Comment Re:They're already suppressing it (Score 0) 255
Citation needed.
Citation needed.
They're already suppressing it. The various hashtags talking about this were artificially blocked from trending.
What is the next step they could take? Auto-hiding tweets talking about it? (They're already doing that.) Banning users for talking about it? Auto-removing discussion of his name?
At what point do calls for the blatant support for a single politician or suppressing support for others cross the line into political censorship and attempts at manipulating the election?
The virus writers went elsewhere and people forgot. The CIA didn't forget.
But the 'feature' is useless if it's so easy to detect. Bet they never let it into the wide of their own secure networks, for fear of their politicians getting 'caught' and embarrassed.
Embarrassed? They don't embarrass politicians they catch. They secure funding from politicians they catch.
No? All it has to be is an external image URL.
hxxp://CIAFRONTWEBSITE
Obfuscate that enough and put it someplace that Microsoft Office auto-loads and bammo. Instant tracking, no software needed. This is Spam Email 101 tactics here.
Hell, it's the same trick they used (via a broken flash plugin) in Operation Pacifier to figure out who was connecting to the FBI's child porn server on TOR. You know, the operation that caused them to repeal the 4th Amendment for anyone using a computer that has TCP/IP installed?
I never thought I'd say this, but can we bring the GNAA guys back? They were less annoying than idiots with Trump Derangement Syndrome.
WWIV + LORD + Tradewars. That was middle school in a nutshell, on a 14.4 bbs with a phone cord strung out from my room to the living room to sneak on at 1 AM...
ITT: The Holy Wars begin.
I wonder how many people and companies are willing to pay for the privilege of virtue signaling?
Quite a lot, actually:
* $1398 from 374 patrons
* $2769 from 822 patrons
* $3225 from 481 patrons
Professional victimhood is a cottage industry.
No need to. The CIA created an entire new NSA inside the CIA. Called CCI (Center for Cyber Intelligence) it was technically under the CIA so it's not subject to the disclosure rules the NSA was... and they just didn't tell anyone that they were doing it so the disclosure rules the CIA was under didn't matter, either.
Possibly. What would the kinetic force be of something -- lets say 2 tons of something -- being launched from the Moon to Earth at Moon Escape velocity? How about using conventional rocketry but starting from the moon?
Given that histrionic nutjob's past, she probably got it from Gundam or the later Mega Man X / Zero games, although it's possible it came from "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" or maybe the lensman series. Or maybe Honor Harrington, which refers to Harsh Mistress when mentioning the trope...
And obviously watch HOW they get to their solution, ie. not by connecting to a chatroom where they have a bunch of friends waiting to help out. Looking up snippets, checking parameters and syntax etc. would obviously be fine, that's what you'll be doing in daily work anyway.
What do you have against Stack Overflow?
I'd like to see the business that identifies "problematic accounts". In fact, if I were them I'd be very open about it. Otherwise it's censorship.
They can't be transparent, because they're targeting the political opponents of the twitter admins. The second they admit that -- openly or accidentally -- shit is going to hit the fan.
But, it's a direct admission that they were basically gouging for want of competition.
Absolutely. My big question is... I have a PC Build coming up. I went Intel 5 years ago due to lack of a realistic AMD alternative. How good is AMD Ryzen? Is it merely competitive with Intel, or are we back to the golden days of "Buy Intel for brand name, buy AMD if you want to save a few hundred bucks for something just as good?"
Friction is a drag.
