Having no direct control over the SWAT team's policies and decisions you can't hold him accountable
What a load of bullshit.
Hey, if I poison your water supply and you drink it, you can't blame me! After all, YOU made the decision to drink it. I can't be held responsible for the water company not filtering out the poison!
And if I drive drunk and end up killing you or your wife, don't blame me! YOU made the decision to get on the road, you should have known that there are drunks out there.
And if I SWAT you and the SWAT team blows your head off, too bad! I have "no direct control over the SWAT team's policies and decisions", right?
he is the one responsible for what he did law enforcement is responsible for what they do
Yes, and he'll go to prison, as should the trigger-happy fucktard that shot the innocent guy who answered his door. Don't give me your fuzzy-headed blather about "responsibility", you haven't a clue as to what the word means. The SWAT team wouldn't have been there if not for that asshole Tyler Barris.
Fluoridated water has been one of the most successful public health initiatives ever implemented. Ask any dentist and they'll tell you that cavities are almost unheard of in children now. Every kid I knew growing up had a mouthful of them, whereas most children these days just don't get them.
Go ahead, ask a dentist about it and they'll tell you. You won't believe them, but your willful ignorance won't make it any less true.
Bullshit. The vast majority of ant-vaxxers are right-wing or 'libertarian', whatever that means.
Many Fox News viewers in Seattle are there?
Yes, there are. For example, Snohomish county, just north of Seattle, leans strongly to the right. Clark county is about half and half, so yeah, there are indeed lots of Fox News viewers in WA state- including in and around Seattle. I worked with plenty of them at places like Microsoft, AT&T, Boeing, etc etc.
Do you see anti-vaxxers in Texas? Being near the border you see realists who vaccinate kids as soon as they can.
Yes, there are plenty of anti-vaxxers in Texas. Are you seriously trying to convince us that Texas is some sort of enlightened liberal enclave?
People aren't antivaxxers they are people who have lost valuable trust in a system that can help itself but to be arrogant, condesending, and foolishly self righteous blowhards.
No.
People are anti-vaxxers because they're stupid enough to believe they know more than all the scientists who've spent their lives researching and learning about highly complex subjects. And because they're stupid enough to believe any drivel that they see in their Facebook feeds, spewed out by dumbfucks with zero training, education, or experience in the subjects they pontificate on.
Claiming that choosing to not run non-free JS is 'the opposite of "freedom"' is several steps beyond facile.
Sure, except for the fact that I never claimed any such thing.
Not running non-free JS is fine, but if it prevents you from doing what you want to do then what have you gained? Where's the "freedom" part in not being able to do what you need?
Your response is the same as saying that "disabling your car frees you from driving it." Right, but what if I want to drive it?
Every civilized country has SWAT yet it's only America where SWATting calls turn into civilian fatalities.
Exactly, and that's why the penalties need to be severe.
SWAT teams here are loaded with trigger-happy nutjobs, so the risk is far greater than in other countries, hence the penalties have to be scaled up too.
Clearly a horrible person, but life in prison? Many twenty year olds are horrible people but they usually grow up. Maybe it's time to talk limiting incarceration; perhaps five to ten years, for most offenses lacking physical assault.
Sounds harsh to me too, but on the other hand, some dickweasel just like him named Tyler Barriss got an innocent man (Andrew Finch) killed when he swatted someone. The SWAT team responded and shot Finch the moment he stepped outside. That could have been me or your or your son or father.
And yes, I most certainly DO blame the SWAT team too, but without a shitbag like Tyler Barriss starting the ball rolling, it never would have happened.
Maybe just 20 years in prison to serve as an object lesson to these little fucks who think this kind of shit is funny and no big deal.
The LibreJS site says, "The program GNU LibreJS detects nonfree JavaScript in pages you visit and blocks it, preventing it from running and thus saving you from giving up your freedom."
Yes, and it'll also prevent you from using the site in most cases. That's kind of the opposite of "freedom".
"Many dating Web sites run proprietary JavaScript..."
No shit, Sherlock. Why not just say "Many web sites run proprietary JavaScript..."? Why call out dating sites?
Practically every goddamn site I visit runs JS and sometimes they run fucking gobs of it to the point where my browser pops up warnings about scripts slowing down the system. Why are dating sites any different? Why not say car sales sites or blogs or Amazon? What's so special about dating sites?
