On a side note, what this whole Huawei story should - but unfortunately will not - do is provide more evidence to our Congress as to why government-mandated back doors to encryption are untenable.
You shouldn’t have to trust the physical network. Good encryption shouldn’t rely on the network being secure - good encryption would mean even a government with direct taps into the network would not be able to decipher the communication going on. They would, at best, be able to determine the end points (which admittedly might still be useful information under some circumstances, although there would likely be other ways to deduce it even if the network hid it).
I don’t consider the Chinese and US government equivalent - although there are obviously certain people in positions of power in the US who share the Chinese government’s mindset. But it’s - demonstrably - simply not possible to build in intentional weaknesses into a system and expect the “bad guys” won’t be able to discover and exploit those weaknesses.
I try to avoid tipping using the "add X%" button and leave cash on the table instead because I don't trust the owners not to rip off the waitress in some fashion or another.
I’ve caught too many people trying to steal cash tips to ever leave a tip on the table.
On the plus side, it’s very easy to make trouble for someone who’s trying to discreetly life money off a table when they think no one is looking.
We're expected to tip the damn Amazon delivery drivers? The poorly-trained guys Amazon hires so they don't have to pay UPS and FedEx, who train their drivers and pay them a decent wage?
That's why Amazon required a non-disclosure agreement - they knew most voters would balk at the massive scale of the give-away the company was looking for.
It took me way too long to realize that a "Manhattan" wasn't some obscure unit of measure that I wasn't familiar with.
Recently I've been learning to make cocktails - you know, so I have a fallback career after my web job gets automated away. So I have a predisposition to think in that direction.
How many football fields is two thirds of a Manhattan?
You're totally not grokking the frame of reference. A typical Manhattan is only about 5 or 6 ounces at most - so this hole is pretty darn tiny. I don't get why they are making such a big deal about this.
'More precisely, it's a vapor-deposited strip of cotton fabric -- coated with a material called, brace yourself, "persistently p-doped poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)" a.k.a. PEDOT-Cl.'
Better that, than a p-doped poly fluorinated-indium laminar extrusion - a.k.a. PEDO-FILE.
Of course I hardly ever need a word processor anyway.
Really, the main reason I "need" an office suite at all is because some people still insist on using Word for everything - whether it's a simple note that would've been just fine as a plaintext email, or a list of updates they want made on some website page (which is doubly fun if the changes they've provided are for a page on a Wordpress site).
Why on earth would you buy an entire bottle of “Tuscan Chicken” or “Bourbon Pork Tenderloin” seasoning? 90% of it’s probably going to end up in the garbage, unused.
I realize spices keep a long time, but how frequently are you going to make one particular recipe?
“Despite repeated and diligent searches, I have not been able to find them written down anywhere. I am forced to proceed to the next stage of the recovery plan - spending long periods at numerous luxury villas around the globe, tirelessly searching for the location of that elusive password! Do not despair... I will not halt my efforts, no matter how many decades it may take, until your funds are completely spent. I mean RECOVERED. Yes, recovered is the word I was looking for.“
Whether they can walk shouldn't be the deciding factor. The deciding factors should be visual acuity and reaction time.
While your statement is true, it’s hard for me to imagine someone who shuffles along at 1/4 mph, and who takes a very long time to do simple tasks while at the counter, having a decent reaction time. But maybe the solution is to require driving tests after a certain age - even on a closed course it should be possible to judge reaction time.
I’m not sure their security model is fully baked. They claim sudo is bad; but their solution seems to be making/user/local/bin writable to everybody (and if you try to avoid this permissions change using sudo, homebrew will block it). And while they claim/user/local/bin is only the “preferred” install location, if you attempt to use a different directory you quickly find many basic things will break - so there’s no good way around this.
This is America. We don’t like to take people’s “freedom” away. I’ve been at the DMV with elderly people who can barely walk, even with the assistance of a walker - watched them hobble up to the counter, get their license renewed without issue, and hobble away.
I would be curious if these “better educated” parents disproportionately fall into one particular professional field. My guess is that engineering is very strongly represented in the anti-vaxxer group.
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On a side note, what this whole Huawei story should - but unfortunately will not - do is provide more evidence to our Congress as to why government-mandated back doors to encryption are untenable.
You shouldn’t have to trust the physical network. Good encryption shouldn’t rely on the network being secure - good encryption would mean even a government with direct taps into the network would not be able to decipher the communication going on. They would, at best, be able to determine the end points (which admittedly might still be useful information under some circumstances, although there would likely be other ways to deduce it even if the network hid it).
I don’t consider the Chinese and US government equivalent - although there are obviously certain people in positions of power in the US who share the Chinese government’s mindset. But it’s - demonstrably - simply not possible to build in intentional weaknesses into a system and expect the “bad guys” won’t be able to discover and exploit those weaknesses.
