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Many years ago I upped my liability coverage from $15k/$30k to $100k/$300k, and I was surprised how little it increased my premium. It was a few bucks a month. A no-brainer.

I’m starting to wonder if it’s time to go higher.

Well, this is a GUI, so it stands to reason that they're experts in Visual Basic.

In my analogy, the motorist is the ISP customer, the thief is the hacker, and the DMV is the ISP. If I were to draw the corresponding links in your analogy, the motorist is still the customer, the auto maker is the router manufacturer. Whatever duty is owed to the owner of a faulty car, that duty is not on the DMV. It's on the manufacturer.

> Why shouldn't firewall manufacturers be required to have some responsibility when the firewall is shown to not actually firewall?

They should! I'm not arguing against holding companies responsible for their crap products. I'm arguing that the ISP shouldn't be forced to keep an attack vector on their network.

If a shitty home router becomes a bot in a DDOS botnet, that's not the ISP's responsibility. From their perspective, it's on the subscriber. From the subscriber's perspective, it's on the maker of that shitty router. (ISP-provided equipment is obviously different)

No, but those devices are their responsibility.

Car analogies are always fun, so here's one: The catalytic converter on my car is sawzalled off in the middle of the night. I drive around with the missing cat for a couple months. Then I fail a smog check, or get a ticket for loud exhaust. Is it my fault the cat was stolen? No, but I still have a responsibility to everyone else to not pollute (fumes or noise).

If the ISP supplies the router, then of course they should correct it. But if the subscriber brings their own equipment, then they take on the responsibility of maintaining it. Including replacement if it turns out not to be fit for purpose.

Even worse, it’s AI-generated crypto scam bullshit.

I can’t imagine what Matthias is going through right now. Hopefully this is reversed cleanly without losing history on the channel.

Lines of succession are a separate thing from winners of elections. If Biden were to die before election day, that doesn't mean Harris would be on the ticket as the presidential nominee. I'd wager against that for sure.

So who would be tapped to fill in for the recently-deceased candidate? Could be Harris, or Obama, or a dozen other hopefuls.

I’m might quibble a bit and choose Windows 2000, or even XP despite the Fischer Price skin, but generally I agree.

Clickable things should have some minimal skeuomorphic detail and scrollbars need to be a minimum of some thickness.

Taking a thin slice of other people’s money is more profitable than playing with only your own money if you (a) have lots of clients or a few really rich ones and (b) if you participate in the upside but not the downside.

I think with proteins the ways it can be "not knotted" are basically infinite. Topologically-speaking, yeah, it's just a deformed ring. But the deformations (folds) are the huge thing that makes a protein do its job.

So there are tons of folding configurations, and entering a knotted state restricts a lot of the freedom-to-fold a protein would have

I believe the real reason she was against it was a widespread belief that HPV vaccination—considered a sexual health thing—was tantamount to encouraging promiscuity among recipients.

Her stated reasons were bullshit smokescreens.

My feature request for iOS:

Allow me to disable notifications from an app unless I have opened it within the last X hours.

I’d set it to a couple hours. My food apps could then tell me the order is ready, but can’t spam me with “Special Offers For You” days later.

Maybe I can do this with an automation?

Macromedia Fireworks?

I think that’s what you’re remembering.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Fireworks

No it's not. It's a statement, yes. Not a political one necessarily.

I stopped buying El Monterrey frozen burritos last year. They removed some of the beef and replaced it with filler rice. I did not appreciate that cost-cutting, so I stopped giving them my money. It's not a political stance that I have here, it's an economic one. I don't like shrinkflation so I don't reward it.

I will refuse to buy any GM car because they made a decision to juice their subscription revenue. This has nothing to do with my political stance. It's an economic decision.

And so with the Boeing planes. They're obviously cutting corners in their safety department. The result is still a mode of travel that's really safe, but the way we got to that level of safety is by not cutting corners. I may decline to reward a company that has decided to trade a little of that hard-won safety margin for some better financial numbers.

