Don't be so sure Intel won't feel the need to make customers whole on this.

It's a single data point, but an interesting one: Engaget's Facebook page posted yesterday about Intel's new processors with AMD graphics. Every single comment below the post asked why on Earth anyone would buy an Intel processor without any assurances the Meltdown/Spectre flaws were taken care of.

The fallout hasn't even begun to really hit on this.

Some of those big ones include Paypal, Twitter, Apple, and LinkedIn.

Problems with SMS-based 2-factor authentication have been known for years, yet these behemoths still make use of it with no other options. It's becoming a little ridiculous.

Unfortunately, I can't claim that was the problem. Instead, I'll plead "typing on a treadmill using the hideous onscreen keyboard of a Surface Pro".

AT ANY RATE...

The point was, 2-factor auth would take care of this. I'm certainly not happy with Russian intelligence trying to mess with the U.S. election (and yes, the evidence is strong they are: see here), but regardless, since Podesta's email was STILL open as of a few days ago when a password reset sent to it was used to hack his Twitter account, it seems clear some folks desperately need some help with securing their accounts.

P.S. yes, my account is original.

Back then, it was cheap! The prices have gone up.

"*long". My kingdom for a Slashdot "edit" feature.

As long as they were using Gmail in the first place, enabling 2 factor authentication, with the second factor being a U2F key like an inexpensive Yubikey, would have gone a ling ways towards preventing this,

I understand that there are a lot of applicants to weed through. What I'm saying is that I see little difference between weeding out based on being fooled by something like this and simply discarding every other application.

I'm no fan of sloppiness, either. But to me, this isn't a sign of sloppiness. It's a sign of being human.

I think that's reaching. According to images of the interface, the "Send Mic Drop" button was right next to the correct one, it was orange (so more noticeable, and one might logically think it's the "send" button) and until one read the story, it wasn't even clear that it did something different than a regular "send".

I think you might be getting a little twitchy on the "roundfile" button yourself if you would treat something like this as disqualifying. Just my $0.02.

If you pay your taxes (you know, the money you owe for getting to live in the U.S. and receive services rendered), you don't get to say the money is "someone else's". We all get to decide what to do with it based on liberal democratic principles. And if you don't like it, start walking north or south. You'll eventually get to a situation I guarantee you'd like even less.

Of course, if you don't pay your taxes, then you're a thief. So much for moral authority, huh?

Actually, the conversation was opened up with the term "welfare". At any rate, SS and Medicare are generally not defined as "public assistance".

Was waiting for someone to point this out.

Social Security and Medicare are insurance programs into which workers pay. "Welfare" is usually defined as public assistance, including AFDC and TANF. NOT the same thing.

Personally I think if someone is going to brag about not needing evidence, they really shouldn't go on and prove they don't know what they're talking about by trying to provide it anyway. Keep it general, don't try to prove anything, and you'll last longer in an argument.

An alternative is not connecting the TV to your network. Of course, you'll end up paying extra for unused features.

I agree that biotech advancements have made the unthinkable very thinkable in a really short period of time.

As for the fears stated in the article - it's really not enough to be able to easily edit genes. You have to know which genes to edit. So while the technology is now extremely cheap and easy, the knowledge is what we're lacking -- which, as you say, for the short term, means the danger's a bit overblown.

Long term, we have a problem on our hands. This is awesome technology, for good or ill.

I would love to see a bona-fide gravity telescope created, complete with sensors using ultra-precise atomic clocks as "pixels" and some sort of gravity wave focusing mechanism.

I can also think of a few phenomena that this new sensing capability will really help to clear up. For example: when gamma ray bursts were first announced, we only knew that they were exceedingly powerful, and there were multiple possible explanations, including merging black holes.

With advanced LIGO, we might have been able to rule in or out that latter possibility (there are still unknowns that aLIGO could help us clear up).

There's more here than confirming what was already strongly suspected. This is the one space telescope that can see black holes and back to the Big Bang--things that no electromagnetic sensing system can allow us to observe.