The whole right to be forgotten thing is asinine to begin with.
It doesn't remove any of the source information - it just makes it harder to find - and makes the net less useful.

I've got emails going back over 20 years.
I bet a lot of other people here do as well.

Being able to pull up an email thread from years ago has been useful on numerous occasions.

anecdotes != data

I've always though the solution was *incredibly simple. Have an electronic voting machine that *also prints out a paper copy of the voter's selections.
The voter verifies the paper ballot and drops in a slot at the machine to register the vote.
So you now have complete paper ballots and complete electronic ballots.
Randomly check some number of precincts in every election to verify the counts match.
If there's a discrepancy then count the paper from all the precincts and use that total.
So now you've gained ~85% of the benefit offered by electronic voting (speed, accuracy, etc. etc) and lost none of the accountability.
This seems incredibly simple and workable.
Which is probably why it will never happen.

The kneejerk reaction of dismissing any suggestion of election meddling to "looking for excuses" for Clinton's loss is less than useful. Clinton lost. It's over. That doesn't mean we shouldn't be extremely concerned about the implications of some of the allegations. One of the better articles I found on this subject is here: https://www.pastemagazine.com/...

I had the opposite experience in the bay area. The local liberal ideology in Santa Cruz had latched onto electronic voting machines being all bad all the time. Very few people understood that the 'bad' was mostly a matter of poor implementation rather than the tech.

1.7% is "so much dishonesty" ?

I think most places I've worked could be massively streamlined - but it'll never happen in anything other than a piece meal fashion.
I think once the business gets larger than a few thousand people there's just no way to completely avoid the money and effort wasted making various systems work together.
You have groups that do things *this way and have *these vendors that provide data in *this format while some other groups do things entirely differently yet have to process and integrate the data from those other groups. The output changes based on political whims of the department heads or who can negotiate a better contract with who.

The efforts to clean up and consolidate never stop nor do the jobs for people who make it happen.
I've been involved in projects that successfully clean up and consolidate some particular area but it's never *everything and there's always another one around the corner.

similar here It seems most of what I do is debugging when some automated process doesn't work for some reason, and figuring out how to deal with those unique cases.
That or modifying other processes / software to fit into the current environment seems to broadly cover a lot of what I've done over the last 25 years.
I'm sure things will change but they already do anyways.

I think a lot of IT types are going to be somewhat covered by the fact that a lot of us work in environments that are unique enough that off the shelf solutions don't work, or only partially work, and it's not in any vendor's financial interest to make a solution that works for that 1 case.
Besides ... I'll be out of the game soon enough anyways. ;)

If you provide open wireless access to anybody who gets in range then attributing ISP records to *your machines is no longer a reasonable assumption.
I've even seen a segregated open/guest wifi as a part of setup options on some routers.

pretty sure if there'd been a band of people looking to take my head for the last 20 odd years I'd answer just about everything with "I don't recall"

Grew up in LA then lived in the Bay Area for 20 years ... never realized the prepending of freeway number with "the" until I heard a discussion about it.
I started to pay attention to my speech and realized that I already only referred to *socal freeways with "the".
"Take the 101 to the 405 the go all the way to the 210"
"Take 280 to 85 then get on 17"

I hate this trope
Govt *isn't* a business in the traditional sense of the word and we shouldn't expect it to be

The exploit is specific to ASA software versions 8.0 - 8.4
8.5 was released in March of 2012.
The current version of ASA software is 9.6
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/t...

Why would anybody still be running 8.0 - 8.4 ??

I'm in the US.
I've been to a few places that do chip and sign. These are mostly small coffee shops type places using Square or something similar.
All the major stores that I've used a chip at are chip and pin.

That said ... the usage is hit and miss.
Maybe 70% of the places I go use chip, the others still swipe. (even when they *have a chip reader)