Of course there are. The point is that when you "abstract" them away you hide them.

...do you know what the machine is doing with the codes that you type? Abstractions neccessarily lead to assumptions.

That depends. Are you more interested in how something happens, or are you more interested in preventing something from happening? I think that is the factor that differeniates technicians from scientists.

Who can sight read assembly anymore?

Everybody who is interested in "How Things Work" can read assemblly code. Those who depend on hopes and prayers do not.

Which just goes to show you that people need to be better educated on how to compare the risks and benefits of the substances that they consume. We have a good understanding of what ASA does, and a good understanding of what APAP does. It is not beyond a person of normal intelligence to weigh the benefits and risks of each.

x86 assembly is not that difficult to understand. You MOV, CMP, and JMP to memory addresses according to the values in the processors registors. My guess is that exponetially more exploits are introduced when what you MOV and CMP and where you JMP to is abstracted away than when it is not.

ASA, or aspirin, is first line treatment for heart attacks and all hospitals have it in stock, and plavix is prescribed a lot more often than warfarin for anti-platelet therapy. Research aspirin's side effects and you will understand why it just isn't handed out willy-nilly. If ASA were a new drug coming to market it is doubtful that it would be available over the counter.

If they only provided cable television, that would be fine. What Comcast has now is a monopoly over the roads that enable people to access the internet.

What the government should be doing is providing the infrastructure that enables competition. Ensuring fair and equal access to the commons is what governments are for. What we get here in the US monopoly enforcement.

Saddleing people with a lifetime of debt is not the answer. A governments duty to its constituents is to provide them with the tools to thrive in the environments that they find themsleves. This is why primary and eventually high school educations became eventually mandated as free and eventually required of all citizens under their jurisdiction. There is no way that something that can only be obtained by money can be considered equalizing in any democracy.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

Right or wrong, LGTB is not in there.

If sex isn't the issue, then what is?

All that is needed is a rule that all the code that is required to fulfill a government requirement is open to inspection.

The fix is already there, no less than 1000 feet.

....from flying over my house, that is all I want.

...insecure as to back an unproven currency! OP most be a just another cad trying to suck real value into something of no value.