Not all is at it seems. Not long ago, I was discussing this with some colleagues, the fact Google Maps has a timeline of everywhere I go, how long I was there, how long I drive to get from place to place etc.
I concluded this tracking could be turned right around into a fantastic alibi. Since it tracks everything, every day, establish a normal pattern, for quite a bit of a time (a few years is preferable!), now, one day, leave your phone somewhere it's expected to be for a certain duration of time, while you go without it to commit a heinous crime. Return to collect phone and carry on. You could easily point to this data and say "I didn't do it, phone proves I'm innocent."
The moral of the story? Don't trust that data. It is vastly easy for the common idiot to falsify. If I thought of it, millions of others did too, I'm not exceptionally clever.
I personally don't like either site and don't use them. But it is perfectly right to call out companies on their two-faced bullshit. The conversation can be more nuanced than "regulate them" or "just don't use them:^)"
You're joking right? There is no conversation. These two sites, Twitter and Facebook have done more damage to civil behavior than any other singular entity in modern history. They are blights, plagues, and probably evil. They do nothing good. They sell advertisements, and their only goal is get your EYEBALLS on their ads. They don't give a flying fuck about anything else. Raising hell and making mountains out of mole hills? Right on, as long as it gets more eyeballs looking at our ads.
If these were socially responsible entities, or were even attempting to be, I'd agree, sure, let's have a conversation about how to make them better. But that's not what they are, not even slightly. They exist to stir up shit and amplify everyone's outrage with each other. No good can come of these sites, ever.
Facebook and Twitter goons cream themselves every time they get mentioned in mainstream media. Free advertising for their platforms. More sheeple for their ads. Bullshit, all of it. The world and society has NOT BENEFITED from these sites. They are harmful to civil behavior and norms.
The bigger they get, the less they get to hide behind that "hey it's our platform, don't like our bias? Build your own" bullshit.
Gotta call bullshit where I see it. Websites are private, except government/state run sites. You are a guest on someone else's infrastructure, if you don't like how they do things, go somewhere else. Period. The moment any fuck like this poster suggests regulating and telling websites how to operate can walk in front of the nearest speeding bus.
I don't like Facebook or Twitter. My choice: I don't use those sites. Period. If you don't like them, then fucking stop using them. Not difficult.
Google is directing the narrative by what links it pushes when you search a topic, its getting crazy when you search for an article from 2012 on tariffs, and google is pushing trending news links ahead of the real search results.
I've come to notice this search result trend as well. Google returns 'current news' over plain facts regarding certain topics. I'm not sure why a news article posted today would achieve highest ranking on the search result, but that's what they're doing.
I started using duckduckgo for searches, but they are getting over ran by people gaming the results for topic snow. Guess thats what happens when you start getting popular.
Tried this route myself as well, but I find Duckduckgo just simply doesn't give me as many meaningful results as Google. Even if it means going a few pages deep on the results from Google, I still get what I'm looking for, usually. But as it's always been, when searching for obscure topics, it's best to consult many different search engines to get the best results.
My only goal is to obscure the content of my traffic. Just because I can. Being my VPN is running in bridging mode and spans a few physical locations, the traffic is difficult at best to analyze. I really don't care if "someone" knows I'm connecting to Slashdot's IP address from home, work or from AWS. What I care about is anyone peeking at what that traffic contains. I hide because I can. Between the VPN's ethernet frames being shuttled across, HTTPS and other random noise traffic, I think someone will have a hell of a time trying to pick apart the data and find anything useful. That's the goal of my VPN.
Now, that aside, if you want more obscuring and more "not me" traffic, add a Tor node to your VPN server to generate more encrypted traffic. The point, in my view, is to generate enough noise (encrypted) that it's near impossible to make sense of what's happening. I'm not looking to mask where I'm coming from, or who I am, merely the content of the data being moved about.
Analysis of traffic origin and destination is trivial to do. Even with a VPN. So I don't really care or bother about that, it's incredibly difficult to 100% mask origin/destination. So the next best choice is to just make the traffic itself so difficult to work with, it's not worth it. Hell, even Tor connection can be traced origindestination with out a heck of a lot of effort. You have to try very hard to mask origin/destination.
