The worrisome habit I see here is banning something because it *might* be abused. Make sure you have laws about kids buying nicotine and move on, it's not your job to parent these kids.

What about disposable vapes without nicotine? I use those for my oral fixation but to not get back into smoking. Should we ban something because it's a gateway to smoking? We should probably ban baby bottles, nip this thing in the bud.

I work in a government agency where they created a whole org to handle "cybersecurity". It lead to a weird relationship, where we're all governed by documents we never see or are allowed access to, infrequent internal audits with a confusing agenda, and the lack of training or knowledge of any of our engineers.

The worst part to me is on the software engineering side: they just kind of said it's "All Cybersecurity" and all they worry about is port scanning and public network holes; nobody here learns how to write code to avoid security vulnerabilities, most people use unvetted OTS software, and there's no plan to train anybody to care about it because it's some other org's problem.

Good luck with banning language jargon

Well, there are more countries in the world than the US and Canada, some with a lot less transparency and government

I'm pretty sure he's not allowed to use the fact that he worked at NSA in order to support a specific vendor

To be fair, the biggest 2 impact events in the past year were caused by India and Russia, with China close behind.

Preventing people from actually blowing up spacecraft is a really good idea, no matter who starts it.

Most white-collar people don't work for 40 hours a week, and we need to hire more people to work for less time not less people seeing their families for less time

That's a false equivalency. Or should American also be considered broken for the lives the Amish live?

This would probably end up in my "blocked" list along with people looking to buy my home

This is exactly it. Pay for software engineers in my area has skyrocketed with covid. Suddenly they can work from anywhere in the US. Developers are finally starting to get paid what they're worth, and we're realizing that there is no shortage, if you can work remote. There's just a shortage of people who will do it for half the price.

I was under the impression that DNA could be used to identify close relatives of that DNA involved in a crime. What about the cases where we absolutely want to check relatives of these victims against DNA evidence? It could even HELP in those victim's cases.

This is correct, most are on board with SpaceX, and just tired of congress making things so frustrating for NASA.

I agree with the rest of the posts, I wouldn't miss Facebook at all if they were to go.

But they are the devil we know. What's to say what replaces Facebook wouldn't be worse? What replaces Facebook may be able to do so simply BECAUSE it does only what Facebook dreamed of doing and what we're afraid of. Imagine a more competent version of Facebook, evolved over years to feed on people's fears, misinformation, controlling people and making money off of them. Maybe run by a foreign country where all tech is actually collecting data for their government.

The first step is to claim it protects children. The second step is to find a way to monetize it.

We don't think this is a way to protect kids, do we? It's just a way to make money off of porn. And how long until a child is hurt when the sensitive data collected gets exposed?

I understand what it means for things to be in "international waters so anything can happen", but can we take a step back and look at how silly this all seems?

Oh, piece of tech went down in international waters, scramble! If my kid finds another kid's pencil, and knows it's theirs, I teach them it's right to give it back even if they wouldn't. So why do we expect children to act better than national leaders? No wait, why don't we expect national leaders to act better than children?