He’s EIC of BI - safe to assume he’s a raging idiot based on position and publication alone, this is just a piece of evidence that floated into public attention.

And get whammied with a known patched exploit months later, when the rest of us are safe. Sure, go for that.

Though, in general.. If it took this article to fix your bad battery life, turn on auto updates. Your apps should never be more than a few days old, unless you’re away from data for awhile.

Well, they’re getting screwed and that really sucks. It changes nothing about this story though. ‘On the clock’ or not, she was on the job at that time and acted with extreme professionalism.

I’m sorry, but if you are claiming the attendant is not paid for the time the plane is full and she is working, that’s a bit nuts.

I have sympathy for workers in shitty fields who get shit on by their employers and customers. That sympathy dissolves into nothing the moment the employer abuses the exceptional power their particular job gives them to have armed police remove a customer for cracking an inoffensive joke. 

Folks allegedly love it, but I have never had anything other than bargain basement anything on Southwest.

The attendant being ‘god’ is not an excuse for the attendant being a raging asshole. Does it mean you should follow their instructions? Yes. Not get in their face, start a fight? Sure. Keep quiet when they’re giving instructions? Absolutely. Not crack mild jokes about the experience of sitting on the tarmac? What the…

Sorry, the employee fucked up. She wasn’t attacked by the passenger, she overreacted to a dumb but lighthearted and inoffensive joke about the time they were waiting. She was also on the clock, and expected to maintain a higher level of professionalism — which includes having the ability to take a stupid but…

That’s.. Not remotely comparable. We didn’t drop atomic bombs on surrendered and defeated nations, we bombed a country that had announced an intention to fight us to the last living civilian.

You’re only halfway there - for the A-bomb analogy to be valid, Japan would have to first surrender -- then be nuked into oblivion.

In my neck of the woods the weed folks were way more laid back compared to alcohol or other drugs. I’m in Appalachia though, it was all dirty mountain hippies.

No? It’s a trivial amount of weed and he does puff on it. Let the man enjoy the moment, damn. That’s the great thing about weed, none of that ‘party foul’ culture that alcohol gets. Enjoying the moment, having fun, and being laid back trump any party rules like ‘don’t waste a tiny bit of that.’

I’ve always had that thought, though I’ve had people tell me with a straight face that person B simply had no desire to use Facebook and person A was posting content to keep friends and family up to date.

That’s safe deposit box or fire safe stuff, in my opinion.

As long as you recognize that the government with oversight over the datacenters hosting your VPN provider also have that access, or could if they flexed their muscles.

Smart VPN usage. Your home provider may snoop, but so may any commercial VPN provider. Doing it the way you do protects your traffic from potentially shady public networks while not really increasing your risk exposure by funneling data to a third party like VPN services do.

None of this tells you anything about what data collection the company may run in their datacenters, using your data. VPNs are quite amusing, in a way — Fear of one company gathering data leads many to give away all their data to another company instead, and to pay for the privilege. Consider carefully who you trust,…

QuikTrip sells a lot that isn’t gas, feels a lot like an example of my post rather than a counter-example.

Selling gas doesn’t make much money, lots of shops use it as a loss-leader to get customers in for the overpriced convenience store items.