Connected toys that spy on you, on the other hand....
By the way, the companies that make and sell these toys are putting their stockholders at risk of a future privacy lawsuit. This is one of those times where corporate in-house lawyers should put the brakes on a product until the law is more settled. As it stands now, "will we get sued in 2030 and lose a fortune for what we are selling in 2025" is an open question.
Let's assume 2500 employees lost 2 hours of productivity each. Let's assume the productivity value for each employee is at least $40/hour. That's $200,000. That's far below $862K. But if the downtime were higher and the lost productivity were higher, it at least puts $862K within the realm of a credible number.
Don't forget, cleaning up a mess like this isn't as simple as resetting passwords back and having employees log in and change their passwords. There's also things like making sure none of the accounts were mis-used or rolling everything back to a known-good state in case they were.
.. the person that doesn't get vaccinated infects someone you love who can't get vaccinated for medical reasons.
Those who can't get vaccinated for medical reasons are depending on the rest of us to create "herd immunity" to protect them, because short of living a life in isolation, that's the only protection they have.
... but it won't: The True Believers will believe it is true, and for everyone else, the current administration's credibility on health-related matters died months ago.
The "AI photos" with too many body parts a few years back gave "AI" a bad name.
From the hallucinations and confident-but-wrong output of 2025's text-AI-chatbots, this bad reputation is still deserved.
For most people, It will take a few years of trust-able output from AI before people accept it as mature enough to use without sanity-checking its output.*
* When the day comes that people mostly "blindly trust" AI output we may all be in trouble. That day is probably within the next 5-10 years, maybe sooner.
>Will japan sue for the all the ddos they get hit with?
Cloudflare doesn't have a monopoly on protecting against DDOS attacks.
Sorry, I took a shortcut with the definition.
The longer version is something most people can make at home with things most people already have in their kitchen.
This assumes sugar, butter, milk, fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, dried pasta, spices, cut or ground meat, etc. aren't processed enough to "count" as ultra-processed foods.
>A $1,000 ticket better come with
I'd settle for the ticket coming with a signed album of their latest gold record, but only if the record was made of real gold and the gold content was worth at least $1000.
One very loose definition is that if it's something most people can make at home, it's probably not ultra-processed. If they can't, it probably is.
Not the hard-and-fast definition that most Slashdot readers are looking for, I'm afraid.
The Texas outbreak started before the change in administration.
That said, the decision to immunize or not immunize may have been made during the first administration of said idiots.
Personally, I blame this epidemic on over-amplification of a long-since-discredited paper in a major medical journal in the late 1990s.
As for the over-amplification: The idiots in charge aren't helping.
Cisco has done exactly the same thing, acquired Linksys because of the open source routers they were selling, and then let it rot. Cisco has done this hundreds of times.
In fairness...
1.) Cisco is far less litigation happy than Oracle is. Not saying they don't have attorneys on retainer, but Oracle is frequently referred to as a law firm with a software sales division - very different tiers.
2.) Cisco owned Linksys for a while, sure, but they haven't owned it in nearly 15 years - Cisco sold it over to Belkin back in 2013, who in turn sold it to Foxconn around 2018.
3.) Cisco may have discontinued selling routers running Linux out of the box, but they never did any signed-bootloader shenanigans that prevented DD-WRT/Tomato/OpenWRT from running on routers for quite some time - I remember running Shibby's TomatoUSB on an AC3200 for quite some time. Ironically, I think Belkin later started making it nearly-impossible to run third party firmware on Linksys hardware (except the $400 ones).
4.) It's not like anyone else took up the mantle...a handful of routers can run OpenWRT, but they're from obscure vendors - it's not like Cisco got rid of OSS-running routers, only to have Belkin or Netgear or D-Link take it up...Asus did for a little bit (the N56U being a better example), but they didn't keep up with it.
So yeah, Cisco has its clear faults...but how they handled the consumer router division, in my opinion, isn't the best example of this problem...and certainly not when being compared to Oracle.
The median income in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles is higher than $83K. At least I hope it is.
>This is irritating AF even though I have the money in the bank because I get a percentage back.
The percentage you get back is a small part of what goes into the costs that the credit card industry charges consumers and merchants.
If no credit cards offered any kinds of rewards, the credit card companies could lower consumer and merchant fees and interest rates and still make the same amount of money.
Pretty much yes.
To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so.
