If you think that the vaciination/anti-vax thing is a political one, you're part of the problem.
There is nothing political about this. Anti-vaxxers are inciting others to effectively commit, at best, involuntary manslaughter.
If books can be banned by the religious right just cause they don't "like" it, then we can damn well ban books that directly result in people being murdered and maimed.
I agree. We should strike all libel laws from the books. We should get rid of that "shouting "Fire!" in a movie theatre" law. We should also remove any laws involving incitement or entrapment too.
Hell, lets flood the market with "How to murder and get away with it" books, cause, well, why not?
Freedom of Speech is sacrosanct, and under no circumstances should people be required to be responsible for what they say, what they do, or what they incite others to do.
You are right to be skeptical about specific studies, since this is very much an issue, and there is definitely a problem.
But vaccinations have such an overwhelming amount of evidence in their favour, from so many disparate sources, that you cannot put it into the same category.
Denying the efficacy of vaccinations is as ridiculous as denying gravity, or evolution, or Bernoulli's principal. That's how solid the evidence is. Hell, before people even understood germ theory, they would perform blood transfusions because they noticed that people who recovered from certain illnesses wouldn't get sick from other illnesses. (Needless to say, results were a tad... mixed...)
How is it a slippery slope? Anti vaxxers are wrong. Period. Not only are they wrong, but their wrongness is directly and explicitly causing death. Murder, because they made the choice to not vaccinate despite the overwhelmingly clear dangers.
There isn't even a middle ground to this, like you have with gun control debate. This is not a partisian issue. This is not a "lets hear both sides" issue. They are not "fighting the good fight" standing up for the downtrodden from an overreaching big brother government. This is a bunch of people who are categorically and objectively wrong in every concievable way, and their actions are directly responsible for the murder of others.
The only slippery slope here is the continued coddling of the willfully ignorant at the expense of human life.
If this is acceptable, then those parents who were charge for letting their child die because they used a faith healer, should be released because they only did as their conscience dictated.
Maybe the gun nuts are right and we should remove all restrictions and let anyone get a gun who wants one, because we clearly don't value human life even the slightest tiniest bit.
The problem is that the line blurs when you being wrong becomes a direct threat to me.
There is an epidemic of ignorance, and that epidemic is now directly responsible for deaths.
As far as I'm concerned, for every measles/polio/etc related death in a community, all the anti-vaxxers in that area should be charged with accessories to murder.
It may have it's uses in very specific workloads, but as far as I am concerned, 99% of the use of MongoDB are developers who have absolutely no understanding of how databases actually work and either can't be bothered to figure it out, or are too stupid to.
If you are a developer and don't understand basic database concepts, do everyone a favor and stop being a developer because you are not qualified for the job.
If you approach a technology thinking, "This will solve all our problems!" then you are going to have a bad time.
You need to think critically about how that technology will help you. What distinct advantages does the new technology have over the old. And, most importantly, what new problems will this new technology introduce.
The majority of problems I see have nothing to do with technology, and everything to do with poor planning, poor process, etc.
Hadoop has been a fantastic example of this. Everyone and their goldfish think they need hadoop because they have SO MUCH DATA! Does your data measure in petabytes? No? Then you don't have as much data as you think you do.
And now we're seeing the same thing with blockchain.
Hosting the website is dirt cheap, yes. Significantly less than maintaining printing presses.
The problem is that the information on that site costs orders of magnitude more to to produce that it does to present. Reporters, editor, et al, need to eat. If you're consuming the material, it would be nice to get paid for it. I'm pretty sure nobody disputes this.
The problem is what is the best means of doing that? For any given website, I may read their articles daily. Or maybe once a month. Or maybe only once a year. How do you charge for something consumed so sporadically? I'm certainly not going to pay a monthly subscription for something that I rarely use.
And because the internet is so democratizing, there are a bajillion different sites available that you can read at any given moment. And because it's all an even playing field, it turns into a Hunger Games style fight for eyeballs and revenue. In addition, the current situation incentivizes organizations to produce content that their perceived audience wants to consume, rather than content that is of actual value. That is how how train wrecks like Info Wars and Brietbart have managed to get such a following despite the fact that the "content" they produce is of such shockingly low quality that their viewers are less informed than people who don't watch/read news at all.
So we have a classic economic situation where supply grossly outstrips demand. And there are no checks and balances to help narrow the available options because people arn't interested in checks and balances. There is literally no solution possible that won't have a bunch of people jumping up and down screaming "censorship!" or "bias!". There is no way to regulate the field without that regulation being perverted by some future party hell bent on autocracy.
Solution? I have no bloody idea. All I know is that the unfettered democratic approach to content creation and news in particular, just isn't working.
