I know, right?

I suppose you could just claim I'm making shit up. I'm not complaining about being targeted unfairly, but allow me to explain.

If you get banned, then whine about it, saying "They're so mean!" That is complaining about being unfairly targeted. Exactly.

I noted I was, then surmising what I might have done wrong. In your world, is everyone of one mind? And all thinking in lockstep? And that any decision among all would be the same? Perhaps you live in an alternative universe of puppy dogs and rainbows. In the real universe, there are differing opinions. Sometimes certain opinions are prioritized.

Bloody hell, there are a fair number of people In here who would love to have me banned from Slashdot. Although I seldom swear, some find themselves violently disagreeing with me - I even have a few stalkers, who mod me down when I post objective truth. So you're claiming I am dissembling, or posting violent threats or whatever you made up in your head that I'm omitting for - what - internet pity? That's rather amusing.

Back before Youtube became a little more inclusive I got banned from an address, and they wouldn't say why. As far as I can tell, it was a post I made about some women seem to always pick abusive mates. I must have been reported for that. Unfortunately, that is an objective truth. But not one that was politically correct at the time. So I pissed off someone that made a complaint, and that complaint landed on a person who shared that. Or maybe an algorithm issue - who knows?

https://www.psychologytoday.co....

And yes, Slashdot's moderation method, which allows people to mod posts up or down, then allows users to block out posts below a certain level is the best moderation concept ever.

Not certain where to put this in, but has anyone else noticed that license plates are getting a little bland? https://cdn.abcotvs.com/dip/im.... In real life, the liberty bell is much more subdued. And many other states are switching to what has to be a lot more easily scanned.

The irony is a plate that is designed to be surveilled has "Let Freedom Ring" on it.

It's a little like in here. I'll post objective truth, but since I pissed off someone that week that got some mod points, I get modded down. At least on Slashdot, it doesn't disappear.

Then it is an unsolvable problem, and people will be harmed. It's a pity that there aer easily solvable problems for some that have no possible solution for others.

You know - I'm amazed at how many in here - a site supposedly of the computer savvy - think that if you are on the internet at all, you are pwned. Using good security (and no, Windows Defender and Firewall is obviously not good security) you can be pretty safe.

And before anyone chimes in on how no internet facing system is safe, it is true that if it can be written, it can be compromised. But that's not the point. The point is that about 70 percent of setups have piss-poor security. So the hackers go after the low hanging fruit. Why hack a strong system when there are three times as many just inviting pwnage?

This. The bad guys and gals go after the low hanging fruit. And there is so. damned. much. of. it.

I've long said that a company - especially one involved with essential infrastructure, should have a head of IT with C-Suite level authority. And the compliance chops to go with it.

And while small companies - water in this case - might not have the money to hire such a person, if they have to use software, it comes from somewhere. So "somewhere" needs to be responsible and in the loop. If that's too much a problem, expect more and nastier coordinate cyberattacks. Perhaps dumping the entire inventory of chlorination or flouridation chemicals in short order, or turning it off altogether, issuing false alerts, or suppressing them.

If no one was harmed by this event, perhaps those in charge should consider it a shot across the bow.

I'm not all that familiar with Canadian law, but her we have "discovery" pre-trial. So that user name diference would have stopped the trial in its tracks. As well, Police here usually have a consultant as well to advice on IT matters.

I agree that there is something very sketchy here, and that there should be some liability, because an incorrect user name is sheer incompetence on the defense, and just looking to convict someoneanyone on the prosecution.

Yeah, turns out all humans can do things wrong. Liberal guvmints can and do wrongfully convict people.

Although this case seems pretty nasty wrong.

The prosecutors wanted him convicted, the police wanted him convicted, Parents wanted him convicted.

I'm not certain how it is in the great White North, but here Prosecutors are elected, and the metric is that they must convict.

The other metric is that they have metrics to perform a "fair trial" As long as the defendant is convicted and receives that "fair trial", they simply do not care if the defendant was actually guilty, because the next election cycle, they can point at their conviction rate, highlighting crimes that are more media worthy.

Nostradamus predicted this!

Late at night I sit

Scrying upon the night sky spectacle

Fireworks, we are all screwed

Burma Shave

Indeed. I recall student group projects for wave and tidal power generation. It was some interesting stuff, some similar to this buoy concept, others underwater sails, and some reminiscent of paddlewheels.

Challenges were not so much the power generation, but transfer to land at scale. and storm survival. Looks like this folk have it figured out, having survived 18.5 meter waves. And in operation 3 years by now. Kudos to them.

Another interesting power generation effort id taking place in the Bay of Fundy. With huge tidal swings there is a huge amount of energy to be harvested. My guess is their main challenge is the extreme tide variations, at one place 15 meters. Most low/high variation is around 10 meters. So we have to deal with bare ground at different times of day, and the rotating time of low and high tide. But they figure they can extract 2500 MW of the 8500 MW kinetic energy there. https://natural-resources.cana...

Another avenue is the "mean girl" effect. This is a big one. Presumed friends or sometimes enemies that love drama.

Actual court case. A woman was suing a supposed friend. What happened was the plaintiff had admitted she had a "work crush" on her boss. Even named him (a friend group, so she didn't feel awkward admitting it.) Of course, the drama loving friends encouraged her to act on her attraction to him, she had said "No!" but one of the friends who had a large Instagram following said "Why don't we see what my followers think? I'll anonmyze everything"

But she "forgot" to anonymize the Bosses name. and the company. Aa lot of drama happened, ending with the company HR calling in and firing her because her boss was married. Caused a kerfuffle. But oh, much entertainment was to be had. Plaintiff lost the suit, because she exposed herself in the friend group, then allowed the Instagram lady to put out everything on the Internet.