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Protocols allow for namespace restrictions on CA certificates. There could, in concept, be something stopping you from spoofing google.

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2459.txt - section 4.2.1.11, Name Constraints

Given that I don't think you can actually buy that kind of cert, and the term "CA" is accepted to imply "universal CA", you're correct.

That sentiment makes sense to me. Investing in real schooling makes a lot more sense, though.

> Perhaps before every meal I could be forced to calculate the number of calories in each item, total them up and submit them.

That's called Weight Watchers. The general principle was pretty effective for me. Most people don't keep a log of wear and tear on their car, but we definitely operate airplanes that way. That also seems pretty productive to me.

But yeah, it's not the only way to operate. I don't really like the idea of putting more responsibility on people in order to "raise awareness". I take that to really mean someone would like everyone to be more upset about taxes, and would like to make them less convenient to increase upsetness.

How much does Malta slow down the wind?

> The ideology to have little or no state debt is hurting the economy and will do so in the future.

Ideology can be pretty dangerous. This seems like your main point. Back up, though:

> [...] state debt is not like personal or corparate debt. If you cut your spending to pay of a loan, it is usually not a problem.

How is it less of a problem for a person, or for a corporation, than for a government, to have to reduce spending?

> They've been told socialized medicine is evil communist plot to steal their hard earned money.

Mind reading a bit, here: This line might be taken as an ungenerous representation of a different point of view, and likely to generate more emotional argument than productive discussion.

> What are the motives for leaking information regarding our actions on foreign soil against foreign [human beings]?

Which side of an imaginary line you were born on should not determine your rights. If he leaked documents about operations against Americans, and then also about operations against foreigners, in my mind he did the same thing twice.

If there was another difference, like spilling the location or identity of a person likely to be at risk, please spell that out. I have yet to see an example.

$21.00 x 40 hours x 52 weeks = 43,680 in pay, for roughly one year.

$3,706 x 12 months = $44,472 in rent.

That's the first number I found on google for "san francisco average rent price" (without quotes).

I agree that those numbers are insane. Accusing someone who makes less than he needs to rent decent housing of complaining seems quite wrong. I understand that San Francisco is at the high end of cost of living. It's also where Uber and Lyft are centered.

The point of the article seems to be that Uber and Lyft support this idea because they're hoping to undermine more meaningful protective legislation, specifically California Assembly Bill 5.

Claiming that this low-ball offer from large corporations would be too hurtful to those corporations, and far too generous to their workers, would be ... insane, right?

Regarding keyboards, maybe at least don't automatically trust a SECOND keyboard? Even when user interaction isn't possible until the device is active, as someone else pointed out, you can at least send a warning to the user's display.

Isn't that just a wrapper for the same search engines?

I believe the intended impact is to prevent pictures of oneself from becoming famous, by making sure that they are censored.

The censorship trick won't work globally, and won't block authorities from seeing the picture, but I think the real goal is to avoid becoming individually well known within China as a dissident.

Assuming everything you say is true ... your point is what? This hypothetical person would probably not be executed? Going through a trial for your own sexual orientation but being acquitted doesn't sound like a great time to me.

deogeo wrote: > Is a car manufacturer going to take more risks because of low interest rates?

It seems possible. Vehicles change every year. The amount and ways they change must be affected by available funding, perceived risk, and probably lots of other factors. A lower interest loan could make a risky prototyping project more attractive.

Even if car companies were really stuck doing one thing, shareholders are not. If car companies produce a slow, steady profit, and other investments are producing higher profits on average, chaotically, people will divest from cars and invest in a diverse portfolio of chaos.

I agree with what seems like your point, though. I don't understand propping up markets and businesses in order to help people, when we could just help people.

"Society" is not a thing that can wield control. Or rather it can, by forming into things like governments and corporations. It is not parallel to those things, but their substrate.

I'm with you that seeing power concentrated in those places seems worse than spreading it out. But the way it looks to me now, people aren't going to generally mind their own bitcoin wallets, and will tend to use centralized brokers.

I think that's human nature, specifically some algorithm for operating in a group. If I don't feel confident doing X, maybe X is not my strong suit, and I should trade jobs with another person. If I mess up my crypto wallet, my money could almost literally disappear, so my confidence is low.

