This is the most wickedly dry snark I've seen in a decade. Well done AC.

You mean the part where the government tries to eliminate a superior and safer product in an effort to boost a substandard domestic competitor who's owners have been pumping tons of lobbying money into the system? The same government who bases that elimination on unsubstantiated security claims? Yes, I'm familiar.

Then they'd have to ban every other competitor to DJI too, as none of them force restricted airspace and never have. For the last 10 years DJI was the only manufacturer making it almost impossible to fly in restricted airspace.

Can I flag this entire poll as flamebait? It appears Slashdot is now encouraging the feeding of trolls. All is lost, save yourselves!

Because whataboutism. Or in this case maybe whatifism?

Update. It did not land on its feet. I can't imagine they didn't know this immediately and then sat on the bad news until the weekend.

Or in one piece and not catastrophically strewn across the moon's surface but still technically on it. The streamed video is an hour and forty seven minutes long with no video? Could've broadcast it on Slack. I'll file this under 'skeptical' until further notice.

It's always been my conspiracy theory that Spotify's non-random shuffle is a way for them to pay fewer royalties. The shuffle features the least expensive songs and thus pays less in royalties unless the entire playlist finishes.

I haven't RTFA but I've read its headline and Slashdot's headline has a typo. Just sayin.

I get your point. To be more correct maybe I should've used 'words not usable in mainstream publications' instead of 'profanity'. It wouldn't have flowed as nicely but it would've been more correct.

Could've gone mainstream viral without the profanity. I love profanity when used correctly. I consider it the 'seasoning' that makes conversation more impactful, interesting, or entertaining. The constant f-bombs ruin the more subtle joke that these are real responses. You could insert f-bombs in real responses and then it'd be a joke response. Creating joke responses and also including joke profanity is like the belt and suspenders approach to mocking security leaks. I might be proven wrong but I can't imagine this being picked up for broad distribution because the fucking joke is fucking lost between all of the fucking profanity.

Oumuamua's cigar shape was mysterious and fun and I hope this one (Borisov?) is fun too. A pineapple shape would be cool, or maybe the silhouette of some random emoji, that would be cool too.

I guess it depends on your company, the size of it, and their objectives. I ran MDM on employee personal phones for the better part of a decade and never had to remotely wipe a phone. Nor did I ever know were someone's phone was. Our objectives with MDM were to remain compliant with security policy. We required the user to have a lock code for their phone as about five percent of them didn't even lock their phones. We also retained reasonable control over company data (email) on the phone including the ability to erase that data. We tracked absolutely nothing other than the existence of phone locking because that's all we needed to remain compliant. I think if your company is small enough and they're only doing it for security they should be able to tell you exactly what they're doing with MDM and you can make you decision then. I think a blanket "don't ever do it!" is overkill and in many situations and will make it very tedious for some people to be effective at their job.

I almost think that Slashdot being laden with typos gives it character, but I'm struggling to get past this mess of a headline. I'm sure I'll be corrected if 'alreadying' is actually a word. Thanks.

Are dogs less of a priority or is there a different solution for them? Asking for a friend.