Yeah, unless I whitelist it in Purify on my iPad... I see nothing.
And after whitelisting it, I basically see an imitation of a GeoCities site. Whoop de doo.
We need to figure out why the US is the #1 consumer of opioids per capita in the world
Well, ever since Sherlock Holmes died - opioid use in Great Britain has cratered.
I try to avoid tipping using the "add X%" button and leave cash on the table instead because I don't trust the owners not to rip off the waitress in some fashion or another.
I’ve caught too many people trying to steal cash tips to ever leave a tip on the table.
On the plus side, it’s very easy to make trouble for someone who’s trying to discreetly life money off a table when they think no one is looking.
We're expected to tip the damn Amazon delivery drivers? The poorly-trained guys Amazon hires so they don't have to pay UPS and FedEx, who train their drivers and pay them a decent wage?
They are used to very precisely determine the location, distance, and orientation of an object when pictures of that object are taken.
Location: On Mars
Distance: Far away
Orientation: Under federal statute, we are not allowed to ask
Do you... want some more?
Let the voters weigh the relative importance.
That's why Amazon required a non-disclosure agreement - they knew most voters would balk at the massive scale of the give-away the company was looking for.
It took me way too long to realize that a "Manhattan" wasn't some obscure unit of measure that I wasn't familiar with.
Recently I've been learning to make cocktails - you know, so I have a fallback career after my web job gets automated away. So I have a predisposition to think in that direction.
Well, problem is now the Stargate is accessible from off-world again.
How many football fields is two thirds of a Manhattan?
You're totally not grokking the frame of reference. A typical Manhattan is only about 5 or 6 ounces at most - so this hole is pretty darn tiny. I don't get why they are making such a big deal about this.
Advertisers aren't automatically entitled to benefit from a user's apathy.
To verify just how widespread that apathy is, you need look no further than at who holds a commanding lead in the web browser market.
'More precisely, it's a vapor-deposited strip of cotton fabric -- coated with a material called, brace yourself, "persistently p-doped poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)" a.k.a. PEDOT-Cl.'
Better that, than a p-doped poly fluorinated-indium laminar extrusion - a.k.a. PEDO-FILE.
Of course I hardly ever need a word processor anyway.
Really, the main reason I "need" an office suite at all is because some people still insist on using Word for everything - whether it's a simple note that would've been just fine as a plaintext email, or a list of updates they want made on some website page (which is doubly fun if the changes they've provided are for a page on a Wordpress site).
If the administration wants our allies to listen to our opinions, perhaps it shouldn’t be so hellbent on insulting and alienating them?
Just a thought.
Why on earth would you buy an entire bottle of “Tuscan Chicken” or “Bourbon Pork Tenderloin” seasoning? 90% of it’s probably going to end up in the garbage, unused.
I realize spices keep a long time, but how frequently are you going to make one particular recipe?
FYI Slurm is a fictional soft drink in the Futurama multiverse. It is popular and highly addictive.
And it comes out of a giant worm heinie.
“Despite repeated and diligent searches, I have not been able to find them written down anywhere. I am forced to proceed to the next stage of the recovery plan - spending long periods at numerous luxury villas around the globe, tirelessly searching for the location of that elusive password! Do not despair... I will not halt my efforts, no matter how many decades it may take, until your funds are completely spent. I mean RECOVERED. Yes, recovered is the word I was looking for.“
Google announced that, going forward, the thermostat will be called the:
Nest “Secure” ;-)
Simply untrue. Just checked. /usr/local/bin is not world or group writable.
Then it is owned by you rather than root - correct? That’s slightly less awful but still not good.
Whether they can walk shouldn't be the deciding factor. The deciding factors should be visual acuity and reaction time.
While your statement is true, it’s hard for me to imagine someone who shuffles along at 1/4 mph, and who takes a very long time to do simple tasks while at the counter, having a decent reaction time. But maybe the solution is to require driving tests after a certain age - even on a closed course it should be possible to judge reaction time.
I’m not sure their security model is fully baked. They claim sudo is bad; but their solution seems to be making /user/local/bin writable to everybody (and if you try to avoid this permissions change using sudo, homebrew will block it). And while they claim /user/local/bin is only the “preferred” install location, if you attempt to use a different directory you quickly find many basic things will break - so there’s no good way around this.
This is America. We don’t like to take people’s “freedom” away. I’ve been at the DMV with elderly people who can barely walk, even with the assistance of a walker - watched them hobble up to the counter, get their license renewed without issue, and hobble away.
You don’t occasionally put your clothes through a liquid ammonia rinse? It gets rid of any pathogens quite effectively
I would be curious if these “better educated” parents disproportionately fall into one particular professional field. My guess is that engineering is very strongly represented in the anti-vaxxer group.