Except data breaches are almost always caused by unpatched, out of date software, the Equifax breach included.  It’s very rare that a breach is caused by a zero day, heretofore unknown vulnerability.

+1 queen shade

If that’s the case, I think it’s a bit unfair to call a guy with Alzheimer’s a dumbass. 

There were some semi-valid questions about location information in the hearing and there are valid reasons to be concerned about the power and reach of Google...but most of the hearing was about the dumbest shit. Asking Pichai about why one particular nutter’s video (who he probably hasn’t heard of and I hadn’t heard…

I wouldn’t argue that the sentence isn’t ridiculous. Like I said, UK laws on this sort of stuff are out of date in many ways on this issue; this is simply a typical sentence for such abusers in the UK.

You have to understand a bit (and you’d have to go back and read a whole lot of coverage) to understand how Karolyis’ ranch where he trained the girls works. Karolyis was...well a genius in terms of gymnastics coaching, he got tiny, Soviet-occupied Romania to the silver in the Olympics before defecting the US; a…

Basically you now have “curfew hours” and are fitted with a tracking bracelet, just like house arrest in the US; if you aren’t in by curfew, you go to jail for a long sentence. In practice, this isn’t too different from US house arrest, since in the US most house arrest sentences have stipulations for work and daily…

The answer is simple: they didn’t care. Nassar and the rest of the staff brought them victories, gold medals that they could point to as proof of their accomplishments; anything that endangered that was to be ignored or delayed as long as possible. If a few young girls had to get raped for gold medals to be achieved,…

At the same time, there’s the not so small matter of “give him an inch and he’ll take a mile” with Trump.  Plus Trump will crow about how he “won”.  The fact is the smarter move is to let the government shut down happen.

Because he’s black and he’s very, very talented.  He’s seriously gotten shit on for years simply because of that.  The Daily Mail and other tabloids love to make a big deal out of every little thing he does that doesn’t make him look like a saint.

Fucking hell, humans don’t deserve dogs.  Their loyalty, love and kindness is unmatched.  Goodest of boys, good boy!

The fucked up thing about this is Sterling is one of the best English attackers, period. He should be celebrated as a national hero, instead, he gets racist bullshit thrown at him. Then again, from the country that brought us Brexit, I shouldn’t be surprised.

Wow, that’s terrible. That’w worse than coin flip that NBA finals usually are. It’s like that dude guarantees you will get to the final and lose it.

I think there’s two reasons why they’ll lose to the post on this one. First, it has already happened, to an extent. France has required that lootboxes disclose the odds and Belgium’s gambling commission has already said they are gambling. For now these requirements are relatively light and/or in their earliest stages,…

I think it’s too late to self-regulate loot boxes.  It’s one thing to fight regulation based on artistic content; most people are pretty supportive of free expression and will want pretty compelling evidence to restrict it; there’s no such support for loot boxes.  The time to self regular was a year ago when European…

I’m thinking Cuba will see us out this time around.

Traditionally the head of the FTC has been from within the organization and/or has been a lawyer who focuses on consumer protection law, so they haven’t had these conflicts of interest. Maureen Ohlhausen was the last Obama commissioner for example, she was previously a lawyer before working at the FTC for 11 years.…

It’s more that the solution can’t come from the bottom.  “Think global, act  local “ was always bullshit, while small individual actions can help what is actually required is global reform of our energy systems.  That means that the wealthy and powerful would need to take it on the chin though, and they’ll fight that…

This is based on most recent “net worth” estimates that I found with quick Google searches. It looks like that may be a touch out of date, Forbes put out a new list of valuable companies, the most recent data is here: https://www.forbes.com/powerful-brands/list/#tab:rank The new ranks have Disney a touch over 4 times…

Stock prices are not inherently equal pieces though.  Walt Disney’s stock price is divided into far smaller pieces than Netflix, that’s why the stock is a lower price.  Disney is worth Somewhere around $36 billion dollars while Netflix is worth about 10% of that.  Netflix is a large corporation, yes, but compared to…