Went through this with dubya in 2000. You can see creepy shadows in any data if you stare at it hard enough. Rely on hard evidence. Like the long lines you can see with your own eyes.
The Green party even raised millions to go over votes to check for validity across a few states...
No, the Green party raised millions to have actual elections officials double-check the ballots. That's a world apart from having a bunch of D.C. hacks run amateur database searches until they get something that they think looks fishy, but isn't, and then go tweeting around that the system is rigged despite not actually having any evidence for it... and, in the meantime, getting themselves hacked by every identity thief in the world because it is plain they do not know the fuck of what they do with computers.
You may want to actually read the links you post. I know the Heritage foundation thinks you are stupid enough to read the first few pages and think that they are all "dead people voting" but you should have more respect for yourself than they do.
These convictions run the gamut from idiots trying to run for office by pretending to live in a different district, people being payed to collect petition signatures or voter registrations who tried to scam their employers instead of doing the work, politicians outright buying votes, election officials tampering with ballots, and people on absentee voting drives improperly turning in ballots for other people which is a crime even though those other people filled the ballots out themselves. And other such technicalities:
XXX admitted to improperly assisting voters in completing their absentee ballots in the 2005 Americus mayoral election. XXX was a candidate in that election, and on at least six occasions, he helped voters fill out information on their ballot mailers without signing the requisite oath indicating he had provided the assistance. He was ordered by the State Election Board to pay a $600 fine
Your contention that it "only breaks one way" is also false. Plenty of news articles of Trumpkins trying to double vote.
Which is dumb. As the convictions show, it is very easy to catch you doing this. Only a few fools each year try it, the rest are dissuaded by us actually enforcing existing laws using existing precautionary mechanisms.
To start screwing around with people who *should* be allowed to vote for the sake of a teeny tiny number of people to are trying to defraud the system will get us less accurate results than doing nothing at all.
Not to mention many of the holes are in vendor add-on software, not in Linux itself.
There's something to be said about year's old firmware, however. For a device like a router, turning off all unnecessary services, closing everything off and then opening things as needed, and only patching security vulnerabilities... never upgrading anything unless you have to to get the security fix... is actually a good strategy. On commercial routers what you do is stay current on an old release chain.
This is because a very large proportion of bugs are introduced with new features, and you'll never be exposed to them if you never install that feature... meanwhile security on average do increase your security, believe it or not. So the most secure systems end up being the older codebases with up to date security backport patches.
Lately Linux has been dinged a lot for privilege escalation bugs. These are mostly secondary vectors that rely on another vulnerability in a service or client to get on the system in the first place. As transit devices, routers have very low surface area in these categories, if you take care to turn off the crap.
Precisely. It's not just that consumers do not have the expertise to evaluate most products and are subject to human psychological foibles. It is also that, without a large qualitative selection, the market is a very inefficient evolutionary machine that has very low odds of optimizing products before the entire product category becomes obsolete.
Free marketeers who argue otherwise are likely to fall into one of two categories: true believers who have done no real systems analysis, or those who know full well how dumb consumers are and want to take advantage of their poor decision making... so every decision consumers make without relevant expertise is an opportunity to run a con. A third category of really wealthy people who just have metric shit-tons of time to research every purchase they make and don't understand why other people don't might be large enough to be worth mentioning.
Now everyone go buy yourself a health insurance policy on the individual market. I'm sure you know much better than doctors and analysts what constitutes "good coverage" and what a decent MLR is.
Moreover, Russia has been engaging in a sustained cyber-warfare campaign in Ukraine, up to and including taking down the power grid and hacking cells of military personnel to gain information on troop positions. Making it look like ransomware was probably more an afterthought in hopes that paranoid firewall admins worldwide would block Ukrainian IP addresses... they really don't care that it eventually gets attributed to them.
I rolled my eyes this morning when I heard the company of origin was in the Ukraine and was not very surprised to see this article today.
Seriously if you reported every con phone call, phishing attempt, ebay check cashing scam, malware site, or fraudulent snail mail how much of a time suck would that be? We're drowning in criminal activity these days... no surprise people just blow it off. (And now the role-model-in-chief is a fraudster so it's just going to get worse.)
I only report the ones that piss me off when I'm in a bad mood. (Actually I have a good coincidental record of seeing the government take the rare action right after I file one of my rare reports.)
That being said, if the law enforcement and consumer protection agencies actually want more reports, they would be best advised to do some SEO so you can easily google which sites to report specific types of fraud. Though frankly, I'd not be surprised if in a few years consumer protection NPOs are sending out warnings not to give certain federal agencies any PII because they are so corrupt they are running cons with it.
Well, "Georgia" may. Up where it gets well below freezing all you have to do is let the room freeze for a few days in the winter and problem solved (dust mites, too). Just be careful not to burst your water pipes. This also means they don't migrate as much between houses in the winter, at least not via car.
people who get worked up about traces of lead are the sort who shop at Whole Foods
I despise Whole Foods and eat microwave TV dinners.
