Brent Andrew, a spokesman for Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, said the hospital had "received several patients" and was expecting more.
. . . so if you want any juicy information about the victims . . . you can buy it from Facebook . . .
OH wait, I don't think they allow regular ARs in CA anymore, right?
California romanticizes smuggling of ARs. See "The Sons of Anarchy" for details.
If you make something illegal in the US . . . you can be sure that it will be available through . . . "informal channels".
Anyway, a pro wouldn't use an AR in a YouTube office attack. A Heckler & Koch MP7 would have been much more effective.
When I saw a German soldier demonstrate the weapon, he stated:
"This weapon should never be in civilian hands!"
Well, weapons have improved, but I don't think that is the problem. Back in the 70's, when I attended High School in scenic New Jersey, bat-shit crazy folks like myself smoked weed and listened to "Yes" and "Pink Floyd" albums. We never considered shooting up the school.
The folks in America have changed. The Founding Fathers were a bunch of very intelligent optimistic folks. They saw the "Right to Bear Arms" as a necessity to defend the good people against tyranny.
Ask any American today what the "Boston Tea Party" was about . . . they probably won't know.
Guns are not the problem, but compared to back then . . . too many folks cannot be trusted with weapons.
. . . or maybe force them to smoke weed and listen to "Yes" and "Pink Floyd" albums.
It's better to thoroughly test it while it's still on the ground . . . instead of having to send up a Geek Squad repair crew on the Space Shuttle, like we had to do with the Hubble.
Oh, yeah . . . we don't have the Space Shuttle anymore.
If there's trouble with the Webb, we'll have to politely ask our good friends the Russians for help.
Its quite clear that there are companies and people out there with an agenda to push Tesla's share price down and they are planting stories of dubious accuracy in the media.
I saw a pseudo-documentary eons ago that claimed Detroit's "Big Three" + Michigan Senator Carl Levin conspired to sabotage DeLorean . . . which was deemed to be a danger to the status quo.
I've often wondered if Detroit's now "Big Two" + Turin's "Big One" would sit by idly as Tesla eats their lunch. Sure, they are reluctantly also going electric . . . but dirty tricks are an essential part of doing business these days.
A spending bill that was so big he said "He would never sign another one like it again."
. . . until the next time that the government runs out of money again.
Over time, Congressional spending bills only get larger . . . they never get smaller.
Presidents always try to put a lid on spending . . . but those wily Congress Critters gotta bring home the pork for their constituencies! Bow & Arrow Tax Breaks, et al.
This is the inevitable outcome anyone could have foreseen would arise from letting people who don't care about security sell millions of computers to people who don't understand security.
Next to stupidity, greed is one of humans' finest traits.
Has anyone considered that this might have been an "inside job" . . . ? Like, a disgruntled city employee purposely starting the infection for a small fee from the ransomers . . . ?
It would be interesting to see if they can trace the spread back to a "patient zero".
I believe an Ig Nobel was awarded for a paper proving that research scientist are the leading cause of cancer in rats.
The article doesn't seem to say where this research was performed, but I am guessing California.
Lots of stuff causes cancer in California, but doesn't cause cancer elsewhere. There must be some unknown secondary environmental cause in California. What does California have, that other places don't . . . ?
Getting back to humans . . . the Nordic countries have been using cell phones for the longest . . . close to 30 years.
"Yo, Norwegians, Swedes and Finns, put down that rotten fermented fish out of exploding cans, and tell us if y'all got more cancer now!"
How did you employees THINK you earned your paycheck? By siphoning user's private data and selling it to corporations, politicians, or anyone else who wanted to pay, that's how.
There is a lot of religious oriented stuff on TV now, and one show told a story about how a guy named Jesus entrusted his private location data with a guy named Judas, who sold the information to the government, and they nailed Jesus to a tree!
Hey, that's Facebook!
Maybe we should start calling it Judasbook . . . ?
