In theory, but in practice, we help them and they still shout death to America in the streets. And all the people who are so worried about ending USAID certainly have the option of reaching into their own pockets to help. If indeed helping is the real inclination. Personally I'm kind of tired of watching our tax dollars disappear into a void with no accountability.

Makes total sense. Don't change your CD, or radio. No eating a burger or drinking Starbucks either. Don't touch your nav in the center console either. No adjusting your AC. Just drive. I'm so glad I don't live there anymore.

Let's vote on it next election. Who thinks we should keep the IRS? Don't keep repeating the BS about roads and infrastructure. Go look at how they actually spend our money. Then decide. Is funding gender studies in Pakistan really what you'd like them to spend your money on?

They are, but we'll never do business with them again. Not sure they care but if enough people take that stance in aggregate maybe it makes a difference long term.

Wonder if they've ever heard of an annoying little company called SCO?

I'd hesitate to call them victims. Victim has a connotation of doing nothing wrong. In this case it sounds like they volunteered to be compromised. Not to minimize the dangerousness of what he did, but on what planet do you fire someone and not revoke their access? To me Disney is even more responsible than he is. If they'd done their job it wouldn't have even been possible.

Chuck U. Farley 1234 Yermom Nowhereland, CA 91324 818-867-5309 Hopefully that makes it easier for them.

Or just don't murder 4 people in cold blood. That's an option too.

Well not quite. The court did not dismiss the case. So they may know something you don't. They also refused to take the death penalty off the table. It could have something to do with it being fairly obvious that he did it. He was a PhD student in criminology and has been quite smug thinking he's committed a murder he's going to get away with. There's also the factor that it was not the prosecutors office that did the DNA match. That was the FBI and they had authorization.

I've rarely seen it. What I've noticed far more is people trying to present that illusion while ignoring their own selfishness and depravity.

It'd be way more funny if you had a 3 digit user id.

Probably. Though I'm not sure it helps him where he is now.

Is it just me, or does it seem strange to rail against this hacker when the large corporations involved put their customers at risk? I mean yeah extortion is serious, but let's not overlook the fast and loose way these companies play with our data.

It occurs to me that the paper raises a legitimate issue that will probably never get resolved now because of some esoteric (and in my opinion invalid) association with something historically awful. Today it's C++ so maybe not a big deal. But this is the way of the future. We'll spend all our time arguing about inconsequential minutia rather than resolving actual issues.

This is going to be the new dot com bubble. Everybody and their dog with a hair brained scheme throwing around buzzwords to secure venture capital to fund their new startup. When the music stops the results will be the same and there will be a small number of really good ideas to come out of it but most people will lose a bunch of money.