But it didn't.

But they didn't.

You can frame it any way you want, the end result is that exploits were found and patched. You assertion that it could have been done another way is irrelevant since those tools and practices have been available for a long time, and yet the zerodays persisted.

For cutting the ISP out of the equation, and offering consumers the business model that is most used for mobile phone purchases globally?

I mean ... this is phones we're talking about. That's literally been the standard business model since mobile phones were analogue.

There's no spin when reporting revenue figures. Also this is nothing new in the car industry. Subscription fees have been a profit centre big enough to sustain a business model around them for a decade now.

The problem is you only hear about major catastrophes because that's what's ultimately newsworthy. Minor crashes, major crash landings, or water ditchings have a 95% survival rate.

Speaking of ditchings, do you know how many planes have ditched since the landing on the Hudson a few years back? The number is in the double digits per year. But it's only newsworthy when it happens with a major commercial airliner in a spectacular fashion. Even major airlines average 20 significant crashes per year with less than 6 of them on average leading to any fatality, and only 1 to 2 on average leading to total loss of life.

If it's like Jeep, the salesmen are punished if customers don't sign up for the monthly services. Of course the first few months are always free and you can always cancel at any time they say.

Firstly it was 3.6GB / day, 40GB in total over the days that the user was monitoring. And everyone who has bothered to follow up on the story rather than committing a headline to memory at one point and never revisiting it knows why. There was a bug that stuck it in a loop downloading a firmware update that wasn't installing correctly. The problem was resolved in a matter of days after discovery.

No there's nothing "random" about what is going on. There's a very clear causality and a well understood mechanism to trigger the installation of software, something that hardware has been doing for a long time. Read more than just headlines.

Tor? I'd say you need to read more than just headlines, but you're not even reading the headline in this case.

I'm surprised you own anything when you issue strikes without having a fucking clue what is going on.

You never did own it. It's amazing that it's taken digital store fronts for people to come out and openly admit they've never once looked at the license terms of their games in the past 40 years.

YOU'VE NEVER OWNED A GAME. You've only ever had a physical copy that you were able to use under restricted licensed terms. The fact that in the past there was no way to properly enforce the license conditions was a technical quirk, not some right of ownership granted to you.

Every game ever released on any platform has been a license related game. You having the bits on a physical disc doesn't change that. The point is your disc is not readable by PC, so if you have a digital purchase linked to your account you can simply go download it on your PC. If you don't, well I can understand why Microsoft isn't setting up a complex manual proof of license purchase system asking users to send in their physical discs to verify.

Make IBM Great Again: go back to .. leasing computers?!

Nobody remembers or cares that a B-2's toilet cost $23k, so the Pentagon is updating to a newer, better form of government waste that kids today will better understand.

Heh. You reminded me that something I ordered got mis-delivered to some random unknown house, and since they don't provide delivery coordinates, there's no way to know where. So thanks for reminding me that I needed to reorder and reach out to Amazon Custom Service for a refund on that. :-)

This matches with my experience. Amazon has a wider selection than Walmart, but often slightly worse prices.

And yeah, Amazon's search engine is absolute trash, designed to promote what will make Amazon the most money over what you're asking for. Alexa shopping (on Amazon's website) is often better, and doing a Google search with site:Amazon.com is also often better. As another poster pointed out, odds are the seller on Amazon was just buying it at Walmart and selling it on Amazon at a markup. :-/

Mod parent +1 insightful. It is definitely not a troll. It's the absolute truth. Life kind of sucks for a lot of lower middle class Americans, and it has for some time. And it's not really their fault. They've done everything "right" to fulfill the American dream but they can't ever get ahead for very real, structural reasons. Naturally they are looking for someone to blame and since Obama presided over much of the years since the great collapse, he makes a convenient scapegoat for the GOP and for Trump in particular. Asking these people to vote for a Democrat what in their mind they've never seen any personal benefit to doing so is a losing proposition. Never mind that Trump has done nothing to help them and made their lives worse. But he he appeals to their egos while at the same time stoking their fears.

Point is, correlation isn't causation. Isn't that Slashdot's favourite catchphrase?