“When you’re born, you’re given a ticket to the freak-show.
When you’re born in America, you have a front-row seat.”
– George Carlin
It’s good that the lawmakers are holding Microsoft responsible and taking them to task about these incidents, but the only reason this is happening is because they were directly affected. If this weren’t the case, MS would’ve published their usual “we take privacy and security very seriously” BS and continued on cashing that check.
Also Microsoft is “sorry” but does that include giving all the money they got from the government, i.e. the taxes collected from citizens, back? I know the answer is “No” but this is another indicator that the government officials only care about their own privacy and security. If they cared about the tax payers, they would’ve asked for the money back.
Edit: Also, there’s a whistleblower: https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-golden-saml-data-breach-russian-hackers
Edit 2, from the ProPublica article:
This is part of the problem overall with the industry,” said Nick DiCola, who was one of Harris’ bosses at Microsoft and now works at Zero Networks, a network security firm. Publicly-traded tech giants “are beholden to the share price, not to doing what’s right for the customer all the time. That’s just a reality of capitalism. You’re never going to change that in a public company because at the end of the day, they want the shareholder value to go up.”
Truer words have never been spoken, Nick.
Volvo, and Polestar, are owned by Geely Holding (since 2010), a Chinese car manufacturer and conglomerate, so I think the photo is quite apt.
Gay ~political commentator~ Russian Operative
Singer Nazi
Absolutely irresponsible.
“Mahindra Racing introduced, then quickly retracted, its use of a fake female motorsports reporter.”
In case anyone else wonders.
I suspect the number is probably higher than that, as Sony would have no way of tracking completely offline consoles or households/players that don’t/can’t connect their PS3s to the internet.
Furthermore, the 1st gen. PS3 had full backwards compatibility with PS2 and PS1 games, even the second and third generations, which switched to a partial and then full software emulation for PS2/PS1 backward compatibility, were still capable of playing the vast majority of the games (1st gen. actually had the PS2 graphics and CPU chipset soldered on the motherboard for true full backward compatibility, the second gen. started emulating the CPU, while maintaining the graphics chip and the third gen. used complete software emulation for PS2 and PS1 games).
So the PS3 was really the perfect console at the time, as it was capable of playing all PlayStation games, in addition to DVD and Blu-ray movies. I’m not surprised it has such a lasting appeal.
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Steward did go to HBO first^1. In fact, he went there and tried to put together a show but it didn’t work out due to various reasons. Also at that time, Time Warner, who owned HBO then, was doing their other stupid merger with AT&T, and lots of people were leaving. Richard Plepler, the head of HBO then, had brought Stewart to HBO, but when he left, he started a new production company with a long-term contract with Apple, and Stewart followed.
He was a force of nature, that Rodney!
He’s not the brightest flame in the rightwing tiki torch parade, that’s for sure.
Although a good theory, and I partly agree, I think it’s more nefarious than that. This way one cannot easily resell the game. A digital code locks the downloadable bits down and nerfs the bundle.
Universal is in early development on a new movie about super spy Jason Bourne, with “All Quiet on the Western Front” filmmaker Edward Berger in talks to direct.
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So, it’s too soon to say if cast members like Damon — who first played the role of the amnesiac assassin in 2002’s “The Bourne Identity” and most recently reprised the part in 2016’s “Jason Bourne” — would return. The same is true about Jeremy Renner, who played black ops agent Aaron Cross in 2012’s “The Bourne Legacy,” though the involvement of the former might be more likely.
The only reason we got a Bourne movie with Renner is because the studio wanted to do a movie without Paul Greengrass who directed the second, third and last movies, but Damon wanted Greengrass to direct. If Greengrass isn’t directing, you ain’t getting Damon.
Now, if they want to reboot it and get a young fresh face as Bourne, since Damon is pretty old now and he was even saying this himself when the last movie came out, that would be different. I’m not entirely against it. If done correctly and with people who know what they’re doing, this could become kind of like an American Bond. I have zero belief in the studios doing this correctly, though.