Seriously folks, you want a cheap secure VPN to do whatever you want with? Rent yourself a t2.micro instance on Amazon Web Services, setup OpenVPN and go crazy. It's not even exceptionally difficult. You control it all, the logs, the keys, the server, you decide what gets saved and what gets discarded.
The cost? About $9/mo for the instance runtime, plus your bandwidth (first 1GB is free, after that, 9 cents a GB, previously I'd posted you pay for bandwidth in both directions, but that's not true. You pay for data out, not data in.)
I've said it previously, but this really hammers it home. GOOGLE IS EVIL. Pairing with a purveyor of super obnoxious DRM. Ewwwwwww. Ubisoft is disgusting. I won't play their games anymore, even ones I legitimately purchased.
TSA has ONE job. Keep people from bringing dangerous items on planes. The data on electronic devices doesn't qualify as such. This actually makes flying less safe because it distracts TSA from keeping truly dangerous items off of planes.
Just a little devil's avocation here. One the items people often overlook as potentially dangerous is the people themselves. Searching electronic devices could give insights into the person whom owns it. Not saying this is right or even legal to be doing, just pointing out a reasonable justification.
This sound like a good use case for TrueCrypt's good ole hidden partition setup. Just put in the password for the clean boring copy of your OS for these goons.
Law enforcement agencies have cracked down on other encrypted phone companies allegedly catering to organised crime over the past few years. In 2016, Dutch investigators arrested the owner of Ennetcom, whose customers allegedly include hitmen, drug traffickers, and other serious criminals. And then in 2017, Dutch authorities also busted PGP Sure, which also allegedly catered to organized crime.
So they've been going after companies doing this for a while now.
But also:
Crucially, the complaint alleges that Ramos and Phantom were not simply incidental to a crime, like Apple might be when a criminal uses an iPhone, but that the company was specifically created to facilitate criminal activity.
So if a company can make the case their wares are 'dual use' and they're not responsible for how it's used, they can keep making this stuff. Nice work FBI, you just taught everyone how to avoid you coming after them, or at least how to defend themselves in court. Oops.
Of course we've been playing this game with a variety of technologies, the first that jumps to mind is BitTorrent, which is quite an impressive piece of technology that has some really great use cases. Alas, the biggest one is software/content piracy.
In Ramos' case, he kind shot him self in the foot with his discussions with clients and undercover agents. They'll nail him to the wall for sure, but he's making a great example of what not to do if you wanna fill his shoes.
AI is all around us already, mostly in rudimentary forms. Right now it's fairly innocuous, like NetFlix's AI suggesting what movies/shows you might enjoy watching next. Same on YouTube, though YouTube's AI goes further, it decides who's videos get de-monetized as well as suggesting videos to users.
Just scratching the surface a bit there. Someone said it's all poppycock, but I'm telling you, if you start putting the puzzle pieces together, we have this NOW. Machine learning is, as expected, maturing at an ALARMING rate of speed. Our technology advancement is accelerating. People seem to neglect that ideal, we've come such a long way in the past 150 years, the common perception is we have this under control. Do we?
Already we're putting the pieces in place for some scary potential outcomes: Fitting cars and drones with AI to navigate our world. In the latter case, militarized drones. Forget about putting weapons on these things. The things themselves can be weapons. Keep your eyes on the technology, machine learning is only going to get better and faster, and do it at an accelerating rate. We already know our machine learning techniques can be trained to do all sorts of interesting tasks. From Alpha Go, we learned that an AI can train itself at a breakneck speed. It is pretty scary stuff, put these pieces together in the right away, who knows what it could figure out. I won't go as far as self-awareness, but it is certainly a possibility, with this rate of advancement, who knows what's in the pipeline.
While wild conspiracy theories, lies and misinformation, it can be flashy and click-baity. Lies exploit our human nature to find outrageous claims to be fascinating.
