A bunch of US companies are getting hit also. The advertising company my friend works for basically said shut off your laptops and go home for the day.

I’m in academia, and a few of my close friends are in academic IT. When it comes to “smart people doing dumb things with computers”, I’m 100% with you there.

Yep. But my understanding is that the vector for this is the same SMB exploit as WannaCry. So, if you’ve patched and you don’t click sketch links (perhaps I expected too much of Giz readers?), you should be okay.

Typical GizLib fear mongering

“The scariest part? The United States could be next.”

It appears as though a third edition may be necessary.

My office is gonna love this!

Sweet, have them try to text it back to you while driving.

Not really clear from the article here, and I am an Android user.

Oh, the prolonged silence—not that! Thank God for the automated response. Can’t have our friends waiting for more than a few seconds before receiving an answer.

It really is ridiculous how many people I see paying more attention to their phones than to the road. I’m not saying my solution is ideal, but that’s part of why I like my smartwatch. If I get a text while driving, I can just raise my wrist to a place where I don’t have to look away from the road. It’s no more…

Let’s look at it from another angle.

Australian story:

When my realtor would send me something with a 1 car garage I would immediately reject it. It could have been a house I liked but I’d reject it because it didn’t have enough garage space.

When my wife and I moved a few years ago, we found a great house we loved in a great location (and relatively close to all of our grandchildren). We were moving from a townhouse with the smallest-possible two car garage and I refused to buy the new house unless the garage was larger than our old garage. It was 9…

A bunch of broken BMWs, a handful of miatas, and a Porsche. You guys applied to work for Jalopnik yet or what.

When I bought my first house in ‘00, it had a “two car” garage. I was single then. You could barely fit 2 cars, as long as you didn’t store anything in the garage or drive a full size truck.

Yep, that was us. We had been living in Minneapolis. We bought a “Garage Condo” for our cars. But, it was a pain the ass to drive 45 minutes to work on a project. Or, if you were doing something at home, just to get a tool.

It took me a second, but I got it. Star for you.