"In the process, they went so far as to compromise multiple country-code top-level domains -- the suffixes like.co.uk, or.ru"
Okay, I gotta admit- I find this hilarious but I'm disappointed that the hackers didn't have some real fun with this, like redirecting ALL the traffic for a country to a site full of cat pictures, a RickRoll site, or maybe to the internet's last page.
they have known (northrop grumman) about the epoch changing for 20 years. This shouldn't be a surprise.
It was no surprise. The people that were there way back when knew perfectly well about the problem, and they also knew perfectly well that they wouldn't be around to be blamed for it in 20 years.
It was easy for them at the time to make the decision to "acknowledge the problem" and to quietly pretend that someone else would fix it later.
All those people are long gone, and the people that came after them just kept kicking the can down the road until they ran out of road.
I'm sure that Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo would never do anything sleazy or sneaky or underhanded or downright illegal. I mean, not after being caught so many times before...
Speaking of bullshit, you're ignoring that nothing was taken in this "robbery", and that Wikileaks has all but identified Rich as being the source of the leaks.
Those facts just bolster my case.
It's so obvious- the other boyfriend wasn't out to rob him, he was out to kill him- that's why nothing was taken in the "robbery".
See, I can 'connect' imaginary dots just like you can. But thanks for helping make my point.
You're also ignoring the fact that some vaccines are harmful, albeit to a small number of people.
So is traveling in an automobile, so what?
And I never said that "all vaccines are totally safe". Please stop putting words in my mouth. It's rare, but yes vaccines can cause side effects. Again, so what?
Your chances of dying in a car accident are far, far greater than the chance of side-effects from any vaccine but you still drive all the time, right?
Speaking of a sense of proportion.... in the United States you're three times as likely to die from a shark attack (1 death per year on average) as you are from from the measles
1) Maybe that's because there's no anti-shark vaccine.
2) The reason so few people die from measles is because most people get vaccinated.
I was born before 1960 and I got measles. You can bet your ass I got my son vaccinated when it was time.
We had a neighbor who had polio. It didn't look like fun. As far as I'm concerned, anyone who refuses to shield a kid from that shouldn't be allowed to have children.
I've not seen enough evidence to form a conclusion on Seth Rich, but a "mugging gone bad" is precisely how you would assassinate someone. You'd make it look like a common crime, not an assassination. If anything it shifts the weight towards the latter, not away. Maybe his life was too clean for him to OD, and suicide too suspicious.
Bullshit. What you're doing is shooting the arrow and then drawing a bullseye around it.
You could claim anything and it would be impossible to prove it wasn't true.
Hell, maybe he got mixed up with some crazy two-timing bitch and her other boyfriend hunted Seth Rich down and shot him. You don't know it's not true and it's every bit as valid as your 'theory'.
When she misses the mark she owns up to it, but an awful lot of the stuff she's reported on has been found to be true. Sometimes right away, sometimes later, but most of the time what she reports is accurate.
So why is the anti-vaxxer movement so heavily tied in many countries to the especially affluent, highly educated?
Wealth has no connection to a person's ability to reason logically, in fact it seems just the opposite.
The fact is that if you're wealthy, oftentimes you have few, if any, real challenges in life. You never have to figure anything out, struggle with solving everyday problems, and your financial insulation from the real world means you rarely have to make any hard decisions.
So you're almost never challenged or forced to do the rudimentary learning things that the non-wealthy do. For example, you may never set foot in a grocery store because you have staff to do your grocery shopping. This means you don't ever have to look at prices or try and figure out what's a better deal- 3 for $5 or 4 for $6.
And what's worse, even if you did have to go grocery shopping, the prices don't mean shit to you. So what if there are two bottles of shampo, one costs $8 and one costs $75. Do you give a shit? No.
(I mean, do you think Bezos or Musk actually look at the price tag on anything? Maybe for academic purposes, but not because it matters.)
Your wealth basically means you coast through life without understanding or knowing some of the simplest things.
For example, look at Trump- he's obviously never set foot in a grocery store, and we know that for a fact because he's said repeatedly that you need to have picture ID to buy groceries. Yes, he said that. Besides Donald Trump, who doesn't know that you don't need picture ID to buy groceries?
