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According to https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/reports/... it's 285bn USD over 5 years to deport them, and GDP would decrease by 1.45% over 10 years without undoc…

Because it is treating all of these intended side-effects of using a shell as though they are security vulnerabilities. The problem is that there is a way for untrusted user input …

I think anyone who follows that method has no idea how things work. I was actually personally offended when Ximian started handing that out as a way to install Mono a decade+ ago, …

Yes, that thing that is designed to execute commands could possibly result in commands being executed. Similarly, the intended use of a setuid binary is to escalate your privileges…

If your ~/.bashrc is a SYMLINK to a bash or sh script, bash will AUTOMATICALLY EXECUTE that script on login. If you give rsync command a source or destination with an unescaped col…

By analogy, you could say that the Inquisition was inherently unchristian, in so far as Christianity has an ideological character beyond simply "Christ worship". Similarly, if we d…

They typically ask that you perform some step of the transaction using an e-mail address tied to the domain, so it's not quite that terrible. The 700USD EV certs actually require c…

tl;dr: Other environments are insecure out of the box, and require applications specifically opt-in to security. Java requires you opt-out of the security. HTTPS is built on top of…

No. HTTPS should be secure out of the box. If you want to break HTTPS then you should have to do work.

The anti-vaccination groups didn't exist at the time, so it's quite likely that Wakefield was just as startled by paranoiac monster he'd nurtured as anyone else. No member of the p…

...and here is Mr. Nichols explaining why even if Iraq did eliminate it's (nonexistent) weapons of mass destruction in 2003, the U.S. would've been right to invade because Saddam h…

Andrew Wakefield owns a patent on a single-measles vaccine, which would be a competitor to the MMR vaccine, and most people who are aware of that suspect that's why he published th…

I'm disappointed that this comment was downvoted so severely. It's a perfect satire of the original article.

There is so much weapons grade arrogance in this essay, I wouldn't be surprised if Hans Blix bought a house nearby to cut time from his commute. Seriously, it's a link of this: "Oh…

The phrase to describe this view is "false dichotomy": the answer is either someone sticks their fingers in my pants or taxis are allowed to drop people off at the stairs to the pl…

Typically those sorts of things are required for compliance purposes. Stockbrokers (broker-dealers) are required by the SEC to record all text-based electronic communications, keep…

Are you seriously incapable of distinguishing "hang on, you are getting numbers that look bad using statistical chicanery" from "Github = teh awesome"? Pointing out that someone wh…

That isn't fair at all. It's 99.770% for a single month, immediately following a major event. If you sampled yesterday (or tomorrow, assuming no further issues) it would be higher.…

Firefox made sure the "break the entire Internet" button is not easy to find. Those bastards!

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah. gasp hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Nonsense. No project, open or closed, needs a non-contributing pain in the ass, injecting his (and it is always his) nonsense into every single discussion, forcing every conversati…

FC seemingly goes out of his way to act like an ass, and he got himself banned from a bug reporting tool for it. According to another link in these comments, he was also banned fro…

@filipec: Dude, that was two years ago. You're still on about that?