The more outlandish the lie is, the more interesting it is. Truth is truth, and often it's just dull and boring. It's a lot harder to make truth flashy and bold.
There are just some things that shouldn't be done. This sort of "service", while I'm sure it sounded like a great idea in the beginning, just as the articles says, it's turned out to be a horror. The internet isn't compatible with reality in all circumstances.
Your friend should be charged with computer crimes, preferably one per picture and rot in a cell for a very very long time. This is a gross abuse of trust, which is why I blame the techs for this incident, not the FBI... it's no secret the FBI will 'work with' criminals to catch other criminals. So I don't really blame them, they just saw some low hanging fruit and pounced. The techs who root around customers computers are the dirty ones who make us all look bad and untruthworthy.
We need HIPAA laws regarding comptuer/smartphone repair shops.
The same FBI that you're hating on with this headline you defend as a pillar of democracy when Trump shits on them.
Me personally? I don't blame the FBI, they're just doing their job. I blame the technicians. They're the one who's BREAKING laws by searching people's computers without any due process of law, or respect for privacy. Go after them. And go after them hard, they're the one who'll be hurt the most by litigation. FBI will just shrug, and this behavior will continue. I swear, you lock up a couple technicians and make a lot of noise about it happening, no technician will ever do this again, for any amount of money.
As the title infers, this is a gross display of greed and violation of trust a computer repair technician should have with their clients.
This is that happens when you industrialize computer repair. Not a good idea. And SHAME on any technician who sells dirt on customers to the FBI. You should disbarred from computer repair. I do some repair work myself and privacy is a huge thing to me. Believe it or not, I do not root around people computers looking for dirty pictures or anything else for that matter. I just fix what needs fixing and give it back, unviolated other than what was necessary to make repairs.
Those employees of Geek Squad that did this, you are dirt. I hope you lose your job and I hope your company fails. This so wrong on so many levels. And it's a violation of law, too, as many others have already pointed out in other threads. But the shame and scummy-label needs to be branded to these people's foreheads.
Someone suggested you shouldn't take your computer to a repair outfit if its broken. That is broken. You should take it, and you should be assured your privacy will be guarded with the utmost discretion. We need HIPAA laws enacted for computer/smartphone repair outfits. This behavior needs to stop immediately, and those found continuing to sell "evidence" to the FBI need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of existing laws.
This is interesting. A mass deployment of basically a turnkey system. I'm very against any turnkey solutions in computing. Mainly because, since it's turnkey, if anyone finds any vulnerability on any installation of the turnkey, every other installation is also vulnerable.
They might be easier to set up and use, but they're also easier to hack. Some might come back with the argument as a turnkey system, there's a lot of eyes on the code, so that should cut back on vulnerabilities over non-turnkey installations. I call BS on this.
Avoid turnkey systems, roll it yourself. Be intimately familiar with all the code and supporting infrastructure your system is using. Turnkey is a two way street, easy to implement, easy to find exploits for.
The feature is disabled by default. Users must opt in for facial recognition to be turned on.
And if you believe that, I have a few bridges to sell you. This garbage is always on, always enabled. You only opting to not see it. It's still there. All our faces are stored in their databases. I've never uploaded a picture of myself to Facebook, EVER, and it still fucking has my face, when others have uploaded pictures with me in them, it knows who I am. Even when closed my account, in 2009, it still knows and attaches the id to the face, should anyone upload something with me in it.
Even more disturbing, when I reopened an account under a pseudoname to participate in a contest on Second Life, it pretty quickly figured out who I am, and started recommending I friend all the people I used to have as friends. Super creepy.
My solution? I let my mother use my account to play farmville and accumulate a bunch of nonsense friends to muddy the waters. I don't even use the account anymore, haven't in years.
Facebook used to be a digital Rolodex of aggravating people you'd rather send an occasional birthday card than speak to in person, but in the last 7 years it's shaping up to become new societal piss-test for everything from dating to employment.
