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Comment I like to think there are places anonymous posting (Score 3, Interesting) 152

is appropriate.

Political forums come to mind as the most important.

AC posting on /. maybe not so much. Posting your shortcomings as an internet user, your desire to see a liberal cage match or some older german symbols, go fuck yourself.

If you think your comment is so important on a social media site, at least have the courage to post with an (non personalized) account name that may or may not be traceable.

Comment Every company tries to collect "Everything" (Score 1) 63

I guess it's what they do with all the personal information they steal, and who they sell it to that actually matters.

For me, I use Chrome for one or two things, some .io games (since they run like crap in firefox) and bookface.

Let them fight collecting what sites I visit and anything I have saved from those sites, and other personal junk they can pry out of my browser.

Comment No (Score 3, Insightful) 48

What the US should do is let Oracle, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and Google fight it out.

That way, we can ensure the lack of any cohesive overall AI plan that would threaten US citizens. (or I guess other countries as well)

In other words, we don't need to fund any of the companies mentioned above. They all have more than enough money already.

Submission + - SPAM: Sinclair Workers Say TV Channels Are in 'Pandemonium' After Ransomware Attack

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: In the early hours of Sunday morning, hackers took down the corporate servers and systems of Sinclair Broadcast Group, a giant U.S. TV conglomerate that owns or operates more than 600 channels across the country. Days later, inside the company, “it's pandemonium and chaos,” as one current employee, who asked to remain anonymous as they were not authorized to speak to the press, told Motherboard. Sinclair has released very few details about the attack since it was hacked Sunday. On Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that the group behind the attack is the infamous Evil Corp., a ransomware gang that is believed to be based in Russia and which was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury department in 2019.

The ransomware attack interfered with several channels’ broadcast programming, preventing them from airing ads or NFL games, as reported by The Record, a news site owned by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future. It has also left employees confused and wondering what's going on, according to current Sinclair workers. “Whoever did this, they either by accident or by design did a very good job,” a current employee said in a phone call, explaining that there are some channels that haven’t been able to air commercials since Sunday. “We're really running in the blind [...] you really can't do your job.” The employee said that he was working on Sunday and was able to get two emails out to colleagues. “And one of them got it, and the other one didn’t,” they said.

Employees did not have access to their emails until Tuesday morning, according to the two employees and text messages seen by Motherboard. The office computers, however, are still locked by the company out of precaution, and Sinclair told employees not to log into their corporate VPN, which they usually used to do their jobs. Until Thursday, the company was communicating with employees via text, according to the sources, who shared some of the texts sent by the company. In one of them, they called for an all hands meeting. The meeting, according to the two current employees, was quick and vague. Both sources said that the company should be more transparent with its own employees.
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Comment I guess I'll have to rely on (Score 1) 60

my non-internet connected stove and microwave clocks. And the 2 weight and pendulum clocks.

Al the other linux and android things like tablets and phones will probably be OK, since I'm guessing my NTP is all off of my Internet provider via cable service, since there isn't any GPS service in my home due to walls and ceilings being "too thick"

We'll see on Sunday.

Comment Swish around in your mouth? (Score 2) 67

by bobstreo (#61910883) Attached to: Eco-friendly, Lab-grown Coffee is On the Way, But It Comes With a Catch

What is this? A wine tasting for dummies?

As far as I know, swishing something in your mouth that isn't approved for consumption is consumption.

  If you don't believe me, try swishing some Clorox. (really don't do that)

Now if they could maybe do some Lab-Growing on Red "Delicious" apples, or Cavendish bananas so they actually tasted good....

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