Yes, there is a thing known as "security as a culture." Companies that practice it prioritize security as Job 1. From top-to-bottom everyone is regularly trained on security practices and auditing is performed by independent third parties to ensure policies are followed.

I work with a bunch of very large companies and a huge federal agency. It's easy to tell which organizations practice security as a culture and which ones are just on the waiting list for hackers-as-a-service to infiltrate and hold their data for ransom. The responsible organizations show up immediately asking for patches and eFixes for their enterprise software when they are released. The other organizations prioritize implementation project deadlines ahead of software patching and try to play games with estimating the potential risk of a publicly-known vulnerability.

I can't say that my observations are drawn from a valid sampling pool, but of the healthcare customers I work with, they are not practicing security as a culture while most of the other industries are. The federal agency definitely is and every person I interact with there is competent and security-focused.

Google search me photos of people wearing Antifa shirts in public. That's the white whale I'm talking about. Silk screeners on Etsy offering shirts for sale doesn't mean people are buying and wearing them.

Who is the Antifa equivalent of Enrique Tarrio? What is the handiwork you're vaguely referencing? Like the time Antifa attacked the Capitol on January 6?!?

There isn't even a freaking Wikipedia page for "Antifa". Right-wing anti-government extremest groups exist. They're tangible (Boogaloo Boys, Proud Boys, KKK, Oath Keepers). We can name the leaders, the members, and cite their activities (Unite the Right Rally, Steven Carrillo killing cops, and the plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer). I'm not saying there aren't violent left-wing radicals. There are just way fewer and they're not organized into something called "Antifa."

Please STFU with this Antifa nonsense. It's not real. It's a bogeyman fabricated by the right to prop up as an enemy of the people. Who is the leader of Antifa? Who is a member?

Conversely, Donald Trump leads "MAGA" and Marjorie Taylor Greene is a member. Donald Trump has raised millions by selling hats, shirts, etc. emblazoned with "MAGA" and I see people wearing that all the time. I've never seen an Antifa shirt.

Crappy products are not the fault of all members on a team. Engineers specifically are hobbled by the constraints handed to them in terms of cost to build final product and cost to research the technology required. There would be lots of talent coming out of Magic Leap that reflects potential greater than the results delivered by the company's products.

Magic Leap had headquartered in Miami and is floundering. They abandoned the consumer market in 2023 to chase corporate and industrial use cases. As they shed staff, Apple Vision offices will be open down the street to gather them up.

I hate software controlled cars, which is funny because I drive a Tesla Model 3, probably one of the most software controlled cars in existence.

The reason I hate them is the second guessing of the driver. Some engineer ( or his manager ) decided it doesn't make sense to allow me to depress both the brake and accelerator at the same time. Why would you want to? Well, one reason I hit often is because I'm trying to dry the brakes off. But, the car won't let me, instead putting up a modal error message ( without even an override option ). There are similar nannies for trying to get out of the car when it isn't in park, or trying to change between forward and reverse when the car is rolling more than a couple miles per hour.

It's not just an electric car thing, though. It's a "modern car" thing.

Automatics will ignore you if you try to command such a low gear that you'll over-rev the engine ( to be fair, those types of nannies predate software controlled vehicles by many decades ).

And that brings me to the subject people are discussing... Manuals and the feeling of control and connectedness... One of the advantages of a manual is that it will do what you command, when you command it, no matter how crazy. It you decide to see what will happen if you put the car in reverse at 40 mph... it will let you find out! ( and you'll feel like a fool when the shop gives you the repair estimate ).

If you're someone who predominantly thinks of automobiles as a way to get from a to b, and especially if you have an automatic ( ignoring dual clutch ) then you probably like the protection that the nannies provide.

But if you're commenting here about how modern ( non dual clutch ) transmissions are pretty much as good as a manual... Well, you just don't get it, and nothing I say will likely convince you. If you don't know how to toe-and-heel, double clutch, etc, well then... sigh.... please just accept that you're missing a whole aspect of driving that is hard to explain and you'll just probably never understand. But please don't be arrogant enough to think you understand the situation enough to comment intelligently.

I do have to say that electric cars have saved me from a choice I thought I might have to make on my next car... Full manual vs dual clutch. Because you really can't argue with a high performance dual clutch system in a modern sports car for going fast... And yet, I love having a clutch. There are all kinds of subtleties in learning to use a clutch which again, give you a connectedness and control over the car that nothing else can touch, including dual clutch systems... ( I cringe that modern cars have rev matching systems! ).

