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Every time a court finds that the USPTO has issued an invalid patent, they should be given a sizable fine. The patent system won't work as long as the USPTO has an incentive to turn a blind eye to shit patents.

What poorly thought out language. First they call FCC "tough", then they go on to imply that it's surprising that this wasn't a requirement before. IMO "tough" would be something that exceeds ordinary expectations.

I mean there are 10 fingers, but numbered 0-9.

Aurora.

• The River
• Everything Matters
• The Seed

That's not really true. I recently migrated from Notion to Obsidian. It wasn't 100% painless but good enough.

The thing we should do is to hold car manufacturers accountable for neglecting security in cars.

I think the article makes a good point, but perhaps I'm over-interpreting. It's not that we should stop using strings. It's that we should use the type system to separate different kinds of strings and enlist the compiler's help to detect incorrect mingling of them. So for example a symbol type would only permit strings that contain ASCII letters, underscore and digits, and concatenation with / conversion to plain strings would be limited.

Yes, the US is a third world country

I don't believe that. You can't tell me there's no difference in the amount of bias between Fox News and AP. Sure, we can't reach some kind of theoretical 0.0 bias - even particle physics research is biased by assumptions. But at least it makes an honest attempt. Although the conclusions an article arrives at may be influenced by the author's opinions, a journalist who is honestly trying to avoid bias would provide the reasoning, data and sources behind those opinions instead of simply stating them as fact. That gives me as a reader a chance to evaluate their merits.

I'm talking about letting the user change their own password. I'm honestly not sure how that would be technically accomplished in this situation without having to contact IT each time. It seems like something Microsoft should provide a no-frills GUI for that doesn't require elevation.

The thing I'm really aching for in news media is journalism that rises above merely reporting events. "A guy got murdered yesterday" is not useful information for me. It's barely even a data point, because I can't read about ten such events and extrapolate anything meaningful from it. Other things like population size, number of stopped crime, completeness of data etc affect any conclusion that could be drawn from it

In fact I shouldn't try to extrapolate from it, because I'm paying the journalist to talk to the right experts and hopefully also do research on their own, to figure out trends and cause-effect relationships. That's meaningful journalism that helps me make decisions such as how to vote.

Media today has so much noise and so little signal. I don't need a daily newspaper filled to the brim with events. I need perhaps a weekly magazine that I can read on a Sunday morning in half an hour, which teaches me something about what's going on in the world without bias, and brings up the data as evidence. I wouldn't mind paying for it and I'd take it on paper, though e-ink would be better. I'd trust it a lot more if ads were not mentioned anywhere in its business model.

Surely some smart key exchange algorithm could be used for that, e.g. the CPU provides a public key to the TPM and the TPM encrypts the symmetric disk key with that public key. Similar to how TLS works.

Which kind of makes it useless in many corporate environments where it's most needed, since the users won't be able to set their own password.

Thanks, that sounds really useful. I'm guessing it won't work unless you're local admin though.

I guess they mean use the password as part of the encryption key, or encrypt the key with the password. Bitlocker doesn't use the user's password in that way, which is why it can boot an encrypted system without user interaction. That part always seemed very sketchy to me.

I thought the point of the TPM was that the keys would be kept internally to the TPM at all times and that any data lanes would only be used for transferring payload. Why are they sending keys between the TPM and the CPU?

Those long rambling intros have started to happen on TikTok more and more

That's a conspiracy theory, not fact.

Antisemitism is about hating jews because they're jews. That's completely separate from criticizing a nation for crimes against humanity. The first is a group of people with no central government, the second is an administrative entity with a military that is violating the Geneva convention in another country.

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