Wanna see where this end up? Black Mirror, season 3, episode 1: Nosedive
Reuters reported this too. They had a reporter at the event,
It seems less untrue, but the omission from NRA's site was definitely a red-flag for misinformation. I tried to corroborate the story but hunting with Google was turning into a circle jerk of the same story being carried by numerous outlets. In this day and age, it's hard to know what's real and what isn't. I called BS cuz lack of any bulletins or blog posts on NRA's site. Cuz as I said, you'd think if they're giving an award, they'd put that all over their website, yeah?
Geez, people! Chill! It's not like the internet prior to 2015 under Obama was some hellish totalitarian/dystopian nightmare.
Maybe because NN rules were put in place, because some ISP were definitely becoming... unfair, for lack of a better word.
Guess we'll find out soon enough. Hope you enjoy paying to access your favorite websites. Roll out the walled gardens, it's coming. Unless lawmakers come up with some new regulations, you can bet your panties ISP's will run and run hard with their new found freedom. They going to want to entrench non-neutrality practices as quickly as possible to make it that much more difficult to reverse. Once they are entrenched, they can bellyache how new regulations will wreck their business model, stifling any hopes of restoring neutrality.
Specifically, hone in on the 45 second mark, where you see Nakia shooting two guys, the second of which is very obviously computer-generated. Why the hell would they even bother to CGI that, you ask?
I'd wager, it's cheaper to toss in some CGI victim, than paying an extra to fill that role of guy getting shot.
I think an unnoticed detriment of CGI is simply employment in this industry. You can really see it in a lot of small screen shows. They are really skimping on extras and supporting actors. They use camera trickery to make a line of people seem like a crowd, sometimes they bother to fill in the backdrop with more CGI crowd, but hell, some small screen doesn't even bother with that.
I worry about what potential talent is missing out on their break cuz studios are hiring graphic designers and CGI technicians rather than extras to fill in roles and possibly impress someone. Oh well.
Slashdot Mirror
Not all is at it seems. Not long ago, I was discussing this with some colleagues, the fact Google Maps has a timeline of everywhere I go, how long I was there, how long I drive to get from place to place etc.
I concluded this tracking could be turned right around into a fantastic alibi. Since it tracks everything, every day, establish a normal pattern, for quite a bit of a time (a few years is preferable!), now, one day, leave your phone somewhere it's expected to be for a certain duration of time, while you go without it to commit a heinous crime. Return to collect phone and carry on. You could easily point to this data and say "I didn't do it, phone proves I'm innocent."
The moral of the story? Don't trust that data. It is vastly easy for the common idiot to falsify. If I thought of it, millions of others did too, I'm not exceptionally clever.
I personally don't like either site and don't use them. :^)"
But it is perfectly right to call out companies on their two-faced bullshit. The conversation can be more nuanced than "regulate them" or "just don't use them
You're joking right? There is no conversation. These two sites, Twitter and Facebook have done more damage to civil behavior than any other singular entity in modern history. They are blights, plagues, and probably evil. They do nothing good. They sell advertisements, and their only goal is get your EYEBALLS on their ads. They don't give a flying fuck about anything else. Raising hell and making mountains out of mole hills? Right on, as long as it gets more eyeballs looking at our ads.
If these were socially responsible entities, or were even attempting to be, I'd agree, sure, let's have a conversation about how to make them better. But that's not what they are, not even slightly. They exist to stir up shit and amplify everyone's outrage with each other. No good can come of these sites, ever.
Facebook and Twitter goons cream themselves every time they get mentioned in mainstream media. Free advertising for their platforms. More sheeple for their ads. Bullshit, all of it. The world and society has NOT BENEFITED from these sites. They are harmful to civil behavior and norms.
The bigger they get, the less they get to hide behind that "hey it's our platform, don't like our bias? Build your own" bullshit.
Gotta call bullshit where I see it. Websites are private, except government/state run sites. You are a guest on someone else's infrastructure, if you don't like how they do things, go somewhere else. Period. The moment any fuck like this poster suggests regulating and telling websites how to operate can walk in front of the nearest speeding bus.
