They went full XKCD 927 (https://xkcd.com/927/) and what started as an attempt to introduce students to the diversity of all cultures ended up forcing them into a new culture antithetical to all other cultures.

We're at the point that "so slow/little it can only be seen from space" is a better description of our current technology.

Ya if anything the real take away is that our satellites are very impressive!

You are a wonderful person.

You not only made this excellent source of entertainment, you are also helped everyone find their unmatched socks, ensuring that "no individual would ever be forced to wear a mismatched pair". (Source: https://halupedia.com/humanitarian-accomplishments-of-the-on...

We should really host another one though; I think I've since lost a few more.

They didn't fund the health study, they funded this paper to point out the positive data in the study.

There's two way to bias independent research through funding. The most nefarious is to fund a whole bunch of research, and only publish the favored results. By ignoring enough failed attempts, it's even possible to get false-positive successes, through random chance. (Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/882/)

The second way is to only fund research that is likely to be favorable. E.g. if you sell vitamin supplements, you only fund research on people with bad diets, but not people who eat healthy diets that likely aren't affected by supplements.

In this case, it's leaning so far into the latter, that it's just pointing out positive research that someone else found.

Anything with biometric authentication has to store the password in a recoverable way. The fingerprint sensor isn't repeatable enough to use your fingerprint data to encrypt the password, so all it can do is compare your fingerprint data to stored data, and if it's vaguely similar, give an okay to use a copy of the password it stored.

That's on top of a host of reasons why biometric authentication isn't very good security, so if you care at all about your data, just use a password. If you're any good at typing, it's usually just as fast and convenient, anyway.

It's slower on a phone, but a randomly-generated four-digit PIN's one-in-ten-thousand security is still better than a fingerprint, and most phones do allow more digits.

In my experience, more open floor plans tend to be a growing trend, at least in California. Is it different in your part of the world?

It's always annoyed me that Chromium-based browsers have never supported master passwords, in the first place. This is one of the biggest reason's I've always used a Gecko-based web browser as my primary browser.

I understand that Google wants users to always be logged into their Google account, so they have to make the built-in option worse than the cloud option, but that's no excuse for purposely making the built-in option insecure. If you're not going to make a secure password manage an option, don't include one at all.

I don't want my passwords stored on the cloud, for obvious reasons, and I'm not a fan of Linux keyrings relying on D-Bus for security, and considering that there's only one application that I would store passwords for, I might as well have them stored by that application, if it can do so securely.

The grocery store I shop from the most just had a corporate redesign on the layout to make it open like that, and it's super annoying because I have to wander around more to get stuff. I figured it had something to do with putting increased sales over usability.

The last place I used to shop did something similar, swapping all of their shelves out for shorter ones to try and make it feel more open. They went bankrupt and liquidated a a few years later. The other store I mentioned is closing locations, so maybe it's one of those grasping-at-straws things that corporate does trying to find last-minute ways to make the numbers better before they have to cease operations.

I use Seamonkey as an email client, and one of the features I like most is that it can delete an attachment without deleting the message. This is great when your running out of space and need to clear up large messages, but don't want to lose the hundreds of bytes of useful text, just so that you can delete the multi-megabyte attachments.

I presume Thunderbird has the same feature, because they share a codebase.

It does. Journalists are rarely experts on the field they are reporting on (see also: Gell Mann amnesia) so even though the article's author is speaking authoritatively, he has no experience in law, but an MFA. (See the "About Sam" section at: https://tech.yahoo.com/author/sam-chapman-engadget/).

A more truthful take would be something like "Utah is the latest state to pass yet another law that conflicts with the constitution and will not go into effect".

Ironically, inaccurate journalism is a side effect of the freedom of speech that the first amendment grants us, but the benefits far outweigh the downsides, even if it means you need to dig around for better journalistic sources.

> A more truthful take would be something like "Utah is the latest state to pass yet another law that conflicts with the constitution and will not go into effect".

The law will go into effect probably. It may be negated later.

Technically, unconstitutional laws stay on the books, but they are not enforceable.

You could say that they are in effect when the law becomes official, but for all practical purposes, the prohibition on describing what a VPN is or how to use it is unenforceable and not in effect.

Many unconstitutional laws were enforced before negated. And laws negated specifically and a law you hope will be negated are not equivalent.

To negate a law consumes money and time. They are practical purposes. Or you predicted Utah will try to enforce the law never? Chilling effects are effects. And a reasonable person would not call someone untruthful because they predicted differently.

The headline was sensational. The law takes effect was not.