Yes. And Yes. Low-information users will implement and click all kinds of crap if malware does that for them or some AI or YouTuber instructs them to do so.

They cannot have the luxury of choice, because they cannot be trusted with that choice. I'm sorry. Home users don't get to turn off automatic updates just like schizos shouldn't get access to firearms. For the same reasons.

If you REALLY need that AND know what you're doing, you have a pro version where you can switch automatic updates off. And even then you only need that for very - VERY - special use cases.

Remember that the damages through hacks, exploits, cyber attacks are at least 20-50x higher than the damages through failed patches. It's very unlikely that errors from "failed patch" can ever reach the level of risk that "not patching" can reach.

What, did you think Citizens United would only allow conservative organizations to conceal their funding sources?

I maintain that boast remains objectively true (yes, in spite of Biden's decline) every time your guy opens his fool, lying mouth.

It speaks volumes about who MAGA looks up to as their thought leaders, and it's perfectly on-brand that those people are as easy marks as their followers.

Let's start with Russia.

Sounds to me like a lawyer trying to get their name out there on a first-of-it's-kind suit.

Good luck trying to establish a shred of causation if it's public knowledge that the kid intentionally thwarted safeguards. And then you have to convince a jury or a judge that tricking the AI into talking about suicide is what led to the kid going through with it.

It sounds like hogwash, so it's got about a 50/50 chance of succeeding.

This isn't a technology problem, it's a law problem. The law is supposed to stop authorities from searching things outside of the scope of a warrant. The law is also supposed to impose penalties when authorities fail to operate within their legal bounds.

In short, "stopping them" is the entire point of the 4th Amendment.

I miss the page-widening posts.

This is about permitting, not funding.

"Shocked" isn't the word.

This is the "party of small government" at work, getting out of the way of business, correct?

Wasn't it the Trump administration that declined to defend this policy after the courts struck down the Biden-era rule? Because yes it was.

I mean other than the whole premise of the federal take-over, sure.

The gap between "home" and "pro" users is the reason. "Home" must - by definition - include the lowest of the "low information users", and - man, do they get low these days. I'm serious. IT is now at a point, where it's everywhere and for everyone, and the level of competency between people varies WILDLY. Orders of magnitude between people. People that are centuries and milennia apart in self-domestication, IQ, cultural norms and cognitive development are now living together on the same block. And all of them have to use IT, which of course cannot be the same IT for all of them.

That said, you MUST have seen the reboot and restart notifications of Windows, Teams, Edge etc. in a business environment on screens of other people. High-information IT users, even. They just don't restart their program for the security update - ever. Literally all of them will tell you they've "got this big project due tomorrow for Mr. Kawasaki" and they're afraid of their Japanese management techniques and so they can't update "right now" and "right now" means "forever" and "I will update later" means "I will update never before the sun burns out".

So yeah, you HAVE to force updates on the average person. Unless the new update gives them a few new emojis for their favorite rainbow religion or other treats drip fed to them, they're not going to install them.

If you never encountered users that are this resistant to upgrades, good for you and say hello to the guys at the lab. But everyone not a guy AND in a lab will not update their stuff and they get the forced update. Sorry. It's how it is.

Reality: Crime is down in DC and the "emergency" was some dude who calls himself "Big Balls" got his ass kicked by a bunch of 15-year-old girls. If you want a more generous interpretation, the president simply doesn't want to see homeless people.