The Infamous Eight: 2015's memes, themes and big pieces

So, was US Central Command (CENTCOM) hacked, were a LOT of Polish Airlines aircraft cyber breached, and did China block imports of products from Apple and others? The answer in all three cases was a simple “no”. So what of the multiple cloud outages, and Uber’s ongoing global legislative and driver woes? In a 140-character- …

[Anonymous Coward]

"bots created to lure men"

And I for one, welcome....etc

[VinceH]

"Lenovo countered with the defense that unnamed “other” PC makers were also doing this"

Such as, Dell, who were caught doing something equally brain dead later in the year.

[Your alien overlord - fear me]

Predictions for 2016 - same old shit. Twitter still doesn't make a profit, Google still No.1 ad-slinger, Facebook still shit, Govt cyber-spies still know everything you do, Microsoft releases Windows 11 to apologise for Windows 8-10 and pays you to install it this time.

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

"146-character-driven culture"?

What's that number? SMS allows 140 bytes, which can pack in 160 7-bit ASCII values and Twitter kept the same 140-character limit, after a fashion (apparently it uses UTF-8 and counts characters rather than bytes).

[allthecoolshortnamesweretaken]

2016?

The year of BaaS - Bullshit as a service.

[Amorous Cowherder]

Re: 2016?

Brilliant! You should get that over to Redbubble and get some t-shirts knocked up. Possibly with the picture of a sheep in flagrante.

[Glenturret Single Malt]

Breach not breech.

[Michael Wojcik]

A loaded statement.

For that matter, "a 'merge' several hundred pounds" was perhaps meant to be "a 'mere' several hundred pounds". But who can say for sure?