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by ygjb-dupe 10y ago
If you are an engineer I would expect a better capability of root cause analysis than that. Your list of things there is entirely comprised of things that are largely outside of the control of individuals. "Poor people are mostly poor
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by ygjb-dupe 10y ago
I think it becomes even more clear; when children living in poverty are living in a society where their basic needs are sufficiently provided for, you take away a great deal of the social stigma associated with engaging child protective ser
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by ygjb-dupe 10y ago
Um, why? If you, as a site owner, expect your page to be served over SSL, turn on Strict Transport Security, enable TLS, and turn off HTTP. STS will prevent someone from using sslstrip on you (STS means the browser won't talk to the s
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by ygjb-dupe 10y ago
jebuz... I hope that you test stuff before putting it into prod after tweaking settings based on permissible values :D
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by ygjb-dupe 10y ago
I didn't; I acknowledged that in some jurisdictions midwives are well regulated. I also contrasted hospital birth with home birth.
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by ygjb-dupe 10y ago
Midwives don't sell themselves on the increases risks, they talk about the (largely) cosmetic benefits of home birth. Look up earlier in the thread for my comment, but anecdotally, almost every parent that I have told my story to has c
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by ygjb-dupe 10y ago
Life is a game of chance, but we make our own luck (beyond what we are born with) by making sensible decisions, taking measured chances, and knowing when to admit we are out of our depth. Yes, midwives (in some jurisdictions) are trained, q
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by ygjb-dupe 10y ago
> It's only in the cases of things going spectacularly wrong that being in the hospital helps. Yep. My wife had a perfectly normal pregnancy, and everything went perfectly until something went spectacularly wrong. When my daughter
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by ygjb-dupe 10y ago
You don't have to like it, but you do have to accept it, or accept that your users will have an inferior user experience, ultimately degrading to no user experience when flash is finally switched off. It sounds harsh, but it's a r
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by ygjb-dupe 10y ago
Because Youtube, unlike the vast majority of websites, have a dedicated security team to monitor and prevent malicious content being delivered to their users, active support for flash alternatives, and flash deprecation is already achieved
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by ygjb-dupe 10y ago
> Can't you trust people to use their own judgement as to whether they can do it sensibly or not? Individually, yes, you can expect people to act in their best interest. When doing things for others, not so much. Look at the #vent
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by ygjb-dupe 10y ago
It's not personal, and it's not about breaking the little guys. Disabling Flash to push the web towards standardized protocols and formats is going to painful for all the browsers, and like many other changes, the biggest blocker
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by ygjb-dupe 10y ago
And yes, the web has deeply ingrained security problems, but so has every single platform for downloading and executing untrusted code. At least most of the major players are now actively engaged in standardizing and improving the security
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by ygjb-dupe 10y ago
You straight up don't know what you are talking about. Every browser development team wants flash to die because of the security risks, performance, stability, and usability problems it induces. The reason the flash market has been sh
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by ygjb-dupe 10y ago
Yes, they do. The problem is that Flash adds a layer of risk and the associated costs of risk management onto the web stack. Adobe does not bear the cost of maintaining flash integrations, and doesn't bear the cost of the liability fo
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by ygjb-dupe 10y ago
Adobe does not currently ship a mobile flash client. See http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/tech-specs.html for currently supported clients. Apple didn't dump support for flash on mobile, they simply
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by ygjb-dupe 11y ago
> This sounds like a failure of business model rather than an intractable problem. Not really, the business model is highly successful, even in the face of rampant piracy. The free software movement might consider it a failing of the bu
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by ygjb-dupe 11y ago
Those are in fact compensation, but not compensation for consumption which is a primary concern for any software which depends on novelty of experience, for example, video games. Yes, I know how open source models work to generate revenue
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by ygjb-dupe 11y ago
> Compensation is not something covered by Free Software. That's kind of my point. Free software, per the FSF and the GPL requires that the users are free to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute software. There is no provisi
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by ygjb-dupe 11y ago
>The whole point of the free software movement is to demand freedom for all users. No it isn't. It's to demand the work of others be free for consumption by anyone without compensation. Users have a choice - free software (th
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by ygjb-dupe 11y ago
If that was the case, then this would be accomplished constructively by people upvoting a strong argument rather than downvoting an argument they have a disagreement with but either a lack of will or ability to articulate the reason they di
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by ygjb-dupe 11y ago
This is less an issue of banding together behind Apple's decision, and more about retaining moral and intellectual control of their software. If the government can get a warrant to force you to ship a patch, regardless of the scope, yo
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by ygjb-dupe 11y ago
Since people seem to think this is an easy set of points to win, consider: * Apple has virtually no ability to shape policy in China (at least, in comparison to western democracies) * China (the government, not the people) is not subject to
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by ygjb-dupe 11y ago
http://www.ghacks.net/2016/02/23/flash-replacement-shumway-i...
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by ygjb-dupe 11y ago
What does Persona offer that brings value from an IoT perspective? The bootstrap primary (which is on life support, with the one hand ready to pull the plug) requires a functional javascript engine to authenticate a user, which is a steep c
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by ygjb-dupe 11y ago
> like any other tool it's up to who is using it to use it in the right way. And mandatory seat belt use is foolish, bike helmets are for wimps, and blade guards on saws are a waste of space and money. Just use those tools responsib
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by ygjb-dupe 11y ago
Yes open source projects do, and Kinto is currently a well supported project at Mozilla. The folks who made Kinto are awesome, and do awesome things at Mozilla, but my personal experience from working at Mozilla is that Mozilla is an aweso
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by ygjb-dupe 11y ago
Yeah, we did science for thousands of years, but medical science has had (and still has) to contend with pseudo science and snake oil continuously (for a modern take, see homeopathy). An anecdote about a personal experience in relation to a
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by ygjb-dupe 11y ago
While the bug doesn't expose a user to mitm attacks in general, am I correct in thinking that folks using "-o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no" have basically opened the door for that? https