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How does this affect exploits?


From the article:

> The new law doesn’t apply to classified code, national security systems or code that would post privacy risks if shared.


That sounds like a security nightmare. A single accidental exploit in one agency could easily spread to others reusing the same code.

Now, imagine if that exploit was instead intentionally planted by a foreign spy, targeting common use cases...


This is just another form of the "security through obscurity" argument used against foss in general. Many eyes make all bugs shallow.


That's my first thought. The NSA and CIA probably have all sorts of in-house developed source for all sorts of evil things that they sure won't be sharing.


Assume we lived in a communist society instead. How would you view the problem differently?


Act to prevent maiming and killing customers and the public even if it costs the company more money?


I'd say that Tesla is unfairly putting the burden of defective vehicles on consumers and externalizing the cost of their failures.


It's a quote from Fight Club


You'd be less likely to recall, because there's no longer a risk of lawsuit.


Interesting,

In either system I don’t think I would take resources used for lawsuits into account and get the vehicles fixed (or replaced, until they are safe).

We have the responsibility to care for each-other.


I agree; not saying what I'd do. Just answering the question of what would likely be different in a communist society, based on real world examples. The value given to human life seems demonstrably lower on average.


Why would a communist society not have a risk of a lawsuit?


In all the attempts that have been tried there was no separation of judiciary power (generally it’s a lot easier to murder and rob millions of their property when this is the case) so good luck suing the state that controls all courts


The reality is, we likely wouldn’t have this particular problem because we wouldn’t have Tesla. Capitalistic incentives are what drive that kind of innovation. We would, however, have a whole slew of other problems, as evidenced by historical attempts at communism.


I think humans are curious beings.I don’t think it would stifle innovation. Quite the Contrary, more effort will be spent on useful innovation rather than profit seeking.


If only we lived in a world that had alternatives to US "capitalism" and Soviet "communism".

But alas, these are the only possibilities. /s


Is the article hinting at the timing? Ie Spotify announces layoffs, stock goes up assuming less expenses so higher profit, then CEO decides to quit to take advantage of rise in stock prices?


Reminds me of graphic designer vs css programmer

https://youtube.com/shorts/YWT8Dqd-AmQ?feature=shared


What about stolen mail? Would any of this details be in a bank statement?


No paper bank statement. No email bank statement. Only qif/csv export. iPhone app only (not web). Fairly sure it was either an inside job and/or openbanking API implementation.


Finding the right group of people where you can be vulnerable with and be accepted is important. Everyone goes through things, we're all human.


I’m always blown away by people who can reverse engineer dies.

I’m curious can heat be used to detect interesting parts of a die? Ie decap then re-run target functionality and see what’s heating up?


Gentle reminder that to much computer use can cause a repetitive strain injury.

Not the same thing, but it’s good to be aware about. Breaks are important.


In addition, for the love of all that is holy, make sure your wrists are at a neutral-ish angle and aren't supporting the weight of your entire arm.


Bending a pin stunk. I remeber jamming a flat head screwdriver into the port to try and straighten


With an 95% confidence interval which doesn’t include zero, doesn’t it mean that it’s statistically significant?

Assuming data is valid and unbiased of course.

Not a statistician, just curious.


Nope, you're thinking of regression coefficients, where you'd be correct that usually the null hypothesis is $\beta = 0$. In this case, what's being reported are odds ratios, so the null hypothesis would be that OR = 1.

The parent comment's point is that although the reported effect is significant at $\alpha = 0.05$ (the usual "95% CI" you mentioned), there are other problems that render their test of this hypothesis less than valid.


Ah thank you, had to read up on odds ratio.

edit for those curious about odds ratio https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK431098/#:~:text=The%20....


For odds ratio, you're looking for > 1.0, as 1.0 implies "the usual odds" i.e. the null hypothesis.


> With an 95% confidence interval which doesn’t include zero, doesn’t it mean that it’s statistically significant?

That’s explained here: https://xkcd.com/882/


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