I am sure I am missing something, but why not charge the call originator an small "per attempt" fee, say $0.01 per attempt. Starting from the targeted phone number carrier, they would bill the next carrier up line, on and on until the the originating carrier bills the robocaller account. So robocaller man attempts 1 million calls per day, then he gets a bill for $10K. If it is not paid then the carriers eat the cost - that won't last for long. Assuming robocaller is using a VPN or other means to mask his identity, the VPN host gets nicked for the 10K unless they can pass it up the food chain.

There is an easy fix for this that does not require anything too difficult. Use gpedit,msc and turn off all cloud content settings, then force a gpupdate. Remediate the crap that is there and you are done. Also, there are several good powershell scripts on spiceworks that will remove just about everything. Combine the two and things are good again. Also, when I set up new Windows 10 machines, I do not connect to a network until the above steps are completed.

I might pay if this was a reboot of Farscape.

Well then, that explains why she is black while parents are fair skinned. Ha ha. I guess Star Trek IV did explorer the more human-side of a Vulcan/Human hybrid. So now that that is cleared up I have no reason to watch it.

Except for the new twist on the Vulcan/Human hybrid being more human, this was a complete waste. Sorry CBS, I am not paying 1 cent to watch this.

I toss this out for general discussion. Given the already reported class-action suits files against Equifax, is the company a walking dead entity? And this does not include untold individual lawsuits which will also be filed.

We were bitten by this a few months ago when Microfocus (Novell)/SLES updated some dns libs. We had been using underscores since, well, forever and it worked file right up to change. It took a while to figure out what had happened. A few record/config changes later and all was well.

Dammit you beat me to it. It kills me when ultra-rich smocks talk about spending other peoples money. He does not care if there is a 60% tax rate. Ultra-rich - 60% still equals ultra-rich. And he knows that won't happen anyhow. This is all about image. It's simply show biz. Come on Mark, give away 62 billion tomorrow, you can still have a nice life with 1,000,000,000 dollars.

Releasing exploits and sensitive data that harms the USA is understandable as the US government is just a pussy (and yes I live in the US). Piss on Russia or China and they may find there cohorts dead with their genitals in their mouths or polonium in their veins. Do you really think the Russian equivalent of Snowden would still be alive today????

OMG. I just love the histairia.

I hear CurrentC is available. Buy the company and produce your own vendor-agnostic platform. F'ing banks can kiss my shiny metal ass.

They seem to work just fine as they are! Shit, I still have a 2008 Macbook (original Al case) the works just fine too. Maybe a color change would make Sam happy.

As a former geological engineer working in the environmental remediation business 16 plus years ago, I was responsible for design and construction of groundwater remediation systems at old landfills. Old landfills are notorious as many were just old gravel pits which were filled with garbage. In this garbage would be all sorts of hazardous waste from a time when nobody cared about such things. When looking at Mass Spectroscopy plots I would see hundreds of peaks representing some sort of organic chemical. Many of these could be identified as a pollutant, like benzene, but many were “unknowns”. As long as we met the Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCLs) established by the EPA all was fine, except the water would still contain many “unknowns”. And even if we had identified all the “unknowns” since no MCL was established we were still good-to-go. The treated groundwater had to go somewhere, either re-infiltrated off-site or discharged to a nearby stream or river. Again we had to meet discharge limits, which we did. But everyone knew full well that there were pollutants still in the water. Now what will happen in the future when one of these “unknowns” or unregulated chemicals become regulated? Good question.

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” -Joseph Goebbels

Nice "Agenda" laden post. Good job /. editors.