With these disclaimers? Doubtful.

Well, MS made sure to live up to everybody's expectations by not only making this a security mess, but also a reliability mess! So much quality. So much winning. So much improvement.

Au contraire! For attackers, this is an exciting new feature that will offer endless new functionality and may finally prevent users from sabotaging their efforts by actually having a clue and being careful.

While I understand your requirements and they do make sense, they are not realistic at this time. The technology is not mature enough for it and will remain not mature enough for quite some time. Hence something has to give. With Linux, you will need to do more system administration and occasionally fix some things manually. The good thing is that things generally stay fixed on Linux. With Windows you will get lack of security, reliability and, more and more, lack of usability. It will also break in new and unexpected ways from time to time.

Pick your poison.

Can you comment a bit more on the things you would want to change?

True. But cars are strongly regulated, even if often reactively, see, for example, the Tesla "autopilot" kills. A new car has to be fit for use by design or else the maker will get problems. There is no such requirement for Operating Systems and office software and I would argue that Microsoft has stopped being "fit for use" a while ago at least for non-experts.

And dangerous for dumb people. Remember that "malware installation" usually means lateral movement and then compromise of the whole organization these days, because AD security sucks and then it is often misconfigured on top of that.

I would not trust this on a hardened Linux with network access. Windows? Do you want to get hacked?

Also note that they only put that in there because the lawyers told them they had to. This means this technology represents a fundamental and systematic novel risk they do NOT have under control. The usual limitations of warranty are not enough. Providing or using this feature will likely fall under gross negligence. Microsoft can get out of the resulting liability by explicitly warning its users that this is not a feature you can use securely and that result quality is very much not ensured. Or in other words, this is a very dangerous toy, not a professional product.

That they feel they need to add a warning with this uncommon level of clarity is very telling. I am sure all the MS fans and all the nil wits will still ignore it. So let me add this, because it will be relevant: We told you so.

Keep projecting. I am sure it will help.

Yes. Ukraine had a chance in 2022 because Putin sent a very small force assuming that he could convince Putin to agree to the peace deal where they'd stop killing Ukrainians in Donbass. And it would have worked if NATO hadn't offered to send all the money and weapons Ukraine wanted to keep the war going.

Ukraine then pushed the Russians back because the Ukrainian military outnumbered the Russian forces and suddenly they had Starlink for communications, US intelligence data to tell when where the Russians were, and all the weapons they could eat. But once they failed to push the Russians out of Ukraine it was just a matter of time for Putin to build up the available forces and ramp up weapons production. There was no way to win after that other than for NATO to send in troops, and no NATO government wants to do that.

Now either NATO will send in troops or Ukraine is going to get a much, much worse deal than they were offered in 2022 and it may not longer even exist as a viable country. Particularly if Putin takes Odessa as well and cuts rump Ukraine off from the Black Sea entirely.

I dug into the sources a bit. Apparently they were excluding white neighborhoods from checks, then somebody else was removing non-asian names before forwarding it for further investigation.

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Looking into the sources and tracing a bit:

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If they actually did this, well, that's like how the NRA forced most "may issue" states to be effectively "shall issue" for various weapon permits.

When the police can't come up with a good reason for denying the black woman's permit request when she has letters from a ex-boyfriend stalker threatening to kill her, who is due to be released from prison soon, but the white doctor living in a gated community gets it first thing, there are questions to be asked. Especially when permits for black people have a 99% reject rate while whites get them 90% of the time.

Not really wrong, but on reading it is easy to fake. Usually just retelling in some form what the teacher said will do the trick. (That approach also works later in life, unfortunately...) On a math question, if you do not understand it, you do not get the result in most cases.

Now, actual reading comprehension where you have to give an informed and insightful analysis and then takle a position and justify that rationally. Yes. But from my experience, you need an exceptional teacher for that to happen in school.

Just to be clear, I believe that part of the problem was that the city government was broke and basically in receivership. Ergo, the politicians in Flint were not actually in control of the water contracts, it was an emergency manager appointed by Governor Rick Snyder(R).

I remembered the broke part and not in control, looked up the specifics.

Basically, to cut costs, the manager stopped the practice of piping water from Detroit and started using the historically very polluted and corrosive Flint River, without adequate testing and treatment (itself actually a violation of federal law).
Because many of the homes still had lead service pipes, going from basic to acidic caused the protective oxidization on the pipes to dissolve, putting excessive lead into the water.

It eventually made national news, but by all measures, this is still a far better situation than what Tehran is facing.

Switching back to the old water source or adding more controls like running the water through a filter of crushed limestone to correct the PH fixes the issues in Flint. No such easy solution is possible for Tehran.

You just do not know yet that you _will_ give up vegetarianism! They already know.

Even regular, European-style anti-trust action done half would have nicely worked. The problem is not the methods. The problem is nothing was done when the need for action was absolutely obvious.