People who make these blanket statements seem to think the ethical implications of allowing doctors to *ever* assist in death are simple and clean-cut.
I'm pretty sure skill is a sliding scale, not a Bell curve. That is to say, there are very few people who are experts, there are a few who are very good, there are more who are tolerable and the vast majority who are unskilled (in nearly any skill).
That's the rub -- if the US were to successfully defend that Snowden committed treason, one could easily claim the NSA (and complicit engineers) had also.
Muscle is no longer required these days. Cyber attacks and drone strikes are well within the budget capacities of wealthy individuals, never mind nation states. It may not have happened yet, but one no longer needs an aircraft carrier to project power around the world.
Meanwhile, I've unapologetically focused on buying hardware with the features I want that runs the software I want. On a few occasions, that's been made by Apple. Most of the time, it hasn't.
I've E-mailed Otterbox a couple times about including a Qi charging receiver in their cases with a little jack to plug into the standard micro-usb charging port on the phone in question. It would be incredibly handy.
Small devices like watches and bluetooth headsets and their ilk are precisely where I'd love to have wireless charging the most... although also the hardest to line up properly.
I've met very intelligent engineers who would be doing much better if they had a business manager that understood business as much as the engineer understands what they do.
I've tried explaining this to so many people and failed. Just because a job requires an understanding of science (primarily biology and chemistry in the case of medicine) does not make that job scientific in any way.
I remember the paranoid rantings of those in the FreeS/WAN community back in the day (that's IPSec software for Linux fyi) about needing opportunistic encryption support and DNS based keys so any two hosts on the Internet could communicate securely and prevent Big Brother from listening. I also recall that I wished it would work, and set up my own hosts with it, but it never did work well and there just weren't enough participants to hit critical mass. Thirdly I remember a quote from my old BBS days... "Its not paranoia if they really/are/ out to get you."
To be the devil's advocate, I don't believe iptables was ever intended as 'end-user' software but more for specialists and as an interface from things like Shorewall.
That said, I've never found the documentation lacking in any way.
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People who make these blanket statements seem to think the ethical implications of allowing doctors to *ever* assist in death are simple and clean-cut.
I'm pretty sure skill is a sliding scale, not a Bell curve. That is to say, there are very few people who are experts, there are a few who are very good, there are more who are tolerable and the vast majority who are unskilled (in nearly any skill).
That's the rub -- if the US were to successfully defend that Snowden committed treason, one could easily claim the NSA (and complicit engineers) had also.
So you can make sure they die properly.
Muscle is no longer required these days. Cyber attacks and drone strikes are well within the budget capacities of wealthy individuals, never mind nation states. It may not have happened yet, but one no longer needs an aircraft carrier to project power around the world.
"adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. "
That's exactly what weakening the encryption systems of the United States' own infrastructure has accomplished, however inadvertently.
Meanwhile, I've unapologetically focused on buying hardware with the features I want that runs the software I want. On a few occasions, that's been made by Apple. Most of the time, it hasn't.
As someone else stated, MicroSD slots don't have to be external.
Who said we need banks to use cash? Why do you think criminals keep it in cash form? Come on.
I've E-mailed Otterbox a couple times about including a Qi charging receiver in their cases with a little jack to plug into the standard micro-usb charging port on the phone in question. It would be incredibly handy.
You've done that too? :)
Small devices like watches and bluetooth headsets and their ilk are precisely where I'd love to have wireless charging the most ... although also the hardest to line up properly.
My PSP's USB charging port wore out... that annoyed me greatly. Luckily it had a traditional plug-in option as well.
You forget waterproofing. With Bluetooth and Qi charging, there's no need for external ports on a phone anymore.
I've met very intelligent engineers who would be doing much better if they had a business manager that understood business as much as the engineer understands what they do.
Feel free to subscribe to a few journals and do the research yourself.
In fact, it would make an excellent thesis to study the long-term effects of post-doc research on society.
I've tried explaining this to so many people and failed. Just because a job requires an understanding of science (primarily biology and chemistry in the case of medicine) does not make that job scientific in any way.
Beg to differ here too. We go into each others' spaces when we need to, but most of the time we don't. We have intercom if we need it.
Database + network design here fwiw.
I see a rise in the share values of companies that make really good noise-cancelling headphones.
I remember the paranoid rantings of those in the FreeS/WAN community back in the day (that's IPSec software for Linux fyi) about needing opportunistic encryption support and DNS based keys so any two hosts on the Internet could communicate securely and prevent Big Brother from listening. ... "Its not paranoia if they really /are/ out to get you."
I also recall that I wished it would work, and set up my own hosts with it, but it never did work well and there just weren't enough participants to hit critical mass.
Thirdly I remember a quote from my old BBS days
I'd be interested in seeing the internal list of assassinations ordered by each Putin and Obama and see who wins that one.
You mean like cash? Cash needs to be regulated so people can't buy illegal drugs or guns or child soldiers or slaves with it.
Jeez people.
I'm all for not assassinating people, but the gold standard didn't cause the problems you think it did.
Spoken like someone who's never actually spent any time in the zero-day scene.
Have a nice day thinking you have a clue though, must be nice.
To be the devil's advocate, I don't believe iptables was ever intended as 'end-user' software but more for specialists and as an interface from things like Shorewall.
That said, I've never found the documentation lacking in any way.