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Companies are making billions of dollars trading on "facts" about you and me. They compile and sell this data with no recompense. They make no real attempts to ensure the data is accurate or that our lives aren't negatively impacted by errors. And when they inevitably get breached and our data gets stolen, they offer a token few months of credit monitoring (especially ironic coming from Equifax). Gee, thanks.

The dinosaurs are lucky; they aren't around to give a shit that they're being sold for profit.

When your ISP is on your side instead of in bed with the MAFIAA, why pay extra for a VPN?

Mr. Bannon, it's time for your medication, sir. Does the gentleman prefer vodka or gin tonight?

Yes, it sure does. Believe it or not, some Trump supporters are pro-Net Neutrality. They want to be able to keep shitposting rare pepes and flooding fake Macedonian-operated "news" posts onto Twitter all day long.

Because patches are often broken. Imagine these hospitals had applied the patch when Microsoft released it, but the patch was faulty in some way, and all of the hospital computers went down as a result. Instead of complaining the hospitals were running unpatched, you and/or many people like you would be bitching and moaning that they were negligent to install the patch too soon.

Updates from Microsoft frequently include at least one broken patch. There was one update last year that broke millions of peoples' webcams. There have been several updates that interfered with settings and reverted them back to default configurations, and several more updates that seemingly deleted group policy objects that had been configured by the domain administrator. There was a patch around the new year that inadvertently disabled the DHCP service, despite the update itself having nothing to do with DHCP. (Things that make you go hmmm.) This particular fuck-up rendered a lot of machines not only broken, but totally irreparable without manual human intervention, i.e. dispatching someone clueful to each of your premises to clean up the mess.

Patch deployment in any enterprise environment requires extensive testing. You have to coordinate with your software vendors to make sure their applications are compatible with the update. If you install Patch XYZ without first getting approval from Vendor123, you wind up invalidating your support contracts with them. All of this takes time. In 2016, there were several months in a row where Microsoft had to un-issue, repair, supersede, and re-release a broken patch they'd pushed out. Put yourself in the shoes of an admin team who got burned by Windows Update breaking your systems, especially repeatedly. Are you going to be in any hurry to patch? If you were bitten by the DHCP bug, do you trust that the "critical SMB patch" really only touches SMBv1, and isn't going to inexplicably corrupt Office or remove IPV4 connectivity on every computer it touches?

If the PC your kid plays Minecraft on gets hosed by a broken patch, it's not that big of a deal. The business world is a different story.

They're all over in the "Trump shuts down open.gov and stops releasing White House visitor logs" thread, telling us why those are somehow good things.

I send him a link to Breitbart. Before long he's spending all day tracking down pizza parlors and gay frogs, and staying out of everyone's hair at work.

20 years ago, people weren't trying to write a friggin' IDE in JavaScript of all things.

It's a good thing Trump is putting so many Goldman Sachs executives in his administration. Soon we'll be making recessions great again! We're going to have the biggest financial crisis, folks, it'll be tremendous!

Well he campaigned on the idea of giving power back to the people, so if he were an honest man, he'd be on the workers'/union's side here. However it's quite obvious that he's the biggest, greatest liar in the world, as well as being a traditional conservative corporate whore, so he's going to be on AT&T's side.

And as for the Senator, he's married with children and has a history of pushing anti-gay and anti-marijuana legislation. Then he gets caught in a motel with an underage boy and marijuana. It's just another example of the incredible projection and hypocrisy that infects the Republican party to its core. Anytime a conservative starts yelling about outlawing something, look closely because he's probably doing a lot of that thing himself.

We arrest the perpetrators, like the Trump campaign manager in Oklahoma who just got arrested for fucking an underage boy in a motel. The police didn't need any geo-tagged photos to catch him, either.

I wish them luck, but I'm not sure it makes a lot of sense to be creating yet another top-level domain.

So they'll sell off a few hundred generic words to speculators, but I predict few others will be buying in. Many of the new gTLDs created over the past couple of years are either shutting down, or jacking up domain prices into the multi-hundred dollar per year range just to stay in operation. Keeping a TLD alive isn't cheap, and it turns out there's not much demand for all of this namespace after all. When you can't amortize your TLD's infrastructure cost across millions of customers, you wind up having to price each domain so high that nobody's going to buy one.

Hey, now. The correct term is "Unsolicited Emailfrican-American."