I don't like Facebook or Twitter. My choice: I don't use those sites. Period. If you don't like them, then fucking stop using them. Not difficult.
Google is directing the narrative by what links it pushes when you search a topic, its getting crazy when you search for an article from 2012 on tariffs, and google is pushing trending news links ahead of the real search results.
I've come to notice this search result trend as well. Google returns 'current news' over plain facts regarding certain topics. I'm not sure why a news article posted today would achieve highest ranking on the search result, but that's what they're doing.
I started using duckduckgo for searches, but they are getting over ran by people gaming the results for topic snow. Guess thats what happens when you start getting popular.
Tried this route myself as well, but I find Duckduckgo just simply doesn't give me as many meaningful results as Google. Even if it means going a few pages deep on the results from Google, I still get what I'm looking for, usually. But as it's always been, when searching for obscure topics, it's best to consult many different search engines to get the best results.
My only goal is to obscure the content of my traffic. Just because I can. Being my VPN is running in bridging mode and spans a few physical locations, the traffic is difficult at best to analyze. I really don't care if "someone" knows I'm connecting to Slashdot's IP address from home, work or from AWS. What I care about is anyone peeking at what that traffic contains. I hide because I can. Between the VPN's ethernet frames being shuttled across, HTTPS and other random noise traffic, I think someone will have a hell of a time trying to pick apart the data and find anything useful. That's the goal of my VPN.
Now, that aside, if you want more obscuring and more "not me" traffic, add a Tor node to your VPN server to generate more encrypted traffic. The point, in my view, is to generate enough noise (encrypted) that it's near impossible to make sense of what's happening. I'm not looking to mask where I'm coming from, or who I am, merely the content of the data being moved about.
Analysis of traffic origin and destination is trivial to do. Even with a VPN. So I don't really care or bother about that, it's incredibly difficult to 100% mask origin/destination. So the next best choice is to just make the traffic itself so difficult to work with, it's not worth it. Hell, even Tor connection can be traced origindestination with out a heck of a lot of effort. You have to try very hard to mask origin/destination.
Hmm. I bet these article links get about as much attention as the fine print on lawyer commercials. Good luck with that.
Seriously folks, you want a cheap secure VPN to do whatever you want with? Rent yourself a t2.micro instance on Amazon Web Services, setup OpenVPN and go crazy. It's not even exceptionally difficult. You control it all, the logs, the keys, the server, you decide what gets saved and what gets discarded.
The cost? About $9/mo for the instance runtime, plus your bandwidth (first 1GB is free, after that, 9 cents a GB, previously I'd posted you pay for bandwidth in both directions, but that's not true. You pay for data out, not data in.)
I've said it previously, but this really hammers it home. GOOGLE IS EVIL. Pairing with a purveyor of super obnoxious DRM. Ewwwwwww. Ubisoft is disgusting. I won't play their games anymore, even ones I legitimately purchased.
TSA has ONE job. Keep people from bringing dangerous items on planes. The data on electronic devices doesn't qualify as such. This actually makes flying less safe because it distracts TSA from keeping truly dangerous items off of planes.
Just a little devil's avocation here. One the items people often overlook as potentially dangerous is the people themselves. Searching electronic devices could give insights into the person whom owns it. Not saying this is right or even legal to be doing, just pointing out a reasonable justification.
This sound like a good use case for TrueCrypt's good ole hidden partition setup. Just put in the password for the clean boring copy of your OS for these goons.
From TFA:
Law enforcement agencies have cracked down on other encrypted phone companies allegedly catering to organised crime over the past few years. In 2016, Dutch investigators arrested the owner of Ennetcom, whose customers allegedly include hitmen, drug traffickers, and other serious criminals. And then in 2017, Dutch authorities also busted PGP Sure, which also allegedly catered to organized crime.
So they've been going after companies doing this for a while now.
But also:
Crucially, the complaint alleges that Ramos and Phantom were not simply incidental to a crime, like Apple might be when a criminal uses an iPhone, but that the company was specifically created to facilitate criminal activity.
