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From what I understand, the vulnerability had already been exploited in the wild. Voxelity discovered it thanks to it being exploited at a client's system.

As a motorcyclist with really loud exhaust pipes:

"Loud pipes save lives" is nonsense. When a driver is concentrated on visual stimuli, has his windows up and music playing, there are no pipes loud enough to make him notice me.

Why loud pipes then? Because it's so much fun to open the throttle wide and hear and feel the roar vibrating through the bike and myself! Makes me feel like I'm riding a rocket into space.

Do I do that in towns? Very rarely. I mostly try obeying speed limit with calm hand on the throttle and reasonable engine speed and shooting off when leaving a town. I'm super noise-conscious when riding after dark. I also don't rev on red lights just for the hell of it. I live on both sides of this problem, as a city dweller i hate being woken by noise, but it's more often some doofus in a knocking diesel car letting the engine idle for 20 minutes as he picks up his friends at 11 pm. I guess cars like that wouldn't be punishable, because they are not tuned to make noise. And when I hear the whine of a motorbike from the hills on the outskirts, it just makes me smile and plan a next ride.

To sum up: yes, loud pipes can be obnoxious, but it depends on the driver. If they get banned, people like me will lose a part of their hobby and noisemakers will find another way to be obnoxious (burnouts? screechy braking? loud music?)

A catalytic converter and a muffler are different things. And this article and conversation is mostly about cars and motorbikes that make noise by use of tuned exhaust, often with no muffler and / or made to be a resonator to increase the noise.

When I was a kid, we lived in a village in northeastern Slovakia. On the hill above the village there was a farm with a big herd of cows. And every morning at around 5, a tractor would bring a few dozen litres of milk down to a small shack just by our house. People were usually waiting in line already, in a room that stank of rancid milk, to get a liter or two.

When we brought the milk home, we'd pour a cup and let it sit a few minutes, to let the cream to get to the top. You could see the line between milk and cream with your eye an scoop the cream with a spoon. We drank the cream, it could have been 20% by volume, we made cocoa with the milk and no one got sick that I remember. I believe it was because we were usted to it, an "untrained" person would get sick too.

Then one year they put up a sign, saying the milk should only be used as animal feed and a few years back the laws changed again and there was no more selling and drinkig grey market raw milk, because someone decided for all the people that it's dangerous.

I thing my distaste of regulations and prohibitions can be traced back to that time.

Funny thing, I think I would get violenty sick if I tried raw milk again... The law is a self fulfilling prophecy.

Yeah, made worse by the fact the submitter is obviously the "author" and presumably, ads beneficiary of TFA.

The submission was flagged for a while and rightfully so, maybe the link should be changed to the one you provided...

> joining other Western powers in support of harsher sanctions

They "soften" in their "don't cut Rusia from SWIFT" stance.

In other words, Germany is coming closer to harder sanctions.

This is not only a type of cluster munition, but more Importantly a landmine, which is banned by Ottawa Treaty. Guess who didn't sign that one either?

I disagree.

Many times, the org settings make a users life so much easier. We use MS SAML SSO for all our tools (office, Outlook Web, Atlassian toolstack, another ticketing tool) and I really only need to use the 2nd factor once in a few days or when I log out manually, and it's a simple sms code. Reading other comments here, my life is SO easy in this regard. I actually considera Microsoft single login with (sms) 2FA a good thing and therefore have almost 0 "mfa fatigue".

Could you give some examples? I am from a post communist country and am interested in what could be percieved as communist in the US. My guesses are publi transport and universal health care on the top 2 spots.

The cause is the same as it always has been: it is easier for some people to get to the desired standard of living by stealing/other crime than by working.

Why crime us going up? Because of higher desired standard (every body needs an iPhone, brand name shoes and hats), more difficulty with earning a wage (largely, difficulty getting a job at all) and decreased difficulty in crime (defunding police, more aesily available opportunities to steal, etc).

