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1. Departments/divisions have their own budgets; Quill was purchased before security or compliance was involved.
2. Quill was deployed or piloted for a group without retention requirements then escaped into the wild. Security or compliance wasn't involved until it was in use company wide.
3. A client required using Quill so the usual compliance requirements were waived.
This is a difference in kind, not degree.
PHP has wonky function names because Rasmus didn't know any better.
The Go token hash is a private implementation detail; they can change it and only the compiler internals are affected.
Public education in the US has a long history of fads, manias, and ill-conceived attempts at reform. There's little evidence of improvement over time or competitive performance.
The following is an excerpt from (https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/15/u-s-student...).
The most recent PISA results, from 2015, placed the U.S. an unimpressive 38th out of 71 countries in math and 24th in science. Among the 35 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which sponsors the PISA initiative, the U.S. ranked 30th in math and 19th in science.
Given these results I'll trust subject matter experts over educators any day.
There's a long history of illegal domestic surveillance since at least the 1940s - why would it have stopped?
> For one, it's likely that not every Congressperson has some deep dark secret that makes them blackmail-able. And pissing off the only group of people that could cut your funding and expose your shadow organization as well as bring oversight is not the group that you want to be pissing off.
Secret blackmail files worked for J. Edgar Hoover[0].
[0] https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-director-hoovers-dirty-fil...
I'm not a fan of the RISC-V design but the presence or absence of this instruction doesn't make it a terrible architecture.
It happens; I gave a negative reference to someone who had lied substantially about their role with the company.
Snowden and Manning smuggled out top secret information; it seems a bit much to assume that the low bidder on a phone repair contract has leak-proof security.
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2965166) is an example of well-received humor; it's one of the top rated comments.
Qualcomm has a longstanding reputation as a bad actor; they're the Oracle of hardware. It's easy to believe that other companies would prefer to avoid doing business with them.
There's no evidence of conspiracy and the history of public education is filled with fads, manias, and ill-conceived attempts at reform. Why would this be any different?
I'm in favor of prosecuting Snowden because he did substantial and potentially permanent damage to our intelligence gathering abroad.
> There’s no such thing as a whistleblower without evidence, that’s called a parish who gets ignored.
He could have gathered information, contacted appropriate members of the Senate, and launched an investigation such as the Church committee (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee).
> Are you all also in favour of prosecuting the journalists who publish this material?
That depends on what they publish and whether it's determined to be illegal. Hopefully the courts would allow publication as in the Pentagon Papers case (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers#The_Supreme_Co...).
The only special thing about JavaScript is that after 25+ years the standard library is still grossly inadequate.
If you mean that it's possible except for the voters then that may be true but it's kind of irrelevant.
> IMHO the impulse to keep people out of their city and their neighborhood results in encampments and generally worse conditions both for those with and without houses.
It's entirely sensible to oppose encampments in my neighborhood.
Fires, crimes, and assaults are regular occurrences at encampments and homeless people in Seattle are effectively immune from prosecution.
Would you want a habitual offender like Francisco Calderon (https://komonews.com/news/project-seattle/warrant-issued-for...) or Travis Berge (https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/meth-mental-illness-murder-...) as a neighbor?
My job might require me to install apps from Honest Achmed's App Store, Certificate Authority, and Used Cars (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647959).
I would have bought an Android if I wanted a free-for-all platform with limited security updates, multiple app stores, and other debris; I chose an iPhone so I wouldn't have to deal with these issues.