So if a company can make the case their wares are 'dual use' and they're not responsible for how it's used, they can keep making this stuff. Nice work FBI, you just taught everyone how to avoid you coming after them, or at least how to defend themselves in court. Oops.
Of course we've been playing this game with a variety of technologies, the first that jumps to mind is BitTorrent, which is quite an impressive piece of technology that has some really great use cases. Alas, the biggest one is software/content piracy.
In Ramos' case, he kind shot him self in the foot with his discussions with clients and undercover agents. They'll nail him to the wall for sure, but he's making a great example of what not to do if you wanna fill his shoes.
AI is all around us already, mostly in rudimentary forms. Right now it's fairly innocuous, like NetFlix's AI suggesting what movies/shows you might enjoy watching next. Same on YouTube, though YouTube's AI goes further, it decides who's videos get de-monetized as well as suggesting videos to users.
Just scratching the surface a bit there. Someone said it's all poppycock, but I'm telling you, if you start putting the puzzle pieces together, we have this NOW. Machine learning is, as expected, maturing at an ALARMING rate of speed. Our technology advancement is accelerating. People seem to neglect that ideal, we've come such a long way in the past 150 years, the common perception is we have this under control. Do we?
Already we're putting the pieces in place for some scary potential outcomes: Fitting cars and drones with AI to navigate our world. In the latter case, militarized drones. Forget about putting weapons on these things. The things themselves can be weapons. Keep your eyes on the technology, machine learning is only going to get better and faster, and do it at an accelerating rate. We already know our machine learning techniques can be trained to do all sorts of interesting tasks. From Alpha Go, we learned that an AI can train itself at a breakneck speed. It is pretty scary stuff, put these pieces together in the right away, who knows what it could figure out. I won't go as far as self-awareness, but it is certainly a possibility, with this rate of advancement, who knows what's in the pipeline.
While wild conspiracy theories, lies and misinformation, it can be flashy and click-baity. Lies exploit our human nature to find outrageous claims to be fascinating.
The more outlandish the lie is, the more interesting it is. Truth is truth, and often it's just dull and boring. It's a lot harder to make truth flashy and bold.
There are just some things that shouldn't be done. This sort of "service", while I'm sure it sounded like a great idea in the beginning, just as the articles says, it's turned out to be a horror. The internet isn't compatible with reality in all circumstances.
Your friend should be charged with computer crimes, preferably one per picture and rot in a cell for a very very long time. This is a gross abuse of trust, which is why I blame the techs for this incident, not the FBI... it's no secret the FBI will 'work with' criminals to catch other criminals. So I don't really blame them, they just saw some low hanging fruit and pounced. The techs who root around customers computers are the dirty ones who make us all look bad and untruthworthy.
We need HIPAA laws regarding comptuer/smartphone repair shops.
The same FBI that you're hating on with this headline you defend as a pillar of democracy when Trump shits on them.
Me personally? I don't blame the FBI, they're just doing their job. I blame the technicians. They're the one who's BREAKING laws by searching people's computers without any due process of law, or respect for privacy. Go after them. And go after them hard, they're the one who'll be hurt the most by litigation. FBI will just shrug, and this behavior will continue. I swear, you lock up a couple technicians and make a lot of noise about it happening, no technician will ever do this again, for any amount of money.
As the title infers, this is a gross display of greed and violation of trust a computer repair technician should have with their clients.
This is that happens when you industrialize computer repair. Not a good idea. And SHAME on any technician who sells dirt on customers to the FBI. You should disbarred from computer repair. I do some repair work myself and privacy is a huge thing to me. Believe it or not, I do not root around people computers looking for dirty pictures or anything else for that matter. I just fix what needs fixing and give it back, unviolated other than what was necessary to make repairs.
Those employees of Geek Squad that did this, you are dirt. I hope you lose your job and I hope your company fails. This so wrong on so many levels. And it's a violation of law, too, as many others have already pointed out in other threads. But the shame and scummy-label needs to be branded to these people's foreheads.
