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I mean, haven't the authors shown that the problem is "worse" than NP-hard? They have shown it to be undecidable?

It's an interesting position. Labor (our sorta left-wing party) are considering amendments to the bill:

>Labor’s amendments would also clarify that a “systemic weakness” is one that “would or may create a material risk that otherwise secure information would or may in the future be accessed, used, manipulated, disclosed or otherwise compromised by an unauthorised third party”. [0]

I'm not sure how this doesn't cover all exploits - there have been a few cases of vulnerabilities discovered by state agencies being leaked/disclosed [1].

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jan/21/home-...

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/05/15/microsoft-...

In Western Australia, a desal plant was built a few years ago [0]. At the same time, a wind farm [1] that offset the power use of the desal plant was built.

[0] https://www.watercorporation.com.au/water-supply/our-water-s...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_Downs_Wind_Farm

Doesn't look like it works any more.

In any case, Matt Godbolt has spoken a bit about the architecture of Compiler Explorer. Seems like he's given some thought to security.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSkpMdDe4g4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAbCKa0FzjQ

All of these things are issues in Australia, though out of control prescribed burns are very uncommon.

Basically all of the northern areas in the Northern Territory are burnt once every two years or so.

One thing to consider is that Indigenous Australians have been doing regular burns for tens of thousands of years. It's pretty well understood how the land burns, how often it needs to be burnt and what good/safe conditions look like.

> "Likewise, if there are countries that want to have access, and there are more countries than just China, you provide what they're asking."

So..the US as well? The UK? I wonder who else is "asking".

My parents spent a couple of grand on a new (Labrador) puppy a few years ago. After doing a lot of research, they found a breeder who deliberately breeds for good hip health (which is a big problem for Labs in general). Their main reasoning is that our old (also Lab) has had hip degeneration, and didn't want to see a dog go through that again.

Troy Hunt also did a writeup of this. I believe he and the author of this article have worked together on a number of breach reporting in the past.

https://www.troyhunt.com/data-from-connected-cloudpets-teddy...

A few years ago I had to do some interfacing between python and some modelling software. I went through a COM interface, and it was a bloody nightmare to find docs.

I later found out I could have looked for "ActiveX" and found similar results.

The UN list of human rights:

http://hrlibrary.umn.edu/edumat/hreduseries/hereandnow/Part-...

I'm not sure where "right to smoke cigarettes" appears in the list.

How is it a "massive invasion on basic human rights"?

Holy shit, that visual display of Bayes Theorem makes so much sense. Writing it as P(A intersect B)/P(B) and having the Venn diagram just made it all click in my head.

What's the ETA on the Android app?