Comment Re:Cowboy Neal (Score 1) 78
Where's the upvote?
Submission + - Musk Shows Us What Actual Government Censorship On Social Media Looks Like (techdirt.com)
theweatherelectric writes: Self proclaimed "free speech absolutist" Elon Musk is now suppressing free speech on Twitter. Over the weekend, Wired reported on the inexperienced twenty-somethings between 19 and 24 working for Musk who have been given unprecedented access to sensitive government systems.
When someone posted these government employees’ names on Twitter, Musk first declared it “criminal” to name government employees (it isn't) and then he followed it up by having the comment removed.
When someone posted these government employees’ names on Twitter, Musk first declared it “criminal” to name government employees (it isn't) and then he followed it up by having the comment removed.
Submission + - Techdirt: A Coup Is In Progress In America (techdirt.com) 4
An anonymous reader writes: A coup is underway in the United States, and we must stop pretending otherwise. The signs are unmistakable and accelerating: in just the past 48 hours, Elon Musk’s DOGE commission has seized control of Treasury payment systems and gained unauthorized access to classified USAID materials, while security officials who followed protocols were removed. Career civil servants across agencies are being systematically purged for having followed legal requirements during previous administrations. The president openly declares he won’t enforce laws he dislikes, while Congress watches in complicit silence. This isn’t happening through tanks in the streets or soldiers at government buildings—it’s occurring through the systematic dismantling of constitutional governance and its replacement with a system of personal loyalty to private interests. Those who resist are being removed, while those who enable this transformation are being rewarded with unprecedented control over government functions. The time for euphemisms and careful hedging has passed. We are watching, in real time, the conversion of constitutional democracy into something darker and more dangerous. To pretend otherwise isn’t prudence—it’s complicity.
Submission + - California Reservoir Dams Opened At Trump's Order 2
Petersko writes: At the order of the President, 2.2 billion gallons of water were released from reservoirs in Central California on Friday. The goal, according to his posts on Truth Social, was to provide water to "farmers throughout the state, and to Los Angeles."
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/03...
"There are two major problems, water experts said: The newly released water will not flow to Los Angeles, and it is being wasted by being released during the wet winter season."
“They were holding extra water in those reservoirs because of the risk that it would be a dry summer,” Heather Cooley, director of research for California water policy organization the Pacific Institute. “This puts agriculture at risk of insufficient water during the summer months.”
According to Trump, an additional 3 billion gallons will follow.
"The US Army Corps of Engineers and the White House did not respond to CNN’s request for comment."
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/03...
"There are two major problems, water experts said: The newly released water will not flow to Los Angeles, and it is being wasted by being released during the wet winter season."
“They were holding extra water in those reservoirs because of the risk that it would be a dry summer,” Heather Cooley, director of research for California water policy organization the Pacific Institute. “This puts agriculture at risk of insufficient water during the summer months.”
According to Trump, an additional 3 billion gallons will follow.
"The US Army Corps of Engineers and the White House did not respond to CNN’s request for comment."
Submission + - More Geeky Advent Calendars
destinyland writes: Advent of Code isn't the only geeky tradition that's continuing in 2020. "This is going to be the first full year with Raku being called Raku," notes the site raku-advent.blog. "However, it's going to be the 12th year (after this first article) in a row with a Perl 6 or Raku calendar, previously published in the Perl 6 Advent Calendar blog." The tradition continues, with a new article about the Raku programming language every day until Christmas.
And meanwhile over at perladvent.org, the Perl Advent Calendar is also continuing its own article-a-day tradition (starting with a holiday tale about how Perl's TidyAll library "makes it trivial for the elves to keep their code formatting consistent and clean.")
But they're not the only ones. "Pandemic or not, Christmas time is a time for wonder, joy and sharing," writes Kristofer Giltvedt Selbekk from Oslo-based Bekk Consulting (merging technology with user experience, product innovation and strategy). So this year they're "continuing our great tradition of sharing some of the stuff we know every December" with 11 different advent calendar sites sharing articles (or, on one site, podcast episodes), on topics including JavaScript, Kotlin, React, Elm, functional programming, and cloud computing.
And if you're more interested in outer space, this also marks the 13th year for the official Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar. "Every day until Friday, December 25, this page will present one new incredible image of our universe from NASA's Hubble telescope," explains its page at the Atlantic.
And meanwhile over at perladvent.org, the Perl Advent Calendar is also continuing its own article-a-day tradition (starting with a holiday tale about how Perl's TidyAll library "makes it trivial for the elves to keep their code formatting consistent and clean.")
But they're not the only ones. "Pandemic or not, Christmas time is a time for wonder, joy and sharing," writes Kristofer Giltvedt Selbekk from Oslo-based Bekk Consulting (merging technology with user experience, product innovation and strategy). So this year they're "continuing our great tradition of sharing some of the stuff we know every December" with 11 different advent calendar sites sharing articles (or, on one site, podcast episodes), on topics including JavaScript, Kotlin, React, Elm, functional programming, and cloud computing.
And if you're more interested in outer space, this also marks the 13th year for the official Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar. "Every day until Friday, December 25, this page will present one new incredible image of our universe from NASA's Hubble telescope," explains its page at the Atlantic.
