Yes, I agree with you.

My son has so far figured things out on his own. A couple of times he called to ask for help, but after a conversation, he figured out how to get through the scrape by himself. I give him that much credit. If he ever did come to me in such a desperate situation that he needed Dad to cover, the loan would come with strings, in the form of a repayment plan, and forming and following an actual budget for the duration of the loan.

We never co-signed a lease or a note for our kids, and despite that, they found ways to own vehicles and rent apartments. That's a good way to learn how to be independent, by being...independent.

I agree, too many adult children expect, and get, a free ride from their parents.

The more believable articles stated that the pilot used a Boeing-manufactured emergency satellite signal radio to alert rescuers to his location (sending GPS coordinates via encrypted signals at irregular intervals to make back-tracing his signal more difficult).

That is unsafe engineering. A failure condition where the presumption is "All Clear" for aircraft entering an airspace.

Neither civilian or military can afford to assume that a space is clear unless told otherwise -the presumption must always be not safe until confirmed clear. The risk from a false negative is too high.

No one expects Apple to use Google's extensions related to encryption. Apple didn't support the *vanilla* RCS standard, making it impossible to share full-resolution photos and videos using RCS.

How about you focus on the facts, instead of pretending you know my motivations.

Root should *not* have access to rewrite the entire OS. This is what Microsoft was forced to learn the hard way, through the CrowdStrike fiasco. As a result, they are moving drivers from Ring 0 into a more protected layer, so that the drivers, even with root permissions, cannot cause an OS-level crash.

You are conflating user-level permissions, with role-level capabilities. To be secure, the installer must be a part of the OS, and the developer must only be able to supply a package for that installer to process. This prevents the installer from causing OS problems because the installer simply won't do things that an installer shouldn't be allowed to do.

A competent system administrator would know that they don't know enough to fully understand the details of every security patch. Such knowledge requires much more research and analysis than the typical system administrator has time to do, regardless of their level of competence. It's not their job to second-guess which security updates they should accept, it's their job to keep the systems updated, not to pretend they know more than the software vendor about which things are important.

It appears that three AI companies are neck and neck: GitHub, Claude, and Cursor. https://www.cbinsights.com/res...

My experience is a bit different from yours. I personally use GitHub Copilot, which lets you use models from all the major companies, including Claude. Whenever I've tried Claude models, I get good results, but the execution is *S*L*O*W*. Like, 3-5 times slower than, say, GPT-5.4. So I keep reverting back (for now) to GPT.

At least Gemini is *trying* to tell the truth!

Isn't it???

And these are apparently huge ones, at that!

That sounds like sales gobbledygook to me!

This was literally my point about how security was built into Android and IOS. Neither one lets installers do anything to the OS, the package can only be unpacked in ways that are specifically designed by the installer mechanism. It's not a user permissions thing, it's an installer capability thing. In the phone world, you don't write an executable to do your install, you create a package, which the OS itself unpacks.

By contrast, a Windows or Mac OS or Linux installer, is just an ordinary executable under the hood, that can do anything the user running the code, has permission to do. Because you the developer provide the executable to do the installation, this is inherently a less secure installation mechanism.

And yet, microplastics (or any plastics) are not soluble in water and peroxide. So the body's ability to remove microplastics, as observed in this study (or at least as observed in the lack of buildup), doesn't seem to be related to solubility.

You're right, what you are doing is not what I was talking about.

Your choice is binary for each new version. You can install an update now, or not. You can't choose to install, say, an updated version of Office that includes last year's security fixes, but doesn't include last year's feature updates. If you want to update, you get it all. If you don't want the new features, you also don't get the new security patches.

You missed my point entirely. My point was not to criticize people who don't have $500 for an emergency, nor would I criticize fat people, some of whom are in my family.

Most who point to statis like "two thirds of American's can't afford a $500 emergency expense" use this to promote more government programs, or UBI, or other such taxpayer-funded "mitigations." Injecting more money doesn't help people with this struggle, any more than enlarging grocery store produce sections helps fat people lose weight.

Google's proprietary extensions focus on features like encryption, and have nothing to do with the difficulties Apple users had sending photos and videos to Android users.

Imagine the conversation in the boardroom:

"It's nearly 100% profit. We built it out of leftover parts!"

"They are selling out -we need to make more."

"...shit. We are running out of leftover parts."

"Call it a 'Limited Edition' and double the price."