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I think it's part ignorance, part exceptionalism. Backdoors sound simple, and if you're thinking about physical backdoors people are generally pretty good at protecting them. That this is largely because they have a lot of characteristics not shared by digital backdoors is easily lost on most people. These folks also tend to believe that THEY will be perfect stewards of backdoors, and anybody who loses control of them is just less competent.
For me personally the difference is that with social networking I'm reacting to something someone else posted or vice versa, which makes it organic. Being cold contacted on the other hand generally results in exchanges that feel stilted and weird to me.
One big factor is simply that a customs authority can dictate whatever process it wishes for ships who want to load/unload cargo there.
It's also not just customs, there are a ton of ancillary processes related to berthing - things like harbor fees, environmental documentation etc.
I know of at least one case where, as recently as ~2015, a shipping company had to keep around old machines with IE8 because that was the only way to interact with authorities at a given port.
The one thing I miss about old docking stations is that they were basically a bunch of dumb wires. I've had to power cycle my Thunderbolt dock a couple of times because its software managed to hang itself.
I've wondered if someone in Airbus is currently investigating how they would fare under similar scrutiny, but I suspect the answer is no.
Gridlock problems are particular to two party systems. A modern constitution would also include voting methods that don't result in a two party system.
You could also reduce the risk by the constitution itself being exempt from sunsetting and enumerating crucial rights and services therein.
Anyway it's not something that's ever going to be implemented anywhere, so it doesn't really matter if it could work.
What floors me about this article is that the data comes from phone users who have installed TruMotion based software. In other words they know their driving behavior is being actively tracked, and they STILL use their phones while driving.
I have to think a good amount of these people are actually unable to make the choice of not using their phone while driving, presumably because the habit is so deeply ingrained.
The fundamental problem with incentives is that they're asymmetric in nature: The incentivee has a lot more time (and direct motivation) to come up with a way to game the incentive than the incentivizer can spend when setting it.
The only real way to address that is to revise incentives on a frequent and regular basis — but who wants to do that? Certainly not legislatures.
If I were writing the constitution for a representative democracy today, I think it would include mandatory sunsets for all legislation.
Yes, this would lead to the legislature spending a lot of time just reauthorizing existing legislation, but I would argue that the majority of new legislation being passed in modern representative democracies would be better off as revamps of existing legislation anyway.
The difference between your cake and real life programs is that business processes tend to be rife with exceptions and details — frequently exceptions that are unknown at initial design time.
The whole reason for the existence of iterative processes like Scrum and friends is that your premise doesn't hold in the world of software, because then we could just use a waterfall process and be on time and budget every time.
Yes, that's usually what enterprises end up doing for their second SAP implementation after the first one crashes and burns.
It's honestly trivial for me. I use a budgeting app (YNAB) that downloads transactions daily, and spend maybe 15 minutes a week total on it. I don't even record most transactions on the fly, but I know where we've used our cards and 95% of transactions I can quickly verify as correct.
That said, the frequent download is a crucial part. If I had to do this on a monthly basis it would be much harder because I'd have to put in an hour of work all at once.
You can see it in most search engines, and after the Ethiopian crash Kayak announced they'll add an aircraft type filter. Other flight search engines will probably follow suit.
It doesn't take a huge amount of research to learn of altenatives like uncensoreddns.org so I think it is a little lazy to just go with Cloudflare.
A missing piece of information here may be that bicycle lanes on major streets in Copenhagen are physically separated from the roadway by a curb, so the only vehicle/bicycle interactions are at intersections.
I consider that too, but that's really just because the risk is acceptable to me compared to the hassle of airports, TSA and car rental.
Cars with push buttons have ways to access ACC mode too, but they differ so you will usually need a manual to find out how.
Aurora 4X is almost literally that, but a very interesting take on the epic space 4X nonetheless.
Generally agree, but it depends a lot on the query. I find that join syntax especially is more readable in the query style.