Seriously- who thought these fuckers weren't breaking every rule and sucking up every bit of data they could?
The next big thing in data will be vehicular data- where you drive, when you dive, how fast, how often, etc etc etc. Everyone wants this data and many of the newer crop of cars collect LOTS of it, then beam it back to the manufacturer or one of their paid data collectors.
Do you think a Tesla isn't recording what the driver does when they take their foot off the brake or roll down a window? Of course they are.
Soon all the major car manufacturers will be collecting "driver data". It's a gold mine for them because advertisers will pay real money for the data.
Eventually you won't be able to drive past a Burger King without a 10% off coupon flashing on your in-car display, and they'll probably interrupt your music or radio to tell you about it. They already do it in malls.
"Researchers have found a way to run malicious code on systems with Intel processors in such a way that the malware can't be analyzed or identified by antivirus software, using the processor's own features to protect the bad code"
The only thing I would realistically worry about with Google is, what happens with a really big natural disaster that destroys one (or more) entire data centers?
AWS.
AWS makes lots of copies of every damn file and scatters them all over the world in geographically different Availability Zones.
So even if the entire us-east-2 (Ohio) AZ is blown off the map by a nuke, AND eu-north-1 (Stockholm) is also blown off the map, along with Tokyo, Sydney, and Frankfurt, your file is still floating around in us-east-1 or eu-west-3 or ap-northeast-3, etc etc, about a dozen other AZs.
You'd need a genuine global disaster to lose files from AWS, and at that point I probably wouldn't be giving a shit about files, I'd be concentrating on food and ammo.
They probably didn't build them to begin with, odds are they did it all with someone else's containers and they had no clue what was actually running on those systems.
^^^^^THIS.
Yep, they most likely took some base container, maybe modded it a bit, and threw it into service. They likely have no idea at all how it was configured or what was in it.
People are always concerned with the data and forget about the infrastructure that it lives in.
And where would those "more tickets" come from? It does not make any sense...
The troopers would simply stop more people (for any reason or none at all) and give them tickets. Motorists are the State Trooper's prey.
I have no doubt whatsoever that some of those tickets were pure bullshit, totally unwarranted and without any foundation. So yeah you get a bogus ticket for doing nothing wrong. Maybe you'll fight it in court? Sure, you might be up for fighting it but a lot of people can't afford to take the time off to go to court and contest it.
Besides, it's your word against the Trooper's, and if you lose you pay a lot more (court costs, blah blah blah). And remember, the Trooper is a literally a pro at this, they've written thousands of tickets. How many have you successfully fought in court? Maybe if you had a dashcam AND they allow it into evidence AND allow it to be played, maybe you can show that you didn't do anything. But that still doesn't guarantee that you'll win. Sometimes the judge sides with the Trooper and that's that, period.
The fact is that as a State Trooper, if you write lots of tickets enough of them will stick and you'll meet that secret quota that absolutely positively doesn't exist.
I doubt america is so retarded that traffic cops get paid by the ticket "revenue" they bring in...
No, but they do have an informal monthly quota that they're expected to write.
I knew a State Trooper in WA for several years and he admitted quite candidly that there absolutely is pressure put on them to write a minimum number of tickets per month, it's referred to as the "expectation".
A trooper who doesn't write enough tickets will be told by his superior that he "isn't meeting their expectations" and the message is delivered: write more tickets.
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Having no direct control over the SWAT team's policies and decisions you can't hold him accountable
What a load of bullshit.
Hey, if I poison your water supply and you drink it, you can't blame me! After all, YOU made the decision to drink it. I can't be held responsible for the water company not filtering out the poison!
And if I drive drunk and end up killing you or your wife, don't blame me! YOU made the decision to get on the road, you should have known that there are drunks out there.
And if I SWAT you and the SWAT team blows your head off, too bad! I have "no direct control over the SWAT team's policies and decisions", right?
he is the one responsible for what he did law enforcement is responsible for what they do
Yes, and he'll go to prison, as should the trigger-happy fucktard that shot the innocent guy who answered his door. Don't give me your fuzzy-headed blather about "responsibility", you haven't a clue as to what the word means. The SWAT team wouldn't have been there if not for that asshole Tyler Barris.
I censor myself from Facebook.
Same here. It seems like a cesspool of drivel and bullshit, interspersed with ads for shit I don't want.
