Porn.
All six of them, just different forms of porn.

Popular beliefs influences people's beliefs, which reinforces popular beliefs. Step back even farther from the question for a moment and ask, "why do you think of ghosts as dead human spirits at all?" That a "ghost" is some sort of dead human spirit is a concept that has been built into Western society for a long time. It is something we just accept in story telling and mythological belief systems because it's been in them so long and is told to us via authoritative figures in our lives from an early age. To tell a story where a ghost is anything other than a dead human spirit or the echo of a dead human, makes people call bullshit on the story, because the story has broken a long standing societal expectation. Sure, some stories can get away with it, and more so in the modern age where we are starting to appreciate stories which subvert long standing expectations. But, we still tend to fall back on old tropes and devices which we can expect readers to understand, without having to spend too much time on building a world. It's far easier to save the term "ghost" for something much like a dead human spirit and just create a new term when trying to describe something else.

DON'T DATE ROBOTS!

Hey now, this will be a very unique game. Did Horizon: Zero Dawn have horribly grindy MMO game mechanics and monetization so far up your ass you could taste it? This is Tencent after all. Checkmate, haters.

~/s for the blindingly stupid.~

This is what I use. Never had a problem and I love the auto download and removal features for subscribed podcasts.

It was the Limon 7 ones. I would have never remembered that. But seeing them now, yup that's them.

I don't think so. I recall Fundip being in large pouches with the pressed sugar sticks for dipping. These packets were a lot smaller and didn't come with the stick.

Ya, I know that's exactly what's going to happen. But, you have to start somewhere. Just getting management used to the idea that data must be encrypted is a start. That will then push the software vendors in the space to make fundamental changes, which will hopefully improve things a bit.

I actually have a pretty good example from my time in the US FedGov space. We were required (by our checkbox security) to enforce FIPS-140 compliance on all our systems. When working to setup a server for a new product, it just would not run with FIPS-140 in enforcement mode; so, I started digging into the product and found that they were still using the MD5 algorithm in their user password hashing process. Given how much the vendor really wanted our business (we were their "foot in the door" for more FedGov money), I sent an email to our customer service rep essentially saying "ya, MD5 as part of the password hashing is a deal breaker". A couple weeks later a new version of the product dropped and surprise, surprise, MD5 was no longer part of the password hashing process.

The reliance on checkboxes sucks; but, they can be a useful club to make improvements. A shift to real security takes time and a lot of effort. But, that journey starts with a first step.

Yes, Ubuntu version 16.04 was called Xenial Xerus.

Similar age and ya, I remember sour packets being popular in middle school. Can't recall the name, but it was similar to the artificial sugar packets used for coffee, except it had a mixture of sugar and citric acid (the "sour" flavoring) in them.

While I'm not a fan of checkbox security. Given that major parts of the healthcare industry don't even seem to get over that bar, maybe it's time to put something in place to give network defenders a lever to pull on to get the basics sorted.

Not having MFA and encryption for data at rest should be treated as willful negligence when a company is breached.

Good riddance. I understand the whole Mii thing got popular and Microsoft wanted to chase that wave. But, they were just such an obvious "me too" addition to the XBox 360 at the time and coincided with Microsoft changing out the functional XBox 360 main panel for the ad laden shit-fest that was the newer designs. But, maybe I'm just old and hate superfluous crap between me and playing my games.