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tl;dr

Russia hijacked the plain, spoofed the satellite data, landed it in Baikonur and then buried under the ground.

Firing someone is never a pretty business. You can't expect it to go smooth and rational. This is a stressful moment for any employee. The least, as a manager, you could do is give them a sense of dignity and comfort by delivering the news in person. Yes, it may be uncomfortable for you, or people may talk crap behind your back, but this is where your qualities as a leader are tested. Let them speak out, process their grief. It's not about you, it's them whose lives are about to change. Them who have to bring the bad news home. Give them some slack. My advice is to worry less about your image and more about people you manage.

In my case, the reason I keep using Firefox is privacy. Chrome is trying too hard to enforce the walled garden on you and collect data. There's also one "little", but very telling point - you can not set a homepage in Chrome. I could not believe when I first discovered it.

Can we please not post links behind a paywall or that require registration?

tl;dr "Please do not use ad blockers" – Ad industry

> Sometimes we even receive requests to remove content 'from the Internet'

Today Google resembles the once dominating Internet Explorer of Microsoft. Except one thing - it's a great search tool. Which means it's going to be very hard to find a new "Firefox" [1] to provide a viable alternative.

[1] In case someone doesn't know, it was Firefox that spearheaded the break out of the IE monopoly.

What a nice attack vector. Deliver a "suicidal" payload to a website, report to Russian authorities and watch it go offline in Russia.

It might as well be SO or any other site with user content.

Expectedly, tptacek is all over the infosec thread, arrogantly dissuading the public from the notion of a possible involvement of the US intelligence community :)

Amazon Echo surveillance program. Always on. For only $199.

I'm using the lite version, which is indistinguishable from the classic Winamp. It's been my default music player ever since MP3 came out :)

This will be perfect for PRISM

> A phone just under 6"

This is the only reason why I am not buying this shovel of a phone.