And is likely probably already being used on the attack side?

Wouldn't put it past people that this is already happening with vendor security products and some basic compliance checkboxing.

Not because of steeling or use IMHO. It will be mostly because of the sheer amount of low quality open source or freeware products out there with no maintenance and people's increasing ability to generate bespoke fit for "purpose" code. I think large projects have the potential to benefit with the right gate keeping and processes.

I'm going to blame all the science fiction it consumes.

The changes to the law / interpretation is part of the mechanisms of how the pendulum swings as the swinging is a human thing, so it happens on longer time scales. But it can definitely feel like it's over. (But each swing is different.)

Don't do this because of this, you will be a pawn being told to do something with a potentially massive cost to yourself and very little gain / loss on either side, not to mention other than the owning corporation what does source control have to do with operating systems. It doesn't send the right message of a boycott. It would hardly register on Microsoft charts.

Look a new endpoint to guard with your life.

It's borderline if it's too good to be true... I wonder about the long term stability of signal. I guess if it does disappear it does leave the protocol. However I would have wished for some means of integration between the signal compatible providers. (Perhaps it exists and I'm not aware?)

If amazon can pull of people paying for this, this opens the doors to many more companies with different philosophies producing devices, perhaps even reverse engineering the existing devices including open source. If not, e-waste.

Some people want to get rid of daylight savings time. Others want to keep doing this "spring forward" thing. I propose a compromise that should work for everyone.

We keep doing the "skip an hour ahead" thing, but not in the middle of the night on a Sunday. Instead, we switch to a Friday afternoon.

We jump ahead from 3:00 Friday afternoon to 4:00 PM Friday, making the weekend one hour closer.

> Humans, you may Exit.. Stage Left. Meatsack department is down the stairs in the basement.

You understand you folks have been saying that since the 1800s, since the moment someone connected a plow to a tractor. The cotton gin, the automatic loom - goodbye humans.

Once upon a time, writers used pencils and WROTE the words, forming each letter. Then came typewriters. Authors stopped writing and started just typing.

They would cut and paste sections - with scissors and *paste*.

Soon came word processors and grammarly. Most authors alive today have never cut and pasted anything. A machine, a tool, does it for them.

Yet, we're intelligent enough to understand that when you use a tool to create something, you've created something. Using a tool, whether the tool is a pencil or a program, doesn't mean you didn't make the thing.

> the strong of-course do as they will, and the weak do as they must.

Just to get maximum clarity, do you think that's good, or bad?

Anyone else notice the very last line states that the bold headline is bullshit? That seems to be pretty standard on Slashdot, and a lot of media generally.

Absolutely false headline, which is all most people ever see. Then at the bottom of the story they mention the reality so the author can claim they weren't full of shit.

It's mostly not about reciting memorized facts.

Education isn't just reciting memorized facts. A good education teaches one thinking strategies. How to figure things out. The ability to figure things out is kinda what IQ is all about.

One examples is learning to start by picking out relevant vs irrelevant information, such as in word problems. My daughter gets a lot of that in third grade and has become quite good at it *through practice*.

She's learning to check whether the answer she comes up with is reasonable, then think back and try again if her first thought doesn't render a reasonable answer.

She's learning, through schooling, that when presented with a question she doesn't know the answer to, she can think through what she DOES know and use that to estimate an answer. For example, she didn't know how long it takes to drive fly from Dallas to California. But she DID know California is a distant state. She also knows Florida is a distant state and was a three-hour flight. So she can reason that it "three hours" would be a reasonable answer to how long it takes to fly to California - more reasonable than 30 hours or 1/3 hour. She learned this strategy through education.