Anyway, I am extremely disappointed at the reaction of the Facebook employees to the leaking of this memo. This should be a call for all of them to clean up their act.
Instead, they want to sweep it under the rug, and ignore it.
It's far worse than I feared . . . Facebook, is indeed, totally rotten to the core. What causes folks to have no morals or ethics . . . ? Did the riches of technology corrupt them . . . ?
Sorry . . . 100% wrong. The point of Facebook is to sell information about people.
They do bring people closer together . . . namely, they bring advertisers closer to their users.
But advertisers are mostly harmless. Other customers of Facebook data, are not . . . like the ones who want to know if you are pro-Hillary or pro-Trump, and will deny you a job based on your opinion about UBI.
There has to be a whole other level just north of 1st world problem to properly convey the angst and suffering experienced by the user forced to enter the full four letters to link to the Kodi site.
Let me fix that for y'all:
"There has to be a whole other level just north of 1st world problem to properly convey the angst and suffering experienced by the user forced to enter the full four letters to link to the [REDACTED] site."
That word is banned, which means you are not allowed to use it in a post. Google will now report you as a pirate.
Oh, shit! I used that banned word, as well in this post!
Trade isn't a hot button issue, it's all about immigration. The papers have been banging the drum about what a great evil it is for decades.
From a UK "newspaper" . . .
"A while ago I saw a grey squirrel, an invasive species, eating a native British wood pigeon. I think we need to take back control and sort out a points-based immigration system for woodland rodents."
"If everyone drives on the left side of the road, then what on earth is the point of having the right hand side of the road?"
"It's typical of the perpetually pessimistic remoaners at the BBC that traffic news on the radio is little more than a tedious list of setbacks and problems. Instead, why not read out the names of the many places and roads where there are no problems? If you don't hear your area mentioned, you can draw your own conclusions, but the rest of us can be happy because decent British roads are the best in Europe, and probably the world. We should take pride in them, not keep talking them down.
Hopefully, the trade in British humor will not be affected by Brexit . . .
With a clearly petulant EU leadership that's appointed and not elected
. . . just like the Upper House of Parliament in the UK, the House of Lords, who are appointed, and not elected.
For the US folks . . . how would you feel if instead of voting for your State Senator, he or she was appointed by a gang of old, white men, who are supposedly truly concerned about the best interests of the country . . . ?
Oh, and who voted for the gang members . . . ? Themselves . . . ?
But that's a moot point. The folks in the UK can choose whatever form of government they think is best for them.
And the Brexit decision was wisely put up as a referendum for all to vote on.
The UK politicians were very careful to pass that "Hot Potato" off quickly . . .
Slashdot Mirror
And already losing it.
. . . as in any war . . . the little folks always lose . . . no matter what side they are on . . . none of the little folks win.
. . . maybe some big business folks and politicians win.
The rest, lose.
And we're all little folks.
He's a 51% owner
No, don't you remember? He told everyone that he was donating his Facebook stock to charity.
Well, the LA Times said:
Brent Andrew, a spokesman for Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, said the hospital had "received several patients" and was expecting more.
. . . so if you want any juicy information about the victims . . . you can buy it from Facebook . . .
OH wait, I don't think they allow regular ARs in CA anymore, right?
California romanticizes smuggling of ARs. See "The Sons of Anarchy" for details.
If you make something illegal in the US . . . you can be sure that it will be available through . . . "informal channels".
Anyway, a pro wouldn't use an AR in a YouTube office attack. A Heckler & Koch MP7 would have been much more effective.
When I saw a German soldier demonstrate the weapon, he stated:
"This weapon should never be in civilian hands!"
Well, weapons have improved, but I don't think that is the problem. Back in the 70's, when I attended High School in scenic New Jersey, bat-shit crazy folks like myself smoked weed and listened to "Yes" and "Pink Floyd" albums. We never considered shooting up the school.
