"The Let's Encrypt project was started in 2012 by two Mozilla employees, Josh Aas and Eric Rescorla, together with Peter Eckersley at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and J. Alex Halderman at the University of Michigan."
> It's unfortunate that works of great non-fiction writers evaporate away from our cultural consciousness after their death.
That's a bit of an overstatement? There's Confucius, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, ... Darwin, Newton, Einstein, ... Jefferson, Decartes, .... (you get the idea).
It is a competitive field; what's sufficient to win attention in the current generation is often not enough for future generations, which have their own contemporary writers.
That says nothing about this particular situation. Written language has been a thing for 5,000 years, and it's used for this bid, so nothing remarkable here ...
I guess the OP is just making an unrelated comment, because it almost sounds like he thinks that a hostile bid is evidence that the US has Ukraine-levels of corruption. Leaving aside the odd time period (Ukraine was much less corrupt pre-war than it was pre-Maidan, not to speak of its other more corrupt neighbor), the fact that hostile bids have been around for a long time in the US is good evidence to suggest that they don't indicate the level of corruption implied by OP. If OP made the same comment under a post about verb conjugation, wouldn't that seem odd to you too?
Or maybe they just happened to make an off-topic comment that had nothing to do with the hostile takeover.
Are actual delivery people that expensive or that much more expensive than robots? I assume they make minimum wage.
The availability, cost of acquisition, and engineering needed for support are much lower; the problem solving and communication are infinitely greater.
> on Windows you have a system where the default way is to let the user control the software and install random things, and you need to patch that ability away first.
That's certainly not the default in a managed corporate environment. Even for home users, Microsoft restricts what you can install more and more.
And restrictions are not implemented via patch, but via management capabilities native to the OS, accessed via checkboxes in Group Policy.
In many organizations, that license costs less than converting all the Excel workbooks - a process that disrupts work, as only the Excel spreadsheet's creator and user can reliably spec and test the new spreadsheet. And they need to convert with accuracy - worse than crashes is undetected bad output.
Being stuck in legacy systems sucks, and technical people like to deny the reality of it - but it's a business reality.
That's a lot of thought and action in a unexpected and very fast-moving situation. I don't think that's a realistic expectation, except perhaps for trained personnel like airplane pilots.
Stomp on brakes is pretty basic, and all that was ever needed for overpowering a prius's engine/motor.
This "scandal" was never about mechanical failures. It was almost certainly about driver error and mass hysteria.
As for Toyota settling, had this been Ford or Chevy, the government wouldn't have had the appetite to go after them for what was always a non-issue. It was just less expensive for Toyota to fix floor mats and pay a billion to put it all behind them.
"The Let's Encrypt project was started in 2012 by two Mozilla employees, Josh Aas and Eric Rescorla, together with Peter Eckersley at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and J. Alex Halderman at the University of Michigan."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Encrypt
What was Mozilla's role, beyond conception? Parenting? Care and feeding? A roof?
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