As long as

• City Managers

continue to believe they

• "can't be fired for buying Microsoft"

security issues like this will continue. This is no different than managers in the 80s who "couldn't be fired for buying IBM", until they were.

Microsoft, like IBM, is a sales-driven culture. As such security is an expense to be avoided wherever possible. The most dysfunctional example of this is the NSA's forcing telcos and large ISPs to host Windows CALEA servers, which also were predictably hacked.

Much as those who only know Windows would like to believe, this is not a solvable technical issue. You simply cannot build secure software on such a large foundation of proprietary desktop legacy software with uncountable hacks to ensure vendor lock-in No, this is a cultural issue and will never be solved until Microsoft, like Apple, adopts a Unix or Linux-based core OS.

What I find more interesting than this so-called poll is the lack of transparency from AP-NORC. Where is the ANOVA? What polling methodology was used? Who and more importantly, where, was the sample audience? None of this seems to be available online. Also, why does the provided link point to an ad-laden Yahoo site vs AP-NORC directly? Why too is there scarce online detail on the Trump-quoted American Academy of Sleep Medicine?

A proper ANOVA would need to at least track the latitude of those polled. A good poll would also differentiate those who have lived where there was no clock change vs those who have not, in the US during the energy crisis for example. For sure it must track computer programmers who have to deal with cron-dependent software. Statistically valid methodology also has to test a null hypothesis. I'd bet making these sorts of distinctions, across a much larger sample, would show different results.

As a kid in the US during year-round DST for example, I did not feel safe about having to bicycle to school in the dark. Why is there no polling detail on these sorts of pros and cons?

Those of us with some background in statistics and epidemiology are inclined to chalk this up to news media's increasing tendency to polarization and US education's utter failure to prepare students to be critical consumers of such claims.

What I find more interesting than this so-called poll is the lack of transparency from AP-NORC. Where is the ANOVA? What polling methodology was used? Who and more importantly, where, was the sample audience? None of this seems to be available online. Also, why does the provided link point to an ad-laden Yahoo site vs AP-NORC directly? Why too is there scarce online detail on the Trump-quoted American Academy of Sleep Medicine?

A proper ANOVA would need to at least track the latitude of those polled. A good poll would also differentiate those who have lived where there was no clock change vs those who have not, in the US during the energy crisis for example. For sure it must track computer programmers who have to deal with cron-dependent software. Statistically valid methodology also has to test a null hypothesis. I'd bet making these sorts of distinctions, across a much larger sample, would show different results.

As a kid in the US during year-round DST for example, I did not feel safe about having to bicycle to school in the dark. Why is there no polling detail on these sorts of pros and cons?

Those of us with some background in statistics and epidemiology are inclined to chalk this up to social media echo chamber effects, news media's increasing tendency to polarization, and US education's failure to prepare students to be critical consumers of such claims.

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.

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.

There's no way exim has even a 6% market share much less 60, so take the article with a grain of salt. All of the largest ESPs and appliances run postfix as do most smaller shops so the issue will not be as significant as the article suggests.

> 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.

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.

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).