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Comment Same tactic used to steal bourbon (Score 4, Interesting) 98

In June, over $500,000 worth of bourbon was stolen out from under the nose of a warehouse in Phildelphia. The first paragraph:

The truck looked legitimate. The paperwork appeared routine. And in the middle of a workday, about 1,800 cases of bourbon were loaded onto the truck as if it were just another shipment.

Later in the story, the explanation for how this happened is nearly identical to these tech thefts:

Newman said investigators believe the theft may be tied to a "complex ring" targeting high-value consumer products. The perpetrators appeared to impersonate an existing trucking company, using a company name, phone number and other details to gain trust and secure the load, he said.

"They basically try and look like, sound like ⦠a legitimate trucking company," Newman said. "They spoof the company name, they spoof the trucking dispatcher."

In the company's news release, it said the theft appeared to have been carried out with knowledge of "logistics operations and product movement schedules," suggesting planning and coordination.

Comment Re:Was it a fair test? (Score 1) 82

* Had employees already been through some basic anti-phishing training?

Every year we are required to take anti-phishing training. It's about 20 minutes long and gives examples of what to look for. You also have to take "tests" at the end to see if you learned anything.

Fortunately, for us, the phishing emails IT sends out are fairly easy to recognize if you take a few seconds to look at them. You don't even have to hover over any links.

Comment Re:Let me guess (Score 4, Informative) 51

And I bet you'd love it if we didn't have Russian diesel... imagine what your head of Mexican lettuce would cost.

The same. The first delivery of diesel amounts to 2.5 hours of diesel usage in the U.S. The total delivery comes out to about 3 days worth.

Yeah, totally fantastic to support a dictator deliberately targeting civilians to get for 3 days of fuel. It's sure to substantially drive down costs.

Submission + - Tesla does not allow people to repair their own vehicles (newrepublic.com)

smooth wombat writes: A decade ago, Rich Benoit bought a used Tesla at auction. The car had been flooded and he thought he'd repair it. When he reached out to Tesla to buy parts, they said no.

“They literally just said no,” he said. “I thought it was going to be a lot easier: ‘Hey, I’ll just buy a battery, put a battery in, put a new motor in, you know, buy some new interior parts.’ They literally said no. I’ve never seen anything like that before, and I think that’s what started the journey for me.”

Benoit’s professional background was in I.T., but this launched a new career in fixing electric cars, and he also runs a now 10-year-old YouTube channel with co-founder Carl Hewitt about his work, called Rich Rebuilds. He says nearly every electric vehicle company has responded the same way Tesla did. So his new career intersected quickly with the right-to-repair movement, which argues that companies shouldn’t be allowed to refuse access to the information and equipment people need to make repairs on the products they’ve purchased.

At least nine states have passed right-to-repair laws—most of them blue, along with Texas and Kansas—and every state has debated similar laws that would require at least some manufacturers to provide the tools people need to make repairs on their products. A federal bill is sitting in the House, waiting for potential consideration in the lame-duck session, but it’s unlikely to rise to the top of Congress’s long to-do list. For Benoit, though, this is about much more than just fixing cars. “This kind of encompasses a larger overarching theory that the corporations own what you have,” he said. “You don’t own anything. You just rent it.”

Comment It's not enough (Score 5, Informative) 171

Every data center Ukraine can locate needs to be leveled. That would be far easier if the Russian asset in the White House would stop sucking Putin's dick and help Ukraine do its job.

After that, a systematic destruction of every power generation site surrounding Moscow needs to be undertaken. The city needs to go dark and stay dark during the winter.

If Ukraine hasn't already planned for this, they need to do it now. So long as Russia deliberately Ukrainian power generation and civilian targets, Ukraine needs to do the same. Once Moscow is dark, the muscovite midget's whining will be a joy to hear.

Comment Re:uh no (Score 2) 171

t's true that Ukraine has taken back some number of square kilometers of land (at high cost, mind you),

Yes. Several thousand Russian soldiers are now dead during Operation Vivaldi. A glorious outcome. What took you Russian trolls over a year to do Ukraine did in three months. You not only lost thousands of soldiers trying to take the land, you lost several thousand more losing the land.

Brilliant!

And before you start on, "But what about Ukraine's losses?", they have already admitted they lost soldiers, but in a small number. Nothing near the thousands you slovenly, drunk degenerates lost.

Comment Verizon isn't much better (Score 2) 95

My parents have Verizon and have had them for years. The cost of phone, tv, and internet is roughly $135/month, and that's only for them to get 12 specific channels they choose along with local channels. Neither watch much tv any more which is why they went with this package.

That is still far too much. However, when my dad and I look over what it would cost to drop the tv portion and use something else such as YoutTube TV, they'd only say about $10/month.

We've talked about moving him to Comcast to get the lower rates, but he hasn't made the jump yet.

I have Comcast for internet only and have no problems with them despite the repeated complaints on here.

Comment Re: Fatalism (Score 1) 368

Electric bikes exists.

Yes they do. They are also vilified and legislated against aggressively.

But have you been incentivised to buy an electric bike?

Absolutely NOT. Constantly harassed with more and more restrictions being added. It is literally impossible to buy a long range e-bike legally nowadays. (because battery power can be traded for speed)

Comment Re:Not surprising (Score 5, Informative) 42

You people like to lie, don't you? All covid vaccines underwent trials before given to the public. Those trials are how we know of any potential side effects. The ones you people keep claiming were never known.

You must be one of those who claims there's never been a double-blind study for vaccines even though they've been done. This article, published before covid hit, lays out the lies people like you put out and why they're lies.

And here's the results of a double-blind study on the effectiveness of the MMRV vaccine from 2016. How timely considering Kennedy lies about the measles vaccine.

Comment Re:Synergy (Score 1) 138

Did SpaceX build rockets to fuel Starlink, or did Starlink fuel the need for cheap launch vehicles?

Someone saw the ability to launch stuff into space more cheaply so a rocket company was born. This enabled the satellite thing because why not send up useful payloads while validating? Not chicken and egg I think.

Comment Re:It's not pedantry if it's science (Score 1) 64

I guess these are the same people who think that the vacuum of space will freeze you

Ummm, you will become "frozen" solid if your body is unprotected in space. No, you will not instantly freeze... but given enough time, your body will radiate heat until it is the same temperature as space itself... which is basically slightly over 0 Kelvin.

Or were you railing against the idea that a body will freeze as fast as if it were dropped into liquid nitrogen?

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