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by hnbad 3y ago
It's fun to think that someone at some point decided to just add a phallus to the drawing as an act of vandalism and that's what the giant is now best known for. But note that "probably originally clothed" cites an artic
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by hnbad 3y ago
So you're saying the CDC should not cater to the edge cases? Where are we drawing the line? 10% of the population? 1%? 0.1%? 0.01%? 0.001%? That last one is still thousands of people. Does your opinion hold for all edge cases or just t
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by hnbad 3y ago
Both of those words would apply to the dad in that example. Sure, you could qualify it as "primary caretaker" but that would likely be claimed by any person considering themselves "head of the family" whether they'r
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by hnbad 3y ago
> When most people say Pol Pot was evil, they're not talking about demonic possession or some silly nonsense like that; they mean he was a mass murderer, which is evil. Well, no. Most people I've heard say something like that w
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by hnbad 3y ago
Extracting credentials from a piece of software to manually connect to a server without authorization in order to go spelunking is clear-cut misuse regardless of what data you find on the server.
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by hnbad 3y ago
I'm not sure what you're talking about. If you carry around a kitchen knife in public for no good reason, it's not a kitchen knife, it's a weapon. Likewise if you carry around a baseball bat and didn't just buy it o
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by hnbad 3y ago
Mens rea is a factor in the severity of a crime. Also the prosecution argued that mens rea was established by his act of opening the software in a text editor to look for plaintext strings (which they incorrectly described as "decompil
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by hnbad 3y ago
So what you're saying is not only did he access the database without authorization, he also exfiltrated their customers' data and processed that? Yeah, my sympathies just evaporated. He crossed a line when he used the credentials
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by hnbad 3y ago
> That's like going into a building and they HAND YOU a keycard, and say don't go anywhere you aren't supposed to. And then it's actually a master key. How do you even know that it's going to let you into places
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by hnbad 3y ago
Evil as a moral judgement isn't. Acts can be good or evil. In more secular terms we prefer to say "harmful" or "unjust" but the meaning is arguably the same. But the idea that "evil" is an attribute a pers
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by hnbad 3y ago
It doesn't matter what he thought was in the database or what it was for. He knew it was hosted and provided by a third party for use with that third party's software which his client was using. His crime wasn't accessing the
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by hnbad 3y ago
It doesn't have to be malicious, it can just be negligent. What he did was essentially digital trespass. He assumed the database only contained data for his client but he knew the database was hosted and operated by the vendor and did
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by hnbad 3y ago
Well, depending on what kind of data was stored in the database he accessed, this may constitute a data breach according to privacy law in which the vendor also needed to assess whether the incident needs to be reported to its data subjects
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by hnbad 3y ago
Well, they say you die twice: you die again, when you're forgotten. So in a way he ensured his immortality (with a good helping of luck through the ages).
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by hnbad 3y ago
It's not cheap. Given that it sounds like this is something you want to deliberately spend time on rather than just an app to use when you're bored it might be worth it but probably not so much if you can't use the knowledge
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by hnbad 3y ago
(EDIT: Deleted my original reply because I made the mistake of trying to reply to the text in earnest despite your complete disregard for what I said in all of your replies so far. This is still said in earnest but I won't bother tryin
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by hnbad 3y ago
If you have any familiarity with the kind of people seriously spreading these kinds of conspiracy theories, you'll know that framing "truth bombs" as jokes is par for the course because it creates plausible deniability. If it
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by hnbad 3y ago
What do you think truth is other than confident beliefs? Nothing can produce "truths". If you want absolute truths, pick a holy text and decide for yourself what absolute truth you can pin on it.
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by hnbad 3y ago
Carbon capture technologies produce more carbon emissions than they can capture if you account for the resource use for production and construction. Even when they do slightly better than breaking even the margin is so low that scaling it u
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by hnbad 3y ago
Closed institutions are a thing. You can be in therapy under close supervision and unable to leave until it is safe to allow you to do so. Arguably that is better than therapy in prison because even with trained staff on site a prison is
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by hnbad 3y ago
I don't live in the US but as far as I'm aware they shot a guy who tried to set fire to a bunch of empty ICE vans so direct action against institutions you don't like doesn't seem to be a winning strategy if you're
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by hnbad 3y ago
If you don't believe in evil (I don't) that not only means he isn't evil but that he also didn't murder his ex because he was evil. So there must still be something to him 15 years ago that made him plan to and murder hi
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by hnbad 3y ago
In a better country he'd be in therapy rather than in prison. Alas the US legal system only exists to detain people, not to allow them to become unbroken. I wholly believe psychopaths can be redeemed and live a fulfilling life without
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by hnbad 3y ago
In this economy? Maybe not in your income bracket.
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by hnbad 3y ago
"We ran out of money and our investors wanted to cut their losses and pulled the plug" isn't something you usually spell out in a post like this to avoid burning bridges or appearing "unprofessional".
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by hnbad 3y ago
Well, they also made the mistake of initially trying to force both sides of the market to be one, i.e. you had to be a contributor (pay money to others) to collect money (let others pay you money). Also collecting money on behalf of others
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by hnbad 3y ago
This seems to be very much the case for behavioral ads as far as I can tell. At some point Google et al convinced everyone that tracking the user's every move across the Internet made for better conversions than just providing ads that
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by hnbad 3y ago
It sounds like you're still using tracking, just without cookies. I understand the push to eliminate cookies was motivated by Google announcing it would force the decision eventually but it sounds like you're still using alternati
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by hnbad 3y ago
Most EVs seem to come with cables that work with regular power sockets, they're just more limited on output even compared to regular charging (not fast charging, which btw reduces battery life). I don't know where outside the US y
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by hnbad 3y ago
Critics love to also cite the resource cost for manufacturing PV modules or wind turbines to point out that green electricity isn't emissions free either but that ignores the even worse resource costs of fossil power and the continuous

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