Catch up on stories from the past week (and beyond) at the Slashdot story archive

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Comment Re:We live in the dark ages (Score 1) 72

Crew members who test positive for COVID but are fully vaccinated and boostered are unlikely to feel sick. As such they present no risk to other fully vaccinated and boostered crew members or passengers. That's the nature of COVID immunization as shown by research on large populations from the CDC, Israel, Singapore and elsewhere. Being fully vaccinated reduces the risk of illness, hospitalization or death to less than that of the annual asian flu. Even though this is Epidemiology 101 media outlets (with help from Putin and Xi) will not let facts get in the way of a good profit.

Comment We live in the dark ages (Score 1) 72

We live in the dark ages of disinformation and this story is proof. When airline personnel who have no symptoms and no more chance of getting sick than getting polio, because they are vaccinated and bostered, are told to stay home because they might infect someone who refuses to be vaccinated. We live in the dark ages of disinformation thanks to people who know so little about scientific methodology they cannot discern research from facebook, fox, twitter or youtube. We live in the dark ages of disinformation because 'if it bleeds it leeds' media outlets care not for fact checking, whose financial interests trump all else, where TV is truth, where antivaxers have the right to put themselves and others at risk and where it is not PC to even suggest they be required to get vaccinated (as they were for polio, measles and many other serious diseases) much less quarantined like Typhoid Mary. Some day future generations will look back on this era like we look at the middle ages and wonder WTF they were thinking.

Comment Re:Let me guess... (Score 2) 118

> expanding in China might make a lot more political sense for Taiwan

The case for CN manufacturing has both pros and cons. On the one hand costs are much lower in CN than TW.
On the other hand CN's CPP recognizes no international IP rights and will use whatever it can steal, reverse engineer or buy.

If Foxconn wants a secure manufacturing base it must do so anywhere but CN (or TW). Bottom-line is that if the CPP ever were
to interfere with TW there would be a complete and world-wide boycott of all CN imports, exports and travel, regardless of
collateral costs. TW is not Mongolia, Tibet or PH. TW matters to the world and because TW a) recognizes foreign IP law, and b)
is a democracy, it matters more than CN.

Comment Re:Developers need to plan for limited bandwidth (Score 1) 111

Not hard to see the noaa/weather.gov design failures over the past year or two. Most obvious example being their radar page. Once a simple animated gif now dependent on multiple 3rd party XSS providers and still labeled as "New Radar Landing Page" with no link to the older, more accessible and more functional page. Illustrates how we need, today more than ever, a new GOSIP, limiting outsourcing, XSS and XSC. DHS should be spearheading that effort but they seem to have become focused on collecting 'all the data' to the detriment of the greater public interest.

Comment Correlated Linux Trends (Score 2) 80

This should be no surprise given recent trends in the major Linux distributions and Linus' emphasis on features over security. Of the primary trends weakening Linux security 1) systemd and 2) Ubuntu 20 snap are the most significant. Containers are #3. While Docker images aren't handicapped by systemd most have their own security issues. Even nominally secure Docker images have problems with "container-ops" failure to patch, monitor and otherwise treat container security as something that can be achieved by simply firing-up a new instance (occasionally upgrading the base image).

Slashdot Top Deals

Byte your tongue.

Working...