Comment Re:Old news (Score 1) 27
It took a long time from submission to it being posted.
I thought it went into the slush pile.
Comment Re:Obligatory XKCD (Score 1) 135
I was also thinking of https://xkcd.com/323/, specifically the part "You can't just give a team of coders a year's supply of whiskey", because that's what AI coding looks like to me. Instead of giving devs just enough rope to hang themselves, we're now giving dilettante coders the keys to the entire rope industry.
Comment Re:Wait, 4 words? (Score 1) 161
Which four words are we supposed to remember?
"I love this company" or "Developers, developers, developers, developers". https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Comment Re: Good (Score 1) 67
It won't exist forever.
Comment Re: Gold bars you say? (Score 1) 136
I see that you have seen the movie! Boxes marked "A" and "R".
Comment Re:TIL (Score 1) 44
And that it's not about oil filters.
Comment Re: Gold bars you say? (Score 2) 136
Just the headline seems like a hilarious situation.
But why keep evidence of embezzlement at home?
Comment Re:Religion (Score 1) 140
Why would you say it doesn't?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_deities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_deities
Comment Re:Can someone help explain "perfect" randomness? (Score 1) 140
It might be or it might not, but my god that article sucked. Way too general, and not specific enough. The picture was obviously wrong, If you encrypt an image, it looks like the option on the right produced by perfect randomness. You could not tell the difference between the two. Unless they are using some really dumb encryption method that highly depends on perfect randomness somehow. I'm not aware of what that might be, but no one should use it. Obviously even if this is a source of perfect randomness, you can of course Man in the middle the data and subtly shift it without anyone being able to tell.
Submission + - I found a second vote.gov -- and it's registered to the White House
As_I_Please writes: The Drey Dossier reports that the National Design Studio, an office created by executive order and which reports only to the White House, has been building copies of federal agency websites like vote.gov, passports.gov, login.gov and others.
What [the National Design Studio] is doing is taking the parts of the federal government that touch you directly, your prescription, your voter registration, your passport, your federal login, out of the agencies that legally own them and rebuilding them on White House infrastructure. Vote.gov belongs to the Election Assistance Commission, and the studio built a copy. Passports belong to the State Department, and the studio is building a replacement this week. Login.gov belonged to GSA, and the studio’s guy runs it now.
Trump has said publicly that this infrastructure is for other presidents, and he is right about that. It is the one thing in this story I take him at his word on. The infrastructure outlasts him. Whoever wins in 2028 inherits the websites, the vendors, the data, and the hardware, sealed and waiting.
NDS Infrastructure Map — my live working github map of every National Design Studio subdomain I have found, filterable by status, registrant, and parent domain. If you want to retrace this investigation or watch new subdomains appear in real time, start here.
Submission + - China Is Testing Its State Surveillance Model Abroad (nytimes.com)
schwit1 writes: When a remote Pacific village asked for help with rowdy youth, the Chinese police arrived with a surveillance system. Then came the backlash.
Their solution was to introduce an obscure Mao-era community surveillance system: the Fengqiao Experience.
Named after Fengqiao, a town in eastern China, the system encouraged neighbors to spy and snitch on one another to root out political enemies. The system has been revived under Mr. Xi as part of a push to snuff out any challenges to the Chinese Communist Party.
In China, the system calls for the police to monitor individual households in sprawling apartment complexes, in one example assigning each unit a color code that denoted whether occupants presented a security risk. The police have also visited the homes of minority groups like Tibetans and Uyghurs to promote party policies. Government workers have visited churches to give “anti-cult” lectures. And companies are required to register their employees in police databases.
The idea of introducing such a heavy-handed style of state surveillance in the Solomon Islands alarmed local politicians and observers in nearby countries like Australia, who worried it could give the government the tools to stifle freedoms.
The Fengqiao pilot was suspended after an outcry. And the election this month of Matthew Wale, a prime minister who has historically been skeptical of Beijing, raises questions about China’s foothold in the country, and whether its ideas travel as easily as the party hopes.
Their solution was to introduce an obscure Mao-era community surveillance system: the Fengqiao Experience.
Named after Fengqiao, a town in eastern China, the system encouraged neighbors to spy and snitch on one another to root out political enemies. The system has been revived under Mr. Xi as part of a push to snuff out any challenges to the Chinese Communist Party.
In China, the system calls for the police to monitor individual households in sprawling apartment complexes, in one example assigning each unit a color code that denoted whether occupants presented a security risk. The police have also visited the homes of minority groups like Tibetans and Uyghurs to promote party policies. Government workers have visited churches to give “anti-cult” lectures. And companies are required to register their employees in police databases.
The idea of introducing such a heavy-handed style of state surveillance in the Solomon Islands alarmed local politicians and observers in nearby countries like Australia, who worried it could give the government the tools to stifle freedoms.
The Fengqiao pilot was suspended after an outcry. And the election this month of Matthew Wale, a prime minister who has historically been skeptical of Beijing, raises questions about China’s foothold in the country, and whether its ideas travel as easily as the party hopes.
Comment Re:Thank God my govt ... (Score 1) 86
Hit dogs holler. You're a redneck, hillbilly Yankee. I have no ill will towards hillbillies or rednecks, they are certainly in my family, but they don't accept me as one of them. I'm from the Yankee branch of the tree.
Comment Re:Thank God my govt ... (Score 1) 86
You won't let us come in the front and seemingly only door known to ever exist. Fine, good. Good and great. That solves the problem forever. you've suitably defeated us squarely. We know of no other way to achieve our goals than a peaceful, upfront takeover of a company. We shall take our mayflower ships and leave from your shores. We Yankee pilgrims know how to leave the Netherlands when we aren't wanted.
Comment Re:How repulsive (Score 1) 154
Porque no las dos?
Comment Re:Oh fuck off... (Score 1) 197
I want to eat human flesh, particularly humans whose names start with "dev" and end with "slash0". Do you have a problem with that? Because ain't nobody going to tell me what I should and should not eat.
In other words, I'm sick and tired of people who think their choice of food is only about their personal rights. The food always comes from somewhere. Most people don't go around robbing grocery stores just because they think they have a divine right to eat what they want.
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