For well-off people it is easier to earn their standard by earning money by work than by stealing. Or they have more comfortable ways of stealing than haulig a paltry 10k in av equipment...

I wish i could be an idealist and to believe in a world where every one is happy with what they've got. But that's a utopia. Humans will always crave to have more than each other ad will steal, loot, defraud, do anything to get there.

Lock your trains well.

I would expect this kind of pictures from a third world country...

How come no one is incentivized to fix this - protect the trains, prevent this loss of property? Who pays for the stolen goods? I presume it would be the retailers, is it just a drop in the ocean for them?

In some more dystopian movies there were trains crossing vast areas of postapocalyptic hellscape protected by soldiers with machine guns and flamethrowers. In these pictures, the "responsible" just gave up. I find that simiarly dystopic.

Check out StreetComplete. It's basically a map with question icons that help improve osm. It's even a bit gamified, you get achievements for a volume of replies :) Importantly, you can configure which types of question do you get, so you won't get bored by replying the same stuff again.

More specialized, but perhaps more important for certain people is wheelmap.org. It catalogues amenities and their wheelchair accessibility. It has similar model for contribution as StreetComplete, you answer question about stairs, door widths and toilet accessibility.

Have fun mapping :)

Edit: corrected autocorrect.

Looks like big tech emplyees have become the new aristocracy. They are the only ones that can change the situation and also the ones who benefit from it, be it in the form of social status or, as the article mentions, as Grey market sellers of unlocks and reinstatement.

I think AT&T and telephone business are a bad analogy, exactly because Google kind of is involved in the telephone business and does not apply these stratagems there.

For me the point of the article is the strategy Mr. Google uses currently in other fields: They offer you a product for free, a product way better that other (even paid) offerings, to capture the market and to collect data and serve ads inside those products. This doesn´t apply to Android so much, but take Gmail, Google Maps, Search, YouTube. All these services are ostensibly given away for free (like AT&T phones in the article), but have their performance compromised by ads everywhere plus they siphon the user data like a vacuum.

So to paraphrase your criticism: Google doesn´t sell its maps, but pushes the paid listing with larger map icons. Google doesn´t sell its search, but gives adverts when you´d expect the honest best result for your query. Google doesn´t sell the videos (barring the paid offerings), but prepends and interrupts them with ads.

This article just applies these tactics to something we are so familiar with - the phone service.

>>services with near-zero marginal cost

I might be loking at this from the point of view of current, digital, automated and interconnected networks, but the way I see it, a phone network has near-zero marginal costs, too. Once you have built the network, your marginal cost per-call are quite low. I´d say comparable to relaying an email or replying to a search query once the infrastructure is in place.

>denim doesn't really do much of anything

There is a company that makes denim pants with kevlar inserts and knee&hip pads. While not as good as proper leather outfit, they´re way better than regular jeans and I like the looks better.

https://www.motorcycle.com/products/trilobite-661-parado-jea...

> HTH someone.

Beginner rider (bought a yamaha V-Star 650 3 days ago) here. It does.

>1) ride with one or two fingers on the front brake My driving school instructor chastised me for that. I kept doing it. As a cyclist, I ALWAYS keep my fingers on the brake, I know how fast I need to react and there is no time to waste reaching for that lever.

>3) ride with your high beam on at all times Good idea. Will do (During daytime)

>6) gear up I don´t understand why this has to be repeated so often. It´s a complete no-brainer, when I was budgeting my bike, I added 1000 €for gear: proper motorcycle gear, with pads, with kevlar, with leather, certified. It´s insane how many people ride in their street clothes (when doing my test drive, I wore shorts, a hoodie and a helmet. Luckily I didn´t fall, but as soon as I got off, i got burned badly on the exhaust. There are countless ways to hurt yourself on that machine.)

7)do not ride under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Again, why do people keep doing this? This is a shortcut to death. And it´s so often combined with the previous point.

