you hang out with face-eating leopards, one day you'll wake up to the sound of your own screams as the leopards eat your face. Take the L now and quit spewing and stop suggesting that EVERYONE must not have Intternetz becaause your feels might get hurtz.

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I think we should rewrite everything in Rust and then sprinkle unsafe() around like it was glitter to get most things to work, and then claim it's more secure because "Hey, at least we put warning cones out around the dangerous bits!"...

No, in this case, the real problem is that most employees would expect a superbowl ring to come from a third party vendor. And as such, they'd expect the domain name to be a third party domain name.

These gotcha games suck, but they're necessary. And it's not just email, it's phone calls, it's social engineering, it's fake paper invoices, it's fake AI voices, it's deep fake live videos, etc.

And yes, automate your defenses, automate as much as possible, but that's not enough. Every day, there is a new scam out there, or a new vector of attack, that automation doesn't take into account yet. It's a never-ending list of problems that requires never-ending education.

And yes, let's not make fun of people, but let's assume that people are going to make mistakes (even after having been trained), so let's continue to do penetration testing (in addition to all the other precautions we take and all the defensive automation we create).

Yes, enforcement can take place *after* a police report has been made. Because if a crime has been committed, there is a process to follow and there is a criminal to catch.

After all, if a hidden camera is found, it could have been planted there by a host, or by an employee, or by a contractor, or by a previous guest, or may be the camera could have been planted by someone trying to make a fake allegation (for instance a local competitor, or a guest who's trying to extort the host)

Who knows? It's the same thing with hotels. Hotel rooms have been found with hidden cameras in them also. If you find a hidden camera in your hotel room, you do not contact their headquarters first, you do not tell the front desk first, you contact the police first! The police can secure the evidence. The police can record what happened. The police can even try to catch the perpetrator.

Secret recordings should be a police issue, not an AirBnB one. It's not like AirBnB can inspect a location like the police can. And it's not like AirBnB can prosecute a case. This is a matter for the local justice system.

Or am I missing something?

FYI, the original XBox release price back in 2001 is the equivalent of $569.18 today.

So they're still doubling or trebling the price of something that's now commodity, even once you take into account inflation.

Yeah, this is really weird.

If I had a colleague who was accused of that, I wouldn't be drafting any letter of support unless some higher ups were forcing my hand.

> Tesla has yet to disclose key specifications, including range...

310-320 miles as per https://insideevs.com/news/812...

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"removes support got SysVInit scripts"

Well... there's an OS I'm not upgrading to.

SystemD STILL needs to absolutely die.

Which means you could have done that all along - you just didn't give a shit. It was more important to you to turn my machines into walking adverts for your products, trying to push everything I own into your cloud, and jump on every fad imaginable, rather than make an OS that would actually allow me to use my machine.

Which is why I don't have any Microsoft OS at home any more.

Oh, and I never had less than 64GB in a Windows machine in the last 8 or so years. But it was still a shitshow.

This sudden "lets make the OS actually work for users" drive is decades too late.

This just in, a report published by a group of people who would be materially harmed by losing business to the EU building its own technical capacity declared it would be costly and unfeasible to ever abandon them.

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Tesco's - one of the UK's largest supermarkets - came out a few months ago and said "We've migrated off VMWare because of the licensing". They did it in months. On the major backends running every store in the country.

They had a massive dispute with VMWare and are suing them (they say they bought a perpetual licence, VMWare then cut them off), but while they did that... they just migrated their ENTIRE infrastructure.

Sure, it's a big thing to do. But it's not impossible, doesn't take years and - like Tesco - you don't need to wait to do it. If it's THAT business-critical? All the more reason to have an alternative ready to move to at a moment's notice.

Companies CHOOSE to get tied in, they CHOOSE to only ever run one system, they CHOOSE to make the migration painful, they CHOOSE to hold back on it in the hopes they can negotiate to carry on just as they are. And those are all DUMB from a business-continuity point of view and no substantial organisation should be allowing that to happen.

Pretending that huge organisations paying Broadcom millions are somehow powerless in this is actual complicity in the worthless side of IT where everything is just absent of any redundancy, resiliency, independence, failover, etc. etc. etc.

First, I'd paste it into notepad just to make sure.

The Meta Rayban glasses have a light when it's active. Now granted, many people do pay a mobile repair person to permanently disable that light. But personally, I think the people that do not disable that light shouldn't be penalized. And for that reason, I think the law is badly written.