The Doctor @ drwho @beehaw.org

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Thanking? No. That would be impolitic.

Quietly using? They'd be foolish not to.

I was just about to ask if anybody else had been "advised" through the usual social back channels to not consider hiring anyone on that list. I got a couple of messages last night from folks I used to work for about that.

More like, already deployed, this is just the announcement.

That is why we took our time when designing the new Find My Device, which uses a crowdsourced device-locating network to help you find your lost or misplaced devices and belongings quickly – even when they’re offline.

Then, nah.

Shit. I'm going on travel in a month or two.

How expensive do we have to be for them to actually listen to us for a change? Or do you mean "expensive consultants?"

How much oil do you have?

I can confirm this.

Data breaches are so common, and so many people have been caught in them, why bother paying for ID protection? It's granted a year at a time (for whatever that might be worth) for nothing to everybody caught in it. At this point, we may as well try to leave all those years of ID theft monitoring to our grandkids.

It's already burned by being discovered.

And, never underestimate the utility of a large botnet.

If anybody out there is looking for a new career, becoming a lobbyist might be the way to go.

As someone who sucks at fighting games, no, not really. :D

Parasocial relationships are weird.

We don't know what Cory does all day. We know he has a family, I think he has a kid, that means that he has responsibilities that don't involve blogging. For all we know, at the end of the day he curls up with a dead tree book and unplugs to relax. He might not be as online as his overall style might make him appear and we don't know what all circles of people he runs with, so it's entirely possible that he just heard about it.

I think it's because people are taking their frustrations out on whatever seems to make people think something might be on the upswing. Even better, because you can't necessarily see who upvoted nobody can call them on it.

It's like the folks who go to see a movie and gush about how awesome it was when you're sitting around shooting the shit, but the moment they get on the Net they trash it in as many ways as possible.

"Conservatives seem more excited about change."

No, conservatives seem excited about changing as much back to the way it was before. Progressives are sad because un-doing progress is significantly easier and faster than making progress.

Oh, Internet - thank you for not disappointing me.

Yes, please. I've got plenty of popcorn for everybody.

Ultimately, nothing, unless you built everything yourself from scratch, just about from the silicon up.

Everything is risk management.