Thanks for the tips, I´ve been binge watching motorcycle tips and safety recommendations for months now, most of these repeat so often I have them hammered into my brain.

From https://www.improbable.com/ : Research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK.

I agree, the winning research used to be much wilder, but they went a less iflamatory way in the recent years. When I now read about them from the 90s, there are some harsh burns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners

Being serious and having a sense of humour is not mutually exclusive. The rhino example: the reason this research was done is exactly what you mention, saving the species. It says so in the article:

>The wild black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) faces a serious threat from poachers in southern Africa, along with agriculture development encroaching on its turf. This is leading to too much inbreeding. So African governments have taken to occasionally relocating the rhinos to different geographical regions to mix things up a bit. The problem is that transport by truck is difficult if not impossible, given the rugged terrain, so the Namibian Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET) has resorted to transporting the rhinos aerially. This involves sedating the ungulates (from a safe distance) with a potent opioid and then suspending the drugged rhinos by their feet under the helicopter for as long as 30 minutes. Robin Radcliffe (Cornell University) and his co-authors noted that nobody had studied the physiological effects of this practice on the rhinos.

If you look at the list, all the research that was awarded has practical applications. All of this can be used to further our knowledge of the world, to give insight into how things work. And this is what a curious mind should strive for. To look into things like no one else has done before.

I think the scientists are people like you and me. In fact, knowing a few, I know this for a fact. They have a sense of humour, a drive to explore the world with knowledge and a healthy ability to mix the two.

What I absolutely love about the Ig Nobels (beside the occasional chuckle and general mood improvement they bring me) is how they highlight that science can be fun. Many kids and young adults don´t want to get into science for fear of having to do research into some boring subject they don´t care about. And these show you that your research can get a completely different direction, studying upside down rhinos hanging from a helicopter or that theatre smell that weirds you out or why you breathe better after sex or if your cat is trying to tell you something. Whatever fascinates you, go ahead and study it. There´s an Ig Nobel waiting for you.

(Disclaimer: yes, you will have to do a ton of boring research. But you still can fit a rhino in between that!)

Controversially, I don´t think this is something Facebook can do much about. People like that (I mean those who report her) are this way online, offline, everywhere. The fault is with the people, not the tool they use.

What should facebook do here?

- Find the people responsible and... fine them? Deplatform them? Shame them publicly? Any of these would need Facebook account to be unequivocally tied to one´s identity. Do we want FB to be tied to our SSN/ID card number/DNA sample?

- Ensure better moderation by adding more people instead of machines. And somehow make sure the opinions and morality of those people are... correct? This case is quite clear cut, but in other cases there is much moral ambiguity. Where should the human moderators lean?

- Ensure free speech for everyone. We see where this is going, swastikas and big Qs everywhere and fabebook being sued left and right.

- Ensure free speech for just the acceptable opinions - this is what they are trying to do, with the results we see. Plus it brings a lot of trouble with determining which opinions are acceptable where, which is another can of worms.

I don´t see an answer to this problem... And it seems facebook is struggling unsuccessfully to find it, too.

Edited for clarification.

This is how hard line communist (or any totalitarian) government works. There must be no criticism, no sign of weakness, no compromise. The leader is all wise, all powerful and untouchable (unless he´s about to be replaced). They are not presenting themselves as men with flaws and conscience. They are the personification of unlimited power and behave accordingly. This is the case in Russia (you do not criticize Putin), in China with Xi, in North Korea with Kim.

From the gp-linked wikipedia article:

"The film struggled to find a distributor for eight months and was not able to run on a large streaming platform like Netflix or Amazon Prime Video. It is widely believed this was due to those platforms' fear of offending the Saudi Arabian government and possibly losing subscribers.

Fogel showed disappointment at The Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos’ decision to acquire UAE e-commerce site Souq.com shortly after he refused to release The Dissident on Amazon Prime Video."