The folks in America have changed. The Founding Fathers were a bunch of very intelligent optimistic folks. They saw the "Right to Bear Arms" as a necessity to defend the good people against tyranny.
Ask any American today what the "Boston Tea Party" was about . . . they probably won't know.
Guns are not the problem, but compared to back then . . . too many folks cannot be trusted with weapons.
. . . or maybe force them to smoke weed and listen to "Yes" and "Pink Floyd" albums.
Imagine your job is to review cat videos.
All day, every day.
. . . which leads to an amusing job interview:
"So . . . in your last job, you looked at pussy all day . . . ?"
If it ever launches.
It's better to thoroughly test it while it's still on the ground . . . instead of having to send up a Geek Squad repair crew on the Space Shuttle, like we had to do with the Hubble.
Oh, yeah . . . we don't have the Space Shuttle anymore.
If there's trouble with the Webb, we'll have to politely ask our good friends the Russians for help.
Or maybe the Chinese.
Has India done any manned flight yet . . . ?
Its quite clear that there are companies and people out there with an agenda to push Tesla's share price down and they are planting stories of dubious accuracy in the media.
I saw a pseudo-documentary eons ago that claimed Detroit's "Big Three" + Michigan Senator Carl Levin conspired to sabotage DeLorean . . . which was deemed to be a danger to the status quo.
I've often wondered if Detroit's now "Big Two" + Turin's "Big One" would sit by idly as Tesla eats their lunch. Sure, they are reluctantly also going electric . . . but dirty tricks are an essential part of doing business these days.
Keep your damn mouth shut!
Zuckerberg's mouth is like on of those gigantic backhoes in strip mines that you see on EXtreme TV documentaries . . .
. . . he keeps digging himself deeper, and deeper . . . and deeper . . .
Do I get to choose when it runs?
Yes.
You chose that, when you installed it.
Don't want it to run . . . uninstall it.
Although, even if you uninstall it . . . it will probably run anyway.
Looks good so far.
. . . apparently, we haven't had enough time to Slashdot it yet . . .
"AI" - you mean computers??
I wish I had my Dad's old trusty slide rule. I would sit outside at a cafe here and fiddle around with it.
If someone asked what it was, I'd answer:
"AI"
These days, just about everything is being called "AI".
Alexa "You can remove items from the shopping list in the Alexa app."
It could have been worse. Alexa might have answered:
Too late! The articles on your shopping are already shipping from Amazon!"
A spending bill that was so big he said "He would never sign another one like it again."
. . . until the next time that the government runs out of money again.
Over time, Congressional spending bills only get larger . . . they never get smaller.
Presidents always try to put a lid on spending . . . but those wily Congress Critters gotta bring home the pork for their constituencies! Bow & Arrow Tax Breaks, et al.
This is the inevitable outcome anyone could have foreseen would arise from letting people who don't care about security sell millions of computers to people who don't understand security.
Next to stupidity, greed is one of humans' finest traits.
Has anyone considered that this might have been an "inside job" . . . ? Like, a disgruntled city employee purposely starting the infection for a small fee from the ransomers . . . ?
It would be interesting to see if they can trace the spread back to a "patient zero".
"I predict you will live for 4 more seconds. EXTERMINATE!"
The Russian smartwatch is extremely accurate at predicting the time of death.
When it counts down to zero, it releases the nerve gas in the watch.
who keeps buying cell phones for rats!?
I believe an Ig Nobel was awarded for a paper proving that research scientist are the leading cause of cancer in rats.
The article doesn't seem to say where this research was performed, but I am guessing California.
Lots of stuff causes cancer in California, but doesn't cause cancer elsewhere. There must be some unknown secondary environmental cause in California. What does California have, that other places don't . . . ?
Getting back to humans . . . the Nordic countries have been using cell phones for the longest . . . close to 30 years.
