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Comment Re: There are bigots among immigrants too ... (Score 1) 122

The Amish absolutely are actually a great example of the type of immigration no nation should want.

Granted they are not as harmful as some groups but what generally happens is:

The Amish move into a somewhat rural area. They start buying up a lot of property usually zoned agriculture and such so that they don't have to comply with construction standards and building codes that require things like hot water and flush toilets. They keep buying essentially gentrifying they area pushing out the locals which breaks up the community, a community they then don't participate in at all socially and minimally fiscally. IE recall those are not 'residences' they construct so they get taxed usually like raw or crop land. Every thing they do is inward, they don't shop at the local grocery, they don't use the local hardware store, they hire local trades to build anything.

but... what does happen as soon as someone in their community is seriously ill or whatever they are at the local hospital, and its usually indigent care because they don't believe in medical insurance.. When they have structure fire, they call the local brigade to help them put it out but none of them join or become members. Amish country aside (parts of OH, Lancaster PA etc) , Amish groups end up being a massing drain on most of places around them.

I don't dislike the Amish but if you look at the economic impact on the more rural parts of New England where they have moved into, it is plain as day the surrounding communities were better off before they arrived.

Comment Re:Enterprise (Score 4, Interesting) 173

Since I fully transitioned from Windows for personal use, and moved to MacOS and Gnome, every time I have to work with Windows 11, I just find myself swamped in UI garbage. It's not even the intrusiveness, it's literally just how messy and confusing everything is. I suppose with some effort I could learn to navigate around more efficiently, but why the hell would I?

Comment Re:Then how come... (Score 2) 122

The Romans exiled most of the Jews from Palestine after the failed Jewish uprisings between 64 and 132 CE (encompassing multiple revolts). After that, even before the Edict of Milan in 313CE, the region became a major Christian center, but after the Christianization of the Roman Empire it was overwhelmingly Christian. When the Muslims invaded the region in the 7th century CE, there weren't a lot of Jews in the region, and it was majority Christian.

And just to tell you who the real enemies of the Jews were, when the First Crusade made its way to the Holy Land, the capture of Jerusalem in 1099 led to the savage butchery of Jews and Muslims in the city. After the loss of the Crusader kingdoms in the region, it was Turkish territory, and while the Ottomans weren't always terribly nice to Jews, they were a helluva lot better than the Christians, and there was a steady flow of Jews back into the area during the Ottoman period.

And there were most certainly people living in Palestine, as there was resistance to Jews who began building settlements. It was not, as later claims would have it, an empty land. Most of the owners of the land were absentee landlords, but that is not the same thing at all.

But no, the Muslims did not displace the Jews, that was the Romans, some 1700 or 1800 years before Jews began returning in significant numbers.

Comment Re:Somehow... (Score 1) 43

I disagree. First, the bands used for astronomy are regularly used by others, which is one reason why radio telescopes have radio silence zones. Second, astronomy certainly trumps the need for cat videos or porn. Thirdly, you really really don't need all the frequencies that are currently being used for domestic purposes, because they're being used very inefficiently. You can stack multiple streams onto far fewer lanes and use multiplexing. Fourthly, whingers lost any sympathy they might have got from me by voting in twits who keep cutting the science budget. If we had space radio telescopes, you could do what the F you wanted on Earth, but because of the current lunatic situation, you're not only grabbing what scientists need, you're stopping them from alternative solutions as well.

Comment Re: They should have been open about it (Score 1) 76

"same side of the coin" is a weird way to normalize it.

We all know thats a fallacious point. So, you excusing it tells everyone you are for the thing you are claiming to not like.

This is literally a "if they jump off a bridge..." school mentality, and you have yet to figure out why following a lemming off the bridge is not conducive to healthy living.

Comment As long as we are all just speculating (Score 2) 22

Going after the ASP.NET keys is not an unknown technique. It may not be popular bug bounty fodder because in most cases the attack will be highly application specific but they are target on anyone doing targeted operations radar.

Once you have that you have a vector to send serialized payloads that are encrypted not by TLS but inside the protocol envelope. That means it will be opaque even to relatively high-end IDS/IPS/WAF solutions. Importantly you can use it while making requests to resources paths that are likely normally seen, key point monitoring and detection is not going to see the channel even if it is pretty darn good.

Now imagine you could discover and develop such an exploit offline in your own share point environment, it works unauthenticated and across a range of versions, pretty nice tool to go after some high value targets until...

A patch comes out. You look at the patch, its easy even easier than usual to reverse engineer it with or without LLMs tools, because you already understand the problem. You know you can evade it and get an exploit chain going again.. fine but now it has all sorts of eyes on it. Maybe not something you want to risk using anymore depending on exactly what kind of operator you are and what your real objectives are but... you do have an clandestine operation to fund, and the ransomware boys will buy an exploit like that for middle six figures... or maybe you are the DPRK or something and everyone ones you do ransomware to acquire money and maybe just disrupt your enemies economies already, perhaps your 'A' team turns over the details to the 'B' team to make some bank with and embarrass the US government without revealing the 'A' team's real capabilities or operations.

We absolutely know patches get reversed and exploits generated from them to attack the slow to patch. Plenty of history of that, but it is not hard to imagine that certain threat groups were holding onto a high value exploit like this given the range of targets and just saw it got "burned" went for getting as much residual value as possible too.

Comment Re: Cheating on your wife is a bad idea (Score 4, Insightful) 153

I'm an atheist, so in one sense I have no horse in this race. But while there's no denying the Church hierarchy protected pedophiles, and for a lot longer than even many Catholics would like to believe, it's not a central tenet of the Catholic faith. The Trinity, the Immaculate Conception, the Theokotos, the Ascension, Papal Infallibility when speaking ex cathedra, and the soteriological nature of the Church, those are core tenets.

And so is Matthew 7:5, which is in Catholic and in most Christian traditions the very heart of Christian ethics.

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