Is this /. or some news outlet for old fogies who don't understand computers? Isn't it already a standard security practice to only allow a few tries at a password before requiring a few minutes wait time til anyone can try again? No matter how fast an attacking computer is, its speed won't be an advantage if it can only attempt 3 tries every 15 or 20 minutes.

I'm tired of people saying this would've been horrible. Bad ideas are turned into good stories just as easily as good ideas are turned into bad stories. Hppens all the time. It's all about the writing & ability to make something enjoyable. A good director and screenwriter can make any idea work for a large audience. Personally I would like to have seen how this would've played out. Would've taken Star Wars in a fresh new direction, even if it didn't seem like Star Wars. Couldn't have been worse than The Last Jedi.

Excellent point. I really have nothing to add to what you said besides that. I had to say something though, 'cause I went to moderate your comment up as "Insightful" but the cursor accidentally landed on the wrong thing & moderated it as "redundant". So I need to make a comment, to undo the mistake.

Excellent point!

Not saying it definitely wasn't and can't say it definitely was, since none of us have all the information about the situation. I'm just saying that from my view, the gov't would have to be incredibly negligent with their most important secrets for this stuff to just be taken like this, and that really seems incredibly unlikely. After all, anyone who knows a little about security knows they should keep highly sensitive stuff like this heavily encrypted, offline, & with physical access very very limited. I'm sure the gov't & their contractors have good security experts working for them, considering the value of the secrets they're holding.

I have a hard time believing that in 2018, the gov't & its contractors, aren't locking down national security military secrets better than this. It's so close to unbelievable to me, that I have to wonder if this is misinformation left on a honeypot server. If the US gov't is really this loose with their classified information at this point in history....

This sort of thing is so incredibly negligent, that companies who do this, should be fined or something. If only the politicians knew something about cybersecurity, maybe we could get some laws that make sense about it.

I've long thought about moving to France or somewhere one day. This is another positive for that idea. I wish the U.S. would make laws like that.

I love that list you linked. II've toyed with the idea of making a Python script to parse the moderations & comments and see if it can be figured out exactly what things that get modded down the most and for no good reason. I'm not sure if that would help anything. It'd probably be too complicated & impossible to figure out who the bad moderators are. I'm very interested in the subject, since I've gotten modded down on things that really shouldn't have been. Ticks me off sometimes, usually when it affects my mod points.

& history's shown that isn't a good idea. unfortunately, I'm guessing the not-so-tech-savvy politicians will fall for that argument, especially since they'll get a lot of money to do so.

If I were them, I'd have just told Getty's lawyer that they need to hire a decent webmaster. Any beginner should know how to Google and then copy-n-paste...

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?mydomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|js|css)$ - [F]

...and I'm sure if they're not using Apache, they can do something similar with whatever web server they're using.

Everyone's known since Stuxnet was identified in late 2010, that these companies were vulnerable to serious attacks. So for 7 years they've done either nothing or not enough, to secure themselves. I think they're putting the public at risk, therefore, they should be in trouble for negligence. Hopefully nobody's harmed by their negligence.

I've had similar problems at times. In fact, a couple times, the situation kept me from gettin' mod points for a while.

I think a good way to tackle the problem would be to temporarily remove mod point privileges from moderators who have given 'troll' or 'flamebait' votes to comments that have a strong amount of 'insightful' or 'interesting' votes. I'm sure the moderation system can be easily modified to check for that and automatically take that action. The moderator who's been affected negatively should be allowed to appeal it I think, by providing an explanation for their vote if they want to. This way, those who are abusing their voting privileges can learn to how to use it and they will be a little less trigger happy and a little more thoughtful before making a moderation vote.

Javascript for me, then on to PHP. Tried a bit of C, C++, & ASM, but never really dove into it enough to be productive. Learned a lot from them though. Eventually I settled into Python, 'cause PHP had certain deficiencies that made it far less useful than Python to me. Now I'm exclusively a Python & Django guy.

As humans die out from their self imposed destruction via global warming, our robots will continue on, surviving through the environment we made that was unlivable for us. Someday robots will be made by robots, whose purpose will be to terraform the earth into a habitable place for humans again and they will recreate us from old DNA samples they find or have stored away. Then we'll take some of their jobs.