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> "This law makes it so that allowing children normal independence is legal."

now we just need to make it normal (i.e., socially acceptable). it's hard because no matter where we stand in the sociosphere, we're always on the lookout for danger and enemies. that's the yang to our yin, the opposing force that elucidates our core identity.

while life is full of quite unlikely but life-threatening risks, it's crippling to be constantly finding, worrying about, and trying to mitigate all of those risks for our kids. we can't, and it shouldn't be expected of us.

parents need to provide the broad strokes (don't jump off a cliff, swallow random pills, or run blindly into the street) but kids need the room to test the minutiae of those boundaries (can i jump off the monkey bars? is this rural dirt road ok to run into? is it ok to eat 10 of these flintstones vitamins at once?). that's what growing up is all about.

otherwise our kids won't be able to cope with the inevitable dangers they will face later in life. on some dimensions, they need to be tested in minutely-increasing increments so they develop confidence in emergency situations ("camp" in the living room, then in the yard, then with a scouting troop, then with friends, then alone) but they don't need to be--and can't be--prepared for every danger in the world.

you can't fly without risking a fall to the ground.
I'm little enough of a hardware person that I'm just interested for the reasons the OP mentioned; constantly switching between AC and DC and AC and DC is obviously inefficient, and batteries are expensive enough that it's probably cheaper to add a DC circuit than to double or triple the battery capacity.
Considering all the mainstream languages, some would argue that most people prefer them.
That's how a power wall works. They are made up of thousands of 18650 cells. The problem is charge balancing. When you have a pack with thousands of different cells from different origins with different internal resistances, keeping the charges balanced becomes a really tricky thing to do.
Even if you're paying for a product, you're probably still a product.
"Wait a month" if you do that, then slack just cost you thousands of dollars. How mad I'd be at slack would be proportional to how may thousands of dollars they just cost me.
For compliance exports at least, preserving deletes and edits is an option you can set.
Burning bridges with who? The HR Drone?
Ok, can you write a law that allows those things while disallowing "leave my 8 year old at home for a month while I go on vacation"? Where are you going to draw the line, and how? Do you think you can get a whole state to agree with you on where the line should be? Does age matter? If so, what ages matter, and how? Do you think public attitudes might change in the future, and require the line to move?

The only way to write this law would be to provide basically no guidance and give police and judges and enormous amount of discretion, or to provide a lot of detail that includes concrete examples of things that are allowed and things that aren't. The world is too complex to write this in purely general terms and expect it to work without issue.
> This price point doesn't make sense outside of the niche SaaS offerings that can charge in the thousands per month.

It's not for SaaS offerings at all, it's for organizations like employers, and the purpose is to manage identity for employee devices (including BYOD) and multiple SaaS products (ideally, all of the SaaS products used by the org, though obviously not all existing SaaS offering support it yet.)

This is an upgraded version of the identity management (even for users beyond those with GCP licenses) included with GSuite, though it can be used independently of GSuite.
The context is taking their children away from their parents under the pretext that the parents are unfit to raise them. Can we agree that "a professional association of physicians made a recommendation which the parents violated" does not constitute "unfit parent"? SIDS is also increased in babies who sleep in a separate room; presumably we're not condoning robbing everyone who has a nursery of their children.
Yeah, see Bill of Rights.
I think perhaps in parallel to you point, move towards centralization tends to overpower confederations. Incidentedly, this point is also made in the Federalist papers and I believe Wealth of Nations which argues that centralization leads to stability and robustness.

Exclusivity and evangelism helped centralize Christianity in comparison with the pagans.
One might argue that this is exactly the reason why slack should not have made this decision.

Inevitably, some communications channels are audit-able and some are not. Modern employees (being modern people) use a lot of channels. They call eachother, SMS, Whatsapp, Slack, email ...sometimes people even talk. Companies have only partial control.

Anyway, harassment or other misbehavior can happen on any of these. In some cases (like your intern case) companies have to audit, if they can.

Can Audit = Must Audit

If slack gives employers the option to read messages, they've given employers the responsibility to do it.

It's not cut and dry. You could argue that companies won't/can't use slack unless they can read messages. This is doubtless true in some cases and I imagine slack has it's eye on these cases right now. But, I think it's hard-ish to argue the magnitude is all that big today.

Companies did use slack before this feature existed, including yours.
> nothing satisfies #3. There is no alternative.

For me at least, there is one app that's starting to mitigate #3 (if not specifically "fill" the gap): WhatsApp. Granted, it's also owned by Facebook, so we're almost back at square one, but it's still an interesting case simply because it doesn't fill the gap, but rather works around it. Which gives me a bit more hope that other tools could too.