Submission + - One In Six Cadillac Dealers Opt To Close Instead of Selling Electric Cars (thedrive.com)
An anonymous reader writes: General Motors knows all too well that a fully electric future is coming. As a company, GM wants to have 30 EVs for sale by 2025 and Cadillac will reportedly be leading the Detroit automaker's electric charge in the United States. Recently, it was reported that GM told dealerships to invest in the future or get out of the way. Cadillac has 880 dealerships nationwide, and now, citing sources familiar with the matter, The Wall Street Journal reports that 150 of them have taken a $300,000 to $1,000,000 buyout to cease operations instead of investing $200,000 in charging infrastructure and other updates to their facilities to support the brand's electric future.
This is a little more than one in six Cadillac dealerships nationwide, so in a nutshell, a fair amount of them will probably close. It's unclear if GM expected so many to take the buyout, however, a $200,000 investment is likely a lot to ask for many dealerships, especially during a pandemic. That being said, some of Cadillac's vehicles like the XT6 crossover have seen dramatic increases in sales over the past year, and it's betting on the new electric Lyriq SUV to further improve its fortunes.
This is a little more than one in six Cadillac dealerships nationwide, so in a nutshell, a fair amount of them will probably close. It's unclear if GM expected so many to take the buyout, however, a $200,000 investment is likely a lot to ask for many dealerships, especially during a pandemic. That being said, some of Cadillac's vehicles like the XT6 crossover have seen dramatic increases in sales over the past year, and it's betting on the new electric Lyriq SUV to further improve its fortunes.
Comment Here's another theory for you... (Score 1) 168
Suppose you have suborned a switching point for a company you wished to access. Suppose that you could reduce switching options for traffic to that destination by taking out one (or more) of those trunks at a particular time, to force traffic through your captured switching center.
Know anyone who might want to run some man in the middle attacks on the valley?
Comment Re:Is that allowed? (Score 1) 144
*like* *upvote*
Sorry, I don't have any mod points, currently. But this issue badly needs an injection of humor. Somewhere.
Comment Re:Irony (Score 2) 144
You are confusing the location of her education with her campaign for "the freedom of women and girls to be educated".
Ascribing motive to the location of her education is probably premature.
Submission + - The Newest Organized Labor Group: Start-up Employees (ieee.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Last Friday may turn out to have marked the beginning of Silicon Valley's organized labor movement--startup employees met in Palo Alto "to share war stories and to start developing what organizers called a 'Startup Employee Equity Bill of Rights'".
Comment Re:Still doesn't get it (Score 1) 117
In as far as your "OSS falters" comment goes, the TL;DR version is "groupthink is bad". The obverse is that "non-groupthink is good." This is not the same as contentiousness to eleven, but enough dissent to spot any naked Emperors.
Having worked in both the cathedral and the bazaar, there are pros and cons to each, but I'd rather have more contentiousness earlier on in the cycle than usually happens in the cathedral. It's overall better for the cost of the project as well as the bugs/kloc BS metrics mgmt wants to use.
Comment Learn English (Score 1) 96
Amazing. I restrained myself and didn't call out your ignorance, since I tend to use rather complicated sentence construction. You failed to learn when hit with the clue-stick.
So hey, let's play...
The sentence read "I reported the infringements, the spamming, the users who have a variant of the name (e.g. foo2525 instead of foo): to the spam-handlers and to the variant-users." Let's dissect this.
The disingenuous would read this to mean I reported everyone to the spam-handlers *and* the variant-owners. That's totally unhelpful. So, perhaps there is another interpretation, after one is finished with your ad hominem nonsense: It can represent two different actions. Obviously, "variant-users" cannot refer to spammers -- that's just stupid. Then, it quite obviously indicates the resolution path for the variant-owners is *to* the variant-owners. The use of "respectively" would force the reader to cross-correlate the phrases, easing the process.
So, learn some bloody English, you puerile, self-indulgent, narcissistic, entitled moron. When they invent a "does not exceed a 6th grade reading level" tag, I'm sure you'll finally come into your own.
Comment Re:Among the funny things ... (Score 1) 96
Close... It's qwer@yaho^H^H^H^HH^H^H^H^H Ha. I'm not so foolish
Comment Re:Among the funny things ... (Score 1) 96
RTFMessage. To be clear, I wrote that I reported folks who used a variant to the variant-user. e.g. send email as foo@yahoo.com instead of foo2525@yahoo.com and I get the email reply, I sent it on to foo2525 with a note that they used the wrong email. Of course, the correct email has to be indicated somewhere, or I have no way
My mistake was not adding ", respectively" to the sentence.
Glad to see you got your exercise today, jumping to conclusions.
Comment Among the funny things ... (Score 5, Informative) 96
... is why suddenly yahoo is making a show of caring.
I have a four-letter yahoo account (not that kind of four-letter word...) from waaaaay back in the day. It was something I maintained for about two decades for plausible deniability... a cut-out.
SCORES of people have tries to hack it. A couple have succeeded, but not since I switched it to a 32-character mixed-case-and-special password. Still, they try at the rate of about 3 a week (that I *see* via attempted password-reset manipulations, 2-factor authentication change attempts, etc).
But
There's been phishing, spear-phishing based on the pseudo-identity hosted there, blind newsletter sign-up. Every kind of crap you can imagine, and several more.
And every step of the way, I reported the infringements, the spamming, the users who have a variant of the name (e.g. foo2525 instead of foo): to the spam-handlers and to the variant-users.
And yahoo has never given a shit. Not once. Period. IMHO, 'cause it was one account-holder. But I've kept it anyway -- since it's a great cut-out. And I'll continue to do so. Yahoo is a joke; has been for many years now. Sometimes... that's its value. It's a great example of what NOT to do, and it's a great revealer of the seedy underbelly of the 'net.
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