That was a fine and impressive comment.

So, one guy from FB stalks someone -- fire him!
But when a company (advertisement) stalks me across the internet -- that's business!

"Violence will be the preferred method of the masses so the wealthy should start planning on UBI if they don't want themselves and their progeny oiling our guillotines."

I have heard that some of this sort of thinking that got the New Deal passed.

But it won't be the amazon guy who does it. It'll be the guy who gets a hold of the hack for the amazon service.

I've had a package stolen from my porch, but I'd be much more likely to install amazon key on a discreet cabinet on my porch than in my house.

Having noticed the trend in comment #'s over time, I guessed that it meant that the old audience has mostly moved on.

There have been some suggestions that Southpark is making fun of anyone who bought an echo. And maybe they are, Southpark will make fun of anything. But I think the real weak link here is Amazon, or anyone who puts out a such a device with such an easy exploit path. XKCD already had a comic about messing with these ( https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F1807%2F ). Clearly these need to have an option to rename the personality anything you choose, like your wireless network. Not that people wouldn't leave it at the default, but then you could at least call the user out for being lazy.

Oh, wait.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnet.com%2Fhow-to%2Fam...

Sorry. Carry on.

thx! Will investigate...

I have been wondering about the viability of windows in a VM for games. Do you have any favorite web articles or info sources on this topic? Mostly I figured it would be tough for a gaming VM to use performance video hardware through the virtualization.

Yeah, like most corporations.

We already know that Facebook wants to know what you "like". Why wait for you to explicitly tell it?

You know the skeezy line ... "There's something I could say to make you sleep with me... Let's just pretend I've already said it!"

Instead it'll be the skeezy corporation "There's something I could say to make you pay me... and... ah, there it is!" *dynamic advertising*
Then... *YOU EMPTIES WALLET*

A number of organizations want to deliver groceries. But delivery isn't free. Especially for produce and frozen products! My understanding is that groceries is typically a real low-margin proposition anyway, and that's leaving the last mile to the customer. Except for Whole Foods. It's high price, which I expect means high margin -- a good place to hide delivery costs. AND everyone who shops there has demonstrated the willingness to pay high prices for groceries if you can find the reason that trips their trigger.

It was an insightful acquisition.

I wondered if this would be the case. Since chip tech exists, you'd only target malware at people who weren't using it...

So the company announcement says that the malware stole data from magnetic strip reads.

"The malware searched for track data (which sometimes has cardholder name in addition to card number, expiration date, and internal verification code) read from the magnetic stripe of a payment card as it was being routed through the POS device."

I didn't see anything specifically state that chip-based interactions were immune. What percentage of payments were strip vs. chip based?

Is Chipotle on the chip, or are their readers still strip based? My cards have chips these days, but I usually don't watch to see who uses which scan technology. Chip tech is supposed to combat this sort of thing, isn't it?

How'd that work out?

Uh, "Transform and Modernize", or "Transfer and Monetize"?