Considering the amount of articles drumming up fear on Gizmodo (a tech blog for god’s sake) the last few days, or even the last few months, I am not the troll here.

Quality he will have on Inauguration Day: Commander-in-Chief of the US Armed Forces.

Liberals have spent more time in the past few days wondering how to “combat the threat of Donald Trump,” a duly elected President of the United States, than they ever spent on figuring out how to “combat the threat” of ISIS. Who, you know, have actually killed Americans and are responsible for the deaths of hundreds…

Should we get rid of the 1st Amendment too, since that was put in place during times of slavery, and wasn’t even applied to state action?

“Most Americans” did not vote for Hillary. She did not receive a majority of the vote (of which does not include all Americans in the first place)

Do you mean Alexa itself updates (ie the echo and its underlying software), or that it helps manage updates for devices that connect to it (eg Hue)?

So your gold-standard for news is reliable citation? What about original news sources? For instance, a Washington Post investigative report relying on anonymous sources. There is certainly an oft-made argument that such articles shouldn’t be given as much weight as on-the-record sourced articles, but to say they…

So, media matters articles aren’t news right? What about Gawker-type blogs? Do they fit into your News-is-News paradigm? What about newspaper editorials?

So, this is a perfect example. This conversation reminded me of my hue system. It’s one of the better ones. Rather than have to update each device, the bridge takes care of that. But I never actually use the hue app, because I use built in controls on my phone and connected switches. So I just opened my hue app,…

I didn’t mean to automatically change passwords. I just meant that the hub can manage it in the sense that it will send you notifications when firmware updates are available, mark it as priority when it is to fix a vulnerability, and remind users to change passwords (which can be further integrated into password…

Would be nice if IoT hubs like Apple home and Alexa would help manage firmware updates and security settings. As we get more and more of these things, whether we like it or not, it’s going to be unreasonable to expect people to update them regularly and keep up with rotating passwords. And simply having each device…

If the company does not have a way of determining the legitimacy of news published through the platform, then this number is a complete fiction.

I agree that the sanctions were the “stick,” and that stick was working very well. You’re own statements lead me to believe that you also think this was working. So why, perhaps right on the verge of being able to extract a complete, verifiable, shutdown of the program, do we chop it to pieces? I know the line is that…

Yeah, that elitist, party-line, entitled condescension will really help the Democratic Party

I’ve heard this a lot, and it’s divorced from reality. This kind of thinking may drive the Democratic Party into the ground or, perhaps a better outcome, split it (personally, I hope both parties split, creating a unified centrist party, but I know it’s a pipe dream). I happen to be what I call “vehemently moderate,”…

To which stick are you referring to? I see a lot of carrots

Civil suits are a meaningless measure. Civil suits, where even judgments are only a showing of preponderance of the evidence, are now, for better or worse, completely expected in the course of doing commercial business in the United States. The electorate in general was able to see past that, as most people have at…

Barack Obama had 2 years of experience as a US Senator before running for President. So, you are adding 10 years based on local government experience (something I find very laudable), and more generally, experience in politics in general.

People “game” the system every day. As long as you don’t go over the line, that is perfectly fine. There is no patriotic duty to fill the coffers of Government. You pay the tax the law requires; nothing more, nothing less.

You say abuse, but most people just saw that, to the extent that the events are accurately portrayed and relevant at all, he maneuvered the system to maximize profit, as anyone else would (that aren’t planning on running for office, and that aren’t morons)