All corporations have engagement mitigation strategies to reduce their own levels of interaction with "nutballs" , "crazies", and "whackjobs" . For the most part this comes across as ignoring them and their behavior at the cost of other people.

Unfortunately much of the online "social" economy requires people who generate content to have audience engagement. Unless you have your own shil accounts to engage with (talking to yourself ??) you have to read and respond to what other people post regarding your content.

Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, whomever; They should just build complexes to provide housing for their employees. This would have the effect of killing any speculative increases in the housing markets. When the market bubble bursts it would also be extremely punitive towards anyone (foreign investors especially) who were using those housing markets as investments and artificially inflating prices to increase the value of their investments.

Even if each company only added housing for 20% of their employees the effect would be dramatic.

Its nearly impossible to not assume that selling your daughters against their will to men potentially twice their age and denying them any choices in their life is not seriously messed up.

That's damn near if not exactly slavery depending on the circumstances. I have known people who had arranged marriages BUT that was an entirely different and entirely consensual nuptial.

It is some seriously sick $hit when one person assigns a selling price and or purchase price for another human being. An when I thought it couldnt possibly be worse it is worse because this is talking about people selling their own children.

I read the entire article and I just keep iterating audible variations of wtf!!

I by 'hell' you of course mean that pretty much no repercussion is going to happen to any of the responsible parties.

BTW. What chipset/bios goes into government purchased hardware? Intel is a pretty standard stipulation for government contracted IT equipment purchases. In what manner exactly does Intel polish this turd before they deliver on government contracts.

Dont tell me the government buys equipment with this vulnerability pre-installed. Its almost like they are asking to be pwned. . If so I think the first security researcher to develop a viable exploit is in for a sweet payday from whatever nationstate that happens to have upped their offensive IT security budget.

In most countries and states police use overbroad warrants to as a sort of pre-emptive retaliation for the likelyhood that they will fail to get court approval for the illegal or unconstitutional nature of their goal. How come citizens cant do the same thing to the police?

What sort of legal bullsh$t can be done to f$ck up their shit?

Some security controls are preventitive which in this instance seems like it would need to be pre-emptive?

That seems like it would equate to an injunctions of some sort? Does anyone know of anyone ever attempting to get an injuction against the police breaking the law?

Violating an injunction would likely result in some sort of contempt of court.

These jackasses only have the one hammer (murder innocent people and recruit the mentally deficient to murder innocent people) pretty much everything looks like a nail to them.

Sample terrorist conversation:

Terrorist 1: "Derp, Computers are hard."
Terrorst 2: "Derp, Meybe we can fix it by killing innocent people"
Terrorist 1: "Derp, If we became more educated and intelligent in order to solve our problems it might negatively impact our core belief system of murdering innocent people"
Terrorist 2: "Right... So murder some people?"
Terrorist 1: "Yup"

"The Chinese are actually bitching that they need something new to copy/idea to rip off."

I'm not an apple fan but this only a half-deviation away from being an onion article.

As usual it warrants a standard response. "Feel free to design and sell a better product!! Literally there is not one single consumer not willing to drop an outdated product for a superior product."

Seriously look what happened to Palm Computing and the palm pilot or Handspring, or the Apple Newton tablet that all got ghosted.

Route-poison traffic to and from location X. People forget that valid Internet communication is 2way. Sure they might be able to broadcast out but not being able to receive in effectively cuts them off. Their internet will get awfully quiet.

The thing is that "head of U.S. Cyber Command" is not saying is that cutting off the internet also cuts off easy common communication for any intelligence resources the US has in that area.

In this instance a communications blackout works against both parties.

I dont know what the " GWX Configuration tool" is but I use the updated "GWX Control Panel" tool and I opt to disable all the win10 upgrades AND delete the GWX program right out of my system.

A couple dozen of my users whom I havent disable the win10 update on got hit with random unauthorized win10 upgrades. But I have tracked that to a windows setting to install updates when shutting down the PC.

They shut down Windows 7 they start up with Windows 10

These are just typical internet toughguys. With all the bluster of an angry 12yr old playing Call of Duty. All big talk .... no common sense.

oh yes and clocks too!!! ban clocks. No way to synchronize attacks without clocks.

This is a simple matter of lazy government officials trying to make excuses for not maintaining their roads.

Safety markings by definition mark the safe area to drive on a road.
Removing Safety markings by definition make the road less safe.
If their going to remove the safty markings I can see no reason the pay any attention to speed postings, school zone notices or constructions flaggers.

This is equally as stupid as removing headlights, airbags and seatbelts from the cars themselves.

Whats next, big steel spike in the center of the steering wheel? Electric shocks every time you step on the accelerator?

What a bunch of jackasses.

Not News: Robotics company doesnt know how to make internal combustion engines.

There are dozens of ways that automotive engineers over the years have decreased the decibel output of internal combustion engines.
None of these improvements go into generators. Ive watch some youtube videos of the 'Mules' and it looks like a robot with a generator on its back.

They're probably using generators because noise was never a stipulation in the design parameters. What a bunch of idiots. Cancel a program because
it does something you never stipulated it shouldnt.

....That lawmakers have the pass a test after receiving rudimentary education on anything they might make a law on.

This lawmaker completely fails maths. Its almost as bad as if congress proposed a bill to repeal the laws of thermodynamics