Trace lead levels are something I do care about. Everyone should care about cumulative neurotoxins, triply so for children given the eveidnce. It's only government action (like killing leaded gasoline) which has been ameliorating the problem, plus a little economic luck in that coal is now an industry in decline, so we'll see how this chart does if the unified Republican government turns its back on core FDA/EPA responsibilities. It'll also be interesting to see how the preschool lead exposure and violent crime correlation holds up over time.
Prerequisites:
client computer with ethernet interface and firmware file
ethernet cable
device LAN IP address (referred to below as ) device web interface password
They have an embedded agent for most common hardware models and kernels (and a "CB Manual" possibly for custom building the agent.) No surprise... once you have code you can manage to graft it into almost anything.
However, unlike lots of the other entries, no tool to crack it in the first place... they'd have to have physical access, or an exploit tool not covered in this document.
Alternatively, if the FCC of that day had not been so (small-c) conservative, they could have allocated the bandwidth to something relatively useless except to some mega-corporation and it would not have eventually been freed for cell use.
Storage solutions would benefit the entire provider market, and the cost of any program to boost that sector should be attributed fairly. They and other grid improvements aren't as sexy as panels and windmills, so they don't attract as much serious investment.
Also, where is this vaunted "invisible hand of the free market" that's supposed to make companies that schedule their industrial power consumption to match when electricity is cheaper do better and thus grow to dominate the market?
No "And". Just that people post wrong shit on the internet, and other people trust some random idiot on the Internet because "hey, nobody would be stupid enough to think state AGs know whether or not the law they are suing under is in effect unless it was one of those bizarre but-true-things, right?" And that's how we end up with large swaths of the country living in alternative realities.
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Went through this with dubya in 2000. You can see creepy shadows in any data if you stare at it hard enough. Rely on hard evidence. Like the long lines you can see with your own eyes.
The Green party even raised millions to go over votes to check for validity across a few states...
No, the Green party raised millions to have actual elections officials double-check the ballots. That's a world apart from having a bunch of D.C. hacks run amateur database searches until they get something that they think looks fishy, but isn't, and then go tweeting around that the system is rigged despite not actually having any evidence for it... and, in the meantime, getting themselves hacked by every identity thief in the world because it is plain they do not know the fuck of what they do with computers.
You may want to actually read the links you post. I know the Heritage foundation thinks you are stupid enough to read the first few pages and think that they are all "dead people voting" but you should have more respect for yourself than they do.
These convictions run the gamut from idiots trying to run for office by pretending to live in a different district, people being payed to collect petition signatures or voter registrations who tried to scam their employers instead of doing the work, politicians outright buying votes, election officials tampering with ballots, and people on absentee voting drives improperly turning in ballots for other people which is a crime even though those other people filled the ballots out themselves. And other such technicalities:
XXX admitted to improperly assisting voters in
completing their absentee ballots in the 2005 Americus mayoral
election. XXX was a candidate in that election, and on at least six
occasions, he helped voters fill out information on their ballot mailers
without signing the requisite oath indicating he had provided the
assistance. He was ordered by the State Election Board to pay a
$600 fine
Your contention that it "only breaks one way" is also false. Plenty of news articles of Trumpkins trying to double vote.
Which is dumb. As the convictions show, it is very easy to catch you doing this. Only a few fools each year try it, the rest are dissuaded by us actually enforcing existing laws using existing precautionary mechanisms.
To start screwing around with people who *should* be allowed to vote for the sake of a teeny tiny number of people to are trying to defraud the system will get us less accurate results than doing nothing at all.
Evidence...? ...crickets...
Also "hundreds"? That sounds like big problem which could seriously impact elections. In Tuvalu.
Not to mention many of the holes are in vendor add-on software, not in Linux itself.
There's something to be said about year's old firmware, however. For a device like a router, turning off all unnecessary services, closing everything off and then opening things as needed, and only patching security vulnerabilities... never upgrading anything unless you have to to get the security fix... is actually a good strategy. On commercial routers what you do is stay current on an old release chain.
This is because a very large proportion of bugs are introduced with new features, and you'll never be exposed to them if you never install that feature... meanwhile security on average do increase your security, believe it or not. So the most secure systems end up being the older codebases with up to date security backport patches.
Lately Linux has been dinged a lot for privilege escalation bugs. These are mostly secondary vectors that rely on another vulnerability in a service or client to get on the system in the first place. As transit devices, routers have very low surface area in these categories, if you take care to turn off the crap.
Precisely. It's not just that consumers do not have the expertise to evaluate most products and are subject to human psychological foibles. It is also that, without a large qualitative selection, the market is a very inefficient evolutionary machine that has very low odds of optimizing products before the entire product category becomes obsolete.