People are afraid to control their own destiny, and that's at least somewhat rational.

I always think they should just take it down and put up a sign that says, "Too cheap for towels." It won't damage my hearing and will get my hands just as dry.

I agree with the idea that availability of information is good, and that information about the context for a security-related change should be made transparent. But how relevant is it? I would think relevant enough for FAQ or other reference information. I wouldn't include it in announcements, though.

The headline is "patch available, mitigating known exploit". "Not yet widely exploited" is barely a footnote. The release of a patch can bring enough attention to make the window between release and full deployment of the patch the single worst time to be vulnerable. If I tell you it wasn't being exploited yesterday, and you delay patching based on that information, and then the storm of exploits blows through ... I'd feel bad.

Yes.

...go on?

Well, check on soil quality, maybe add compost, check water supply, maybe add a dripper, check that the soil isn't rock-hard, so the roots can get around. If you want to know exactly what the tree needs, though, research is probably in order.

OK, here's a pretty thorough guide to the hackberry: https://homeguides.sfgate.com/special-care-hackberry-tree-56...

Sounds like you should keep crap off the trunk so it doesn't rot, it needs to be pruned to grow right, and if the soil gets dry it will start dropping leaves about it.

I don't know about your hackberry in particular. This has been a topic of fascination for me, though.

Trees connect to each other via symbiotic root fungi called "mycorrhizae". Any given species of plant probably has several species of fungus with which it is compatible. The fungus and the plant form a mutually beneficial pair, but the fungus can additionally connect to other nearby plants. Then you have a network, potentially with multiple plant species.

The network can be used for nutrient storage (summer to winter), nutrient transfer (to offspring), or chemical signalling. ("Bugs attacking. Get ready.") Different species are known to support each other, giving nutrients back and forth and different times of year. Of course, the black walnut will use the network to poison its neighbors.

Playing in my flower pots, I have observed that plants growing right next to sweet potatoes or succulents do better when I forget to water them, but I haven't measured that. In my mind, they're leaching water from their neighbors through the network.

So, it's complicated, and there is such a thing as a bad actor on the network, but basically I don't think your tree will be lonely. I'm optimistic.

He didn't tell everyone to hold the same attitude. He said they're doing a shitty job, and he provided a great example.

Rude, but true, and I would argue helpful. Sorry you're not enjoying reading it.

> What part of the first amendment exonerates knowingly attempting to crack NTLM keys of US military logins?

Is doing math a form of expression? Breaking a password amounts to thinking for a very long time about all the ways you could rearrange some bits, and choosing one. I'd call it an expression of preference for certain possible results over others, by way of saving one and letting the rest go.

I know, I'm laughing at the thought of framing a cracked password because you're so proud of your expressive art. Still, I am deeply uncomfortable with a government having the authority to say, "You may not run that program."

"Conspiracy theory" is not a synonym for "crazy". And his comment was the answer to your question.

Be fair. We can bring a lot of pain through cooperation. Cooperating with the orcas seems like a good example.

> Joyce expressed the pride the NSA's workforce took in "delivering a midterm election that was free of malfeasance and interference" [...]

Oh, that's good. I was just imagining all the news out of Georgia, then.

> ... it's currently fashionable to claim that among humans, gender is purely a social construct.

I'm sorry, but who do you know that thinks testosterone is a myth?

Carbon is an element. Most organisms to a lot of chemical rearrangement of the element, but the element is not created or destroyed in biological processes. Any carbon kept during life is released at death.

That won't "ramp up" costs unless the initial estimate for the costs included wrong numbers for labor. Ramp up from what? An uninformed guess?

I just want to chime in with "yes and yes". Let's be sure not to fall into a false dichotomy about which brand of problem is a problem. :)

A guess that Google will delete data is just as valid as a guess that they will keep it? Or more valid?

If you'd rather deal with evidence and reason than with guesses, I can understand that. But dude...c'mon.

> Asking lawnchair_larry to give you a complete list of everyone he considers credible is disingenuous.

Implying that was asked seems disingenuous to me, but I assume that wasn't your intent.

What I see is a request for clarification, specifically asking for the sources from which a conclusion was drawn.

It's not a police raid. Relax.