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Comment Re:"roiled the U.S. election" (Score 3, Insightful) 259

For context:

3,393 advertisements purchased (a total 3,519 advertisements total were released after more were identified by the company);
More than 11.4 million American users exposed to those advertisements;
470 IRA-created Facebook pages;
80,000 pieces of organic content created by those pages; and
Exposure of organic content to more than 126 million Americans.

Half of Americans saw their content.

Comment Re:"roiled the U.S. election" (Score 5, Insightful) 259

This isn't about Democrats, Republicans, Hillary or Trump. Russia didn't care about our politics, they cared about destabilizing us. They did so by making us turn against each other. Over 50 million ad impressions per week. If you're on Facebook, you saw them. And they were designed so that the people who saw them would be most likely to engage (like/comment/share). https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Comment Re:Funding is not the problem (Score 1) 514

"the veterans are marking time until they can retire."

That is always a sign that the retirement benefits are too generous.

Or that their job is shitty and that should be fixed. I love my job, and the only reason I'd have the mindset of "I'm quitting as soon as I'm able to" is if the environment was so fucked up and out of my control that I'd be happier not doing what I love. What would it take for you to not be happy doing what you love? Because that's the situation some of these people face.

Comment This opinion isn't new and is still wrong. (Score 5, Insightful) 411

Virus writers will target the largest market portion. If that's Windows, they'll write viruses for Windows. If it's Mac, they'll write viruses for Mac. If it's Linux, they will start writing viruses for Linux. Just because more vulnerabilities in Windows are known, does not mean there are less total in Linux. And short of taking away admin/sudo access from users completely, malware can always social engineer it's way into administrative privileges during an installer or something similar.

Comment Re: Attack on democracy (Score 1) 205

From Google: Hanlon's razor is an aphorism expressed in various ways including "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" or "Don't assume bad intentions over neglect and misunderstanding." It recommends a way of eliminating unlikely explanations for a phenomenon (a philosophical razor).

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