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Somebody could have done that right now as well, but nobody did make them so far (or used them in any significant way that people know of).
Instead of (ab)using somebody else's mistakes to your own advantage (and possibly have it backfire) you could also tell that person about their mistakes so the whole world could benefit and there would be 1 issue less in the world to worry about.
White House officials have deflected many questions, and responded to others by arguing that the focus should be on the attackers themselves, not the manufacturer of their weapons.
Am i to understand that if somebody would manage to steal nuclear warheads and launch them we don't hold the people who failed to protect them responsible?
Disclaimer: I am a parent. Regardles here's my 2c:
I can't speak for the places where this article was published but given this site is its only source this will mostly be read by people that are in general interested in programming or have some interest in open source software. I think we need some kind of future where these genes might be needed to actually help turn the tide on most of the problem with overpopulation, the environment and climate change.
This will most likely not be read by people that do not care about programming or open source software or simply do not care about any of this stuff. They will still reproduce and make the problem bigger. I would say the people that DO care about all these things need to be well represented in the future as well if we want to see change in the future as well.
I am not saying he makes no valid points but these points mostly miss their target audience and are read by the wrong group of people.
It seems to work pretty well. I can understand how this is far from perfect so far but the thing that bothers me the most is that there is no apparent caching mechanism and even though my internet connection is pretty fast it will take a good 10-20 seconds to go through all the links. Once you have determined a site to be clickbait or not maybe cache it so i don't have to wait 20 seconds every time i come back. Additionally this will save a lot of bandwidth.
There are always jobs that are worse in some way. If a plumber screws up you might get a wet floor or sewage in the street. If some banking software makes a flaw, you can't just pick up a mop and clean it up.
There are always jobs that come out worse in some category compared to programming. The problem here specifically is that given you have written 50% of the software people are using and investors are making some millions out of it while you make $40K a year, because they sort of lured you into a deal that apparently is not working out too great for you because you were so focussed on getting the lines of code rolling out they sort of took advantage of the situation?
So by the looks of the picture halfway down the page the porn filter in the UK has also been removed because they are labeled as 'free'? or is porn not a part of (internet) freedom anymore?
Pretty neat for the older generation, until you run into one of these sites that persist that they know how to properly do password security and require you to have at least 1 number, at least a 'special character' (of which the definition is often very vaguely described) it should contain of at least 8 characters and also be no longer than 12.
You will soon come to the conclusion that it is still easier to teach people to use a password manager for this because these schemes are nice but only get you this far before you have to revert to remember that single password again.
Not to mention that once again fear will be the great motivator to open up the debate about 'prohibiting encryption' and 'regulating bitcoin' and the likes.
I believe we would be far better of to not acknowledge whatever 'terrorist' organisation or group might have been behind this by spouting out '<terrorist organisation X> has taken credit for the attacks in Brussels' in the media. Yet we all know this is what will happen. Also the religion aspect will be brought in again because the organisation acts because of their beliefs. Hate will be harvested on both ends. We could possibly lose a bit of freedom, sit out and wait for the next attack.
I have not had the exact same experience but I traveled very often by car through Germany (as a Dutch citizen) for holidays. My experiences are as follows:
- Drive in a (new) Audi A3 on lease:
Get stopped every other time. Completely strip my car and luggage. Throw everything on the ground until everything was spread in a 3m radius around my car. Leave me to pick everything up and tetris it back into the trunk and instead start complaining about how the car is not registered on the same name as my passport.
- Drive in a used Toyota Prius:
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Less tech, more astronomy:
I agree with you there. Imagine you would be at an actual market with a pile of your books and you would tell people they can take it with them and then later decide if they want to give you a 'donation' for it. I would assume similar results can be seen.
Also going in semantics.. Demanding a 'donation' is a contradiction.