I'm hoping that we aren't seeing a situation where acting FAA administrator Elwell's past service as an Aerospace Industries Association VP and company advocate is biasing his reasoning towards the interest of industry players over public safety.
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This specific error isn't a serious issue, as indicated by how little impact it's had on real-world security.
It's not favoritism to Apple and Google if they emit certs with 63 bits and get minor criticism and someone else, say, stops using random numbers to seed cert generation and gets raked over the coals. The latter case would require more urgent and serious attention.
Are we looking at a lack of leadership in the org? The current head is acting administrator as a result of a failure of the Trump administration to appoint a new head in the wake of the previous administrator's planned exit on Jan 6 of last year.
I don't know anything about Mr. Elwell one way or another, but not all deputies are there with an eye towards taking the top job.
Great question. Unrelatedly, mind if I correlate your medical history and a genetic profile of you with your purchase history at three major retail chains and the contents of your inbox? I'm not intending to do anything special with it; I'm just accumulating data.
(... everything has a political dimension, including data accumulation. Because ultimately, humans use the data, and what humans do is politics).
However, that having been said, the crash rate is now very poor (by modern standards) for this plane model, and 2 is enough to raise some serious questions about mere coincidence.
Boeing's taking a real risk because a third crash of a 737 regardless of cause will be a long-remembered black eye.
NextWeb's reporting on the Twitter thread suggests that the phrase may be a Chinese attempt to translate to English a Chinese word meaning "woman of child-bearing age" [https://thenextweb.com/tech/2019/03/11/1-8m-chinese-women-de...], but we don't actually know because we have no primary source on what character was translated as "BreedReady."
I hope people who do this have either a great memory or a great filing system.
Google employs more men than women. Even if a higher percentage of women are underpaid, we could see a situation where more men get raises in an equalization.
Did the student in question merely share the code, or did they execute the code on a machine intended to display useful information? If the latter, it's basic vandalism and completely arrest-worthy.
Languages are used by people. So it depends, a lot, on the goals of the stewards of a language. Votes can be a useful signal for whether or not people are going to care about your language enough to adopt it.
... but it's absolutely true that voters can vote for the moon and then skip off blissfully, never having to worry about how you implement the Apollo project.
No real benefit in voting on it now, other than to express your added desire for a thing the TS team already knows people want.
America is in the middle of a cultural revolution, not unlike the Civil Rights era of the '60s. It's a fight of ideas and opprobrium, and both sides will definitely use the economic, political, and speech tools at their disposal to win it. As both sides have for years; advocacy, call for censure, political and financial support of this or that cause or politician---none of this is new. What is modestly new is the frequency and "heat" of the battle, because too many obvious injustices have gone unpunished (I think to the perception of both sides of the political spectrum, broadly speaking).
I'm not in favor of any kind of removal of these powers from the people's hands at this time, though. There's a reason we protect public speech and economic censure in general: because if you force people's hands by taking those tools away, they reach for the next most convenient tool.
And America, thanks to the Second Amendment, has a lot of guns.
If what you're trying to say is "The American political right wing has grown to distrust the SPLC," I'd agree, but I'd note it's the same right wing that couldn't seem to find its voice to condemn a political rally where participants shouted "Jews will not replace us" and "Blood and soil," a rally that resulted in the death of one counter-protester due to vehicular homicide.
Given the evidence I see, sadly, it's not the SPLC I'm leaning towards distrusting.
But society has a vested interest in people being judged on the content of their character and not the color of their skin or their gender. Society has no vested interest in bolstering the strength of people who should be judged on the content of their character.
Avoid the error of logic that conflates the tool with the use of the tool. Societal censure and giving people no more than what the law says we must give them is a completely appropriate response to the bigot, the fascist, and the misogynist.
By, for example, refusing to give economic support or a privately-owned platform of speech or press inches to fascists who are pushing an ideology that leads directly to genocide.
Inherent in the freedom of the press is the freedom to control what the press you own publishes, and inherent in the right to peaceably assemble is the right to refrain from assembling with those you do not choose to support (be that assembly one of common protest or simple commerce).
Indeed, in the situations where the difference really is too minimal (such as there being no alternatives to do business with in a town because of rampant racism), we pass laws (such as the Civil Rights Act) to compel private actors to cease to bar business based on signal that has been deemed invalid.
"Shit flows downhill," as it were. If some sites are kicking people off who (however one chooses to measure the concept) "diminish the tone" of the site, and some sites are not, it stands to reason the sites that do not will end up collecting the sort of comments that "diminish the tone" over time.
The reason web developers care about those customers varies from dev to dev. Some believe there is value in a heterogeneous ecosystem of browser implementations. Some have a few high-value customers who refuse to switch (or, in the case of e.g. Microsoft, cannot switch because enterprise constraints are restricting what browser stack they're allowed to run).
But the point stands that when you support multiple browsers, you don't approach ideal user experience (in terms of performance and reliability) for all your customers by throwing your fingers in your ears and proclaiming "That browser is out of spec!" when you find a quirk---you do what you have to do to make your code run on, around, or in spite of the quirk.
Unless something changes relative to the user ecosystem Gab has attracted in the past, I predict I'll be blackholing their domains on every machine I personally administer because nobody in my family needs to be exposed to that nonsense.
It got dropped in 2011, sayeth Wikipedia; criticism included that it pulled control of comments away from a site publisher and gave that content (and data) to Google.