whitexn--g28h
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3 years ago
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on: Anti-Abortion Centers Find Pregnant Teens Online, Then Save Their Data
An accident occurs and I need 5 litres of blood and a new kidney. You are in the hospital in a coma, should the state be able to require doctors to take your kidney and blood and put it my body without your consent?
whitexn--g28h
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3 years ago
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on: SMS phishing is way too easy
Anyone can send use from fedex’s sender id and your phone will put it right in that saved contacts conversation. Both SMS and phone calls need to be upgraded to use secure identity protocols.
whitexn--g28h
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3 years ago
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on: Booting a Mac Studio from an external SSD, and what it doesn’t solve
Seems like you could install the kext to the internal drive, then use a tool like Carbon Copy Cloner to build a bootable external copy of the internal system with the kext installed.
whitexn--g28h
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3 years ago
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on: Battleship
whitexn--g28h
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3 years ago
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on: A Linux security fix briefly breaks DMA
Anti-cheat software, even those that run in ring 0, can always be lied to by another program, even without a VM. Just look at how deep the Sony root kit [1] buried itself into systems and was still easily circumvented by other software. If anything gaming in VMs makes cheating harder and if NVidia, intel and Microsoft worked together they could help publishers ship secure VMs to run games reducing support tickets and cheats.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Copy_Protection
whitexn--g28h
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4 years ago
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on: Netflix will falter
If you are looking to take on credit cards than sure it’s hard to be a new processor. If you are a bank, it’s fairly simple to issue your customers a Mastercard. I think the small players at this scale are still multi-million dollar studios and production companies.
whitexn--g28h
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4 years ago
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on: Distributed locking with Postgres advisory locks
Seems like this problem would be solved by a serializable transaction isolation level without the need for any locking. If during the transaction the select would return a different result the transaction will fail and can be retried. A select sum() is part of the example for serializable transaction isolation.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/transaction-iso.html...
whitexn--g28h
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4 years ago
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on: To stop building heat islands, stop overbuilding parking lots
Film crews in LA are renting the lots for their production, not taking a ticket as if they are parking as a regular customer. I’m sure the garage would have been accommodating if you had asked to use the space.
whitexn--g28h
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4 years ago
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on: Ontario Court Declares the Ontario Math Proficiency Test Unconstitutional
Maybe a math competency test is more appropriate.
whitexn--g28h
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4 years ago
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on: Ontario Court Declares the Ontario Math Proficiency Test Unconstitutional
Have you considered that Jordan Peterson is part of the problem with the education system? I doubt he could pass this math test given the arguments he’s trying to make about marxists.
whitexn--g28h
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4 years ago
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on: Ontario Court Declares the Ontario Math Proficiency Test Unconstitutional
None in terms of curriculum
whitexn--g28h
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4 years ago
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on: Ontario Court Declares the Ontario Math Proficiency Test Unconstitutional
I don’t think I could make a living selling sketches in the park, but the ability to “draw a picture” is actually a basic problem solving step in a lot of these math problems.
whitexn--g28h
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4 years ago
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on: Ontario Court Declares the Ontario Math Proficiency Test Unconstitutional
It’s just interesting that we are using statistical methods to argue that teachers don’t need to understand basic math. Ontario doesn’t have dedicated math teachers until high school, many of these teachers will need to teach math in grades 3-8.
whitexn--g28h
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4 years ago
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on: Ontario Court Declares the Ontario Math Proficiency Test Unconstitutional
There is a huge advantage in a lot of the questions in knowing shortcuts and simplifying the questions. Someone with a strong math background is going to find this a lot easier better than someone who struggles with math.
whitexn--g28h
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4 years ago
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on: Ontario Court Declares the Ontario Math Proficiency Test Unconstitutional
A teacher should be able to understand the grade distribution on tests and throughout the year to identify if their assessments are too easy or too difficult, and if they may be racially biased. The argument that the tests unfairly bias certain groups is only known because the people administering the test understand math.
whitexn--g28h
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4 years ago
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on: Ontario Court Declares the Ontario Math Proficiency Test Unconstitutional
My son is in grade 2 math is definitely taught. At this point he’s already doing pre-algebra using perimeters of polygons. I think they will start angles by the end of the year. I was in Ontario middles school about 20 years ago and even the easiest math course you could take in grade 8 involved basic trigonometry.
whitexn--g28h
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4 years ago
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on: The day my script killed 10k phones in South America
+1(XXX)555-XXXX
The 555 prefix for US phone numbers is reserved for fake phone numbers in the US and elsewhere. Use this block for testing.
whitexn--g28h
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4 years ago
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on: The latest campus cancellation is different
OP is literally criticizing the citations. Reading and comprehension are important.
whitexn--g28h
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4 years ago
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on: The latest campus cancellation is different
At this point over 200 million Americans have been vaccinated. 700k people have died of COVID-19. In the US there is no independent individual who could come to a conclusion other than it is safer to get vaccinated than to get COVID-19. I’m not sure who is spreading the anti-vax nonsense, but at this point it seems like more of a Darwin Award than a conspiracy by the elite.
whitexn--g28h
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4 years ago
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on: The latest campus cancellation is different
Did you even read the second sentence of that page?
