It is. The fact that our dominant desktop operating systems are still using security models from last century is probably the #2 disaster of modern tech security, coming in just behind so much software with potential security implications still being written in languages like C and C++ at #1. And the understandable yet still deeply regrettable reason for both disasters is the same: momentum.

I normally connect to all online conference calls via their web UIs. At least then it takes both a screw-up in the communications system and a screw-up in a browser security sandbox that is independently developed to allow something like an RCE or data leakage vulnerability to be exploited.

People have called me crazy for not wanting to install native apps from the likes of Microsoft, Google and Zoom in the modern era of remote working, but every now and then, there's another story like this one that reminds me why I am extremely careful about what native software I install on anything these days.

What, specifically, do you mean by "personal Windows installations"?

Are you suggesting that any business of any size should only ever use Enterprise editions of Windows?

No employment at all. I suspect the only thing he'd find acceptable would be if they just go away somewhere he doesn't have to look at them and die quietly.

We tend to see in others what we see in ourselves. And he sees worthless losers everywhere he looks.

Also, one human air traffic controller is one of many thousands. If they screw up, they screw up, but all the rest are unaffaced. You remove that person from the job during the investigation and life (and air traffic) goes on.

If the AI controller screws up, all air traffic controller must be shut down immediately until the cause is identified and remediated.

More and more production has been moving out the US entirely, to countries that absolutely love all those US dollars. Been going on for decades, and will continue to accelerate.

Except that California has been bankrupt for years, and every penny makes it harder to hide.

And take all those tax dollars with you! Especially all the income tax your employees pay!

I suggest you have a grown up read it, and explain the long words to you.

But it does mean nobody is required to help. And the Coast Guard determined in real time, talking to the boat, that it was a request for assistance, not a distress call.

Both terms have a specific legal meaning. One requires assistance, the other does not.

Zuklerburg wasn't on board at the time, and really doesn't know much more than what his captain told him. The captain's excuses do seem flimsy, and Zuck himself is a disgusting slime mold, but no laws were broken. Get over it.

"Not been confirmed by us independently."

And the claim that the yacht refused to help was, at best, third hand.

Pretty much ever story on it, with quotes from Coast Guard reps. So, it's a dozen or more news articles quoting Coast Guard sources by name vs "some nameless person who claimed to be onboard the ship that ran out of gas, and claimed that the captain said. . ."

Granted, the news can't be trusted to tell you what day of the week it is, but it's still more credible than "Some nameless person who claimed to be onboard the ship that ran out of gas, and claimed that the captain said. . ."

If you'd spend five seconds at a search engine, you'd know all that. But facts don't support your masturbatory hatred of rich people, with rich people being anybody who makes more money that you do flipping burgers.

That sounds like the MS package is doing the blocking, not Reddit.

Only applies if it's a distress call, which the Coast Guard says it was not. And said so at the time.

According to the Coast Guard, there was no distress signal, only a request for assistance, which is not the same thing and does not carry the same responsibilities. (And that determination was made in real time, talking to the boat in question.)

Try to look less slimy than Zuckerberg, dude.

Only if there was an actual distress call, which, according to the Coast Guard, there was not.

This is just hate wanking on The Zuck. Which, mind you, is always fun, and he certainly deserves it, but let's not exaggerate things.