tomohawk

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by tomohawk 2y ago
To err is human, to really screw things up, you need government.
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by tomohawk 2y ago
The Democrat party cancelled primaries in a few states to prevent anyone from running against Biden. The party picked this guy. https://floridaphoenix.com/2024/03/20/chair-nikki-fried-defe... https:/&#
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Polio Found in Gaza by IDF, IDF Bringing in Vax(timesofisrael.com)
4 points by tomohawk 2y ago|0 comments
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by tomohawk 2y ago
Panics are only safe if you have an OS to catch you. They are definitely not safe in the CS context.
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I recall Ada being strongly pushed, but at the time you needed a top of the line workstation ($60K - 100K in early 1990s dollars) and the per seat license for the compiler and other tooling was another $100K. And that was aside from the mu
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by tomohawk 2y ago
The US government has given it's stamp of approval, and a big push to install such solutions. FedRAMP-authorized: CrowdStrike's cloud-delivered solution meets the strictest federal standards. DoD IL5-authorized: CrowdStr
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by tomohawk 2y ago
Why do we have operating systems? So that programs cannot cause this sort of problem. Who required the operating system to be undermined in the name of security? It wasn't that programmer. Who created the regulatory environment where
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by tomohawk 2y ago
This should clue you in. CS is not sold to SA or technical types. It's sold to management as a risk reduction. The whole point is that if you are technical, you are so untrusted that management is willing to require circumvention of k
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by tomohawk 2y ago
Is what we saw really increased security? CNN is such a joke. Here's a pic taken by someone who was there. https://x.com/SeanParnellUSA/status/1813240829919539633
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by tomohawk 2y ago
Well it's not like they're going to plot to kill their buddy Biden.
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Please take your fear mongering elsewhere.
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EDIT: since you edited your post after I responded, I'll try to respond to your edit. It is Biden who believes he's above the law. He has consistently bragged about it, for example, in flouting decisions saying he has no authori
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by tomohawk 2y ago
I think if you look more deeply at the history of special counsels, you will see that this issue has been raised before and dealt with differently in different cases. Besides which, a litigant would need to raise this issue in court for it
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by tomohawk 2y ago
Of course not - congress has passed a law creating the DoJ, etc. That is not what is going on here. An attorney has been appointed with extraordinary powers to a position that is not created as part of the DoJ. It hasn't been authoriz
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To summarize. An officer cannot be appointed by the executive (president or his disignates) unless congress passes a law authorizing the position(s). Congress passed no such law to allow this special prosecutor to be appointed. Absent tha
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He's not doing anything wrong with his release notes, but it is worse: it is a mistake. The notepad++ guy comes across as a dingbat who cares about certain political things more than the software he's producing. This is a risk in
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Russian Missile Attack Levels Children's Hospital(redstate.com)
35 points by tomohawk 2y ago|17 comments
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I built software 30 years ago that is still in use today, pretty much unmodified. It targeted a specific niche that some government agencies have, and will likely continue to have, and which it is unlikely to have a commercial replacement.
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The US Marines tend to greatly value delegation. In one instance, a Colonel boarded a helicopter to direct a rescue operation. It ended his career as it was clear he either did not have the ability to delegate or had not sufficiently prep
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by tomohawk 2y ago
It depends on how much policy your organization has. If your organization requires AV scanners and other security crapware to be on all instances, how long does that take to install? And perhaps they require that you only use their AMIs,
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This is all true if there is a single hierarchy that everything is directed through. What works better is introducing forms of competition, so that you might have different shops with overlapping, even duplicative responsibilities within th
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Germany: The Sick Man of Europe [pdf](rainer-zitelmann.com)
3 points by tomohawk 2y ago|0 comments
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Part of it is the EPA and other federal regulators treating small companies the same as the 4 oligopolists. https://nwmpa.com/epa-impact-statement/ We buy 1/2 a carcass worth of beef at a time from a small local p
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by tomohawk 2y ago
What about lying about political opponents lying in politics? The people making these determinations ought to be subject to even harsher punishments when they lie.
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by tomohawk 2y ago
The Supreme Court took what should be a straightforward and elegant decision — the president is immune from prosecution for acts committed in office unless he has been impeached for those acts — and turned it into angels-on-the-head-of-a-p
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Nigerian Forces Rescue over 300 Captive Women and Children from Boko Haram(aclj.org)
8 points by tomohawk 2y ago|0 comments
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Just a taste of what's to come as the US exits the global commitments to ensuring freedom of navigation it has policed since WWII. Before the US, it was the UK. The UK ended the widespread piracy and slave trade during their tenure. O
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It depends on which piece did your local telco. If you have Frontier, you're likely not liking it very much. The breakup isolated the companies servicing wealthy areas from those servicing more expensive areas, and this has greatly wi
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Read Orwell's account of fighting for one of the socialist groups in Spain, and how one of those groups wiped out the others when they had the chance. There is plenty of historical accounts of socialists killing socialists.
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Why? The nazis were socialists. Just look at their party platform. Nationalist, but most definitely socialist. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-party... We demand therefore:

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