mattstreet

"I've never had the opportunity to work with physical labor"

Yes you have. You could go out today and find a job doing physical labor unless you are significantly physically disabled. It's not like there is an educational barrier to all of those jobs. (Yes, I know there is to SOME of them because they require skills and performing physical labor)

As someone that has done plenty of both, you aren't contributing anything to this discussion unless you try it.

Sure, that money actually paid people to do work and those people were then able to stimulate the economy, pay for their education, all that good stuff.

But that same money could have been spent to actually do something useful and it still would have had that economic impact.

*And now I see where everyone else already made this extremely obvious point.

Is it? They already charge the amount they think meets the perfect balance of "as much as possible" and "not so much that less people buy".

I believe you can buy hubs that are single speed and then if you flip them are fixie, might be cheaper to put that on a cheap bike than having a kid...

I'm a bit rusty, but I believe the way NTP works (at least the reference version which is commonly used) is that if a client sends too many requests in a short time, they are ignored except to reply with a "back off packet" which is called the KoD (Kiss of death) in NTP terms.

Security audits have found some issues with abusing the KoD so I'm not sure if it still works like that or if it tends to be disabled. (I was on one of the teams doing the audit, I found the "Skeleton Key" defect)

https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/rate.html#kiss

If you wanted to help the server deal with DoS even better, I would guess the best solution is to put a rate limiting firewall in front of it.

You're going to encrypt publicly accessible sensitive data with a 9 digit number ? This is not even close to the current level of security. You don't get to make millions of guesses when some dumb website or clerk requires your SSN to do something.

To decrypt data you get to guess over and over again. An SSN would be a terrible key for that.

It doesn't matter what any court says when we don't do anything about officers violating someone's rights.

You don't have rights if you're within 100 miles of the border.

And then someone uses you in an DoS amplification attack instead of going after you directly.

Basically don't offer hackers any data amplification attacks, never respond with more data than it took for the attack to make the request.

Cisco Systems matches to 4.5% of your pay.

Or we could feed people real food.

Probably a good decision to switch to NSAIDs (at least when possible) please don't flush meds again though.

How is this inflammatory? Also, welcome to capitalism.

Then it should also be noted that you really shouldn't use telnet to interact with HTTP or SMTP either. Telnet has issues if you send control characters, which wouldn't be used for either protocol, but might exist in embedded data you might want to send or receive. Just use netcat.

If we actually included the externalities of coal, the damage to property by acid rain, the health effects, the tearing the tops off our mountains to strip mine - then we could see things like scrubbing sulfur out as efficiency improvements.

Those in charge are seeing just how much they can take.

Then the ransomware would just encrypt the files more slowly.

People have had 50 years to start solving the problem on their own.

So it's only plants that God made that are automatically safe?

You'd think it would be up to the FDA to decide if something has a medical purpose and just the DEA to enforce that.

Here's the part that made his point clear: "in jail for life" - it's the law that causes the danger.

How is modern marriage hugely risky compared to what it used to be?

If we can't avoid ruining a planet we evolved to live on, do we really deserve a plan B?

So are the owners of pay phones liable?

Yes, teacher's stuff containing a ton of other people's SSNs and other personal info and sitting around for anyone to access without any barrier! Totally cool, just hope no one does an rummaging!

Full decomposition ends up putting the same minerals into the soil that your ash contains. So the ash is already just as "biodegraded" as the body ends up, just mixed it in to soil.

Why are you debating vaccines when you don't even know the basic facts about them such as they don't end up protecting everyone, which is why herd immunity is so important?

Like maybe read just a tiny bit about them first?

That's not how vaccination works. Even if I get all my vaccines, there is a chance one of them didn't work for me. Then when people start getting sick and spreading it because not enough of us are vaccinated, so do I.

They work by having the vast majority of people not carriers so that the few that don't end up protected directly are still protected.

This is sorta like having shitty brakes and tires. Sure you're the person most likely affected but there's a good chance your accident is going to mean harming someone that does have good brakes and tires.

Why is that such a priority for people? Why can't we just worry about taking better care of the people we have NOW?