Most people aren't accessing these services though a computer these days.
Really? How are they accessing the internet, then?
I shouldn't have to say this, but your phone is a computer. Who knew, right?
Enjoy your rat poison
Fluoridated water has been one of the most successful public health initiatives ever implemented. Ask any dentist and they'll tell you that cavities are almost unheard of in children now. Every kid I knew growing up had a mouthful of them, whereas most children these days just don't get them.
Go ahead, ask a dentist about it and they'll tell you. You won't believe them, but your willful ignorance won't make it any less true.
Anti-Vaxxers are notoriously mostly liberal.
Bullshit. The vast majority of ant-vaxxers are right-wing or 'libertarian', whatever that means.
Many Fox News viewers in Seattle are there?
Yes, there are. For example, Snohomish county, just north of Seattle, leans strongly to the right. Clark county is about half and half, so yeah, there are indeed lots of Fox News viewers in WA state- including in and around Seattle. I worked with plenty of them at places like Microsoft, AT&T, Boeing, etc etc.
Do you see anti-vaxxers in Texas? Being near the border you see realists who vaccinate kids as soon as they can.
Yes, there are plenty of anti-vaxxers in Texas. Are you seriously trying to convince us that Texas is some sort of enlightened liberal enclave?
People aren't antivaxxers they are people who have lost valuable trust in a system that can help itself but to be arrogant, condesending, and foolishly self righteous blowhards.
No.
People are anti-vaxxers because they're stupid enough to believe they know more than all the scientists who've spent their lives researching and learning about highly complex subjects. And because they're stupid enough to believe any drivel that they see in their Facebook feeds, spewed out by dumbfucks with zero training, education, or experience in the subjects they pontificate on.
In other words, people like you.
Claiming that choosing to not run non-free JS is 'the opposite of "freedom"' is several steps beyond facile.
Sure, except for the fact that I never claimed any such thing.
Not running non-free JS is fine, but if it prevents you from doing what you want to do then what have you gained? Where's the "freedom" part in not being able to do what you need?
Your response is the same as saying that "disabling your car frees you from driving it." Right, but what if I want to drive it?
Personally, I wish there were some chance he would get 80 years. Might slow down all the other psychopaths.
Sadly, these assholes never stop to think it through so I'm not sure how much of a deterrent it would be.
They almost never go so far as to think "So I do this, and then what happens?"
I'd be fine with him getting 20 years in prison though. Maybe 30.
Every civilized country has SWAT yet it's only America where SWATting calls turn into civilian fatalities.
Exactly, and that's why the penalties need to be severe.
SWAT teams here are loaded with trigger-happy nutjobs, so the risk is far greater than in other countries, hence the penalties have to be scaled up too.
Clearly a horrible person, but life in prison? Many twenty year olds are horrible people but they usually grow up.
Maybe it's time to talk limiting incarceration; perhaps five to ten years, for most offenses lacking physical assault.
Sounds harsh to me too, but on the other hand, some dickweasel just like him named Tyler Barriss got an innocent man (Andrew Finch) killed when he swatted someone. The SWAT team responded and shot Finch the moment he stepped outside. That could have been me or your or your son or father.
And yes, I most certainly DO blame the SWAT team too, but without a shitbag like Tyler Barriss starting the ball rolling, it never would have happened.
Maybe just 20 years in prison to serve as an object lesson to these little fucks who think this kind of shit is funny and no big deal.
Obviously, the article was trying to ride the wave of Valentine's Day-related news.
It actually has nothing to do with dating at all.
That sounds about right.
in western civilization it has become more and more accepted, for adults to get to know each other for the purpose of dating ONLY on dating sites.
Yeah I get that and I'm fine with it, but 99.99999% of all sites out there use javascript and a lot of it is proprietary and/or obfuscated.
So again, what's so special about dating sites? Why call them out specifically?
The LibreJS site says, "The program GNU LibreJS detects nonfree JavaScript in pages you visit and blocks it, preventing it from running and thus saving you from giving up your freedom."
Yes, and it'll also prevent you from using the site in most cases. That's kind of the opposite of "freedom".
I don't see a practical solution to this issue.
"Many dating Web sites run proprietary JavaScript..."
No shit, Sherlock. Why not just say "Many web sites run proprietary JavaScript..."? Why call out dating sites?