I imagine that there is now going to be a massive uproar because this kind of legislation is a very very scary thing to corporations who have gotten used to gouging their customers.
I don't have much faith it'll pass though, considering there is a conservative majority.
What Pintrist is doing isn't a crackdown. They are distancing themselves from the "controversy".
It's possible that they just don't want to spend the effort to police content, since that's what they'd have to do to allow vaccination stuff while blocking anti-vax stuff, but calling it a crackdown is incorrect.
Having it stored on USB wouldn't solve anything because the problems described in the article refer to passwords sitting in plain text in memory while the password manager process is running.
Running a password manager from a USB key wouldn't solve that. At least, not directly. Quitting the application and giving the OS time to overwrite the used memory with new data would be a workaround to the problem regardless of where your vault is physically stored.
The only way to mitigate the problem completely is to not use a vault at all, and instead rely on OTP (One Time Password) and RSA token devices. Yubikey for example, is an excellent option for such a thing, because it acts like a keyboard and inputs the token for you when hit the button.
But of course, then you get into the "something you have" realm of security risks. Nothing is perfect.
But, then how will they get you to buy an entirely new machine when all you want to do is increase or storage? Or get you to grossly over-spend on your initial purchase do you don't have to worry about it later?
How dare you put your needs ahead of Apple's bottom line?
The way things are going, it seems like their hubris hasn't changed, and is in fact preventing them from learning from their mistakes.
I'm imagining the Simpsons Principal Skinner meme, but instead he says, "Am I out of touch? No, it's the customers who are wrong!" Actually, let's do that right now.
I'm really not sure what you're arguing about, since you basically just confirmed what I wrote.
I am fully aware of how science works. I didn't want to get into things like statistics and certainty, which is why I wrote it as "cannot guarantee an exact outcome", and why I used the sphericality of the planet as an example.
and that will mean a significant tax hike - your morality will end up killing people.
Oh do fuck off. Seriously? MY morality will end up killing people? YOUR "morality" has resulted in a country whose life expectancies well behind basically all other first world nations, despite the fact that your healthcare spend is orders of magnitude greater than the next closest countries combined. Your "morality" has resulted in people having to choose between death and financial ruin. Your "morality" has resulted in companies increasing the costs of drugs by 1000% for no other reason than to line their pockets, with none of that money actually going to future research. The little research that IS done, is to tweak existing drugs just enough to keep the trademark and exclusivity going, even if those new versions are less effective than the prior ones.
America has the single worst healthcare system to literally all other first world countries, and is worse than even some "shithole" countries.
Why is that nobody is ever concerned about taxes paying for a multi-hundred-billion dollar war machine, but as soon as it comes to people's health, then it's all "OMG MAH MONEH!"
The gov't used to already provide things like grants to universities et al, with taxpayer money and the country didn't collapse, so your "significant tax hike" nonsense is exactly that, typical right-wing nonsense. No, not nonsense. Outright lies and fabrications is more like it.
Not having read the spec myself, I have one simple question: Is it an optional feature? If yes, then there is your answer. Manufacturers want to say they provide USB support, but they want to put the minimum effort into it, so they will only do the bare minimum.
Also, with USB-C there is no such thing as passive cables anymore. Literally every single cable needs to be active to negotiate capabilities with the host device. Why TF this needs to happen on the cable and not between the host and target devices is beyond me, but that's how it is AFAIK.
USB-C is the single most idiotic, consumer-unfriendly "standard" produced in a very long time.
Your first mistake is that their argument is rational to begin with. If they were being rational, they wouldn't believe such idiocy in the first place.
The big problem with the whole climate change thing is that it is hard. It's hard to analyze and even harder to predict the ultimate outcome, because there are just so many factors that all interact with each other. It's all imperfect so you can't guarantee the exact outcome.
But the one thing that isn't in question is the fact that there is an unusual and significant change occurring.
It's comparable to "the world is a sphere" and "well ackshully it's more like an egg". Just because the world isn't exactly a sphere as originally thought, doesn't discount the idea completely and that everyone should suddenly jump onto the "the world is flat" bandwagon.
This is, in one quote, exactly the reason why it should be illegal for medicine to be for profit. Prioritizing profit over life is the very definition of evil.
But Microsoft said that Mozilla is wasting their time, and that they should give up their silly 'own browser' stuff and just reskin Chromium like Microsoft is doing!
I mean, if Microsoft said it, it can't be wrong!
(Wow, I can't believe I managed to type all that with a straight face...)
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Look in any mirrors lately?
If you think that the vaciination/anti-vax thing is a political one, you're part of the problem.
There is nothing political about this. Anti-vaxxers are inciting others to effectively commit, at best, involuntary manslaughter.
