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Comment Re: Trump is a moron (Score 1, Insightful) 423

"Truly imagine the quality of person that Trump had to beat to make it into office."

It wasn't Hillary he had to beat but the good judgement of those who voted for him. He barely did it and only with help from Putin, Brennan and the electoral college because of course he still got millions fewer votes than Hillary.

Comment Re: What's that line about truth lacing its shoes? (Score 2) 369

"If something that's not on the BOM for the PCB has been glued to the board and blue-wired into it"

It was apparently not that obvious. They (allegedly) changed the board design at the factories making the Super Micro boards. Also,

"In one case, the malicious chips were thin enough that theyâ(TM)d been embedded between the layers of fiberglass onto which the other components were attached, according to one person who saw pictures of the chips. That generation of chips was smaller than a sharpened pencil tip, the person says.

Comment Re: What's that line about truth lacing its shoes? (Score 1) 369

What are we to make of Bloomberg's story then? Did they invent it?

In all, 17 people confirmed the manipulation of Supermicro's hardware and other elements of the attacks. The sources were granted anonymity because of the sensitive, and in some cases classified, nature of the information.

Submission + - Study finds that negative reaction to 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' was Amplified b (hollywoodreporter.com)

bestweasel writes: The Hollywood Reporter highlights an academic paper which finds that half of the criticism aimed at director Rian Johnson over The Last Jedi was politically motivated.
Researcher Morten Bay's paper, titledÂWeaponizing The Haters: The Last Jedi and the strategic politicization of pop culture through social media manipulation, examines the online response to the movie that has come to be considered controversial amongst the larger fanbase of the franchise.
Bay suggests that reputation may not be earned, and instead "finds evidence of deliberate, organized political influence measures disguised as fan arguments". He continues, "The likely objective of these measures is increasing media coverage of the fandom conflict, thereby adding to and further propagating a narrative of widespread discord and dysfunction in American society. Persuading voters of this narrative remains a strategic goal for the U.S. alt-right movement, as well as the Russian Federation."
The paper analyzes in depth the negative online reaction, which is split into three different camps: those with a political agenda, trolls and what Bay calls "real fantagonists," which he defines as genuineÂStar WarsÂfans disappointed in the movie. His findings are fascinating; "Overall, 50.9% of those tweeting negatively [about the movie] was likely politically motivated or not even human," he writes, noting that only 21.9% of tweets analyzed about the movie had been negative in the first place.
"A number of these users appear to be Russian trolls", Bay writes of the negative tweets.
In response to a tweet announcing the release of the paper,ÂLast JediÂdirector Rian JohnsonÂshared the tweet, adding, "Looking forward to reading it, but what the top-line describes is consistent with my experience online."

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