This. We have reached the point where electronic security for most individuals is simply not possible. The problem is that it's "hard," and most people that aren't security professionals (and even some that are) will never understand how things like encryption, asymmetric keys, etc. work. Which means that in order to secure themselves, they HAVE TO trust someone to take care of those details for them. But any company these days essentially has to be assumed to be under the control of a government, or will instantly fold when pressed.

And even if you're comfortable managing keys and such, you probably can't write your own software (especially strong encryption algorithms) and build your own hardware.

Totally different:
1. In a proxy, the key used to sign MITM traffic is on a device not accessible to anyone but the admins, not stored on a PC (probably improperly secured) that other malware could access.
2. A good proxy will check certs on the server side of the connection. The one we use will either "pass through" certificate errors, or allow us to block sites with invalid certs entirely.
3. A proper setup will use the URL categorization to not MITM certain traffic. We decrypt anything that's blocked (you have to in order to deliver a block page without cert errors), but that's not a big deal since it never even talks to the server. We also don't decrypt healthcare, banking, shopping, etc.

Condoms? A 2% chance of failure isn't a chance I'd like to live with (not to mention the annoyance of using them)

Male birth control pills would have a similar problem. For a woman, 99.9% effective means that she's only fertile, on average, once every 80 years or so. THOSE odds, I'll take.

99.9% effective for a male means there's still almost 300,000 viable sperm every time.

Actually, I'd be curious how Revleap is violating the terms of service. Revleap might not even have to use Yelp's site directly to pull this off, and thus wouldn't be bound by any terms of service. The people actually posting the reviews might be in violation, but that's not who Yelp is suing.

Actually if you're comparing it to public filling stations, number of cars filled per hour or per day would probably be a better comparison.

A single gas pump can probably do about 12 cars per hour (5 minutes for the full transaction). If it takes 6 hours to charge a car, that single pump could fill as many cars as 72 charging stations. Or 7.2 or so 30-minute Supercharger stations (6 + 20%, since it doesn't fill to full, and you'd have to stop and tie up another charging station sooner).

But the GP's point still applies. Voice control is still just re-implementing the dumb light switch, making it more complicated and prone to failure (although it would be an improvement over a smart phone or remote, and definitely useful for mobility impaired, etc.).

The key is automation. If you're not doing that, the whole exercise is relatively pointless (IMO).

Essentially, yes, at least for any publicly traded company that has to increase profits every quarter or be lynched by the shareholders.

A better question is why the hell would you spend $3k on their stupid "navigation package" when that amount of money would buy a brand new Garmin every year (with current maps included) for THREE DECADES??

My fear is that the easier it is for manufacturers to update the software, the sloppier it will be on initial release. You already see this with computer software. It'll be terrible until six months after the cars go on sale (and maybe longer). Then they'll give up entirely a few years later when the new revision comes out.

I appreciate my 14-year-old car with manual, physical switches and buttons for everything more every time I get in a new car these days.

It more like it's unreasonable to expect a person to be able to sit and pay enough attention to what's going on when they're not engaged in the task at all. I either want full control, or no responsibility for control.

What I meant by 10-15 years worth of raises was that I would have had to stay there that long to equal the increase I got by moving on after a handful of years (at my last job, you'd get +$1-2k/yr regardless of merit, and I got +$25k for jumping ship).

I agree that being somewhere for along time with no promotion can be a red flag, but I've also worked places where they'd rather hire externally than give someone too big of a raise.

I also tend to choose jobs based more on what I can learn than what I can earn. Then, so long as you can learn, the money comes naturally. My current job has so many opportunities to gain experience with technologies I haven't worked with before that I'd probably stay here for a while even with no raises at all, knowing that I'll be worth a ton more when I did finally leave (but they actually have a sane promotion path, with technical track positions all the way up to SVP/EVP level).

As much as I normally hate litigation, I'd kind of like to see anyone contracting something dangerous like measles from someone who chose not to vaccinate turn around and start suing the shit out of them. People might not listen to sense, but they probably will listen to their pocketbooks.

Even parents that that have to quarantine their children who are too young to be vaccinated due to exposure and have extra expense or must miss work might be able to have standing.

This is usually the problem right here. The last two times I've switched jobs, I ended up with a pay bump equal to about 10-15 YEARS worth of the wimpy raises I got for keeping my valuable institutional knowledge at the same place.

The limits most places put on promotions & raises mean you're usually shooting yourself in the foot if you stay someplace more than a few years.

3Mbit up? It's still garbage. Wake me up when they make it 25Mbit up & down.

It doesn't really make sense for MS to use a subscription model for the OS, even from their perspective. I would actually be perfectly willing to pay $20-30/yr, but the problem is, what happens when I stop paying, or some kind of problem occurs with the system? If it totally locks you out, you'd have people lining up with pitchforks and torches. If it just stops getting updates, you have a bunch of insecure Windows boxen, that would make MS look bad. You could potentially turn it into nagware, but you'd still have people just ignore it. Same with doing nothing - people would pay for the first year, then stop. So, you charge several years' worth of "subscription" up front, and then provide updates until the EOL date.