Man's 'experiments' with explosives were lawful, court rules

Re:Man's 'experiments' with explosives were lawful, court rules by Fnoord on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @08:09PM (#22552168)

What you wrote is basically Hans Rosling's "Factfulness" [1] and the other person wrote the rhetoric of 1984 or whatever. I guess we see what we want to see, and the news focuses on the negative. Consider, for example, computer security. You'd think with a recent RCE in Bluetooth and in Windows SMBv3 the world is insecure. Well, it was way worse 20 years ago, and even worse 30 years ago. Heck, barely anything used strong encryption back then. Everything was MITMable! But the news does not support that statement. Only if you look into the details (which does require some specific expertise, knowledge wise), you notice such. I also don't believe this to be a conspiracy; people are generally harmless, and good. Perhaps, in a case like this, we need to figure if there were clear harmful intentions. Same with USA's Espionage Act though.

[1] Full title: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

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Re:Man's 'experiments' with explosives were lawful, court rules by noir_lord on Thursday March 12, 2020 @09:31AM (#22556590)

Had not heard of Hans Rosling so thanks for that it seems I'd like his books.

I've always strived (but not always achieved) to reach my opinions on the world based on evidence and figures and facts that I've looked at myself deferring to experts in the various fields where I'm not educated enough to understand (medicine - I trust my doctors).

If you look at the world through that lens for the average person this is a golden age despite all the problems we still have.

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