Well, they are good for a laugh sometimes at least.

That they are looking for 'cool offices' in silicone valley tells me they are probably not going to spend any money they get all that wisely... which might be why they do not have enough.

Thing is her distrust goes well beyond a reasonable suspicion. Yeah, the industry makes mistakes and has issues, but she goes to the other extreme and distrusts everything to the point of irrationality.

She only changed to the 'safe' argument when her original ones were discredited, so it is less about wanting actual changes and more about moving the goal posts to ensure she is always on the anti-side. No amount of safety will be enough for her or her supporters, as long as there is one person out there with one side effect she will claim they are dangerous since statistics matter less then a heart wrenching personal story.

It was less the educational elites with their propaganda and more the aristocrats and people wanting to be like them. The wealthy could afford education, spelling, while not truly standardized, had a right and wrong within high society, and people with less resources wanted to emulate the wealthy, just like always.

Ah yes, because earning less then they could with the same degree out in private industry is such a gravy train....

People who actually work in the field and spend decades of their life in dedicated study of the subject disagree.

Or right wing anti-government groups, or left wing radical environmentalists, or some random cult, or some kind of false flag that quietly got dropped instead of milked, or some really dedicated jerks with too much free time. Or maybe time travelers who realized that the particular security station in question was going to be the first network node to become sentient and send humanity down a the long dark path of extermination thus they took it out first. Heros I tell you, heros!

I think the poster was referring to the FERC trying to redact and re-release a document when it is already out there in its original form, thus the action is meaningless.

Yes, but for most people in california that would represent several years worth of income, and since rewards generally try to attract the attention of as many people as possible in the hopes someone knows something, 'does not appeal to wealthy people', who, by definition, are rather rare, is not a big concern.

The tricky part is what constitutes 'proper' security measures and how those weigh against other factors.

I would argue it is only 'sloopy' in that it gets picked up outside the field and reported on more general sites like slashdot. As with so many things, I feel it is science reporting that messes things up, not scientists talking amongst themselves.

You know.. ..if I had a time machine and too much free time, that would be some serious lulz.

That is how I interpret it, a quick sound byte attaching a particular pairing of blue collar and white collar positions to point out the problem with the whole 'well, blue collar workers will just become white collar ones' approach to the issue.

Well put. People are focusing too much on the specific combination here and skipping over the reference to the more general problem with Zuckericanneverrmemberthespelling's overly focused solution.

Unless they really screwed it up, a custom allocator when you know the size of your data blocks (and they are all the same) is going to out preform the general one on any system, it is just a matter of how much performance gain you get vs the risk inherent in adding the allocator. The general allocators have gotten better over the years, but there will always be additional overhead involved in maintaining pools capable of handling any arbitrary sized allocation request.