WhatsApp does two things:

1. Creates a network from your (possibly completely offline) "rolodex" (phone contact list). And augments these contacts with info specific to their ecosystem.

2. Adds discovery. Through groups, I can connect with new contacts. Similar to Facebook's "suggest friend" feature.

My general point here is the an autoupdating rolodex is only required in a closed ecosystem. WhatsApp does do it's level best to close off its ecosystem, but it's a different paradigm to Facebook, and one currently dependent on existing phone numbers, so it ends up a little more open, and for me seems like a nice demo of how hooking into existing networks (people's saved contact lists) can get you pretty far.
You didn't have compliance exports turned on already?
Misconfigured datastore services abound in the cloud
Lineage builds usually come per default without Google services or apps. It's your decision whether or not you install them. Of course, lots of 3rd party apps do rely on the Google services and won't work without. There is no good workaround for that short of re-implementing the Google APIs yourself or trying to use microG.
Because Trump's ties are legitimately scary while Clinton's are trumped up bullshit.

Which you should know, Donald Trump, Jr. You were in some of the meetings.
This seems to be a single product of many things announced today. There were 2 Cloud blog posts covering things that happened[0][1].

It seems to all be GSuite/Cloud focused, but there are some big things in there if you use these. Stuff like FedRAMP Rev. 4, Access Transparency reporting, security partnerships, and other stuff.

[0] https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/03/introducing-new...

[1] https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/03/expanding-our-G...
> On the federal level, another Utah politician, U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, added an amendment to a 2015 federal education bill supporting the concept. It said kids shouldn't be stopped from biking or walking to school alone with a parent's permission, and parents shouldn't face charges for letting them.

Ah, what?

In Florida in the late 90s, my my 2nd grade self and my 1st grade sister walked a mile to school every day.

The thought that someone would find that objectionable...genuinely bizarre.
Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure tutorials default to insecure datastore configurations; AWS, Rackspace and SoftLayer are better
Either remove the page (less obvious) or strike out the clause. Or if sneaky, reprint it without the clause.

Take the agreement "to your lawyer" first, modify it, sign and return.

If a clause is widely regarded as unethical, it seems appropriate to respond unethically.
Coming from UT, I remember a lot of teens in high school that had over reaching parents and as a result they didn't get the full experience of being a junior or senior in HS.

Luckily for me, my parents had trust in me so in high school I could hang out with my friends without my parents questioning my every move. They just wanted me home before 10.
Up until now I wasn't aware microG was doing their own builds for Lineageos, when did that start? I'm quite happy to see that, it'll help a lot of people. I'd still rather see a world where custom builds aren't necessary.
This is a Premium Edition, the Free Edition is what is included with GSuite:

https://support.google.com/cloudidentity/answer/7319251
It's not "an example", it's the entire point of the article.
That's bullshit. There are appropriate tax forms for that information.
This guidance is beyond suspect. It falls into the category of "drink 8 glasses of water a day." Doctors parrot it, but they have no foundation for saying this and no one knows when/why they started saying it. But they all say it.

Any serious medical professional worth a damn will immediately question the SIDS "guidance." If you don't know what causes something, you can't treat it. You don't blindly run around doing things and hope it helps. You have to find out the cause to find the cure.

This is exactly the kind of FUD that people are fighting when dealing with crazy CPS zealots.

Edit: If SIDS is suffocating from an obstruction, then call it suffocation by obstruction. But it's not suffocation by obsstruction. The current theory is that it's suffocation due to brain malfunction. Putting a toy in a crib isn't going to cause a brain malfunction.
Agree mostly with your answer.

20 centuries of Christianity has been reduced to a caricature. Most people don't even understand what has been given up. It's all persecution, corrupt popes, hatred for science, opium for the masses, child molestation and the flying spaghetti monster.

Like you mention: being active in a church community in the country where I live, will induce flippant jokes at best and real hostility at worst.

I'm also tempted to look at the clergy. They seem to have lost a certain kind of "fighting spirit" and focus on avoiding controversy. Modern masses are spineless and devoid of flavor or a sense of history. It sometimes feels like they hired f*cking Nickelback or the marketing board of the Disney Corporation to advise them on liturgical reform. (Except Nickelback and Disney sell and they don't...)

The cultural loss of all this is imho enormous. It's not just stuff like being part of an active community that includes the broadest possible cross section of the population (across class, age, wealth, profession, personal interests, ...). Or the weekly ritual of this community, the gentle but firm reminder that we're all mortal and that we should at least try to live the good life.

It's also more mundane stuff like the feasts, the fasts, the saints, the pilgrimages (basically an entire village hiking to a nearby basilica), the processions, the choirs, the maintenance of beautifully decorated popular chapels in the middle of fields, all the local cults and customs, some of which probably even predated Christianity, etc. These things gave local places a lot of flavor and it's all gone in a few short years...

