YO! We heard you likes bridges so we built a bridge... on top of your bridge!

No. Five grown men in a stolen car breaking into a house to steal another car are not a problem. They're just "kids". They should be free to break into as many houses as they want and steal as many cars as they want. That's what kids do. Participation trophies for everyone. STFU and just leave your keys in your car to…

Yes, the police are at fault here.

I would take his name if it meant I could drive some of his cars

With Drones the technology already exists to cover those sections of the flight envelope as well. At minimum a remote pilot could carry out those duties as well.

Look man, I wanna be the guy who hates on the new shit, but that’s just not my reality. I was an early MySpace employee, and had a big following there. Then I jumped on Tumblr early... and that was a thing. I blogged for a bit. Then I got a Twitter, and that became a thing.

I'm pretty sure I could find a union leader to argue that there should be a union member in every bathroom stall to make sure people are wiping correctly.

You’re looking at this from the wrong angle: these are good things.

1st gear: The “jobs at risk argument” is typical union BS. Apply that logic broadly and we just have a bunch of people sitting around watching technology work. I mean I get why the union is worried about jobs. It’s those hard workers who get the privilege of paying a portion of their earned wage to support the union.

What this article tells you is that the author has no fucking clue how a network works and what computers do. If you don’t isolate the intrusion it will infect every machine causing untold damage.

the general theme of the article (especially given the title of “The Colonial Pipeline Was Fine, But It Was Shutdown To Make Sure Its Owner Could Still Get Paid”) is “System that is run by pure capitalism values profit over compassion” and doesn’t even attempt to be sarcastic about it.

I hate it when someone at Jalopnik writes a post without basic understanding of the topic. I love it when that person gets roasted in the comments though.

To be fair, I learn a lot from this website.

Yeah, but I’m also sure dozens of employees whose job it was to do those paper bills existed back then. You can’t just hire and train new employees to do something like that overnight. 

Not to defend Colonial, but they are a business and they’re in business to make money. Also, the computer systems have replaced the manual paper systems of yore. You can’t just suddenly grab a pad of paper and a calculator to replace complex automated billing systems and having them on standby doesn’t really make…

This.

Jalopnik needs to stop writing about topics they have no understanding of.

Yeah, Article wasn’t clear enough.

Indeed, it is unclear. But that won’t stop Clickbat News Network from making a story before they know all the facts.

This post paints a really bad picture without full understanding of how IT infrastructure works. When the good folks down in IT see an activity spike and files start becoming encrypted, they shut everything off in order to isolate the threat. It’s kind of like closing fire doors. Unfortunately this sometimes means…

Most excellent Kinja. Thank you.