There weren’t many slaveowners in urban areas.

France isn’t part of Five Eyes.

Col. Florian Manet, who heads France’s Home Affairs Ministry National Cyber Command Technical Department, said in a statement issued by Australian police that his officers provided technical resources to the task force over several years that helped decrypt the communications.

McCartney said the French had “provided a foot in the door” for Australian police to decrypt Ghost communications.

Australian police technicians were able to modify software updates regularly pushed out by the administrator, McCartney said.

“In effect, we infected the devices, enabling us to access the content on Australian devices,” McCartney said, adding that the alleged administrator lived in his parents’ Sydney home and had no police record.

It’s hard to parse what happened here. Sounds like a MITM attack where they gained access to the device OS which allowed them to view messages once decrypted by the device?

Yandex search is part of the Russian division (I think, but don’t take my word for it). I don’t know how the services were split but I do know the Dutch arm of the company sold off a bunch of things to the Russian one.

I can’t believe I’m defending Yandex, but keep in mind that they sold off the Russian business a while back (to VK, if I remember correctly). Yandex RU and Yandex “everywhere else” are different companies.

Twin towers? More like the TRANS TOWERS built by WOKE GLOBALISTS destroying the fabric of our COUNTRY!

Wasn’t Burke a raging monarchist?

Actually yeah, the billionaire class do think it’s bad to have a president who asks for sources on the data and calls out hand-waving.

I did read the article. It’s a bunch of whinging and rationalization as she furiously tries to paper over the real reason she refuses to quit Twitter — her precious 70k followers. That’s all that matters to these journalists.

Tankies holding incoherent and mutually exclusive viewpoints? Why I never

Edit: actually, that’s unfair. Their belief system is very consistent: it’s simply “Murica bad”. Anything the US like is bad, and anything they don’t like is good. It’s a dogmatic form of rebellion reminiscent of oppositional defiant disorder, i.e. brain development that stalled at the juvenile stage.

Libertarians stop being antisocial and playing the victim challenge (impossible)

It’s just Firefox with a custom skin.

The UI/UX is so good for a one-person team that I hope it embarrasses Mozilla into actually making serious improvements to their browser for the first time in a decade.

And yet if you click that journalist’s profile, the ONLY social media link is to that festering shithole. Journalists are complicit and enabling Twitter to do this by treating it as a legitimate platform and the default place for news.

People have already been jailbreaking Teslas to unlock full self-driving, which is a $10k software patch.

You should familiarise yourself with the details of this particular transaction, because your idealised description bears very little resemblance to what actually happened. There’s a reason this is known as one of the worst business deals of all time.

So if I sell my house at a loss because I’m inept, the plumber should get an even bigger share of the sale money?

Funny you mention that! Broadcast.com was in fact not profitable. It lost millions the year it was sold to Yahoo.

A customer pays the full value of the purchase, the plumber is the one in charge and charges as much as possible.

Except here we’re talking about ownership/shares, not payment for labour. Many in this thread are outraged that not every employee of Broadcast owned shares, and the implication is that as soon as you work for someone, you should receive a share. My plumber example still stands. Should he get a “share” of my house, even though I already paid him for his labour, as Cuban paid his employees?

An employer never pays the full value, though! The employer, as the one in charge, pays as little as possible.

Again,we’re talking about shares, not labour. For all you know Cuban was drawing zero salary from the company. The two are completely different. You’re all so doctrinaire that you can’t mentally distinguish labour versus ownership of a thing.