Once again, I don't even think you need to believe in God to appreciate all of this wealth. Some day, its loss will be greatly lamented.
Back in my late 20s, I got stuck on maintaining a legacy software system written in Ada95 (I was unemployed in 2008 and it was the only work I could find).

When that job went away, I thought I could get a job using something more modern. However, the only job I was able to land was a new development project in Ada2005 (actually it was a port from SPARC to x64 and a partial rewrite of the same legacy application I had been maintaining for 3 years).

It took me forever to find a company that would "take a chance" on me - which is when I started working with Java.

That whole experience taught me that I always need to have side projects going so I have actual work samples to show potential employers.
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I agree; Facebook the social network might decay - Facebook the company holding many different things is probably not going anywhere.
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Leaving children in the car for short periods has occasionally practical benefits, just as with pets. And both humans and animals do just fine in cars as long as you make sure that the interior doesn't get too hot. In this instance it's more about making sure harmless behavior isn't accidentally outlawed.

>Never mind that the concept of free range parenting in America is something mostly for the white and wealthy.

How is that? The US isn't Norway, but it is still very safe. I don't see why helicopter parenting should be required?
Dogma is not an argument.
> It's like facebook in that the employees had a guarantee of privacy (insofar as most private communication is private;

Nope. You could be compelled to show your DMs on a work system.

There is no such thing as privacy on a work system.
First, I think the ethical standards one holds oneself to should be independent of who you're interacting with. Lying to a saint is the same as lying to a sinner. (I think lying is justifiable in many cases, but "lying to a bad person" is not a blanket justification.) If for no other reason, it creates a race-to-the-bottom for acceptable behavior.

Second, in this particular situation there is an above-board alternative, which is to reject the terms in a clearly-communicated fashion. Were there literally only two alternatives which were "lie by omission" and "starve" then this conversation would be different. But I think in the real world, there are more alternatives available. If there are ways of achieving the same ends without deceit, then the use of deceit is unjustified.
It's all about bargaining power
He also wrote Ratproxy: https://code.google.com/archive/p/ratproxy/
The elevator muzak got me distracted.
I can agree with that, the window manager was really neat (as I've always indicated these sorts of cloud platforms are like virtual OSes), but probably didn't add much to usability.

Performance seems really smooth, I'm glad to see this is still coming along quite nicely.

Even if it isn't the best UI, I think you really do still need to get something like EtherCalc on here, even for personal use, I love spreadsheets for storing structured information, and for business users, it's almost definitely a need.
Wherever you work in the USA there's a note in the employee handbook saying that the company may monitor any communications using company equipment for any business purpose, which is completely consistent with that ruling (and, even if it applied in the us, would render it moot).
SIDS has decreased (~70%) since 1980s, but Accidental Suffocation has increased (perhaps due to improved diagnosis of ASSB vs SIDS of the same underlying events) to become about as prevalent as SIDS.

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/128/5/e1341.fu...
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In seriousness - of course putting this in your house is a a pretty risky and likely dumb idea.

Would it be possible to design a minimal, modular metal rack to act as thermal isolation? I could picture a scheme with metal bent into a shallow Z shape with obtuse angles, which would direct the burning debris from a failed battery away from all the others.

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Interesting hypothesis, but I doubt you'll find any support for it.
Such is the cost of constant surveillance? You need to weigh the pros and cons in any situation. If you don't think that you saw such a DM is relevant, then consult your lawyer and fire them. If you feel it best to wait, you wait.

Also, how is this different from Email?
I have zero pity for the US anti-terror operation. Digital weapons are dangerous and must be rendered ineffective through security patches, no matter who made them and who used them.
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How else would you recommend solving the housing crisis?

What if Facebook is literally just building apartments and renting them out to anyone?
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iOS 11 is Apple’s Vista
Like what scenarios would a signature not be required, it is my understanding verbal contracts are enforceable. But can you give verbal assent to a written contract?
Anyone (or any organization) can self-host their own open source mastodon instance. The way it scales is the same way there are billions of email accounts - federation and an open protocol.
GSuite provides less features for identity (it bundles what is now described as the Free Edition of Cloud Identity, while the standalone/add-on product is the Premium Edition.)
Churches pay property tax? I'd always assumed they were exempt.
It's not about making excuses, it's about Facebook being the best tool. You could say that with anything, of course I could live without a car, without a cell phone, but they make the life better an easier.

When I invite Family & Friends to my kids birthday party, if I were to do it without Facebook i'd have to have the phone or email of every single one of the people. I don't, it's difficult to keep a contact list updated with every phone or email address. I try to do it but Facebook does it better. It's much easier to not forget people. The suggestions are great. It's also an easy way to RSVP, something a phone would make very difficult to handle.

