The NSA’s 12-Year Struggle to Follow the Law
Credit to Author: Marcy Wheeler| Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 14:56:15 +0000
A change requested by the Trump administration will allow the NSA to keep information it acquired illegally.
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I Couldn’t Get Pregnant So I Played The Sims 4
Credit to Author: Patricia Grisafi| Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 14:00:00 +0000
Battling infertility, depression and unemployment was difficult, so I turned to a game.
Read MoreWhat It’s Like to Make a Military Shooter About Humanitarian Law
Credit to Author: Matthew Gault| Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 13:00:00 +0000
‘Arma III’ developers worked with the Red Cross to teach players about the real details of war most video games never touch.
Read MoreIf you can’t avoid Word's 'Enable Editing,' patch Windows right now
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 06:55:00 -0700
In the normal course of events, it takes a week (or two or three) for the bugs in each month’s Windows and Office security patches to shake out. This month’s patches are no exception. There are lots of reports of problems with IE and Edge, for example, and many more are piling up.
In the normal course of events, the fresh-off-the-press security patches present more of a threat to most people in the short term than do the problems the patches are supposed to fix. You have to patch sooner or later, but by waiting for the screams of pain to die down, you can save yourself some major headaches.
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Kids! Do NOT try this at work!
Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 03:00:00 -0700
This IT consultant pilot fish works at a real estate company once a week, performing SAN management and doing routine updates and security patching on the Windows PCs.
“I was using my Linux-based laptop to peruse the quarantine area of the antivirus application, checking out the many X-rated and infected email attachments that had been caught and sent to the folder,” says fish.
“Several employees were standing around watching and commenting on the files. One of them decided to go back to his own PC to check out the pictures for himself.
“Shortly after opening several of the quarantined items, he suddenly called out, ‘Hey, why is my computer acting weird?’
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A Legal Startup Will Pay For You to Sue Equifax
Credit to Author: Jason Koebler| Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:21:33 +0000
“If there’s a massive citizens’ protest, they can’t have their officers show up to every small claims court in the country.”
Read MoreThe House Passed a Budget Bill That Also Repeals Conflict Mineral Reporting Requirements
Credit to Author: Kaleigh Rogers| Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:13:22 +0000
The rule is designed to track whether the minerals came from conflict areas in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Read MoreWatch What ‘Bioshock’ Would Have Looked Like on the First PlayStation
Credit to Author: Matthew Gault| Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 18:12:15 +0000
98DEMAKE gives Irrational’s seminal shooter that 1998 look.
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