If books can be banned by the religious right just cause they don't "like" it, then we can damn well ban books that directly result in people being murdered and maimed.
I agree. We should strike all libel laws from the books. We should get rid of that "shouting "Fire!" in a movie theatre" law. We should also remove any laws involving incitement or entrapment too.
Hell, lets flood the market with "How to murder and get away with it" books, cause, well, why not?
Freedom of Speech is sacrosanct, and under no circumstances should people be required to be responsible for what they say, what they do, or what they incite others to do.
You are right to be skeptical about specific studies, since this is very much an issue, and there is definitely a problem.
But vaccinations have such an overwhelming amount of evidence in their favour, from so many disparate sources, that you cannot put it into the same category.
Denying the efficacy of vaccinations is as ridiculous as denying gravity, or evolution, or Bernoulli's principal. That's how solid the evidence is. Hell, before people even understood germ theory, they would perform blood transfusions because they noticed that people who recovered from certain illnesses wouldn't get sick from other illnesses. (Needless to say, results were a tad... mixed...)
How is it a slippery slope? Anti vaxxers are wrong. Period. Not only are they wrong, but their wrongness is directly and explicitly causing death. Murder, because they made the choice to not vaccinate despite the overwhelmingly clear dangers.
There isn't even a middle ground to this, like you have with gun control debate. This is not a partisian issue. This is not a "lets hear both sides" issue. They are not "fighting the good fight" standing up for the downtrodden from an overreaching big brother government. This is a bunch of people who are categorically and objectively wrong in every concievable way, and their actions are directly responsible for the murder of others.
The only slippery slope here is the continued coddling of the willfully ignorant at the expense of human life.
If this is acceptable, then those parents who were charge for letting their child die because they used a faith healer, should be released because they only did as their conscience dictated.
Maybe the gun nuts are right and we should remove all restrictions and let anyone get a gun who wants one, because we clearly don't value human life even the slightest tiniest bit.
The problem is that the line blurs when you being wrong becomes a direct threat to me.
There is an epidemic of ignorance, and that epidemic is now directly responsible for deaths.
As far as I'm concerned, for every measles/polio/etc related death in a community, all the anti-vaxxers in that area should be charged with accessories to murder.
especially if it's only a seven-inch you're putting out.
When I read that, I full expected Archer to poke his head through my window and shout, "Phrasing!"
I mean, seriously, what kind of drugs does it take to think that this idiocy actually clarifies the situation?
Don't get me started on MongoDB.
It may have it's uses in very specific workloads, but as far as I am concerned, 99% of the use of MongoDB are developers who have absolutely no understanding of how databases actually work and either can't be bothered to figure it out, or are too stupid to.
If you are a developer and don't understand basic database concepts, do everyone a favor and stop being a developer because you are not qualified for the job.
If you approach a technology thinking, "This will solve all our problems!" then you are going to have a bad time.
You need to think critically about how that technology will help you. What distinct advantages does the new technology have over the old. And, most importantly, what new problems will this new technology introduce.
The majority of problems I see have nothing to do with technology, and everything to do with poor planning, poor process, etc.
Hadoop has been a fantastic example of this. Everyone and their goldfish think they need hadoop because they have SO MUCH DATA! Does your data measure in petabytes? No? Then you don't have as much data as you think you do.
And now we're seeing the same thing with blockchain.
Hosting the website is dirt cheap, yes. Significantly less than maintaining printing presses.
The problem is that the information on that site costs orders of magnitude more to to produce that it does to present. Reporters, editor, et al, need to eat. If you're consuming the material, it would be nice to get paid for it. I'm pretty sure nobody disputes this.
The problem is what is the best means of doing that? For any given website, I may read their articles daily. Or maybe once a month. Or maybe only once a year. How do you charge for something consumed so sporadically? I'm certainly not going to pay a monthly subscription for something that I rarely use.
And because the internet is so democratizing, there are a bajillion different sites available that you can read at any given moment. And because it's all an even playing field, it turns into a Hunger Games style fight for eyeballs and revenue. In addition, the current situation incentivizes organizations to produce content that their perceived audience wants to consume, rather than content that is of actual value. That is how how train wrecks like Info Wars and Brietbart have managed to get such a following despite the fact that the "content" they produce is of such shockingly low quality that their viewers are less informed than people who don't watch/read news at all.
So we have a classic economic situation where supply grossly outstrips demand. And there are no checks and balances to help narrow the available options because people arn't interested in checks and balances. There is literally no solution possible that won't have a bunch of people jumping up and down screaming "censorship!" or "bias!". There is no way to regulate the field without that regulation being perverted by some future party hell bent on autocracy.
Solution? I have no bloody idea. All I know is that the unfettered democratic approach to content creation and news in particular, just isn't working.