He tried to get it published by other means, but money.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/business/media/dissident-...

More on the space opera topic: How to Invade an Alien Planet https://tropedia.fandom.com/wiki/How_to_Invade_An_Alien_Plan...

That was on my ming when I wrote "one of the".

So 4 is the numeric equivalent of a raised middle finger.

I like what I got to know as "the Japanese way" to count to 144 on my fingers. I´m sure it´s not exclusive to Japan tho. Using thumb as a pointer, I count not on the fingers, but their segments. Each finger is 3 segments, which gives 12 per hand. Now, to boost it, one hand is used to count the dozens from the other hand. Gets me thinking, maybe this is one of the reasons for popularity of 12-based systems in ancient times? Did our ancestors just use their counting fingers better?

I´m really confused by some of the items on the list, but I only live out of the car for short periods of time (one week max) and not as a long term solution, but as a short term adventure. That said:

The mattress is nice, but if you make your car your living room, why not go all the way and buy a real foam mattress? The price is not much higher than this luxurious air mattress. Plus, you can get a larger foam mattress and cut it to fit precisely. I usually just use an extra thick self inflating camping mat. Good enough for a week.

The fridge: they´re a pain. Most car fridges use a Peltier cell instead of a compressor, so their efficiency and performance is bad (they can only generate so much difference in temperature).

The stove is ridiculously overpriced. I got mine for like one tenth of that and it boils water fast enough, even in windy condition. The biggest price hike here is a (copper?) heat exchanger. Which is nice if you are tight on gas and need to make the most out of it, but in a car you can carry a larger supply of gas. A bigger gas cartridge would be a huge improvement here: the larger the surface of the liquid gas, the faster it evaporates, which is super important in the winter. I had mine almost go out in very cold conditions. Plus, it adds stability, that big pot on small cartridge on a rock looks like a spilled soup waiting to happen.

The shades: I went another way, buying the deepest, darkest tint for my windows I legally could. As long as I have no light inside, I can use the car as an observation station, I see everything outside of it while staying hidden.

Sporks: they´re ridiculous. You´ve got a full car worth of space and cannot pack a cutlery set? Please.

The roof rack is indispensable. A lockable and sturdy storage for your roof is genius for camping like this.

What I would add:

Light. A headlamp won´t cut it, buy a small battery powered camping lamp. Adds a nice soft lightning and you won´t have to worry about shining into someones eyes.

Pillows. Yes, you can spend a few nights with a hoodie crumpled under your head, but a pillow adds a lot of comfort.

Shoe storage: you don´t want to sleep with your shoes in the same room, especially when also hiking. A lockable ventilated box that goes under the car is the way to go.

>> So, look, if you’re filling your car with some fancy, expensive gear, you want to protect it.

That seems to be the problem of this article. Fanciness and wow effect over function. Keep it simple, sweetie.

Liked. Cannot wait for fan photos, videos and other fan related content on my wall. It will be MUCH better than what usually lands there.

I really miss the "old days" when the internet was full of single purpose, dumb-if-you-think-too-much-about-it, hilarious sites (crappy taxidermy, ThatWillBuffOut.com, graphjam, etc.) and this is as close as we can get these days. Only. Fans.

A few commenters pointed out that the guest was in the wrong, for having a pet over, not the renter for having security cameras.

The first thing to point out is these are not mutually exclusive, I think both parties have broken some moral boundaries.

More importantly though, if we accept that this guest´s bad behaviour justifies the use of a camera to detect it, does it also justify the owner (presumably) spying on every guest? Even those who don´t break any rule at all? Do we consider that okay - the ends justify the means, the owner has the right to monitor for house rule violations? If so, where´s the difference between this and being spied on by Facebook or other communication platform? You rent your "online presence" from them, pay them by having ads shown, a contract like any other. Why then shouldn´t they spy on you to monitor for breaking any arbitrary rules?