Posts by Joe 59

Re: Indians falling for Internet scam? Who'd have thought it!

Of course, with 1.4B people who aren't scammers, India is as much victim as the rest of the world. The only thing keeping them from rising up in rank of victims is that most of them are extremely poor and don't have digital assets to plunder.

I feel like the emphasis needs to be placed on the policing part, and any nation that firewalls off investigations into this should be shunned from international transactions, like China. They take internal victims very seriously, unless the thief is a member of the CP, but don't extend that courtesy to external victims, unless the thief isn't a member of the CP.

I had a 1U rack mountable case I built a server into in '96, the heat sink touched the lid. The lid got so hot, the paint came off the lid in a square around the footprint of the heat sink. And it only took a few minutes to do that, and the server was perfectly happy running during those few minutes. I wound up drilling holes into the lid in a pretty pattern over the heat sink, which improved airflow.

Re: My only question is WHY?

If there is a threat of imminent war, either via ICBM, bombers, land invasion or other means, the alert goes out giving the citizens a few minutes' warning and instructions, that's enough time to save millions of lives. If it's an inbound missile threat, if you are miles from a fireball, or in direct line of sight of the fireball, or can make it to shelter fast enough if you are closer, there's a good chance you can survive without injury.

Obviously, that's not what it has been used for, so far, this system has been used tens of thousands of times since the start of the first one, alerting on everything from wildfire, flood and earthquake warnings to riot/civil unrest and other events. It's an indispensable part of any nation's communication system.

You place little value in it, but millions of other people do, and if an emergency ever does strike your area, you will benefit from the advanced notice no matter your opinion of the system.

Re: "Should the Cruise car have not started moving if there was a person still on the crosswalk?"

California's road test is, and has been for ages, at least the following standard checklist items:

Starting your vehicle

Merging to traffic

Following other traffic

Backing up

Parallel parking

Making a U-turn

Pulling over to the side of the road and stopping

Moving away from a parked position onto the road

And it's as much as 20 minutes long.

Sounds like you didn't get a license, but just took some classes.

Re: Loyalty

He's clearly not interested in liberty, equality or fraternity, the hallmarks of a democracy. He's beholden to the Chinese Communist Party, like Biden is, bought and paid for, and now highly leveraged.

If there is ever a serious attempt to eliminate the 2nd amendment, the result would be embarrassing for those attempting it. And by embarrassing, I mean absolutely destructive.

A direct threat against the 2nd is a direct threat against the 1st, 3rd, 4th and of course the 13th. The politicians voting for it would find themselves assuming room temperature pretty much immediately.

That's how serious those who take the 2nd amendment seriously take the second amendment. Don't underestimate their resolve, or their numbers.

Re: You sure are preoccupied by Trump and Musk!

I don't recall this kind of crowing over a sitting vice president being caught red-handed taking bribes, or again when he's caught again as a sitting president, or again when that same sitting vice president took documents that were above his station, or again when that man as sitting president did the same thing, only stored in four or more locations with zero checks.

It's almost like they just don't like the other guy, but this guy, despite the mountain of evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors, they don't really care about. Weird.

Maybe the west isn't founded on laws?

Re: 1996

For me, I know it was 1994 or 5 <snip far too much information for public consumption about a telco and deregulation and a pervert of a VP who thought F:\Public was to be taken literally>

I downloaded a copy and wrote them to floppies and borrowed a dedicated 486 PC to install it on from a phone company I worked for as a junior dipshit. A previous admin had installed it on a PC to use as a router/firewall/gateway with basic IP Forwarding. For some reason, he didn't want the network team to use a router to reach the outside world, so he stuck a Linux box in front of it, internet on eth0, LAN on eth1. He got fired. I got put in the hot seat. I got fired. We all had a good laugh.

Re: Last time I checked ...

Bolling v. Sharpe (1954)

Frontiero v. Richardson (1973)

United States v. Windsor (2013)

Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)

Loving v. Virginia (1967)

City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center (1985)

United States v. Virginia (1996)

Sessions v. Morales-Santana (2017)

case law seems to disagree that the 14th doesn't apply to federal law as state law.

Re: democracies still have safeguards to bring this stuff to light, and yet it keeps happening

The people perpetrating these crimes aren't being prosecuted, and there are plenty of laws on the books under which to prosecute these crimes.

The only conclusion I can draw is that since the safeguards don't function they don't exist. Abstracting that to "there is no rule of law".

Being a moderate or left-wing activist isn't some high bar in probable cause, certainly being anywhere near a violent protest, or protesting quite legally at a school board meeting is plenty reason for the FBI to become interested and lump you into a profile. How much more so purchasing a firearm or ammunition, or using a VPN?

It won't end until the people exploiting these organizations are charged with civil rights violations under color of law, and it starts right at the top, from Joe Biden, Barak Obama, Hilary Clinton down into the Senate and House before it even makes it to the FBI leadership team, who should also be charged with these crimes of course, along with any individual agents.

