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I think this article ignores some of the other tenants of Amazon's corporate strategy. While Amazon is an online shopping behemoth, they are also expanding in to AI, web hosting and Platforms as a Service, financing, robotics, logistics, and lord knows what else. I think if you want a more accurate foil to Amazon, you should look at Alibaba.

What could be a possible solution to the PIN reset? Security practices say that we can authenticate across 3 ways; something you are, something you have, and something you know. Its obvious to me that the something you know is also known by hackers, and I don't think biometrics are going to be overly popular after this. Does Experian send out a hardware token to all users that request a security freeze?

How much validity is there to the FCC's statement that privacy regulation of the internet should be left to the FTC, and that the FTC had existing privacy regulations?

As others have stated here, this is largely a reaction to globalization and immigration issues that have been present in the world's view. Globalization has left a large portion of each country behind. Large multinational firms have moved a lot of their low-skill labor to cheaper markets and developing countries, leaving a large swath of former employees in their wake with very little perceived hope of finding another job at the same level. Whether you agree with the feeling of hopelessness or not, you have to admit that there is a large population that feels that way. You can't tell them that their feelings or views are not valid and that this is good for the world; their world just got ruined for the profit of others.

Pair this with a large influx of immigrants from other countries, and it scares people even more. The constant threat of terrorism has caused people to live in fear, and governments to react accordingly.

All in all, those are some major parts of the puzzle.

In another comment section (Reddit, I believe) there was anecdotal evidence that visitors from Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland and Romania regularly outstayed their visas and were notorious for violating a tourist visa, hence the additional checks the US wanted to put them through.

I make my own pasta and I still feel guilty eating it.

Its degrees as a geometrical measurement, not temperature. Its showing the course/angle of the wind at that location.

I think you tried to make a pun but people took you literally.

I would like to point out the figurative middle finger the BBC is giving to NK. The offensive material that they pointed to are still published on the BBC website, even though the apology stated that they'd be taken down.

How many bugs and spiders rely on mosquitoes as part of their diet? Out of all of the ideas in this article, not once was the impact to the biological food chain discussed. We can kill all of the little annoying things, but how many beneficial organisms are being supported by them?

The article also places a big emphasis on people driving to the incorrect locations, hundreds of miles away from their intended destination. To me, this is a user error rather than a system issue. Every GPS system has the user confirm their destination address to keep this from happening.

A condescending idea would have been to call it Brawndo. "It has electrolytes..."

Wouldn't most tap water in the US fit under this definition? My father used to work at a waste water treatment facility. At one end of the plant was all of the raw sewage that came in from the city, at the other end, it had been cleaned and purified to the point you could swim in it and probably be OK drinking from it. I know that from there they didn't just dump the water back into the local rivers and ponds, it went back to the water treatment facility not too far away where it found its way back into homes.

I live in St. Louis and recently took a ride with Uber. Our driver basically gave us the exact same information. He told us that if we ever see surge pricing, to wait ~10 minutes and the rates will be back down to normal again. Its interesting to see that this is being seen from the rider's side as well.

Its a fairly common recommendation for them to make, but don't let the frequency dissuade you from following their advice.

Geolocation features aside, I'm more impressed by the fact that Facebook has created something that's opt-in rather than volunteering people right off the bat.

This falls under the "shit you know you don't know" category.

Does this article remind anyone else of the culture in Atlas Shrugged?

Does anyone else see the issue of how easy it would be to lean down, unplug this thing from the ODBC port, and toss it to the ground? That would kill any tracking or blocking.

As someone that grew up in Wyoming, I'm surprised they even know how to spell "superconductivity".

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Star Trek style economics no economics? I seem to remember a distinguished bald captain talking about how society has moved past the need for money.

The law enforcement and audit activities kind of makes sense with the territory. In my mind, at least. BUT if personal emails and details are therefore considered public record, doesn't that completely break HIPPA privacy requirements? Requirements the government wrote?!

Thank you! After that first paragraph, I couldn't take the article seriously.

Sometimes half of the fun of reading Brian's articles are the super weird comments he gets on his articles sometimes.

Would this be able to say...oh, idk...spoof and overpower digital TV channels in a localized area? I need to know...for science.

Brian Krebs does some awesome work stirring up the hacking underworld. He also does some good write ups on ATM hacking, bot nets, Russian crime syndicates, and anything else that the mass security media sometimes glosses over.

Why did I click on the link to a down website? What did I expect? Shame on me.

This is terrifying to read.

While it is kind of a sad PR stunt from someone with a 14 year old hipster child at home, it is kind of cool if you look for the ways people try to smuggle goods and weapons onto flights.

Now THAT would be amazing. Incredibly smart move. What better way to create your own handwriting recognition program than to have all 4 billion people field testing it for you.