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A lot of failures here:

1) Caller-ID spoofing. It straight out should not be possible to spoof government phone numbers, 911, etc. My Android has "Scam Likely" show up when a scammer calls (I believe this is part of the STIR/SHAKEN protocol), this should be expedited, expanded, and improved upon.

2) Someone should not be able to buy $3000 of Target gift cards without doing a lot of explaining. Personal experience: The grocery store I go to; the registers will straight out refuse to ring up above $500 of gift cards, you have to use the Customer Service desk where their agents grill you (and I do mean grill you, their default mode seems to be "You're being scammed", especially if you're on the phone with someone).

3) If I buy gift cards in New York, there's zero reason someone in Bangalore, India should immediately be able to redeem those gift cards. Perhaps Target could should spend some of their data collection techniques on this instead of trying to figure out if your daughter is pregnant so they can send you maternity coupons.

4) Is there a reason unused gift cards bought within a certain amount of time shouldn't be refundable?

Custom date ranges on mobile work for me, just use the before: and after: operators. For example before:2018-01-05

Reduce the demand for it. Include easily accessible "article only" mode, make your site friendly to current Reader Modes for all major browsers. No obtrusive ads, no 500 trackers bogging down the browser. Quick loading. Just give us the info we need, nothing more. Just like ad blockers were a response to websites not respecting people's attention and safety, likewise AMP is a response to them not respecting people's time.

"That is, until they discovered that Cylance also had whitelisted certain families of executable files to avoid triggering false positives on legitimate software."

Surprised to see this way down in the article. No wonder that when they manually whitelisted false positives, researchers could just append code from those to malware and it'd rank it harmless. Isn't the proper answer to not have manual whitelisting of entire programs, but to train it better to exclude them?

Next up, banning video tutorials on how to use youtube-dl.

Why would the ThredUp example not fall under current regulations against false advertising? If I say "This dress was bought 4 minutes ago!" or "Hurry now! Only one left!", those statements are obviously either true or false.

People trusted the news a lot more when it was 3 TV channels, the NYT, and your local newspaper. So maybe yes, it is time to do that.

As a left leaning person, absolutely! I viewed a few of hbomberguy's tamer videos, next thing you know I've got videos with commenters suggesting we bust out the guillotines. But hey, thats what gets the eyeballs and the ad revenue flowing!

A far cry from the conservatives of my time, hence the "alt" label. As the article mentions, how much discussion of a balanced budget is there in any of these videos? Do you think someone like former Senator McCain or Romney would be watching these? It's all about race and sex and identity issues.

So long as advertising revenue rules everything around me, I don't see this problem going away. Whether it's addictive right-wing videos or addictive left-wing videos, websites like YouTube will always prioritize "engagement" and adviews over safe and neutral and boring and reliable. Good times...

Yes, it'd be easier to compile a list of large free Internet services that aren't evil or annoying.

1. Wikipedia

2. Hacker News

3. Stack Exchange

4. Github and Gitlab