The original article that we're all commenting on is a pathetic attempt at journalism by someone who knows very little about the subject they're trying to write about. They missed the key points by a mile.

Some of the reader comments have been pretty good, though...

Yeah, I agree with you. I've been driving BEV for 11 years now, but I've had hot hatches and similar up until 6 years ago... I had a 2005 Subaru STi that is still my first or second favorite car. It was a blast to drive, and very analog... No traction control or stability augmentation, but the 3 LSDs and the driver controlled center differential let you take it right up to ( and actually pretty far past ) the limits of adhesion on all four wheels, and yet feel perfectly in control.

The 2017 Focus RS and Subaru STi that replaced it didn't feel at all the same. I especially didn't like the non-linear way traction / stability systems would jump in when pushing the limits. Mostly some hard braking on one or two corners that was so sudden and extreme that it was impossible to play with... once those systems activated, the fun was pretty much over. ( Of course, you could turn those systems off, but that was something I was always reluctant to do on the public streets and highways ).

The ( performance ) Tesla Model 3 has a very similar feeling when you're not in track mode. I agree with the statement that that's just how modern cars drive. And I don't turn on track mode on the public streets for multiple reasons. So, I still miss the 2005 STi for the fun of flinging it around in snow etc...

I agree though, with the people who mention that EVs don't feel like automatics. I absolutely hate driving automatics, indeed will go to considerable trouble to avoid them, but the two BEVs I've had don't feel like automatics. They feel more like a manual with one gear, despite not having a clutch. It's a combination of never shifting at the wrong time or into the wrong gear ( because they don't shift ) and the regen feeling a lot like the engine braking of a manual.

About a week ago, I spontaneously embroidered this slogan onto my jean jacket- "The Revolution Will Not Be Instagrammed." It was an update and homage to Gil Scott Heron's song "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised."

There are many levels to my inspiration, but largely it is a commentary on how so many people have abandoned the traditional media for this candy-coated illusion of being "informed." It's really weird for me to now see this confirmation of my suspicion. Opiate of the masses, indeed.

I certainly did read the article. The anti-cheat software is not identified as a vector.

Easy Anti-Cheat, the developers of the anti-cheat engine used in Apex Legends (and several other games), said in a statement on Monday that it was "confident that there is no RCE vulnerability within EAC being exploited."

There is some other mention that actual cheat software had been deployed on the players' systems and a menu was displayed during the livestream. This sounds like a rootkit and the fact that it was limited to two participants suggests the attacker was not able to utilize a vulnerability that was common across all participants, which would have been the anti-cheat software.

I'm suspecting the culprit phished the two affected participants in advance of the tournament and installed rootkits. The indication for this was the attack wasn't more widespread than the two competitors. If the attack was explicitly performed within the game software, then all the players would have been vulnerable and the attacker would have had the opportunity to deploy a larger effect.

This is also the type of attack that will prove trivial to trace by a federal forensics team and this person is going to find themselves in prison "for fun."

Amazon will ask for the thing back if it has any significant value. They package these returns up in huge pallet boxes and sell them off. Third-party companies then process the contents of these boxes and post each item on eBay or distribute at flea markets and junk stores.

Theft vs. unauthorized use depends on intent. If the perpetrator was just driving the car around, that's the unauthorized use. If the person was planning to chop it up and sell the parts, that's theft. Part of the distinction depends on whether the result would deprive the owner of the car permanently.

I would expect this charge to be lowered to "Unauthorized use of a motor vehicle" as there is no evidence the person was trying to do more than joyride the car. Even that charge will be difficult to prosecute as the word "use" would normally entail a certain amount of control of the vehicle.

A couple ways to defend either charge.

• Abandoned vehicle blocking traffic. The individual was attempting to clear the public thoroughfare.
• This is a taxi, yet there is no clear marking which seat the customer is expected to occupy.

Oh, dear. Is it too late to adopt the Clipper chip?

Reminds me of when a developer bought an ice factory downtown in order to build condos. After closing the ice factory down, they left the property vacant for like 10 years while it appreciated in value. When they eventually put it on the market to sell to another developer to buy it and actually follow through and build condos, people were like, "Yay! At least condos would make use of that space that isn't being used."