Here union member, prove you're loyal... when you get your mail-in ballot, just sign it and leave it blank and drop it by the office. We'll take care of it from there and make sure you get the best work assignments...
It's much easier to buy/intimidate votes than to tamper with the post office. Now the voter (or their mom,don't forget that recent case in the news) can just drop their blank ballot off at the local party/union/employer/funder's headquarters in exchange for whatever incentive and the ballots can be voted the "right" way. Much closer to the Russian model, actually, where the person officially voting isn't necessarily the decision maker.
How about just making it so we have a disconnected backup, maybe even a paper copy somewhere just in case, and then the threat from "hackers" isn't much of one. But that would expect a modicum of competence, right?
No, the House can't pick "anyone", they may only choose from the top 3 electoral college vote getters for President. From the 12th amendment, "The person having the greatest Number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President."
So why, when membership becomes no longer legally mandated by the government, public service union members stop paying dues and quit, resulting in dramatically lower membership?
Is that also because they find their union so useful to them?
All the police departments with the BLM-related accusations and riots are run by Democrats, who also run the mayor's office, etc.. Most are also heavily black police forces, which is why it keeps being black cops being accused of racist behavior in some of these BLM "incidents".
The reason most police are union members is also related... their bosses love their union political contributors/supporters and the police are required to join in order to work in left-wing run cities.
Seems like a lot of numbers, but when each institution is limited to specific six digit prefixes and they all have to conform to the Luhn algo to create a check digit, it's less than you might think.
From Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations: "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."
Without the market ideas which make up capitalism, you'd be force to stand completely independently, or else to be a beggar, depending for your subsistence on the mercy of others. How about this... try going a month... no, a week without exchanging labor or goods with someone else in a "capitalist" exchange and report back to us how your life changes during that time.
Naw, you guys are missing the proper context for the title.
There is a "war" over what kind of government propaganda to feed kids in classrooms.
Clearly, with titles like "City Planning for Population Growth" and "Effects of Deforestation" , Microsoft has created new weapons for the left-wing radical environmental side in the "war".
But don't worry, the propaganda is already so ingrained in our teachers and school system that most people won't even notice what they've done here...
I know it's too much to read the articles, but try to keep up with at least the summary and the thread you're replying to.
We were discussing this line: "According to the affidavit, Cracka appears to have gotten into the law enforcement database simply by calling an FBI help desk and asking for Giuliano's password to be reset..."
I'm pretty sure AOL doesn't provide the FBI help desk staff, nor manage authentication for their law enforcement databases....
You've apparently never worked on a project for a government agency.
They're typically a combination of right-up-to-date (on things which you can just spend money on and it shows up, like a brand new laptop and monitor every year) and 20-30+ years behind (on things which require actual policy/best practices/technology knowledge).
Of 3,555 federal IT projects that cost at least $10 million, only 6 percent were a success, according to a study by the Standish Group. In addition, 52 percent of large projects were deemed "challenged," meaning they didn't meet user expectations, went over budget, or ran late. All of the remaining projects - 42 percent - were outright failures.
And that's just quick news stories/studies from 5 minutes of Google search reading.
Consider that AFAIK, (this being 9/11 today, its pertinent) since we reported it to them 15+ years ago, none of the Air Traffic Control radar installations have any physical security and they're still running an OS from 20+ years ago that anyone can walk up to and make modifications to. At one point, the Dept. of Agriculture turned off all their firewalls to rely on IDS only because it was too inconvenient to have to keep punching holes for more ports through them.... the stories go on and on!
Yup. She's either senile, incompetent or a pathological liar.
I vote for "all of the above"...
Doesn't recognize what classified markings look like, doesn't remember any of her briefings on it, losing her blackberry dozens of times...
Does anyone actually believe all this stuff? She's been conveniently "forgetting" things for 25 years, going back to the Whitewater FBI investigation interviews. It's a bit much to believe she has the worst memory ever, but only when it comes to things which are potentially damaging to her criminally and politically.
Don't get me started on the fact that the FBI conveniently released all this damaging information as a Friday-Before-Holiday news avoidance dump.
