My dealer offers "free" loaner cars, so I don't wait. Of course, that's quite an expensive free rental, but it is convenient. "Valet service" is a thing now at some luxury dealerships, too (they come get your car, do the work, bring it back). But that's all only if you're not watching the price.
Wait, who's president again? I thought we had taken a break from rich old white men? (You forgot Protestant, BTW.)
You have quite a warped view of "shoving you religion down everyones throat", when right now today there's a group of brutal thugs who have declared themselves a government and are raping and murdering anyone they feel like, with religion as their excuse. Anyone with the wrong religious beliefs executed at a whim.
If you want to complain about someone blinded by religion in this century, look at those who distributed a beheading video just this week just for fun, and make wholesale mockery of their own religion through their actions. Right now there are places where teaching girls to read is illegal, but go ahead geekoid, get upset about this shit instead.
There has to be more to it than the question, because you can trivially ask it of every theory ever. The paper at least brings something new, pointing to detailed inconsistencies in the theory - it has lots of actual work behind it. Just babbling on about "it might be this or that" doesn't.
Leonard Susskind is famous (as physicists go) for making outlandish claims every five years or so, which then later turn out to be true. But of course it's the latter part that makes his claims interesting, and as he's said "maybe that's because I spend those 5 years working on the problem first". There's a lot being debated about black holes.
Debates/controversies between the likes of Susskind and Hawking are interesting, because you know they've brought deep understanding to the problem before asking the questions. But the internet is chock full of people who are convinced that they've found the flaw in relativity or QM, and most of them bring as much to the discussion as the Time Cube guy, and make about as much sense.
Are you sure there aren't any cgi scripts on that corporate webserver that devs had to touch that one time to debug that thing?
Fortunately for the SSH case, most multi-tenanted servers these days are using VM-isolation, not user isolation, but privilege escalation exploits of one sort or another do show up as a problem on those web hosts with 10000 accounts, where someone uses the setup to push malware from their account to all the served web pages. Hopefully none of those places still give SSH access!
I'm fairly certain that we can come up with an acceptable definition of the "press" - though I don't pretend to be smart enough to be the one to do that.
The SCOTUS this year specifically considered and rejected that exact argument. There's not going to be a good definition that hold as media evolves over time. Plus, how does limited liability matter here? When people pool their money to buy advertising time to advance their political views, why should limited liability restrict fundamental rights? What's the compelling interest of the state there that couldn't be served without that restriction?
We've (indirectly) observed some of objects consistent with our theories of how black holes would behave
That right there is all of modern science. Science hasn't been about direct observation with one's senses for quite some time now. Pretty much all of physics these days is "if we measure X repeatedly this hypothesis predicts distribution Y of values" When Y is observed, the hypothesis is taken seriously as a theory. That's all there ever is. There's almost nothing left to measure directly. (E.g., you wouldn't believe how indirect the evidence for the Higgs Boson is - far more so than for black holes - but the likelihood of the measurements predicted by theory to have occurred at random are quite small indeed).
Moreover, as I recall there is more than a little controversy as to whether supermassive black holes could actually form and grow in a manner consistent with prevailing theory, as opposed to having been formed in the early moments of our universe, or through some yet-to-be-theorized process
Perhaps you misunderstand how science works? There's always the possibility that the leading theory is wrong, for everything. That possibility is uninteresting. A hypothesis that makes specific predictions that the current understanding doesn't is interesting. Measurements that the current theory fails to explain are interesting. "But what if it's wrong?" isn't.
the general trend toward making corporations more and more like people
That's a misunderstanding. There's a general principle that any law that applies to "person or persons" applies to corporations too, which is a good thing. There's also SCOTUS rulings that when a corporation is owned mostly by a small number of people, those people have the same rights as the owners of a partnership would. I don't see a problem with that either (remember, partnerships and sole proprietorships can also have limited liability, it's not something specific to corporations).
This is exceedingly nasty.
The vulnerability occurs because bash does not stop after processing the function definition; it continues to parse and execute shell commands following the function
definition.
The fact that an environment variable with an arbitrary name can be used as a carrier for a malicious function definition containing trailing commands makes this vulnerability particularly severe; it enables network-based exploitation.
This is a weapons-grade exploit IMO, the sort of thing the NSA keeps hidden for when it's really needed. I'm almost surprised it wasn't suppressed.
Hmm, I wonder how many phones are valuable.
Specifically, the researcher is saying that the process of stellar collapse sheds so much mass via hawking radiation that there's not enough left to form a black hole. Given this is a fresh paper, and at odds with astronomical observations, I'm skeptical.
Ahh, "activist shareholders" means almost the opposite.
Limited liability is fine - everyone making a loan knows they can't collect if the business goes pear shaped, and you can sue managers directly for a lot of things these days.
You have no clue what wealth is. The wealthy do not have giant Scrooge McDuck vaults where they swim around in vast piles of cash. Money not spent is invested. Guess where the money invested goes next?
You can't really raise the US tax revenue above 20% of GDP - through high rates and low, revenue returns to 19% or so a few years after any change. Growing the economy is the only way to grow tax income. How we tax people might be interesting from a social justice perspective, but has little to do with available funds.
Taxes were far worse in the European feudal system.
Capital gains are as much about inflation as profit. I'm all for treating all income equally (one flat tax to rule them all), but you'd have to inflation-index cap gains (and who still trusts government inflation numbers?) There's probably also redeeming benefit in taxing long-term holdings less than short term (though the current 120 days for qualified dividends hardly counts as long term).
I don't know what you mean by "activist owners".
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed -- it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer. -- A.J. Perlis
