...the article itself was example.

If only Steve Jobs were here to tell the employees how they've been misusing their walls. But seriously, if your walls are glass, why bother using walls at all? Just have the necessary support beams (made of glass, even, if you really want to) and be done with it.

I find it interesting that just a few days ago there was an uproar with respect to the Univ. of Maryland commencement speech by a Chinese student (studying abroad here in the US) on freedom of speech. There was a huge backlash from China. And now this...

Then shut down the VM.

Unless your backup method is a full backup and keeping only the most recent backup, then of course your archives will likely also contain infected files. Differential backups should enable you to roll back to some point prior to being infected.

Just put all that old crap on virtual machines. The only important parts are the data. And the easiest way to counter ransomware is with backups.

Final Cut is exclusive to Mac OS. A lot of folks who work with audio and visual media will likely find Final Cut useful and perhaps necessary.

But beyond that, because is is much more "closed", has a much more uniform interface. Look at the hodge-podge of different widgets for a Linux desktop system. And on Windows, it's the same -- even the interfaces aren't uniform between different MS products, let alone between different vendors.

My own personal preference is that it has a nice UI and was built on top of *nix. As someone who used to be a die-hard Linux fan, OS X has become a preferred operating system for reasons above.

There's the question of how the car/truck is going to stop being targeted for theft. I am sure that these cars would be programmed to stop when people are standing in their way -- which would be a perfect way to steal delivery goods. Just have a group of people surround the car/truck at a stop light, and then you pretty much own a bunch of new toys from Amazon. I'll believe it when I see it, I guess.

Even if it is for a short time, I wonder if BK will get the hint if Google suddenly blacklists BK, or perhaps redirects all searches to a page explaining how BK is being a douche.

...err hang on a sec... hmm...

Sure they lost a huge chunk of money. But if they had housed their own data, how much would that have cost them up to this point? I wonder if it would have cost more than 150 million. But to address the issue, they should get some redundancy. Mirror across several clouds if need be. It makes me wonder if mirroring would still give them an economic edge vs hosting their own hardware and all the support that requires in additional to the hardware costs.

Did not bother to click it; the summary and the many comments saying "it doesn't work" make it sound like the site itself is click bait.

They could have been credited with all known vulnerabilities but if they waited 3 months for all the other cases and not this one, then they are still suspect in my eyes. The lawsuit doesn't mean jack until they release the security advisory, so there was no reason not to sit on the 3 months waiting period.

It seems the article does a poor job of being impartial. Despite the above quotes, they continue with:

I am not sure what to make of this since there is still too much information being withheld from both PwC and the article and ESNC.

Did you bother to read the parent to which I was replying? Or are you guilty of what you are accusing?

I actually did read the article. Here's essentially the same comment (without Trump/Thiel referenced): https://slashdot.org/comments.... The fact that the program didn't start like that is just more support for why Thiel is not the reason behind the success. The program didn't become successful until it started recruiting already-successful candidates. So in effect, the program is successful because it basically "bought" its success through its selection process. For the record: I don't like neither Trump (compulsive liar who likes to inflate the truth and take credit for things he had little to nothing to do with) nor Hillary (also a liar and complete fraud).