Practically every goddamn site I visit runs JS and sometimes they run fucking gobs of it to the point where my browser pops up warnings about scripts slowing down the system. Why are dating sites any different? Why not say car sales sites or blogs or Amazon? What's so special about dating sites?
Oh holy cow! I've discovered the cure for Anonymous Coward Syndrome!
The only cure for obnoxious ACs like him is to seal him in a barrel and drop him overboard.
Everything must be owned, and nothing can be spoken, sung, screamed or uttered without payment being made.
Like that dipshit Anish Kapoor who wants everyone in the world to pay him for trying to take a picture of his misshapen blob of art in Chicago.
Look up "vanta black" to see what a shitbag he is.
ME SO SHOCKED
Seriously- who thought these fuckers weren't breaking every rule and sucking up every bit of data they could?
The next big thing in data will be vehicular data- where you drive, when you dive, how fast, how often, etc etc etc. Everyone wants this data and many of the newer crop of cars collect LOTS of it, then beam it back to the manufacturer or one of their paid data collectors.
Do you think a Tesla isn't recording what the driver does when they take their foot off the brake or roll down a window? Of course they are.
Soon all the major car manufacturers will be collecting "driver data". It's a gold mine for them because advertisers will pay real money for the data.
Eventually you won't be able to drive past a Burger King without a 10% off coupon flashing on your in-car display, and they'll probably interrupt your music or radio to tell you about it. They already do it in malls.
You laugh now, but it's coming.
to mine bitcoins on other peoples computers.
Shhhhhhhhh.
"Researchers have found a way to run malicious code on systems with Intel processors in such a way that the malware can't be analyzed or identified by antivirus software, using the processor's own features to protect the bad code"
Well now we're fucked.
The only thing I would realistically worry about with Google is, what happens with a really big natural disaster that destroys one (or more) entire data centers?
AWS.
AWS makes lots of copies of every damn file and scatters them all over the world in geographically different Availability Zones.
So even if the entire us-east-2 (Ohio) AZ is blown off the map by a nuke, AND eu-north-1 (Stockholm) is also blown off the map, along with Tokyo, Sydney, and Frankfurt, your file is still floating around in us-east-1 or eu-west-3 or ap-northeast-3, etc etc, about a dozen other AZs.
You'd need a genuine global disaster to lose files from AWS, and at that point I probably wouldn't be giving a shit about files, I'd be concentrating on food and ammo.
They probably didn't build them to begin with, odds are they did it all with someone else's containers and they had no clue what was actually running on those systems.
^^^^^THIS.
Yep, they most likely took some base container, maybe modded it a bit, and threw it into service. They likely have no idea at all how it was configured or what was in it.
People are always concerned with the data and forget about the infrastructure that it lives in.
So they have no current backups at all? Seriously?
It's so easy to do these days that there's no good excuse not to. Hell, use a secured AWS bucket and stash your backups there.
Cool story, bro.
And where would those "more tickets" come from? It does not make any sense ...
The troopers would simply stop more people (for any reason or none at all) and give them tickets. Motorists are the State Trooper's prey.
I have no doubt whatsoever that some of those tickets were pure bullshit, totally unwarranted and without any foundation. So yeah you get a bogus ticket for doing nothing wrong. Maybe you'll fight it in court? Sure, you might be up for fighting it but a lot of people can't afford to take the time off to go to court and contest it.
Besides, it's your word against the Trooper's, and if you lose you pay a lot more (court costs, blah blah blah). And remember, the Trooper is a literally a pro at this, they've written thousands of tickets. How many have you successfully fought in court? Maybe if you had a dashcam AND they allow it into evidence AND allow it to be played, maybe you can show that you didn't do anything. But that still doesn't guarantee that you'll win. Sometimes the judge sides with the Trooper and that's that, period.
The fact is that as a State Trooper, if you write lots of tickets enough of them will stick and you'll meet that secret quota that absolutely positively doesn't exist.
I doubt america is so retarded that traffic cops get paid by the ticket "revenue" they bring in ...
No, but they do have an informal monthly quota that they're expected to write.
I knew a State Trooper in WA for several years and he admitted quite candidly that there absolutely is pressure put on them to write a minimum number of tickets per month, it's referred to as the "expectation".
A trooper who doesn't write enough tickets will be told by his superior that he "isn't meeting their expectations" and the message is delivered: write more tickets.