"Yo, Norwegians, Swedes and Finns, put down that rotten fermented fish out of exploding cans, and tell us if y'all got more cancer now!"
How did you employees THINK you earned your paycheck? By siphoning user's private data and selling it to corporations, politicians, or anyone else who wanted to pay, that's how.
There is a lot of religious oriented stuff on TV now, and one show told a story about how a guy named Jesus entrusted his private location data with a guy named Judas, who sold the information to the government, and they nailed Jesus to a tree!
Hey, that's Facebook!
Maybe we should start calling it Judasbook . . . ?
Anyway, I am extremely disappointed at the reaction of the Facebook employees to the leaking of this memo. This should be a call for all of them to clean up their act.
Instead, they want to sweep it under the rug, and ignore it.
It's far worse than I feared . . . Facebook, is indeed, totally rotten to the core. What causes folks to have no morals or ethics . . . ? Did the riches of technology corrupt them . . . ?
US automakers have subsidiaries in quite a few non-US countries
For some reason, that phrase amused me and brought up an interesting question. I can grasp what non-US countries are . . .
. . . but what are US countries . . . ? Besides the US itself, of course.
L.L. is a politician? Cool.
. . . rumor has it that she's Oprah's pick as VP candidate . . .
Good businnes for Intel; does nothing to lower energy or other resource usage.
Intel: "With our rig, you can waste more energy faster!"
If you believe Elon (and we know not to always believe him), this is going to pay for Mars.
Musk seems to have more ambitious projects that one single human being could handle alone.
Has anyone really taken a good look at Musk . . . ? I am starting to think that he is really a Beowulf Cluster of Musks . . .
The point of Facebook *is* to "connect people"
Sorry . . . 100% wrong. The point of Facebook is to sell information about people.
They do bring people closer together . . . namely, they bring advertisers closer to their users.
But advertisers are mostly harmless. Other customers of Facebook data, are not . . . like the ones who want to know if you are pro-Hillary or pro-Trump, and will deny you a job based on your opinion about UBI.
There has to be a whole other level just north of 1st world problem to properly convey the angst and suffering experienced by the user forced to enter the full four letters to link to the Kodi site.
Let me fix that for y'all:
"There has to be a whole other level just north of 1st world problem to properly convey the angst and suffering experienced by the user forced to enter the full four letters to link to the [REDACTED] site."
That word is banned, which means you are not allowed to use it in a post. Google will now report you as a pirate.
Oh, shit! I used that banned word, as well in this post!
Trade isn't a hot button issue, it's all about immigration. The papers have been banging the drum about what a great evil it is for decades.
From a UK "newspaper" . . .
"A while ago I saw a grey squirrel, an invasive species, eating a native British wood pigeon. I think we need to take back control and sort out a points-based immigration system for woodland rodents."
"If everyone drives on the left side of the road, then what on earth is the point of having the right hand side of the road?"
"It's typical of the perpetually pessimistic remoaners at the BBC that traffic news on the radio is little more than a tedious list of setbacks and problems. Instead, why not read out the names of the many places and roads where there are no problems? If you don't hear your area mentioned, you can draw your own conclusions, but the rest of us can be happy because decent British roads are the best in Europe, and probably the world. We should take pride in them, not keep talking them down.
Hopefully, the trade in British humor will not be affected by Brexit . . .
With a clearly petulant EU leadership that's appointed and not elected
. . . just like the Upper House of Parliament in the UK, the House of Lords, who are appointed, and not elected.
For the US folks . . . how would you feel if instead of voting for your State Senator, he or she was appointed by a gang of old, white men, who are supposedly truly concerned about the best interests of the country . . . ?
Oh, and who voted for the gang members . . . ? Themselves . . . ?
But that's a moot point. The folks in the UK can choose whatever form of government they think is best for them.
And the Brexit decision was wisely put up as a referendum for all to vote on.
The UK politicians were very careful to pass that "Hot Potato" off quickly . . .