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At the time of this writing: This story: 19 points, 46 min ago, 2 comments: rank 35 (2nd page) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18405775 : 17 points (less votes), 2 hours ago (…

> Why was this article hidden from the front page? A similar satellite journalism article from the BBC about a killing in west Africa was allowed on the front page a few weeks ago.…

> Post-war Iraq is not the same as a war zone, so protection of the civil service, bureaucrats, diplomatic corps, etc. I think can be done by some kind of other trained force. I sa…

> I have no problem with these guys as long as they are not doing military missions. As far as I'm concerned, security of American assets and personnel in a conflict zone is a mili…

> 'Enhanced security guards' are fine. I don't agree with that. Didn't these mercenary companies start out as just "enhanced security guards?" It seems like once you allow them to …

Mercenaries may always exist, but American ones don't have to. Participation in them should be made illegal, and all these private military companies should forbidden to operate un…

American private military companies like this one and Blackwater need to be abolished.

> not a libertarian, but what do the alleged actions of of a theocratic monarchy have to do with the potential excesses of free market capitalism? Probably because there's profit t…

> This is horrible for Europe - where end users will eventually pay more for their preferred 'Google Android'. It won't be "horrible for Europe." Those users have always paid for t…

> By obligating handset makers to load the free apps along with the Android operating system, regulators said Google had boxed out competitors. It sounds like a very good thing to …

> Look at the comments that already exist - is there any way that you can imagine this not turning into a flamefest? That's an interesting censorship tactic: if you don't like a to…

> They are talking about how likely the order relates to market structure. What do you mean by "market structure?"

> Months ago, senior Facebook executives briefly debated banning all political ads, which produce less than 5 percent of the company’s revenue, sources said. The company rejected t…

> Nah, this isn't a legal debt that they can forward to a collection agency, as pointed out in the article. My understanding is that many collection agencies aren't very scrupulous…

> I doubt UA would follow through considering it is illegal to submit known false debts. I wonder if they've snuck in a mandatory binding arbitration clause into their contract, an…

> This is insane on a whole other level, because United profits when you don't get on that 2nd leg. Not necessarily. If you use use hidden-city ticketing, they lost out on extracti…

The "free market" doesn't make fraud or misrepresentation illegal, the laws and regulations of the dreaded government do. The worst the free market can do to a fraudster is to stop…

Only if you get caught.

This is the free market at work, throwing off its chains. /s

So you're saying the defaults should be setup for the unusual use cases like you describe, even if that means we get botnets of millions of routers? You're not going to define one …

> 1) This data privacy glitch is just like Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal, except it isn’t. > well, if its not, then why even bring it up? that part smells like sensational…

> Surely the author, editor, and publisher of this article, and anyone likely to read it, are aware. We are aware. That's a really weird statement. Articles are published so that r…

It's a tradeoff. You have to balance that negative against the negative of having botnets of millions of never-patched routers. Automatic updates should be the default, but you sho…

> Can we really continue to claim that we're unaware Google, Facebook, and other web companies are monitoring everything they can and sharing the information they collect, sometime…

> An "automatic" update that would potentially cause the router to reboot and bring down the network would go over very poorly with customers, even if it happens at 3 AM. Maybe the…