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“Grow a pair” presumes the state isn’t actively achieving its goals through these actions. It’s a big club, and we ain’t in it.

Professionally, my company builds one of the largest EHR-integrated web apps in the US Ask me how many medical practices connect every day via IE on Windows 8.

I am reminded of the troubles my parents experienced with their phone service when I was a kid. We lived out in the country, and every time it rained the lines would pick up horrif…

> Do the chicken go back in to sleep before dusk? Yes - they are remarkably consistent in following the sun. Most automated doors wait until well past dusk, after which all the bir…

> I see little reason that buying, for example, a video game online needs my billing information more than walking into a store and buying it there, possibly with the same card. In…

Counterpoint: mulch your account every so often. It fights the development of cliques and forces people to focus on the message, not the messenger. And it sharpens your own need to…

The good news is that I think no one human is at risk of such an attack. The way I’d frame it: if you assume the NSA can break AES-256 in reasonable timeframes, or the CIA runs eve…

Without Thomas taking an action - speaking - the bug would remain undiscovered. I think that counts.

Popehat notes that this kind of reporting often oversells the likely sentence: https://www.popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentenc... So it’s very possible this could end …

> Several weeks ago, an EFF supporter brought her car to a mechanic, and found a mysterious device wired into her car under her driver's seat If I saw this device under my seat I'd…

Humans notoriously overestimate their competence and underestimate dangers they face. Combine that with a federal investigation that's going to be slow because 1) it's complex and …

OFAC has broadened enforcement to the point that pretty much any financial transaction across the world has a US nexus. Moving that much stolen crypto without the feds noticing? No…

I saw this play out first hand: a local digital agency run by a friend essentially ended up "captured" by a major player in the aerospace industry, to the point that 65-75% of thei…

> When his gig is up he has nothing to show and is stuck were he was when taking that job. The right answer is "start finding a second job, now." Make $180k for 8 hours and 10 minu…

I was wrong – it was $3.99, so $4 :) I picked up Thundernews when there was an "unlimited for $4" sale going on, and have used it ever since. Keep an eye out for their sales, becau…

I bought a one-time Plex pass, so there's no ongoing cost. I've yet to see any significant reason to change away from it yet. Is Jellyfin better beyond the price?

I'm not sure who downvoted you, but I cannot agree more. For giggles, I just went ahead and priced this out: One-time costs: * Plex Pass: $80 * NZB indexer access: $10 (for 2 or 3)…

"The blockchain says you own this? Tough titties, we don't care , we're selling it anyway. You're going to stop us? You and what army?"

Backups are worthless unless you try to recover; support is worthless unless you put a ticket in and see what you get. Before I migrated my domain and old emails to Fastmail I cont…

> the company is bound by legal concerns to not reveal why the person was fired I think this is a fairly common misconception. While you might sign an anti disparagement agreement …

Sure, the NSA could backdoor an opt-in system around a political third rail that is hardly if at all used in the United States. Or, it could attack the radio processor that runs a …

Analogies are terribly leaky abstractions: a camera set up to watch cars on a busy highway can absolutely draw conclusions, doubly so if there are multiple networked cameras, and i…

> EDIT: Just to add a little bit to this reply. Using your example, counting the number of cars on a highway is clearly surveilling the group of highway goers. This could perhaps a…

At a previous job I held a decade ago the network team purchased several TV tuner cards & a DirecTV subscription. They then set up IP multicast, gave the Helpdesk the DirecTV remot…