So yeah- your wealth insulates you from much of the world's harsh realities as well as its minor inconveniences. You never have to learn anything because you have people to do it for you. You never have to change a light bulb, do laundry, wash a dish, gas up your car, vacuum the carpet, find car insurance, pay a utility bill, sit on hold waiting for customer service, etc etc etc.
You live in a fantasy world where practically everything you want just appears with no effort on your part.
Seriously, most people born into great wealth could barely fill out a library card. They are some of the dumbest people alive because they never had to learn anything.
It's a lack of critical thinking skills and/or logical reasoning ability.
These people are like large children, unable to think things through or weigh them with any sense of proportion. They're prone to magical thinking and jumping to conclusions.
Reasoning with them usually just makes them dig in their heels because a) they don't want to feel dumb, and b) they don't want to lose face.
At some point eventually even they'll know they're wrong, but they'll go down with the ship rather than admit that they bought into a load of bullshit.
This shit just makes me shake my head....all the work and effort and time and money that went into developing vaccines, and these ninnies won't use them.
And it's all because discredited former British doctor (Andrew Wakefield) published a bullshit medical paper claiming that vaccines were unsafe. That's all it took- the morons and dumbshits ate it up and stopped vaccinating their children.
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"In the process, they went so far as to compromise multiple country-code top-level domains -- the suffixes like .co.uk, or .ru"
Okay, I gotta admit- I find this hilarious but I'm disappointed that the hackers didn't have some real fun with this, like redirecting ALL the traffic for a country to a site full of cat pictures, a RickRoll site, or maybe to the internet's last page.
Middly? That sounds bigly wrong.
It's failing "equidistantly from the edges". :)
Or midpoint, midway, etc etc.
"If I had to start the service again, I would not emphasize the follower count as much ... I don't think I would create 'likes' in the first place."
Then demote the "follower count" to a less prominent position, and take the fucking "Likes" button out. Problem solved.
Don't act like this is a brain transplant, it's just HTML. Turn those features off, hide them, or bury them in some stats page.
The next problem will come when the Unix 32-bit seconds counter overflows in 2038.
I can't wait to see the general havoc this causes, assuming I'm still alive to enjoy it.
See title.
they have known (northrop grumman) about the epoch changing for 20 years. This shouldn't be a surprise.
It was no surprise. The people that were there way back when knew perfectly well about the problem, and they also knew perfectly well that they wouldn't be around to be blamed for it in 20 years.
It was easy for them at the time to make the decision to "acknowledge the problem" and to quietly pretend that someone else would fix it later.
All those people are long gone, and the people that came after them just kept kicking the can down the road until they ran out of road.
"The problem has raised questions about whether the city had taken appropriate measures to prepare the network for the GPS rollover."
I'm no rocket scientist but seeing as how they're having massive problems due to the rollover I'd have to say no, they didn't.
Keep your craptastic advertising out of our skies, you fucking maggots.
The article points out that this is illegal. "Endorsements are required to be truthful,"
Oh well then problem solved, right? No one selling things would ever lie.
I slept through it, or maybe I was awake. Either way I didn't notice it at all.
I feel privileged just to have been able to witness such a remarkable thing. It'll be a great story to tell my grandchildren, if I ever have any.
This seems so familiar...
Yay, more malware. Just what we need.
I'm sure that Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo would never do anything sleazy or sneaky or underhanded or downright illegal. I mean, not after being caught so many times before...
"(A handful of creators had been making more than a million dollars a month, and some even quit their jobs to focus on making videos full-time.)"
No shit? Who wouldn't quit their job to earn a million dollars a month making YouTube videos?
Speaking of bullshit, you're ignoring that nothing was taken in this "robbery", and that Wikileaks has all but identified Rich as being the source of the leaks.
Those facts just bolster my case.
It's so obvious- the other boyfriend wasn't out to rob him, he was out to kill him- that's why nothing was taken in the "robbery".
See, I can 'connect' imaginary dots just like you can. But thanks for helping make my point.
You're also ignoring the fact that some vaccines are harmful, albeit to a small number of people.
So is traveling in an automobile, so what?
And I never said that "all vaccines are totally safe". Please stop putting words in my mouth. It's rare, but yes vaccines can cause side effects. Again, so what?