And before you scream I'm some MAGA Republican, and start into the whataboutism of only naming those people, those people are clearly guilty of crimes far worse than Watergate, we all know it, and they're currently in charge of the FBI. You wouldn't put up with a Republican does it, why would you put up with it when your President does it?

Re: When do people understand that cash rules?

My memory has faded somewhat, so the numbers might be shite, but around 2000, Xerox stock was plummeting, so far that it ceased trading in the exchange, and the company was close to closing doors. Employees were flooding out, threatening death from a different method, when corporate offered a choice:

$5k retention bonus

$15k worth of stock options at $22/share

Nearly everyone took the cash. They had to break their contract when too many people took the cash. The stock options expired long before the stock reached the strike price.

Because I'm an idiot, I took the options.

Always take teh cash.

Re: "compared crypto's electricity usage to that of video games"

"funny money" isn't very funny. It's every bit as legitimate as state currencies. It's a traded stock, just like any other, backed by the same thing as any other. "Full Faith" of something that shouldn't be trusted in the first place.

So instead of bitcoin, we should use a dollar backed by a private bank, the "Federal Reserve"? Or the Euro, managed by the central banks?

Re: Goo goo, gah gah

That's weird that someone used a word you don't like, no one in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland uses different words for similar concepts.

Re: Its not a laptop, its a smoke machine

Except there's evidence that Joe benefited from Hunter being placed into ludicrously impossible positions, positions he would never attain if he didn't kick back to his father. There's evidence Joe spoke with Hunter about Hunter's business dealings on many occasions. Joe has even admitted so.

And the email server was absolutely evidence of crimes, crimes hosting that information, crimes hosting it insecurity, crimes transmitting that information and crimes deleting it when subpoenas arrived.

Re: How do we protect our 2nd amendment & our kids at the same time?

Negative. U.S. Musket Model 1795 had an effective range from 50 to 75 yards. That's effective range, the range at which you could expect to hit center of mass, and a .69 cal bullet which had devastating effects on impact.

And you could fire it 3x a minute quite accurately.

Repeating rifles existed in the 1790s though not in mass production and common use in the US military until the Spencer in 1860, though Colt pistols entered common use before that.

And the 2nd amendment isn't about technology, it's about capability. Disarm the government, disarm the planet, make nukes and chemical and biological weapons a distant memory, and we'll talk about limiting small arms.

Re: Add the latest to the top but don't delete anything

Your CV at 2+ pages isn't a bad thing. The AI and grep will reach into the 3rd and 5th pages just fine, and the hiring manager will flip to subsequent pages because they're curious. And if they're not curious, they'll find what they need on the first pages.

In all my time hiring engineers, the substance is what matters. I built this. I materially contributed to that. I earned this, I earned that. I contributed to this, I authored that.

It's the resumes where the applicant did the bare minimum that I toss in the trash. Oh, you wrote Web Chess in college? Big fucking deal. I'm hiring the guy who wrote a game engine in college to make his absolutely terrible top-down combat easier to make, or the woman who wrote a mobile app to track the fishing seasons and limits, not the kid who can't do more than the bare minimum.

Unfortunately, my son is now one of those kids doing the bare minimum. Drives me nuts, but he simply believes he's too good to take up the mantle fixing bugs for some random open source project. He needs his weekends, after all, minecraft isn't going to play itself.

Re: This is why they should be banned.

It's none of your business why someone chooses to exercise a civil right. You don't get to question their motivation, just because you lack imagination, doesn't mean they have no reason to carry. The 2nd amendment is called that in the United States, but it's a civil right that all people have, even if their current government denies it.

If someone approaches you with a knife, it's entirely reasonable to assume you are going to die from stab wounds. If TWO people approach you with knives, you must assume evil intent and defend yourself and those around you who are not capable of defense or retreat. That is your moral obligation. Failing to do so, which you obviously would, is your problem to solve, or suffer the consequences. Even with a handgun, a knife is a deadly weapon, and even shooting the assailant is no guarantee against bleeding to death.

Re: Sexism too?

As expected in a comments thread in The Reg, pedantry: The Mason - Dixon line had slave states North of it, all of them north of the line were slave states until the Civil War when the last one was Delaware. While technically to the East of most of the line, it was to the North of the southern part of the line because the line was the demarcation between it and the other states around it.

Re: Safest Option?

She served as Sec State from January 21, 2009 – February 1, 2013. The 111th Congress and Senate were composed of majority of Democrats. The 112th the Republicans only had a majority in the Congress, and a powerless majority it was. The Senate was majority Democrats. Who had the power of the purse strings?

That, and she had access to perfectly acceptable government run email servers for her whole tenure, and chose not to use them, budget cuts didn't have any impact on those, nor shutdowns. And, we don't have any idea how hacked her email server actually was, my guess, entirely hacked. Completely hacked. Powned by a dozen different agencies and governments. So powned, they had to call each other to schedule CPU and IO time to download the new mail.