Yeah, the Obama FDA, that hotbed of conservative activism!
Also, since when was price fixing by governments a "free market" solution?
You make it sounds like the Democrats are in favor of free trade from online pharmacies, when a quick Google search and clicking on the first link is enough to dispel that.
I'm not saying there aren't government-lovers on both sides in this area, but to cast it as 'the "conservatives" are against a free market, and the "liberals" are for the free market.' when it's more the opposite is quite a stretch there...
If your job really requires that you get hundreds of emails a day, odds are, you really should be replaced by a robot.
But it's the robots sending the emails.... they take the work as far as they can based on filtering and rules, then email out when they need a real human to help figure out what needs to happen next with something. Then a human might take 10 of those and summarize them into a few lines explaining it to everyone else on the emails.
Surely I'm not the only one on/. who gets more automatically generated email every day than email from real people.... I mean, my team and I manage about 10k devices per person, so the devices tend to have a lot more to say collectively, even if the people communicate more per individual.
And according to that same exact website (which is heavily anti-gun biased by design), this year there have been over 4x the number of defensive use incidents (where they only count "verified" defensive incidents, not the much looser criteria they use for "mass" shootings) as there have been "mass" shootings (defined as 4 or more people hurt) and 5x as many officer involved shootings.
So I guess by your logic, we need to ban the police officer emoji in order to reduce violence???
Also, your comparison between lists with 4+ people and Canada "massacres" is comparing completely different things. The Canada list is incomplete (says right on the page) and is also not a list of 4+ injuries like the first list.
But no surprise to the lack of logic in someone who apparently dislikes both free speech and the right to defend yourself. I guess with this post you get an "A" in your "Human Diversity in Math" course.
People who don't care about honesty and the free exchange of ideas false "report" sites they don't like as having malware, deceptive contents, whatever they can so that the automated filters in Google, anti-virus, etc.. prevent people from visiting them.
The practice not only (temporarily) blocks sites which shouldn't be blocked, but also gets people used to assuming a blocked site is much more likely to be a false positive and thus bypass the blocking. A great lose/lose scenario from these idiots.
Next you'll be trying to tell us people are actually individuals, not just Borg-like members of various collectives determined by their skin color or Party affiliation. You may have to report for re-education if you work in a government, media or academic setting.
On a related topic, basically for at least the next four years we're screwed in terms of having a decent President, so I finally decided to vote based on a longer view of things and try and get the best new Supreme Court justices. Those will have much longer lasting effect than what one President otherwise does.
Why would any employer want to do anything other than hire the best, most qualified employee for a given job?
In this specific case, because the individuals who run Facebook are racist and sexist. They believe what color your skin is, what your ethnically related genetic makeup is and/or what sex you are all matter more than your individual personal characteristics, skills, talents, intelligence, etc...
Trump would be a disaster... ok, but that doesn't mean Hillary would be a disaster is any less true.
It's been interesting to see how much people rely on saying bad (and at least somewhat, although usually not totally) true things about the "other" candidate, but usually fail to make the case at all as to why "their" candidate is any better.
The candidates don't exist in a vacuum. Saying Candidate X is horribly Y doesn't actually compare them to their opponents and thus feels more like calling names than having a reasoned discussion.
I'd listen to more of this if it actually brought up something which wasn't already public knowledge, or tried to at least do some kind of comparison rather than just being a one-sided political attack.
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We're talking about mail-in ballots. They just need to be dropped in a convenient mailbox once filled out.
Here union member, prove you're loyal... when you get your mail-in ballot, just sign it and leave it blank and drop it by the office. We'll take care of it from there and make sure you get the best work assignments...
I'm sure that could never happen... it's not like mail-in ballots are considered more vulnerable to fraud or anything...
It's much easier to buy/intimidate votes than to tamper with the post office. Now the voter (or their mom,don't forget that recent case in the news) can just drop their blank ballot off at the local party/union/employer/funder's headquarters in exchange for whatever incentive and the ballots can be voted the "right" way. Much closer to the Russian model, actually, where the person officially voting isn't necessarily the decision maker.