I am totally looking forward to the significant cost savings of these changes being passed on to us consumers.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Sorry. Couldn't keep a straight face.
I imagine that there is now going to be a massive uproar because this kind of legislation is a very very scary thing to corporations who have gotten used to gouging their customers.
I don't have much faith it'll pass though, considering there is a conservative majority.
What Pintrist is doing isn't a crackdown. They are distancing themselves from the "controversy".
It's possible that they just don't want to spend the effort to police content, since that's what they'd have to do to allow vaccination stuff while blocking anti-vax stuff, but calling it a crackdown is incorrect.
Having it stored on USB wouldn't solve anything because the problems described in the article refer to passwords sitting in plain text in memory while the password manager process is running.
Running a password manager from a USB key wouldn't solve that. At least, not directly. Quitting the application and giving the OS time to overwrite the used memory with new data would be a workaround to the problem regardless of where your vault is physically stored.
The only way to mitigate the problem completely is to not use a vault at all, and instead rely on OTP (One Time Password) and RSA token devices. Yubikey for example, is an excellent option for such a thing, because it acts like a keyboard and inputs the token for you when hit the button.
But of course, then you get into the "something you have" realm of security risks. Nothing is perfect.
Except they haven't murdered anyone (that I am aware of) over a comic book.
But, then how will they get you to buy an entirely new machine when all you want to do is increase or storage? Or get you to grossly over-spend on your initial purchase do you don't have to worry about it later?
How dare you put your needs ahead of Apple's bottom line?
The way things are going, it seems like their hubris hasn't changed, and is in fact preventing them from learning from their mistakes.
I'm imagining the Simpsons Principal Skinner meme, but instead he says, "Am I out of touch? No, it's the customers who are wrong!"
Actually, let's do that right now.
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I'm really not sure what you're arguing about, since you basically just confirmed what I wrote.
I am fully aware of how science works. I didn't want to get into things like statistics and certainty, which is why I wrote it as "cannot guarantee an exact outcome", and why I used the sphericality of the planet as an example.
You just explained it differently than I did.
*shrug?*
and that will mean a significant tax hike - your morality will end up killing people.
Oh do fuck off. Seriously? MY morality will end up killing people? YOUR "morality" has resulted in a country whose life expectancies well behind basically all other first world nations, despite the fact that your healthcare spend is orders of magnitude greater than the next closest countries combined. Your "morality" has resulted in people having to choose between death and financial ruin. Your "morality" has resulted in companies increasing the costs of drugs by 1000% for no other reason than to line their pockets, with none of that money actually going to future research. The little research that IS done, is to tweak existing drugs just enough to keep the trademark and exclusivity going, even if those new versions are less effective than the prior ones.
America has the single worst healthcare system to literally all other first world countries, and is worse than even some "shithole" countries.
Why is that nobody is ever concerned about taxes paying for a multi-hundred-billion dollar war machine, but as soon as it comes to people's health, then it's all "OMG MAH MONEH!"
The gov't used to already provide things like grants to universities et al, with taxpayer money and the country didn't collapse, so your "significant tax hike" nonsense is exactly that, typical right-wing nonsense. No, not nonsense. Outright lies and fabrications is more like it.
Not having read the spec myself, I have one simple question: Is it an optional feature? If yes, then there is your answer. Manufacturers want to say they provide USB support, but they want to put the minimum effort into it, so they will only do the bare minimum.
Also, with USB-C there is no such thing as passive cables anymore. Literally every single cable needs to be active to negotiate capabilities with the host device. Why TF this needs to happen on the cable and not between the host and target devices is beyond me, but that's how it is AFAIK.
USB-C is the single most idiotic, consumer-unfriendly "standard" produced in a very long time.
Your first mistake is that their argument is rational to begin with. If they were being rational, they wouldn't believe such idiocy in the first place.
The big problem with the whole climate change thing is that it is hard. It's hard to analyze and even harder to predict the ultimate outcome, because there are just so many factors that all interact with each other. It's all imperfect so you can't guarantee the exact outcome.
But the one thing that isn't in question is the fact that there is an unusual and significant change occurring.
It's comparable to "the world is a sphere" and "well ackshully it's more like an egg". Just because the world isn't exactly a sphere as originally thought, doesn't discount the idea completely and that everyone should suddenly jump onto the "the world is flat" bandwagon.
This is, in one quote, exactly the reason why it should be illegal for medicine to be for profit. Prioritizing profit over life is the very definition of evil.
But Microsoft said that Mozilla is wasting their time, and that they should give up their silly 'own browser' stuff and just reskin Chromium like Microsoft is doing!
I mean, if Microsoft said it, it can't be wrong!
(Wow, I can't believe I managed to type all that with a straight face...)