Honestly, ever since this execution, I’ve been against any death penalty. There have been way too many innocent people killed from the death penalty.

Not to mention the numerous issues and the moral quandry of legal murder as a state sanctioned form of punishment.

At the end of the day, what’s the ultimate goal of murdering someone on death row? An example for deterrence? Apparently it’s not effective any more than a life sentence and you don’t have the risk of killing someone who was innocent.

Unfortunately you should secure your home network with a managed firewall to be sure that any IOT devices don’t phone home. It sucks but that’s the only way I would recommend using a device you don’t fully trust.

Wow, what a joke of a human being.

That’s reasonable. It’s a good idea to have additonal protections and if you have the knowledge, something like a pihole can go far.

In a perfect world the parent(s) would know the needs of the child and adjust. Curiosity should be encouraged but the guardians should be the ones to prepare the kids for the world, as far as home life is concerned.

Access to porn and gambling is impossible to guage the best age for granting access to in the legal sense; it’s a different situation for everyone. That’s why it really should be up to the guardian to dictate when is appropriate.

Unfortunately, instead of teaching with an open mind, what gets passed on usually is the parent’s frustrations and dispositions. To even things out, I also think public education is helpful, but that’s a different topic.

This is all dumb. If you’re worried about kids surfing porn sites then the legal guardian should act accordingly. There are so many methods to blocking porn sites that it’s almost hilarious. Web filtering; most ISPs are able to support website filtering on their supplied gateway or DNS. Parental controls on device; most devices come with opyional locks built-in at this point especially if it’s aimed towards children.

Sure, it’s not perfect but it’s better than removing yet another layer of web anonymity. We see how well browser fingerprinting is going, let’s not make it easier to track who is browsing where than it already is. But that’s the real point behind these bills, isn’t it?

Edit: I guess I was ranting mainly about the porn, but honestly, these are all things that parents should be aware of their children doing. If it’s an awareness issue, then that should be the next step. The government going straight from “oh there’s a problem” to “let’s make it illegal” without trying to raise awareness is extremely heavy handed.

I definitely understand. That’s good to hear there hasn’t been a direct pipeline to selling fingerprint data established yet.

Thanks for checking it out. Hopefully there is a best of both worlds in what they are advertising but I get that technology isn’t magic either.

You’re definitely right that it’s a game of one-upping each other. Unfortunately, it’s now directed in a path that infringes on privacy of the users it aims to serve.

Since you’re working in the internet security industry, what’s your take on something like Altcha as opposed to more invasive means of protecting against both attacks?

Search using tags like #comics or #food. That should give you an idea of how it works.

Edit: oh I might be wrong for new instances without established links.

There are plenty of uses for it. There are also plenty of bad implementations that don’t use it in a way that helps anyone.

We’re going through an overhyped period currently but we’ll see actual uses in a few years once the dust settles. About 10 years ago, a similar thing happened with AI vision and now everyone has filters they can use on cameras and face detection. We’ll reach another plateau until the next tech hype comes about.

This is definitely the last time he holds office. He did little other than turncoat after he had a concussion.

He hasn’t even tried redemption. Hell, he hasn’t even begun to pay for his previous crimes and is looking to commit more crimes. Redemption is when people try to make things right. How can you say this is about giving second chances when all he’s done is try the same shit the second time around. What a disappointment.

Thanks for sharing. It’s disappointing that so many think that teaching and learning from another perspective should be illegal.

Looking at Wikipedia, it seems like USB 4 has a 120Gbps asymmetric mode as well. That’s wild!

Sure, this is better than what we’re currently doing but the more we look to entrench ourselves in less polluting nonrenewable energy, the more excuses we have to not switch to better alternatives.

For real. Can anyone say that they guessed this would actually be a headline 7 years ago?

That’s a pretty broad statement.

You can’t go into an airport and shout “bomb” or use a bullhorn in a residential area at 3 AM without someone calling the cops on you and being detained. You can verbally harass someone to the point of being abusive or lie about someone to defame them but you can face repercussions for it. There’s a lot of lines that intersect with freedom of speech. Just because I’m drawing one at hate speech doesn’t mean I’m against freedom of speech.

In this context, I was mainly referring to book burning in general; not specifically the Koran. In my mind, they are done only as a tool for hatred. But, fair point, I haven’t read it and if that’s what it depicts then I don’t think I’m missing out on anything.

I want to agree with you but I can’t. The world can’t run by true tolerance; at least not in this day and age. There are too many beliefs, cultures, and ideas that are being eroded away by people that spout hatred. Why? Just because they can? Just because they have the right?

If anything, the closest we can be is intolerant of the intolerant. The people that burned the books were an “anti-Islam activist group”. This sounds exactly like other hate groups like the proud boys, westboro baptist Church, the KKK, the EFF, Islamic extremists… These aren’t people that are celebrating their free speech. They are people that are practicing legal hostility as a tool to oppress others. I’d say hate speech is a good line to draw when allowing people to have public demonstrations.

Sure, you’re allowed to do it because you have free speech. But don’t say that you’re promoting the freedom of speech because you’re doing it. Book burning is an act that stifles the ideas of whoever wrote that book.

More on topic, the two groups in question are both extremist groups that are opposed to the existence of the other. This isn’t about speech, this is about inciting violence.

I honestly don’t understand why you’re being downvoted. Book burning is probably one of the worst steps you can take towards being intolerant without directly harming people. There had to be so many more options that could’ve been taken that would’ve de-escalated the situation in a way that didn’t involve destruction.