I think the problem is that most people assume you can just pick it up and replace one with the other. They’re not the same. If this study is as controlled as I expect it to be, I’d assume that they asked people to quit cold-turkey, start using vaping, and maybe taught them how to use the device but nothing more.

Thank you for posting the link so I could still see the adorable cat.

Completely agree. I feel “stupid” or “idiot” are very different terms than “ignorant” and yet people get more offended when called “ignorant” when all it means is “you don’t know yet”. You can educate yourself and rise up out of ignorance. Stupidity is a much harder habit to break.

No need for apologies, it’s great information for people who might have felt like vaccine court sounded like a stupid idea.

Haha, no, just the whole lack of understanding of science and how it works that made it necessary. :) I probably should’ve elaborated a bit.

God that’s stupid.

Agreed. I know plenty of conservative and liberal-minded people who think anti-vaxxing is bullshit and I’ve met some of both political mindsets who are all about it. It has nothing to do with politics, which is why I wish the government would just crack down on this shit already.

I’m curious, why haven’t we seen lawsuits about this yet? Or have we and they’ve been struck down? I’d suspect it’d be a pretty big deal if someone sued a city/state/school or even another child’s parents if their child died from a totally preventable illness due to them having a medical exemption while the other…

This. I really hope this is forthcoming, and soon. It’s kind of ridiculous it isn’t already a “thing”.

Yeah, from my limited knowledge of this stuff they typically take over home grade hardware and use it to attack the high-end stuff. Creating a bot-net or something similar, basically.

I’mma be honest with you that I don’t know THAT much about exactly how those things work except to say double-check your cables are Cat6, maybe? Also double-check that you’re not confusing MB/s with Mbps, but based on what all you seem to be saying here I don’t think you’d make those mistakes. :/

Oh I agree, which is why I said “don’t just ignore it if you’re not in the Ukraine” and “this kinda thing does tend to spread”. Definitely want to get it updated. I just don’t think anyone needs to freak out right NOW if they’re in, say, the US.

A bit more info from a WIRED article I looked up: “The majority of its 500,000 victim routers are in Ukraine, a portion that has been growing quickly since May 17, when Talos saw a spike in Ukrainian infections controlled by a separate command-and-control server. Combined with the malware’s firmware-corrupting…

It sounds to me like this is a firmware vulnerability, and OpenWRT is a custom firmware, so my guess would be no. I’d do a bit more research to be sure, though, rather than take the word of a random person on a Lifehacker article. ;)

I think the main point is that it says there’s no “easy” way. I’d suspect professionals can use tools that aren’t readily available to the public (or just overly complex for your average user) as well as the source code for the firmware to figure out just which routers are susceptible and/or infected.

This. The fact that it’s part of a bank deregulation bill at all. It should’ve happened simply due to public outcry, frankly, but it doesn’t surprise me since we’re not the credit bureau’s customers. They get to log all kinds of extremely important personal info, but we have no control since we’re not the ones paying…

This is what I did, and I appreciate it since they allowed for something similar to Google’s Drive Stream long before Google did, selectively syncing files only when they’re accessed. It’s behind a paywall, but was worth it so I could access the gigs of graphics files that are sitting on a NAS remotely if necessary…

My favorite experience with overbooking was as I was flying out of New York headed back to Cleveland and I quickly made a couple phone calls to my then-girlfriend who lived near Boston, asked them if they had any flights that way and another one back to Cleveland the following day or two, and ended up getting to spend…

Sadly, several I’ve used over the years haven’t, and smaller companies still don’t. I just wish it were more common. I’m glad it’s getting there, though.

THIS. I still don’t understand why this is such a hard thing to get passed into law as breach after breach happens. Also, some solution akin to this as a requisite for online purchases would be great as well. I’ve seen that Visa has a checkout system here and there where you can link a card and it’ll provide the store…