If cisco didn't use interns and cheap H1B labor, maybe this wouldn't happen. Seriously, they need some experience, security minded people to manage and review these products before they ship.
If you think this is bad, try looking at the cisco ACE load balancers. They can't even do modern crypto and they refuse to update them.
Are you kidding? This was done for support reasons; to support the NSA.
Well that's exactly it. Isn't the argument that a person may feel as though their brain is a particular gender, and that the physical characteristics of their body represent the opposite gender. I can imagine, being quite comfortable with my own gender, that this would be something of a nightmare.
You're right, they cannot change their gender, for that is seated in their brain. And so they're changing their body, which certainly can be modified, to match.
Why is this a bad thing, if we accept the initial argument?
If their 'brain feels' a particular gender different from that of their body then isn't that by definition a delusion?
Gender isn't like ethnicity, where its driven by self identification. Its more like species.
Theres a similar continuity of species where membership of a species isn't black and white, much like I posit for gender. However, the point where an individual is on that continuum isn't something they can change by wearing different clothes or getting cosmetic surgery. Same with race.
Suppose I was part Asian, say my great grandfather was Asian, but the rest of my ancestors were European. So on the continuum of race I'm way over the European side but not all the way. But I 'feel like my brain is Asian'. To look at me you would think I was European. This makes me uncomfortable; I want people to look at me and think I'm the race that I 'feel in my brain'. So I get cosmetic surgery to make me look Asian such that if you were to look at me you'd go "Oh an Asian guy". But that wouldn't make me Asian, would it?
I have no problem with such a person, or a 'transgender' person, wanting to get cosmetic surgery to feel more comfortable in their body. I just hope it works out and they don't feel like a disgusting mess afterward and kill themselves because they can't really get their penis reconstructed.
Where I draw the line is the distortion of the concept of gender or race so that it becomes like something you can 'dress up like' and change. I think that this is where 'sex change' or 'gender reassignment' surgery is being misrepresented to the people to whom it is being offered. Its a fraud.
They feel pressured by society into making a choice, that they have to throw themselves completely into trying to be male XOR female. They can't be allowed to be a bit of both.
Sure. There are people like that, and no-one rational should prevent them from living their lives as they see fit. If someone wants to be a little bit girl and a little bit boy, then more power to them.
But that's not everyone is it? The fact is that there are people who feel trapped in the wrong-gendered body, and wish to change it. It's their body, and they should be free to modify it how they please. I don't believe that this is always the result of black-and-white girl-or-boy false dichotomies (if that's what they are, you get the idea). After all, gender modification is a serious undertaking, and takes years of surgery and medication. You're saying that everyone that undergoes that process is delusional, and should be happy with the bits that god gave them?
But the truth is that they can't change it. There is no way to change their gender. What they are being offered is cosmetic surgery to give the *appearance* of the other gender.
Cosmetic surgery cannot alter gender.
What's illegal about protesting illegal government actions? Uber is ILLEGAL in France but they continue to operate! Do you understand the concept of "protest"? The idle rich like you are SUPPOSED to be inconvenienced, it is the INTENTION that you get annoyed.
Wait, its legal for a mob to block public roads in France?
Does this mean that Oracle will be producing a Java plugin thats compatible with Chrome???
Aside from the issues of self-signed certificates and strict requirements on whitelisting this might actually make it possible for me to use Chrome to do my job (which involves connecting to remote KVM/iDRAC/ILO systems which require a Java client).
Otherwise, yeah no way Oracle, no one is going to install Java any more if they are using Chrome and don't really REALLY need Java (in which case they'll use a different browser).
In other words, if Oracle doesn't produce a non-NPAPI plugin, then client side Java will be in the wastebasket of history soon; its only a matter of time before its no longer supported in other browsers than Chrome.
The problem we are running into, what I'm calling a delusion, is caused not so much by the people who are going through that delusional process but by something in Western culture.
Western culture has a very black and white view of things, theres an insistence on things being one or the other, nothing in between.
So we have men growing up feeling not quite male yet not being female. They feel pressured by society into making a choice, that they have to throw themselves completely into trying to be male XOR female. They can't be allowed to be a bit of both.
So they go into this delusional state where they acquire this earnest belief that, with cosmetic surgery and hormones they can somehow transform themselves into the other gender.
There are other cultures which don't enforce this black or white approach to gender. Have a look at how things play out in these cultures for people growing up like this. It generally works out a lot better.
In some ways race might be playing out the same way in Western culture, where people must be either black or white or hispanic or asian. Yet there are people growing up who feel neither or a bit of both. Can these people become 'transracial' and get cosmetic surgery to choose a race? Or would it be better for their mental health for them to be allowed to be in between?
Also theres money to be made from delusional wackos, like the transgenders who'll pay for cosmetic surgery to help back up their delusion.
I'm not transgender, nor do I personally know any TG people so take my opinion with the grain of salt it deserves.
My thinking is that someone opting for gender-reassignment surgery is quite committed to living their lives as the gender they feel they really are. It's not a fad or a phase: they've likely lived a good portion of their adult lives in this manner. I imagine they hold their new gender in the same esteem as non-TG people hold their from-birth gender. With this in mind, is 'delusional' really the right word for a person in this mindset?
