Staying busy and avoiding news. It’s highly likely that it won’t be decisive, and we don’t need to feed the relentless hysterical coverage machine of media corporations.

As an outside observer, it seems perfectly clear that he has no intent to see any more hostages returned alive.

XKCD

And that was in her graduate thesis! Also, she used Annie Jump Cannon’s stellar classification work to develop her theory.

SteamOS.

Seriously, I just finished my annual “preventing harassment’ training and there’s a whole section on power differential and how just asking puts employees in a bad spot. Just…don’t.

Definitely.

I believe the correct response is “go fuck yourself.”

Yeah, I thought they were protesting the skeptics.

Crowdstrike has Mac and Linux agents.

They see the post-PC world, and Windows Phone never panned out.

I have several password manager plugins installed on my browser, along with the built-in password managers in the browser and the OS itself, because I like seeing them all fight over the password field.

But they had a strict lockout policy, right? Right?

Seems to me the undercover agent made an extremely poor choice in links to send. If you expect to track down whoever clicked it, a link to a private video would be the obvious choice.

The US isn’t in a recession, but all these big companies seem to think it’s high time we had another.

The App Formerly Known as Twitter.

When I was working security for a hospital they wanted to send imagery from an MRI (or maybe CAT, I forget) upstairs to be interpreted without allowing any network traffic to be able to reach the host machine because it was running XP. I asked why, and they told me that in order to replace it the vendor was requiring a $7 million replacement of the whole MRI.

Take it even farther, not all species get hammered on the same chemicals. “Barkeep, a glass of your finest room-temperature-aged milk, please!”

/slap

Holy shit it really happened.