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Much like the conspiracy that pharma companies are uninterested in curing diseases, the complaints aren't based on data or facts.

I'll offer cystic fibrosis as an example. Trikafta may as well be a miracle drug. And CRISPR-based gene editing and replacements are being researched that could be an outright cure, as opposed to a 90% cure.

Your complaint about Android .apk install is... similar to unsigned software installs on Windows in some cases (not a great argument, I know, but the same as the vast majority of users would be used to).

As for SmartTube, their keys were compromised. Inconvenient, but it wasn't about hostility to self-installed applications.

A headless server operating system does not need those steps. It does not need the bloat of prepping an API to communicate with websites.

> This is especially true since it's now been demonstrated that states (like Texas) can go after out-of-state sites serving people in Texas.

Hey, give credit where credit's due.

The first to try that was NJ going after 3d printed gun developers.

> The bill’s own text caps penalties at $7,500 per affected child.

If the distro does not ship with any hardware, it could only be attained via download? So how would this imperil Linux distros?

Not to defend the law, it's comically pointless. Conservative states demanding ID verification for anything 'pornographic' and progressive ones trying to limit anyone under 18 from having any social media access at all. Clownish.

I would argue that arbitrary authority inherently deserves no respect, and the second that authority is overstepped there should be consequences.

It's no surprise that there's so much hostility towards police in the US when they routinely abuse their authority.

I said demand, not ask. Demand requires reasonable articulable suspicion of a crime.

Many cops arrest people for not providing identification when they're under no obligation to do so. Those cops should be insulted, and deserve consequences.

If a cop demands your ID when you have no obligation to give it, your answer should be something to the effect of "I hope you get hit by the next passing 18-wheeler".

Malignant authority needs to be treated with maximal hostility. The 'lesson' you want here is completely backwards.

With Windows 11.

In 10 and prior you could even move it to other monitors, just by dragging and dropping it. It's baffling they thought that functionality was a bug that people wanted 'fixed'.

I used that for a time, but it's licensing made me move to WindHawk.

> More taskbar customization, including vertical and top positions: Repositioning the taskbar is one of the top asks we’ve heard from you. We are introducing the ability to reposition it to the top or sides of your screen, making it easier to personalize your workspace.

I wonder if this will include being able to put it on the non-primary display once again. It's not mentioned, but that was one of the biggest frustrations with Windows 11. It seems their focus is exclusively on single display devices.

It also ruined my flow for my flight sim until I found a workaround. The fullscreen window wishes to launch to the primary display, which means losing the useful bits of the taskbar.

I love what they're saying, but my faith in them is very, very is low.

It's like crack, but for being able to be a little derogatory to the masses.

Certainly not as unhealthy as crack.

I do not argue that civilian members of Hezbollah as a political movement are unacceptable targets, I simply acknowledge that perspective exists.

And the location of the target is entirely the point when the alternative to the pager attack is a JDAM, an attack with greater collateral damage, but still a valid target. Imagine instead of an explosive charge, these pagers were somehow phoning home and providing location data that Israel could use to perform airstrikes. Based on that intel, those air strikes would be entirely legitimate, and they would include far more collateral damage than the charge in the pager.

An attack on the water supply is indiscriminate. A water supply poisoning makes no attempt at differentiating between the targets and the civilian population.

I do not understand this analogy.

A water source the entire population of an area relies upon is in no way the same as a specific, small organization's private means of communication that it distributed to its members.

Or are you under the impression Israel simply loaded a Lebanese RadioShack with explosive pagers and hoped Hezbollah would be the ones buying them? You could argue that it was not discriminate because there were pagers distributed to civilian Hezbollah members, who may not have been valid targets, but that is not the same argument.

Every bit of reporting on it tries heart-string tugging, just to quietly reveal one of the unintended targets picked up the pager to bring it to a Hezbollah member father, uncle, or brother.

His claim there did not necessarily imply rigged explosives, but supply chain attacks either for surveillance or assassination purposes.

And his limiting it to "virtually every potential theater" would suggest that it's mostly present in Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Yemen, most likely Iraq as well.

But let's be honest here, this isn't civilian equipment that's been compromised. It's supply chain attacks where the buyer is manipulated into buying goods that they've tampered with, or re-engineered. They weren't pagers anyone could pick up at Radio Shack. (Everyone who got hit was a target, or a direct relative of a target.)

No.

They weren't flagged because they went into Lebanon which has very little import security, and because it was a supply chain attack.

The batteries were swapped for a combination battery / explosive charge. The follow-up attack where Hezbollah moved to using walkie-talkies that were also rigged to explode was the real shocker, though.

I have to disagree.

Canada loses a lot of its top talent every year to the US, mostly because of the TN visa. Canadian talent leaves Canada every year, and less investment is not going to help.

This is made worse by Canadian investment culture being very conservative, and not loving startups in general.

Cloudflare is right. But, it's a pretty typical EU play. Protecting more established interests but kneecapping progress.

In this case, hitting a massive number of small sites, which aren't engaged in piracy, to protect a few large entities from some other small piracy sites. It's what's happening in both Italy and Spain.

I don't even think that case was from Cloudflare hosting, just providing DDOS protection.

And it wasn't a Spanish government policy, but rather a single judge's order.

Apologies for the PDF link. The opinion is amusing, and has some benefits. If it's appealed and this decisions is upheld, the blast zone around the CFAA will be diminished.

The key point is rather simple.

> In doing so, we hold for the first time that, (a) by its text and purpose, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1030, does not turn these workplace-policy infractions into federal crimes, and (b) passwords that protect proprietary business information are not themselves trade secrets under federal or Pennsylvania law.

Footnote 2 is also amusing: "To the dismay of IT professionals everywhere, the document was titled "My Passwords.xlsx." App. 2770"

There are many people who die every year going into tunnels without knowing if the air is safe to breathe where they're exploring.

Do you think they'd be worried about radiation?

> Even small amounts over time (re: decades) will have adverse effects.

If the adverse effects happen decades after you'll statistically be deceased I'm not sure it's fair to say there's no safe level of exposure.

It's not at the expense of consumers and the environment. It could make much of what consumers buy prohibitively expensive, for potentially no benefit.

The pair of animations on the page are beautifully done, not just technically but aesthetically as well. If the rest of the book is like that I'll be getting a copy.

Prior to expiry would suggest the encryption is broken from the start.

Although I do disagree on the reasonable/unreasonable angle, because I don't tend to analogize the contents of your phone to the contents of your safe, but rather to the contents of your mind.

Where that is illegal they don't go making CNC machines illegal because of that.

The arguments are mostly that they dislike what can be accomplished via math. “The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia” isn't exactly an 'argument' so much as an insistence.

The article does address the flaws in some of their arguments (encryption inconveniences law enforcement, think of the children) by pointing out that the average person and children are kept save from criminal elements by encryption.

I'm actually very much in agreement with that point.

The world is what it is. A factual observation is just that! But I think it would be better said that while practicing mechanics one should not be trying to practice virtue.

A moral position will push out a factually accurate one if you aren't willing to ignore your views when assessing something.

Proportionate in war is not about going tit-for-tat.

> The principle of proportionality prohibits attacks against military objectives which are “expected to cause incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians, damage to civilian objects, or a combination thereof, which would be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated”.

The way it's worded is to prevent destroying civilian targets for no military gain.

They also own Pandora.