No, don't ban them. Knowing how to write well is a good indicator of creativity and intelligence, and can give more insight about a person than multiple-choice tests and high-school resumes.

If the problem is that they've become vehicles to advertise and amplify adversities, then frame the subject of the essay differently.

Came here to say the same thing. Really sloppy.

> the idea of a “regulation” is now largely obsolete the US. There are laws required to be followed

You believe that there aren't regulations drafted by executive departments and adjudicated by administrative law judges (which are a thing that wouldn't exist if your claim were true)?

It doesn't mean that there's no mitigation available. But the vulnerability will still be there, even if it's behind a firewall.

It's like saying a report of a technique that can be used to open all car doors can't be true because some cars are in locked garages.

I don't doubt the app had obsolete underpinnings - though it was rebuilt just a few years ago for Sonos V2 devices. But that wasn't the issue: the app worked and didn't have (published) security issues.

The impetus for rewriting the app didn't come from a "bite the bullet, it's time to fix this technical debt!" order. It came because their new products (one of which is the Ace headphones mentioned in the article, a new entry with mediocre reviews in an already very crowded field) needed an app rewrite to be supported. And the new version of the app wasn't finished by the time they'd planned the product rollout. So knowing that many very basic features - including managing a currently playing music queue, or accessing a local fileshare's music - were not yet implemented, they released it anyway, enraging their user base.

I don't know where your friend from NJ lived, but by the 1990s there were lots of good-sized towns with plenty to do. Were you surprised that Bell didn't choose a city downtown to place a sprawling research campus?

Yes, the Internet came from tools and concepts developed at Bell Labs - but so much came from Bell Labs that you can actually say that the Internet was only a small part of what Bell Labs contributed to technology. Semiconductors. Lasers. The switched telephone network. Stereo audio recording/playback. Tube TV. Sonar. So much more. There should be a Bell Labs museum, I 100% agree. It should focus on the place and the people and yes, the long list of what they accomplished - including their contribution to the Internet.

"a stellar-mass black hole with 70 times the Sun's mass" ... isn't a stellar-mass black hole.

Stop it. Our unintended casualty rate is something like 80%. Being better than someone horrifically awful doesn't make us 'good'.

Seriously?

Since the article doesn't link to the study, here:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheshiftproject.org%2Fen...

They seem to be a neo-Luddite group and they call for "digital sobriety" enforced by regulation on the uses of digital systems.

No, I think it would be better if it were more clearly stated but i inferred that the high-pressure environment was needed only for the creation of the substance.

All of the problem is that drivers are monsters, and none of the problem are bicyclists who pay no heed to traffic regulations? I work in Manhattan, and bicyclists all around me appear to be actively trying to kill themselves.

While that's going on, the same bicyclists who will take a cleat to your door for any perceived breach of their right-of-way will pay no heed whatsoever to pedestrians who are entitled to the right-of-way from *them*.

I'm also a motorcyclist and know first-hand that many car drivers are unaware if not actively targeting the two-wheeled. I'm not dismissing that - but dismissing all fault of bicyclists is just dishonest.

Dogs can't enter into contracts.

It's ironic but not "proof of" patriarchy. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and sometimes a redundant interview in a documentary piece is just a redundant interview. If there were five women and five men interviewed, and their inclusion were chosen by coin toss, with a man-heavy lopsided result, would that "prove" the patriarchy of coins? Of statistics?

This is not by any stretch of the imagination an article about tech. Please keep Slashdot on-topic.