Free marketeers who argue otherwise are likely to fall into one of two categories: true believers who have done no real systems analysis, or those who know full well how dumb consumers are and want to take advantage of their poor decision making... so every decision consumers make without relevant expertise is an opportunity to run a con. A third category of really wealthy people who just have metric shit-tons of time to research every purchase they make and don't understand why other people don't might be large enough to be worth mentioning.
Now everyone go buy yourself a health insurance policy on the individual market. I'm sure you know much better than doctors and analysts what constitutes "good coverage" and what a decent MLR is.
The government needs to stay out of free market economics. Consumers have bleated incoherently
FTFY
Moreover, Russia has been engaging in a sustained cyber-warfare campaign in Ukraine, up to and including taking down the power grid and hacking cells of military personnel to gain information on troop positions. Making it look like ransomware was probably more an afterthought in hopes that paranoid firewall admins worldwide would block Ukrainian IP addresses... they really don't care that it eventually gets attributed to them.
I rolled my eyes this morning when I heard the company of origin was in the Ukraine and was not very surprised to see this article today.
Seriously if you reported every con phone call, phishing attempt, ebay check cashing scam, malware site, or fraudulent snail mail how much of a time suck would that be? We're drowning in criminal activity these days... no surprise people just blow it off. (And now the role-model-in-chief is a fraudster so it's just going to get worse.)
I only report the ones that piss me off when I'm in a bad mood. (Actually I have a good coincidental record of seeing the government take the rare action right after I file one of my rare reports.)
That being said, if the law enforcement and consumer protection agencies actually want more reports, they would be best advised to do some SEO so you can easily google which sites to report specific types of fraud. Though frankly, I'd not be surprised if in a few years consumer protection NPOs are sending out warnings not to give certain federal agencies any PII because they are so corrupt they are running cons with it.
Well, "Georgia" may. Up where it gets well below freezing all you have to do is let the room freeze for a few days in the winter and problem solved (dust mites, too). Just be careful not to burst your water pipes. This also means they don't migrate as much between houses in the winter, at least not via car.
people who get worked up about traces of lead are the sort who shop at Whole Foods
I despise Whole Foods and eat microwave TV dinners.
Trace lead levels are something I do care about. Everyone should care about cumulative neurotoxins, triply so for children given the eveidnce. It's only government action (like killing leaded gasoline) which has been ameliorating the problem, plus a little economic luck in that coal is now an industry in decline, so we'll see how this chart does if the unified Republican government turns its back on core FDA/EPA responsibilities. It'll also be interesting to see how the preschool lead exposure and violent crime correlation holds up over time.
Translation: I don't want to share the world. Let everyone else just die at the hands of ISIS, unless I can get them to work hard for cheap.
Posting crap online is a waste of time.
"Stop posting online" is my assistance to you.
Eventually we'll manage to poison ourselves down to an intellectual level incapable of sustaining society. Think Idiocracy with no funny parts.
lead is a perfectly natural substance
I stopped reading riht there. Naturalness has no bearing on heath.
Read further in that section:
Prerequisites:
client computer with ethernet interface and firmware file
ethernet cable
device LAN IP address (referred to below as )
device web interface password
They have an embedded agent for most common hardware models and kernels (and a "CB Manual" possibly for custom building the agent.)
No surprise... once you have code you can manage to graft it into almost anything.
However, unlike lots of the other entries, no tool to crack it in the first place... they'd have to have physical access, or an exploit tool not covered in this document.
The "supported" model list makes it look like they are only targeting default OEM loads. Which makes sense since that's what most people run.
Yes! And I could also eat my sandwich through a straw!
Alternatively, if the FCC of that day had not been so (small-c) conservative, they could have allocated the bandwidth to something relatively useless except to some mega-corporation and it would not have eventually been freed for cell use.
WRT is glued together with bash scripts. Not my decision.
Stop with the absolutism.
Stop with the psychological projection.
Personally I think a couple of grand to fill in some missing variables on the behavior of a food species is probably a good buy.
If you have to worry about indentation then you are not doing it right.
Or you care what your code looks like more than any automated algorithm ever could.
Though lately I've been making an effort to use tabs because I've been working on WRT stuff where every byte saved is worth something.
Storage solutions would benefit the entire provider market, and the cost of any program to boost that sector should be attributed fairly. They and other grid improvements aren't as sexy as panels and windmills, so they don't attract as much serious investment.
Also, where is this vaunted "invisible hand of the free market" that's supposed to make companies that schedule their industrial power consumption to match when electricity is cheaper do better and thus grow to dominate the market?
I'd have bigger problems to worry about under a small weak government. Like having my life savings stolen by all the criminals.
No "And". Just that people post wrong shit on the internet, and other people trust some random idiot on the Internet because "hey, nobody would be stupid enough to think state AGs know whether or not the law they are suing under is in effect unless it was one of those bizarre but-true-things, right?" And that's how we end up with large swaths of the country living in alternative realities.