For videos, yeah. When I'm in a room with friends, and one of them is already connected to their TV, it's much quicker to airdrop a large video file (say, 500MB) than it is to send it up to the Internet and have them download it. Aside from the better bandwidth, it's also much faster from the time I tap "Share" to the time it's appearing on their device.

For gifs or a funny photo or whatever, yeah I'll just text it.

How would this prevent what happened to Timothy Barker?

Wow. I found it on like the 3rd page, RTFA'd, and liked it so I upvoted it. Now I'm finding out my single upvote is mighty powerful :)

I've also noticed Paul's frequency, but the articles usually seem interesting, so I think he's just good at finding good links to submit?

Yup. At a certain threshold the pixels stop being squares and become pure sampling points.

And the door either has a goat or a car. But before the event takes place (opening the door), it is perfectly reasonable to do risk analysis with odds and fractional goats.

Chances of dying because you flew on a MAX are still insanely low. Maybe worse than if it was an A320, but the absolute numbers have so many zeros between the decimal point and the value that they're basically the same: 0.

My (I think related) pet peeve: "There is no safe level of..."

I hate that phrase. It implies to many people that any level whatsoever of X is a danger to you.

Some examples: "There is no safe level of alcohol consumption" and "There is no safe level of lead".

These both may be technically true. That even one beer a year is worse for your body than complete abstinence. Or even a single fishing weight making incidental contact with your hand is worse then never having touched one.

But c'mon. The amount of risk posed by very low levels of consumption or exposure is so minuscule that we can safely (hah!) declare it okay.

I've seen people calling for lead to be banned from roofing flashing applications, and total bans on alcohol, citing these statements that "there is no safe level...".

You give me a reasonable definition of "safe", and I bet I can determine the safe levels of each of those things. The safe level of alcohol consumption is not 0.0000 units. It's somewhere above that. Same with lead exposure. You can have minimal exposure that results in no discernible difference in your quality of life. Where's that line?

I always thought neural networks were an example of the analogy working the other direction. Instead of modeling our brain on the technology of the time, we chose to model the next technology on how we think our brains work?

Man gets shot in the leg. Femoral artery hit. Cause of death: "hypotensive event"

Your analogy doesn't fit here. There is no scenario where accessing the accounts of 14,000 banking clients would then blow up to several million clients' accounts. Any bank that even offered this "feature" would, yes, be at fault.

There seems to be some transitiveness going on here. Let's go with the banking scenario: I give my son access to my checking account, and I also give my business partner access. My son is a dumbass, and uses the same password for everything. Now my business partner's info is taken. His parents get hacked as well.

From 14,000 to 7,000,000 is quite the amplification. That's on 23andMe and nobody else.

I started riding my bike to school in the 4th grade. Would have done so earlier, but the bike racks at school were off-limits until that grade.

I just looked up photos of people pipetting by mouth. They use tubes.

It is when those users' passwords unlock not just their own data, but that of millions of other users as well.

Alice could have set up 2FA and adhered to all the best practices, but she still got her data stolen because Bob used "hunter2" and was hacked.

14,000 accounts compromised, 7 million users' data taken. There's no way 23andMe should be able to offload their responsibilities to Alice's cousin Bob.

A perfectly cylindrical coin would have three sides: 2 flat planes and a curved ribbon. No reason a “side” has to be flat. Just ain’t got no internal edges!

Yeah, I immediately thought of this story as a kind of reverse version of that.

Instead of buggy code causing innocent people to become criminals, here a “computer glitch” was blamed to explain away a signs of criminal behavior.

That's what that is! I noticed this on Nevada plates several years ago and assumed it had something to do with watermarking or other anti-counterfeit tactic, but it didn't seem all that hard to reproduce. I never checked it out from different distances, though.

I looked at the image before reading the rest of your comment. My first thought was that the tire tracks crossing each other was supposed to indicate a full rotation of the car. (It’s really slippery, you might spin out!)

After reading your comment I still don’t think one of the lines is a road’s edge?

Do you know if either interpretation is the official one?

EDIT: Just took another look and I see it now. The line near the car’s left tire doesn’t actually align with that tire!

Update: I just now changed back to orange.