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/etc/shadow would be a good example of storing sensitive information (kind of).

It is, however, the government's job to look after its citizens as a whole, and act with their best intentions. While there's always a debate to be had about whether government ACTUALLY acts for the greater good of its citizens, one area that it certainly does is mandating the vaccination of children.

These vaccines that all kids (at least in the US) are required to receive prevent some horrifying diseases. Horrifying. Like, tens of thousands of people a year would die from them (such as the Measles virus). When a viable vaccine became available for Measles, for example, people lined up around the block so they could receive it. They recognized that being vaccinated was the best thing to do, so they did it.

I absolutely hate the argument that people make about "not allowing the government to dictate how they raise their children". They're not. They're not telling you how to structure your day with your child, what books they need to read, what toys they're allowed to play with, etc. They're saying, "We don't want your child to die from these diseases, so we're going to have them vaccinated. You're welcome." Again, the government's job is to look after the well-being of ALL citizens, and preventing their widespread death falls under that jurisdiction.

As an aside, I'm not attacking you specifically. I'm attacking that argument, because it's absolutely stupid.

We have to remember that the NFL, after everything is said and done, is a business. They want to make money any way they can. A great way to do that is by having its teams score lots of touchdowns. But not just any touchdowns: passing touchdowns. There's nothing as exciting to watch as a quarterback throwing a hail marry into the end zone and having the receiver diving for it. Those kinds of plays are more likely to happen if the ball is broken in to the quarterback's liking.

The ruling seems weird, but that's probably why the NFL allows its teams to supply their own game balls, instead of providing fresh ones for every game.

It's actually quite funny to see this "in the wild". My parents have a two-year-old Golden Retriever that they've had since he was eight weeks old. From a very young age, he mastered the "puppy face" that melts my mother's heart and compels her to do whatever he wants: giving him food, letting him outside, cuddling, sleeping on the couch, play time, sleeping on the bed, whatever.

He's a naughty puppy, but dammit if we don't love him unconditionally!

I don't understand how people can remain calm and soldier on in academia, despite abuse from professors. I personally have a real problem interacting sensibly with people, never mind authority figures, who don't reciprocate respect. This isn't the first story I've heard of professors abusing their authority over students; in fact I had a similar issue with one particular professor when I was in college for my undergrad degree. I eventually confronted this professor and told him exactly what I thought about him, but it should never have come to that in the first place.

On a side note, the author of this article makes an excellent point: many professors are never taught HOW to teach, along with never receiving training on how to manage their academic affairs (the author used funding in this case, but there are other things professors are expected to do that they aren't very good at). It kind of astounds me that universities don't provide this sort of training to their professors.

I really like listening to Richard Feynman because not only is the man a genius, but he explains concepts very well. That, and his accent is humorous. It's the little things.

Which itself is the straight version of the dating app Grindr. Oh this circle which we've come about...

Wrong thread, friend. =P

When it comes right down to it, people hate change. "It still works, so why change it!?" is a popular saying among most users.

You're right, though. In this case, there definitely had to be an update to Apple's charging cables. Now that we're 3 generations into the new Lightning Connector, it's less of an issue for most people.

Just for legacy sake, it probably wouldn't make sense to switch the meaning of 'int' in Rust to 'uint', whilst creating a new type 'sint' to emulate the old meaning of 'int'. Legions of up-and-coming developers have learned what an integer is, and it would be incredibly counter-productive to change up that definition for one particular programming language.

What makes you think that it isn't already?

I'm genuinely curious what you mean by "leaving the cruft in". I haven't been following the release discussions very closely, so I don't know exactly what "crufty" things there are in the language/standard libraries.

Also, on the subject of the build system, while I too found it a bit confusing, only passing in the "main" file and having the compiler automatically compile and link all dependencies, over time I've come to love that feature. Especially coming from a (admittedly amateurish) C background, where I had to explicitly compile all of my source files into object code before linking them together, having the compiler manage everything for me cuts down on a lot of mental overhead (in my opinion, anyway). I wish the process was explained a little bit better in The Guide, but that's a documentation problem and not an implementation problem, which is much more easy to fix.

I work on Z-Series IBM mainframes, and that's exactly how z/OS works with data sets (read: files).

My current employer offered a 10 week training course on mainframes and COBOL programming, which I happily took. Because of the impending talent gap in the area of mainframes, I see them coming back in the public mindset in a pretty big way.

Where others see "fragmentation", I see "choice".

That's genius.

The moment that Libertarianism becomes a viable political movement is the day they decide on what it is that they stand for. And when I say "political movement", I mean Party. As it stands, they're far too spread out in their ideologies that it's hard to get behind any one candidate or group.

Personally, I'm of the mindset that government performs best when promoting and enforcing an even playing field for its citizens. Too often lately, we see two separate sets of "rules" between the 1% and the rest of us 99%, such as prison sentences and having a voice in governance. I'd like my government to provide universal healthcare and promote good stewardship towards both the environment and our communities. There's far too much greed and apathy towards one another for my taste, and no one is courageous enough to try and tackle these issues.

Even in a business setting, there are ways to "stand out" in how you dress. As I'm typing this now, working at my 9-5 business casual job, I'm wearing a bright pink collared shirt with a striped bow tie. Why? Because I look damn good in it, and people notice. Just because I'm not wearing a tee-shirt and jeans doesn't mean I'm "conforming". Absolutely stupid.

Perhaps this is an unpopular opinion that I hold, but I don't feel that it is the company's responsibility to dictate to their users how they should use the company's product (within reason, of course). Now, bullying and cyberbullying are a serious problem, and there's no doubt about that. However, cyberbullying doesn't occur because apps like Secret exist; there are other forces at play here.

Now, should companies like Secret ENABLE cyberbullying to happen? Of course not! But should they sensor what goes up onto their service? I don't think so. There are features which they can implement (if they haven't already) which can be used to allow users to flag certain content as being abusive, and repeat offenders can be permabanned. That seems like a more appropriate course of action from Secret, instead of sensoring what their users put up on their service, which is what many critics seems to be advocating for.

Now, I haven't used Secret in a very long time (doesn't seem all that popular with my group of friends), but I'm fairly certain that they provide users the ability to flag inappropriate content. I could be wrong, of course, and I'm open correction on this.

The MUD featured in this article, Achaea, I used to play as well way back in the day. I moved on to its sister game, Lusternia, where I met quite a few friends which I still remain in contact with to this day.

It's a shame how modern games don't even come close to the amount of immersion simple text-based games offer. Even popular MMOs don't even scratch the surface on the amount of connection I felt towards these universes. It's a she that they're not as popular.