I think “ghosting” is a term people made up to blame the internet for something that existed before the internet. No way do I believe that before the 1990s Americans generally felt they owed an explanation to every single person they met for coffee one time.

We are working with an outside cybersecurity firm and law enforcement to determine specifics of the incident, and we will provide more information when we can.

That was more or less my point. Goodyear execs should be perp-walking on this instead of facing a “cost of doing business”.

Unless Goodyear gets charged with 98 counts of manslaughter, they haven’t been tainted enough.

Even if he had obtained it illegally, he would still be ethically in the right for publishing it. People need to know that if they have these tires on their mobile home, they are likely to be in a serious and possibly fatal crash.

That precludes every mobile device on the market. There’s no such thing as an upgradeable cell phone, and while it’s technically possible to repair them if you have the skills, they are designed to prevent it.

What would you recommend doing with a phone that contains sensitive data, but is so old that you’ve long since lost the proprietary charger nobody makes anymore?

Our stove has an off switch (as in you can switch off the whole thing so the oven and burners don’t work until you switch it back on). Which seems like one of those things somebody should have thought of a long time before they did.

The only way these are the 10 scariest movies on Netflix is if it’s gotten so bad over there that they could only secure licensing for 10 horror movies that weren’t shot on iPhone 7 in some guy’s basement. (Which seemed to be the way it was going last time I checked, so this is not impossible: I stopped even looking…

If you’re Sheryl Sandberg, I would encourage you to cry at work because you’ll make more room for others to

Legumes and a grain contain literally all the nutrients you need. Everything else is just a bonus. You might have some quality of life issues around eating no vegetables, but a normal person is likely to have quality of life issues around drinking nothing but air-flavored liquid. Like the desire to defenestrate…

If we don’t let the rich literally steal everything that isn’t nailed down, the terrorists win.

The right time to discard a computer is when all of its parts have become mechanically unusable. Until then there’s always something you could do with it.

I had one like that. The process of trying to get any usable information went on so long, I started looking around for hidden cameras and YouTubers who think they’re funny.

5,300 municipal water systems in the US have tap water that is unsafe to drink because of the levels of lead. And that’s what we know of. While I totally agree with you that water should be free, the environmentalists’ “just drink tap water” refrain is not sound advice across much of America. And since conservatives…

Yeah, and what’s the deal with “spices” and “a variety of foods”? All you need to survive is a plate of beans and rice.

It’s not clear that in that statement she is referring to our concept of race and not the human race. The latter would be in keeping with her other statements. But I’m no fan of eugenics. Particularly the way they played out in US state policies. US eugenics was the basis of Nazi eugenics: we have a lot to answer for.…

This whole God talking to politicians thing got old when

From the same link. Emphasis mine. From the same section you quoted:

I remember when putting an emoticon in an email could get you fired. It took me years to get used to the idea that it’s acceptable and even encouraged now.