Your chances of dying in a car accident are far, far greater than the chance of side-effects from any vaccine but you still drive all the time, right?
Speaking of a sense of proportion.... in the United States you're three times as likely to die from a shark attack (1 death per year on average) as you are from from the measles
1) Maybe that's because there's no anti-shark vaccine.
2) The reason so few people die from measles is because most people get vaccinated.
I was born before 1960 and I got measles. You can bet your ass I got my son vaccinated when it was time.
We had a neighbor who had polio. It didn't look like fun. As far as I'm concerned, anyone who refuses to shield a kid from that shouldn't be allowed to have children.
I've not seen enough evidence to form a conclusion on Seth Rich, but a "mugging gone bad" is precisely how you would assassinate someone. You'd make it look like a common crime, not an assassination. If anything it shifts the weight towards the latter, not away. Maybe his life was too clean for him to OD, and suicide too suspicious.
Bullshit. What you're doing is shooting the arrow and then drawing a bullseye around it.
You could claim anything and it would be impossible to prove it wasn't true.
Hell, maybe he got mixed up with some crazy two-timing bitch and her other boyfriend hunted Seth Rich down and shot him. You don't know it's not true and it's every bit as valid as your 'theory'.
Most of her stuff checks out, though.
When she misses the mark she owns up to it, but an awful lot of the stuff she's reported on has been found to be true. Sometimes right away, sometimes later, but most of the time what she reports is accurate.
I'm still not convinced that any of the flat-earthers are actually serious.
Sadly, some of them are 100% serious. I kinda doubted too, but there are more than a few 'true believers' out there.
They're not really any different than the "moon-landing-was-a-hoax" people, and there are tons of those clowns.
Dunning-Kruger for the win.
So why is the anti-vaxxer movement so heavily tied in many countries to the especially affluent, highly educated?
Wealth has no connection to a person's ability to reason logically, in fact it seems just the opposite.
The fact is that if you're wealthy, oftentimes you have few, if any, real challenges in life. You never have to figure anything out, struggle with solving everyday problems, and your financial insulation from the real world means you rarely have to make any hard decisions.
So you're almost never challenged or forced to do the rudimentary learning things that the non-wealthy do. For example, you may never set foot in a grocery store because you have staff to do your grocery shopping. This means you don't ever have to look at prices or try and figure out what's a better deal- 3 for $5 or 4 for $6.
And what's worse, even if you did have to go grocery shopping, the prices don't mean shit to you. So what if there are two bottles of shampo, one costs $8 and one costs $75. Do you give a shit? No.
(I mean, do you think Bezos or Musk actually look at the price tag on anything? Maybe for academic purposes, but not because it matters.)
Your wealth basically means you coast through life without understanding or knowing some of the simplest things.
For example, look at Trump- he's obviously never set foot in a grocery store, and we know that for a fact because he's said repeatedly that you need to have picture ID to buy groceries. Yes, he said that. Besides Donald Trump, who doesn't know that you don't need picture ID to buy groceries?
So yeah- your wealth insulates you from much of the world's harsh realities as well as its minor inconveniences. You never have to learn anything because you have people to do it for you. You never have to change a light bulb, do laundry, wash a dish, gas up your car, vacuum the carpet, find car insurance, pay a utility bill, sit on hold waiting for customer service, etc etc etc.
You live in a fantasy world where practically everything you want just appears with no effort on your part.
Seriously, most people born into great wealth could barely fill out a library card. They are some of the dumbest people alive because they never had to learn anything.
It's a lack of critical thinking skills and/or logical reasoning ability.
These people are like large children, unable to think things through or weigh them with any sense of proportion. They're prone to magical thinking and jumping to conclusions.
Reasoning with them usually just makes them dig in their heels because a) they don't want to feel dumb, and b) they don't want to lose face.
At some point eventually even they'll know they're wrong, but they'll go down with the ship rather than admit that they bought into a load of bullshit.
This shit just makes me shake my head....all the work and effort and time and money that went into developing vaccines, and these ninnies won't use them.
And it's all because discredited former British doctor (Andrew Wakefield) published a bullshit medical paper claiming that vaccines were unsafe. That's all it took- the morons and dumbshits ate it up and stopped vaccinating their children.
Now we have measles epidemics again, yay.