Also yes Facebook makes me feel much more connected to people. Most of my family is global, my parents live in France, I have quite a lot of friends in France. Same for Canada, and also spread out across states in the US. I only see my sisters, parents, about only once a year. I would be terribly sad if we didn't post updates via Facebook. Yes we call each other via Skype, but it doesn't allow to share the activities we have done.

The only way I would ditch Facebook, is if there is a better tool that does the same things.
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Any chance you could bring back the ability to have a different encryption and lock screen password? If not, why won't you? Currently it's impossible to have a usable device with just secure passwords. Google's silence on this issue for 6 years is really sketchy, and I was shocked when I realized LineageOS removed this ability from CM as well. https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36945251
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So? Charlie Brown is a cartoon that mostly erases adults from the plot because they are boring. It's not a documentary of the 1950s.
I know in general there's the whole "the company pays for it, the company owns it, the company can audit it" corportesse oblige, enshrined in case-law yada yada, but one of the things I always liked about Slack was it seemed to have a bit of that old counter-culture sneer around "yeah, that may be true, but we code for the user anyway". This is very much an anti-user, pro-corporate maneuver, and I think it's a shock to many who took Slack's long-time messaging to the contrary at face-value.
Unlikely because it is much less dangerous for everyone, not just kids.
Better solution? Move out of the United States, which is quickly becoming the home of the Fourth Reich.
When real life sounds like a Black Mirror episode
I am not related to the OpenBSD team, but just dropped a mail for them and in a few hours I can reach it via HTTPS:

https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html

awesome people :)
When you look into rooting or bootloader unlocking, one or more steps involve running some tool that isn't open source, or at least is primarily distributed as a binary of unspecified providence. You don't really know that the tools won't inject some unwanted software onto your device.

What would be a good way to promote transparency and trustworthiness of the alternative rom tooling? Or is there an alternative set that just doesn't jump out when searching for the tools?
A lot of first party apps and basic os functionality also relies on Google Play Services. As Google have been building more and more into the closed source portion of their operating system. They are attempting to create a foothold where the operating system doesn't work without it.
Note that there's also a difference between work-mandated communication channels (for which there is no "opt-in"--there is a directory with your email address, you're on the list of Slack users, etc) and channels outside of work that you can opt into and out of (you can not give your personal number when the company is big enough for that to be an option, block people when they abuse it, not reciprocate keybase follows or leave signal chat groups, etc). A channel that is mandated to be kept open loses some discretion for its users, and the loss of power has to be compensated in some way.

(This is the more charitable way of looking at it, obviously. There are plenty of other reasons things are the way they are, and they aren't all good for us, there is just also this)
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I want to agree with you, but realistically I think a lot of people have come to view Amazon at least, as pretty indispensable. Between their retail offerings, and AWS, they’re into a lot!
I think the military simply needs to do a better job. After all plenty of covert operations have been exposed in the pass due to innocent civilian observation, thus the military does a better job of hiding things.

And indeed, if kaspersky could find something than various sophisticated adversaries certainly could too. So why bother to court that one private company?
If you're talking about the bill of rights, the fact that they're all "amendments" should be a hint that they're not part of the "original constitution".
How to delete Facebook for good
> (people tried to accuse Obama of all kinds of stuff, and don't even get started on what people were accusing the Clinton campaign of). It shouldn't distract from the fact that it's scandalous and sketchy and we should keep an eye on these issues.

Accusations are one thing. We have actual documented evidence here, and that's what so startling.

In addition, I'd argue that if Trump wasn't such an incompetent, bumbling, authoritarian moron, the backlash absolutely wouldn't have been as bad.

But the fact of the matter is that this is absolutely something new. Unless you're trying to suggest that both Obama and Clinton engaged companies who had a history of generating fake news, emotionally charged propaganda, and outright honeypotting political opponents with hookers and blackmail.

That's what makes this different. I'm absolutely flabberghasted that this point isn't being driven harder, instead defaulting to "well both sides...".

It's false equivalency, pure and simple.
> it would legally be taken away form his/her family by Children Protective Services, the parents charged, tried, and probably convicted of child neglect and endangerment.

citation needed.

> Once, we had to cross a freeway and a truck hit our dog, who died.

Your parents negligently put you in charge of a dog that you negligently killed. That should be legal?
You're basically saying that you don't believe advertising (or influence) works at all — which is bullshit.

CBS and its ilk probably made a big difference compared to what was there before (radio?) and FB has has made an even bigger impact since (specifically with respect to scale and ability for fine-grained targeting).