Seconded. Citizens should be entitled to vote, non-citizens should not, in any country. Not really sure why this is such a thorny issue in the US.

I don't understand why this is always misrepresented. The baker in question did not refuse service, he offered the customer any off-the-shelf wedding cake. What he refused to do was a custom design which advocated for something which he did not believe in. Which seems pretty reasonable to me.

Rats, the one time I actually want to reply on Slashdot is after I get mod points...

Permit me to play devil's advocate a little bit. Daniel Khaneman in "Thinking, Fast and Slow" talked about how an algorithm (well, a simple formula based on objective questions) could do a better job at making hires than a human interviewer making decisions.

He also talked about how getting more information isn't necessarily helpful, it just biases the interviewer and doesn't necessarily contribute meaningfully.

It's been a long while since I read the book, but that's the general gist of it. Khaneman's algorithm relied on humans asking questions and administering tests as I recall, it was decades ago that the technique was used so machine learning wasn't really a thing yet.

I wouldn't judge too harshly on that. My Nokia 8 tells me there are security updates about every month or two and I find it slightly annoying. I think more people would find it annoying if it were more frequent, and there would be more incentive to turn it off (bad idea).

The other factor to consider of course is, are the Intel (and ARM I guess...) security problems really that big a deal? Red Hat and SUSE would need to patch them but speculative execution things while in theory possible shouldn't really be a big deal for a cellphone because you're not virtualising anything (AFAIK).

That being said there probably are other vulnerabilities that are being patched. I don't pay that close attention to kernel development

Interesting... again, pardon my ignorance, but what does SOC mean?

True but Numba is hardly useful if you want to exploit a system. Scientific computing yes. Gaining root access no.

I may be showing my ignorance here, but unless on the target system some python thing is being exploited, how do you know what the crackers will use? I'm not aware that calling cards are left after a system has been compromised. Sockets, file reads, etc. all look the same if they're done by a python script or a compiled program.

Interestingly, even though my name is incredibly common, I've only ever once gotten someone else's email. Though perhaps there's a good explanation for that. I used to have an IEEE email address (firstnamelastname@) and I got a mail for someone who was starting a new job with some typical info. I responded by saying that it probably wasn't for me. My Gmail account has never received someone else's mail, though I think that because I have a very common name, all the obvious combinations were taken by the time I signed up and I had to get a bit creative.

And me without mod points... Well said, sir!

This - but also. I work at MeerKAT, and our receivers can pick up the CPU clocks of cellphones (~1.4 GHz is quite common cellphone clock frequency, it also happens to be right where we want to observe), even when they're on flight-mode.

Fortunately our facility isn't much of a tourist place.

Well, parts of the profit are socialised as well. No government will advise citizens not to drink at all because they all get a juicy "sin tax" on the sale of alcohol.

Some analyses of the size of the bubble have been performed:

https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news-fast-news/bitcoin-the-biggest-bubble-in-history-is-popping/

I'm not aware of any comparisons of the nature of the press surrounding it though. That is quite an interesting question.

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/768/

Could you clarify what you mean here? I feel as though you're making a rather profound point but I'm missing all the cultural references. I'd like to understand this.