Someone suggested you shouldn't take your computer to a repair outfit if its broken. That is broken. You should take it, and you should be assured your privacy will be guarded with the utmost discretion. We need HIPAA laws enacted for computer/smartphone repair outfits. This behavior needs to stop immediately, and those found continuing to sell "evidence" to the FBI need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of existing laws.
This is interesting. A mass deployment of basically a turnkey system. I'm very against any turnkey solutions in computing. Mainly because, since it's turnkey, if anyone finds any vulnerability on any installation of the turnkey, every other installation is also vulnerable.
They might be easier to set up and use, but they're also easier to hack. Some might come back with the argument as a turnkey system, there's a lot of eyes on the code, so that should cut back on vulnerabilities over non-turnkey installations. I call BS on this.
Avoid turnkey systems, roll it yourself. Be intimately familiar with all the code and supporting infrastructure your system is using. Turnkey is a two way street, easy to implement, easy to find exploits for.
The feature is disabled by default. Users must opt in for facial recognition to be turned on.
And if you believe that, I have a few bridges to sell you. This garbage is always on, always enabled. You only opting to not see it. It's still there. All our faces are stored in their databases. I've never uploaded a picture of myself to Facebook, EVER, and it still fucking has my face, when others have uploaded pictures with me in them, it knows who I am. Even when closed my account, in 2009, it still knows and attaches the id to the face, should anyone upload something with me in it.
Even more disturbing, when I reopened an account under a pseudoname to participate in a contest on Second Life, it pretty quickly figured out who I am, and started recommending I friend all the people I used to have as friends. Super creepy.
My solution? I let my mother use my account to play farmville and accumulate a bunch of nonsense friends to muddy the waters. I don't even use the account anymore, haven't in years.
Facebook used to be a digital Rolodex of aggravating people you'd rather send an occasional birthday card than speak to in person, but in the last 7 years it's shaping up to become new societal piss-test for everything from dating to employment.
Wanna see where this end up? Black Mirror, season 3, episode 1: Nosedive
Reuters reported this too. They had a reporter at the event,
It seems less untrue, but the omission from NRA's site was definitely a red-flag for misinformation. I tried to corroborate the story but hunting with Google was turning into a circle jerk of the same story being carried by numerous outlets. In this day and age, it's hard to know what's real and what isn't. I called BS cuz lack of any bulletins or blog posts on NRA's site. Cuz as I said, you'd think if they're giving an award, they'd put that all over their website, yeah?
Maybe not BS, but it smelled funny at first.
I think this post is bull. There's NOTHING on the NRA's website about this. You'd think there would be.
lowest crime rates
The 16,000 people shot dead in the USA by a gun in 2017 would very much like to dispute that.
Geez, people! Chill! It's not like the internet prior to 2015 under Obama was some hellish totalitarian/dystopian nightmare.
Maybe because NN rules were put in place, because some ISP were definitely becoming... unfair, for lack of a better word.
Guess we'll find out soon enough. Hope you enjoy paying to access your favorite websites. Roll out the walled gardens, it's coming. Unless lawmakers come up with some new regulations, you can bet your panties ISP's will run and run hard with their new found freedom. They going to want to entrench non-neutrality practices as quickly as possible to make it that much more difficult to reverse. Once they are entrenched, they can bellyache how new regulations will wreck their business model, stifling any hopes of restoring neutrality.
Specifically, hone in on the 45 second mark, where you see Nakia shooting two guys, the second of which is very obviously computer-generated. Why the hell would they even bother to CGI that, you ask?
I'd wager, it's cheaper to toss in some CGI victim, than paying an extra to fill that role of guy getting shot.
I think an unnoticed detriment of CGI is simply employment in this industry. You can really see it in a lot of small screen shows. They are really skimping on extras and supporting actors. They use camera trickery to make a line of people seem like a crowd, sometimes they bother to fill in the backdrop with more CGI crowd, but hell, some small screen doesn't even bother with that.
I worry about what potential talent is missing out on their break cuz studios are hiring graphic designers and CGI technicians rather than extras to fill in roles and possibly impress someone. Oh well.