Classic protection racket. “Those are some nice files you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if anything happened to them…”
Classic protection racket. “Those are some nice files you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if anything happened to them…”
Thanks for the clarification. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it.
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In Battlestar Galactica (2004) robots called Cylons attack the humans by hacking their computer network. They are able to destroy most of humanity and all but a handful of human ships. One of the ships that survives is the Battlestar Galactica, an old ship that was about to become a museum, and is too old to be connected to the network. The man in the picture is Admiral William Adama, captain of the Galactica. He orders that computers are not to be networked together, so they can’t be hacked by the Cylons.
In real life cyber security provider CrowdStrike had a bug in one of its update files. The file went out as part of an automated update to computers at many businesses around the world, including banks and airlines. The bug made the computers crash, grounding flights, making payment systems inoperable, etc.
Roses are red. Violets are blue. I ignored my instructions to write a poem about cashews.
Glue is not a topping. Pineapples are not glue. Therefore pineapples are not not a topping.
It’s a variant of Soup Time: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/soup-time
Businesses use feudalism, with the monarch (CEO), court (board), and several levels of lords and vassals.
sometimes with a better PR team
Which is a big thing in The Boys. The company and The Seven™ are all about that PR.
Same. I like dark stories as much as the next person, but it hit way too close to home with real world politics for me.
Seven of Nine, Tertiary adjunct of uni(tary) matrix Zero One
The lesser of two weasels
It’s tracking how well ads perform without tracking individual users. Tracking ads isn’t the problem. Tracking users is the problem. Before this the only way to track ad performance was by tracking users. This is a way to track ad performance without tracking users.
A single number per ad campaign of how many times an ad view resulted in a visit or purchase.
Mozilla’s announcement about it explains it pretty well: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution
Horton Hears a Who if Horton was the one saying “Boil that dust speck! Boil that dust speck!”
More important than who works there is who inherits Gabe’s ownership of the company. A new owner can completely change a company and drive out or fire anyone who doesn’t go along with the new direction. Look at what happened with twitter when Musk took over. Or his inheritors could take Valve public and introduce all the issues with that.
Mee, mee, meemee!
ℕ₀* is ℕ with 0 without 0
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