How about just making it so we have a disconnected backup, maybe even a paper copy somewhere just in case, and then the threat from "hackers" isn't much of one. But that would expect a modicum of competence, right?
No, the House can't pick "anyone", they may only choose from the top 3 electoral college vote getters for President. From the 12th amendment, "The person having the greatest Number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President."
So why, when membership becomes no longer legally mandated by the government, public service union members stop paying dues and quit, resulting in dramatically lower membership?
Is that also because they find their union so useful to them?
Want to blow a SJW's mind?
All the police departments with the BLM-related accusations and riots are run by Democrats, who also run the mayor's office, etc.. Most are also heavily black police forces, which is why it keeps being black cops being accused of racist behavior in some of these BLM "incidents".
The reason most police are union members is also related... their bosses love their union political contributors/supporters and the police are required to join in order to work in left-wing run cities.
Next up.... IPv6 for credit cards.
Seems like a lot of numbers, but when each institution is limited to specific six digit prefixes and they all have to conform to the Luhn algo to create a check digit, it's less than you might think.
They could have just copied from the last time this same story was posted back in May... or this one on the same topic from April of last year... or maybe this same story from December of the year before (2013)... or the Australian version from 2010... the UK version from 2014?... Or maybe from this one in 2009... or this other story in 2010?... or this other version in 2008... or a charitable version in 2010.
I knew I'd seen this "story" somewhere before, but at that point, I admit I got bored and stopped looking for more.
If this is still considered news, or newsworthy... well, let's just say it takes the concept of repeated stories on the same topic to a new level...
From Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations:
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."
Without the market ideas which make up capitalism, you'd be force to stand completely independently, or else to be a beggar, depending for your subsistence on the mercy of others. How about this... try going a month... no, a week without exchanging labor or goods with someone else in a "capitalist" exchange and report back to us how your life changes during that time.
Naw, you guys are missing the proper context for the title.
There is a "war" over what kind of government propaganda to feed kids in classrooms.
Clearly, with titles like "City Planning for Population Growth" and "Effects of Deforestation" , Microsoft has created new weapons for the left-wing radical environmental side in the "war".
But don't worry, the propaganda is already so ingrained in our teachers and school system that most people won't even notice what they've done here...
I know it's too much to read the articles, but try to keep up with at least the summary and the thread you're replying to.
We were discussing this line: "According to the affidavit, Cracka appears to have gotten into the law enforcement database simply by calling an FBI help desk and asking for Giuliano's password to be reset..."
I'm pretty sure AOL doesn't provide the FBI help desk staff, nor manage authentication for their law enforcement databases....
You've apparently never worked on a project for a government agency.
They're typically a combination of right-up-to-date (on things which you can just spend money on and it shows up, like a brand new laptop and monitor every year) and 20-30+ years behind (on things which require actual policy/best practices/technology knowledge).
It doesn't shock me at all that the FBI help desk is as described. I'm a little more familiar with the IRS. In 1991 they were spending $8 Billion to modernize from their 1950s/60s system. By 1997 the IRS was already on their second or third failed "modernization" project, that one failed to the tune of $4 Billion. As recently as 2013 they were still failing to migrate from "1960s" technology to a relational database system.
Multiply that by all the other government agencies
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And that's just quick news stories/studies from 5 minutes of Google search reading.
Consider that AFAIK, (this being 9/11 today, its pertinent) since we reported it to them 15+ years ago, none of the Air Traffic Control radar installations have any physical security and they're still running an OS from 20+ years ago that anyone can walk up to and make modifications to. At one point, the Dept. of Agriculture turned off all their firewalls to rely on IDS only because it was too inconvenient to have to keep punching holes for more ports through them.... the stories go on and on!
It will be illegal to run any other version than Windows 10.
Only after Microsoft donates to the Clinton Foundation... (couldn't resist).
Her signed acknowledgement of taking the training is already publicly available.
Oddly enough, I don't and mine was less than 15 years ago.
You recall at least having HAD the briefing, right? She supposedly couldn't even remember that much, despite having signed paperwork about the briefing.
Yup. She's either senile, incompetent or a pathological liar.
