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by 9x39 12d ago
They didn't hammer the entire internet. That would be like a multi-terabit DDOS. In contrast, the scanner in question sent a trickle of web requests for old vulns, nearly-innocuous at this point. Fear & the danger aren't the s
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by 9x39 12d ago
>These systems are not accessible via the internet. How would you know? Are you verifying them? SCADA systems weren't intended to be online, but that didn't stop critical infra for power plants, etc. to show up online. The conv
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by 9x39 12d ago
> It’s fair to ask if the harm they cause is worth the good they do. Researcher disclosures, even with POCs, have moved the industry to action incumbents would have rather buried. I’m thinking of CPU and memory exploits, and stuff like l
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by 9x39 12d ago
Apart from feigned ignorance, a common trope is arguing X vehicle isn’t used optimally in a way they agree with and thus isn’t necessary to own. I was pointing out the logical destination of this.
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by 9x39 12d ago
What % of people who have wealth really need that wealth?
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by 9x39 13d ago
It's also increasingly appearing to be the case that checking out yourself is adverse selection. People with money have others shop for them, or ship to their house. The checkouts are for those who labor in that system who must now sub
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by 9x39 13d ago
> I think people who are opposed to them would agree with this, people who are in favor of guns would be alarmed by this. Bizarrely, I think it comes out backwards. In this article, the comments are surprised that Waymo's gun detect
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by 9x39 16d ago
One well-known definition of gambling is whether it has 3 components: a prize, runs on chance, and requires consideration (payment). That consideration > prize isn't part of this common definition.
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by 9x39 19d ago
>The organization is saving “north of 85 percent” in licensing fees compared to when it relied on VMware, the executive said. Nothing we can't google. VMWare VCF is, let's say, $350/CPU core. MVE is $600/socket, so at
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by 9x39 21d ago
Overpolicing is the term used by one side that claims that any disparities in crime rates along demographic lines are due to an excess of police activity rather than any other factors. Malfeasance is the $10 word that's probably more a
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by 9x39 26d ago
Easier just to say it's a thing, like a force of nature. New network growth (mobile, Africa, Asia) uses it, old growth stays on v4 and will eventually roll over. People with address space usually don't need much more, but the IP
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by 9x39 26d ago
The 'why' behind all of these protocols and decisions is left out in favor of the cert exams. Being able to implement is usually what gets you paid. >mere fact that Layer 2 and Layer 3 addresses are distinct concepts. The logic
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by 9x39 1mo ago
This is great until you're at war (economic or kinetic) with who does your manufacturing. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.
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by 9x39 1mo ago
A litany of jobs? Do you mean a minority of jobs - civil service, some clearance jobs, holding some offices? The Immigration and Nationality Act makes citizenship discrimination illegal. >Other countries get by just fine Which ones are y
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by 9x39 1mo ago
If they have almost all of the rights and almost all of the benefits but none of the responsibilities, which you ignored, then the point stands. They benefit from the entire bill of rights (arguably rightly so). They have better job prospec
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by 9x39 1mo ago
Weakened so it can be controlled as a golem of sorts to carry out agendas like paving over the Middle East for them, not necessarily destroyed.
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by 9x39 1mo ago
>It's a way to make sense out of the world and to have some shred of a sense of agency in a world where a person otherwise has no power. Wouldn't poo-cassos be better framed in an institution cell away from the other 90% of soc
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by 9x39 1mo ago
Call it an informal institution to push homeless away but without worry about way to define them, like you'd deny on a sign - a word for homeless doesn't do it, it's not a single flag that marks someone as an undesirable. [1]
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by 9x39 1mo ago
>The law determines that public space can't be used for any sexual activity. When it's one person, true, but when it's a population, the politics historically changes and the law accedes to pressure to stop enforcing that
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by 9x39 1mo ago
people can destroy things faster than you can build or even maintain them is the problem. it's mean to identify the certain people or hold them accountable, though, so we don't.
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by 9x39 1mo ago
The utter lack of it? There's an entire industrial complex around homeless "support" to do magic tricks on money. Portland's county allocates $9m annually. LA's county allocates $4b annually. Should it be 2x that? 2
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by 9x39 1mo ago
Closing bigger public bathrooms and switching to individually lockable bathrooms - cells, basically, often with codes if at a business did work. It filters out that bottom 10% that can't coherently speak or present themselves to pass a
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by 9x39 1mo ago
Andrew Huberman has this idea about Duration, Path, and Outcome. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CHLavYHn-BG/?hl=en Duration - how long will things take? Path - how will we get there? Outcome - what's at the e
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by 9x39 1mo ago
If you're going to start a war, don't lose. Things in the US are not to the point the people needed would defect to the strike. It brings up the 1940s struggles of labor, industry, and .gov, and labor lost and had its back broken.
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by 9x39 1mo ago
Amusing, but a long string of rogue cyber intrusions coupled with Jstor blocking MIT altogether a few times isn’t something to ignore. Hard to imagine just ignoring the risks and potential of that unknown. MIT and Jstor had a bunch of incid
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by 9x39 1mo ago
MIT evidently added a camera. Later that day, the MIT police made their first contact with him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#United_States_v._... "When it was discovered, a video camera was placed in
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by 9x39 1mo ago
Don't think they did trespassing: wire fraud computer fraud unlawfully obtaining info from a protected computer recklessly damaging a protected computer aiding and abetting criminal forfeiture https://web.archive.org/we
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by 9x39 1mo ago
> Swartz actually did was to download copies of scientific papers That's the root, but I think what Swartz actually did was anger someone at MIT, who called the Secret Service. The federal involvement persisted even after JSTOR and
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by 9x39 1mo ago
MIT called up the government and said there's this guy. Whether they should have is debatable, but they did.
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by 9x39 1mo ago
MIT was another affected party, who reached out to the government for help.

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