I can only imagine how horrible it might be to feel oneself to be in the wrong body. I'm a firm believer in Live And Let Live as a life philosophy and feel a little compassion might not go astray for an otherwise-normal person struggling with a serious personal situation. Labelling them as 'delusional' is about as fair as saying the same thing about homosexual people.
Except most of them end up trying to revert and/or killing themselves.
If I believed I was Napoleon do you think there'd be support for me getting cosmetic surgery to look more like the historical Napoleon or do you think people would call me delusional?
If I believed I was a tall black man and got cosmetic surgery to make me look like a tall black man, do you think I'd be good at basketball?
No.
Homosexuals are generally different; a gay man typically doesn't have the delusion that they are a woman.
I've had zero cosmetic surgery, but if you saw me, you'd think I was a "real" woman (whatever that means). As in, you'd hit on me, then piss your pants when you saw the M on my driver's license and blame your misconception that I was a "real" woman on me instead of your own stupidity. This even happens to me when I'm clearly dressed as a boy and making zero effort to "pass!" See also Pandora Boxx and Ru Paul, two cisgendered, heterosexual men who are famous for their drag performances. To the best of my knowledge, no surgery, no HRT. You've got me with Harisoo, but she was already in unicorn territory in the hot-crazy matrix before surgery just like yours truly.
Also, unlike these EM wackos, there is emerging evidence that men and women are different. Let me clarify since I assume you already knew that, but were too stupid to think critically about it. Evidence is slow to come, but apparently the brain is a gendered organ. If you're going to tell me that intersexed people don't exist, and that a person's mental gender couldn't possibly not match their legal gender, and that gender is this holy immutable always-matching thing, you're just as wacko as an EM wacko.
-- kurenai.tsubasa (why the fuck am I still coming here? don't worry, not clicking the SJW bait article about how American Women (AWs if you will) are too stupid to download a compiler after school, because EM wackos amuse me, while SJW/3rd wave feminist/gender lunatics make me want to puke)
Still delusional. Your appearance doesn't change that.
I'm trying to calculate just how much cheap moonshine you have to drink until a prompt where the computer asks if you want to reboot now, or not counts as "the OS decided to reboot all on its own".
Microsoft update WILL reboot on its own. It'll pester you for a few days then it literally reboots your computer without giving you a choice.
Enabling automatic updates is a greater security threat than not updating your OS at all.
The risk of data loss due to sudden unwanted restarts is far greater and more real than having an OS that is 2 days out of date
Strictly speaking risk of data loss due ti restarts is not itself a security threat.
Because mental disorders are taboo and nobody dares messing with those wackos.
Also theres money to be made from delusional wackos, like the transgenders who'll pay for cosmetic surgery to help back up their delusion.
I've been in IT Management for 15+ and I can assure you it is a good thing you are not in management. I would lose my job in a heartbeat if production server decided to take a dump and I had shut off all our fail-over servers.
It's not just a matter of what those fail-over servers costs. It's the question "Can we afford (financially) to NOT have fail-over servers?". If you stand to lose more due to a production server failure than the cost of running a fail-over for a year then you will not EVER wish to be caught without one.
I'm with you in general but it can be incredibly difficult to get an estimate from business intelligence on how much you actually stand to lose per hour of downtime.
Money (or lack of it) IS a management issue....
But how hard is it to automate a process that says, in effect, "if no data is going in or out of this server, shut it down"? I suspect that there is a more nefarious purpose here and I propose a corollary to Hanlon's (Heinlein's) Razor:
This is the 21st Century - "You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from villainy". Incompetence is for the proletariat - we're the NSA. You're toast.
If a customer is paying for it to be there and be kept turned on *maybe* that customer has some use for the server oh I don't know maybe its a hot spare in case another server in another data center goes down? So you turn it off, their other server goes down, their service can't fail over and now your customer has a problem.
This does not stop the UK from allowing private backups and copies -- many EU states* do. This is a violation of EU regulations, where, if such copying is allowed, there must be compensation from government.
This typically takes the form of an extra blank CD or DVD tax, or tax proportional to the memory size of the device (bigger can hold more copying.) Presumably direct payments taxed some other way are also acceptable.
But sorry, welcome to...
* The United States of Europe! All mere States shall be broken to the saddle of the Federal Government. Muahahahahaha
Can you imagine a European FBI? I imagine it composed mostly of Mr Beans and Inspector Clouseaus.
When you have 0/0, you hit two "obvious" but contradictory rules in basic algebra:
Rule one: anything multiplied by zero is zero
Rule two: anything divided by itself is one
Mathematicians don't know which rule has precedence for 0/0, so there's no way a dumb machine can figure it out, which is why most programing languages just throw an exception if zero is the denominator.
If x/0 = some constant, whatever that constant might be whether infinity, zero, 8 or whatever, you get this:
x/0 = c = y/0 therefore x = y for all numbers.
So all numbers are equal and mathematics completely breaks down.
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