chadbag

eightzero said:

ITGUYINSD said:

Wonder if the two passengers that were hospitalized were injured by the battery or the trip down the slide?
Evacuation seems a bit extreme to me.

Hindsight is 20:50. Trust me - when there's a confirmed fire on board an aircraft, there is a procedure, and the captain gives orders. Disobey at your peril. 

I'd sort of be interested in the nature of the injuries too. Curious if the injuries were from the trip down the slide...with their carryons.

F_Kent_D said:

I 100% agree with everyone’s concern and disapproval of this feature. However, I have nothing to hide as far as child pornography or anything of the sort. I have 3 daughters and would rather them not receive any pornographic texts or communication from anyone and this is to help keep that from happening. Todays kids are chatting and messaging no telling who on the online games and I’ve found that one of my daughters was suckered into doing things that shouldn’t have been done as a 10 year old. She’s been warned but I’m unable to warn the other party. I’m not 100% happy about all of this scanning but at the same time I have young girls that if there’s a way to protect them I will accept the protection against sex trafficking and other improper activities via messaging. 

baconstang said:

chadbag said:

Leifur said:

So I understand the hashes come from a database run by a government? So then that government can easily slip any other hash into the same database depending on what they are looking for.

This is building in that back door that was requested some years ago.

I agree that this is a kind of backdoor and am against it for that reason. However, my understanding is that the hash database is NOT from a government or government agency. It is from a special non-profit set up to fight child abuse. 

NCMEC is funded with private and government funds.

From Wikipedia:
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) is a private, nonprofit organization established in 1984 by the United States Congress. In September 2013, the United States House of Representatives, United States Senate, and the President of the United States reauthorized the allocation of $40 million in funding for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children as part of Missing Children's Assistance Reauthorization Act of 2013

GeorgeBMac said:

StrangeDays said:

GeorgeBMac said:

Peza said:

It was going so well, till they mentioned it’s a subscription service fee! No way is this worth paying 80 dollars or pounds EVERY year for! They’ve seriously miscalculated their market with that.

My grandson is returning to school soon and, without Windows, his MacBook would be essentially an expensive paperweight.

I feel bad for him. I can’t imagine what sort of school district is under the misguided idea that they need Windows software in order to educate. 

That would be most of them.   The prepackaged stuff is pretty much all written for Windows.  While it might run on MacOS, it may or may not be reliable on that platform.   And, a teacher isn't going to give a kid an extension because his Mac wouldn't let him complete his assignment.

Plus, the school techs are mostly Windows guys.