I vote for "all of the above"...
Doesn't recognize what classified markings look like, doesn't remember any of her briefings on it, losing her blackberry dozens of times...
Does anyone actually believe all this stuff? She's been conveniently "forgetting" things for 25 years, going back to the Whitewater FBI investigation interviews. It's a bit much to believe she has the worst memory ever, but only when it comes to things which are potentially damaging to her criminally and politically.
Don't get me started on the fact that the FBI conveniently released all this damaging information as a Friday-Before-Holiday news avoidance dump.
Yeah, the Obama FDA, that hotbed of conservative activism!
Also, since when was price fixing by governments a "free market" solution?
You make it sounds like the Democrats are in favor of free trade from online pharmacies, when a quick Google search and clicking on the first link is enough to dispel that.
I'm not saying there aren't government-lovers on both sides in this area, but to cast it as 'the "conservatives" are against a free market, and the "liberals" are for the free market.' when it's more the opposite is quite a stretch there...
If your job really requires that you get hundreds of emails a day, odds are, you really should be replaced by a robot.
But it's the robots sending the emails.... they take the work as far as they can based on filtering and rules, then email out when they need a real human to help figure out what needs to happen next with something. Then a human might take 10 of those and summarize them into a few lines explaining it to everyone else on the emails.
Surely I'm not the only one on /. who gets more automatically generated email every day than email from real people.... I mean, my team and I manage about 10k devices per person, so the devices tend to have a lot more to say collectively, even if the people communicate more per individual.
Now if they don't demand exclusivity... or if you and a "friend" can submit very similar bugs to each program separately and reap multiple rewards...
Yeah, this sounds as much like a DDOS as the Healthcare.gov rollout.
Guys, it's not a DDOS just because people are trying to use the web site and it sucks so bad that they can't...
And according to that same exact website (which is heavily anti-gun biased by design), this year there have been over 4x the number of defensive use incidents (where they only count "verified" defensive incidents, not the much looser criteria they use for "mass" shootings) as there have been "mass" shootings (defined as 4 or more people hurt) and 5x as many officer involved shootings.
So I guess by your logic, we need to ban the police officer emoji in order to reduce violence???
Also, your comparison between lists with 4+ people and Canada "massacres" is comparing completely different things. The Canada list is incomplete (says right on the page) and is also not a list of 4+ injuries like the first list.
But no surprise to the lack of logic in someone who apparently dislikes both free speech and the right to defend yourself. I guess with this post you get an "A" in your "Human Diversity in Math" course.
People who don't care about honesty and the free exchange of ideas false "report" sites they don't like as having malware, deceptive contents, whatever they can so that the automated filters in Google, anti-virus, etc.. prevent people from visiting them.
The practice not only (temporarily) blocks sites which shouldn't be blocked, but also gets people used to assuming a blocked site is much more likely to be a false positive and thus bypass the blocking. A great lose/lose scenario from these idiots.
Next you'll be trying to tell us people are actually individuals, not just Borg-like members of various collectives determined by their skin color or Party affiliation. You may have to report for re-education if you work in a government, media or academic setting.
On a related topic, basically for at least the next four years we're screwed in terms of having a decent President, so I finally decided to vote based on a longer view of things and try and get the best new Supreme Court justices. Those will have much longer lasting effect than what one President otherwise does.
In this specific case, because the individuals who run Facebook are racist and sexist. They believe what color your skin is, what your ethnically related genetic makeup is and/or what sex you are all matter more than your individual personal characteristics, skills, talents, intelligence, etc...
Trump would be a disaster... ok, but that doesn't mean Hillary would be a disaster is any less true.
It's been interesting to see how much people rely on saying bad (and at least somewhat, although usually not totally) true things about the "other" candidate, but usually fail to make the case at all as to why "their" candidate is any better.
The candidates don't exist in a vacuum. Saying Candidate X is horribly Y doesn't actually compare them to their opponents and thus feels more like calling names than having a reasoned discussion.
I'd listen to more of this if it actually brought up something which wasn't already public knowledge, or tried to at least do some kind of comparison rather than just being a one-sided political attack.