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Comment Re:Paywalled article? Really? (Score 1) 36

In fairness, any one of those probes could turn into a significant issue if the right vulnerability is found.

There are some systems out there thought that can nip this stuff in the bud, especially if they're using whitelisting and blacklisting of IP space. One system I've found useful is free set of scripts called "login-shield." It's on github.

Comment Re: Why do they never tell you about the numbers? (Score 1) 227

If you backtrace the ownership of the biggest media companies, they have the same handful of billionaires and colossal conglomerates, Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street Corp, and a handful of others, who also own large chunks of any significant company in any and all industries you can imagine. There exists a deep and highly interconnected ownership network of virtually all public companies, and most large privately held companies as well.
If they have the same ownership, they have the same agency; and if the company or individual who owns 10, 15, maybe 20 percent of your shares, and perhaps more importantly, finances your loans, calls up the CEO and says jump, they expect them to ask "how high?!" These companies have portfolios bigger than many (most) countries GDPs. If you do not think they can't exert influence to accomplish their goals, to control narratives, to keep things in the news or off the news, you're a special kind of fool.

Comment Re: Why do they never tell you about the numbers? (Score 3, Insightful) 227

Nobody ever said that a vaccination stopped diseases, but the numbers demonstrated that there were fewer fatalities where it was more widely distributed

Point of fact, the entire media industrial complex, the government and its agents, and the CEOs of the manufacturers at one point or another have all said just that! The vaccines were 100% effective, when in fact the manufacturers did no reasonable studies to see if it actually did reduce infection at all! You don't remember how they basically bucked the effectiveness study by also vaccinating the control group, "because it was inhumane to deny them this awesomely effective treatment"
Soon, the effectiveness was reported at 98% and how quickly that number slid to below 60% in the months following rollout, and then you needed a first booster, second booster, third booster of the same formulation, well after the virus had mutated to the point where the vaccine would target it with virtually no efficacy. Finally they stopped reporting on effectiveness at all. Simultaneously, they down played the risks, especially to young people at every turn.

On your second point, there is no such evidence. European, and Asian countries with comparable living conditions to the USA, which did not shut down at all, or have mandated vaccines have shown no difference in terms of health outcomes in any age group--except that by some miracle they are not currently suffering from the excess death phenomenon to nearly the same degree. Interesting.

Comment Re:No (Score 1) 28

Only brand-spanking-new apple products like the Nov 2023 MBPs or the iPhone 15 Max, or the Pixel 6 or the Samsung S22 Ultra support 6E.

So yeah, if you're already spending thousands on a phone or new laptop, or want the cutting edge, none of your devices support it yet.

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