Posts by Danny Boyd 245 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Feb 2017
The problem wasn't he logged in from his working laptop. The problem was, he logged in to the company's account from Iranian territory. If he did that using "disposable" machine, it wouldn't change a thing - the company's account would be blocked because the company seemingly works with Iranians, which is a no-no.
Oh, gimme a break! "Maybe, there was nothing in his power he could have done..."? With "solarwinds123" password (1FA) on an update server?
Microsoft and others should drop SolarWinds as a hot potato, immediately. The guys are just plain incompetent.
That's the problem with using third-party software, and by proxy that's the problem with cloud computing in general: you rely on somebody else's competence, which you know nothing about.
What strikes me as being rather illogical is that these companies talk about (and implement) various forms of censorship (via community moderation, algorithms, etc.), and still claim they are "pure platforms" and cannot be held responsible for the content the users post. To me, it's either one, or the other. If you censor the users' postings, then you can (and should) be held responsible for quality of your censorship. If you are a "pure platform", you don't even look at what your users post, let alone censor the postings.
"The only way to eliminate the threat of this disease somewhere is to eliminate it everywhere," said Gates.
OK, let's see. There are two variants: the vaccine(s) is (are) effective, or the opposite. If the opposite, no need to produce them at all, and rich and poor countries are in the same sorry state of affairs. So let's presume the vaccines are effective.
If the vaccines are effective, and rich countries vaccinate their populations, what happens when the virus is brought in from a poor country? Whom will this virus infect except die-hard anti-vaxxers, who deserve what they get for their stupidity?
Of course, rich countries should be humane towards poor countries and help them with vaccines, but the reasons are humanitarian and moral, not epidemiological.
“Today we are taking action against Facebook Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts tied to offline anarchist groups that support violent acts amidst protests, US-based militia organizations and QAnon”
Aha, now I see! So it were militia organizations and QAnon followers who rioted, looted and set on fire American cities for weeks! Would never suspect it from documentary footage!
Hi AC, any proof of Russian (Chinese, Nork, Iranian, check the appropriate) involvement? Didn't think so. Creating a false external enemy to draw attention from the internal problems - this trick goes back as far as Pharaohs and may be further. Your gov't as usual is f***ng with you, and you stupidly follow the lead. Wake up. "There's no spoon."
Actually, percolation collapses if the individual "cells" *resist* percolation with probability p > p_c. That's why the epidemiologists talk about "herd immunity", achieved at about 60% level of immune population. But tracking app doesn't make you immune, so this model is not applicable. The applicable model would involve characteristic times of infection transfer, probability of transfer detection, and characteristic times of reaction ("catch all possibly infected and isolate them"). Spread of contact tracking app will only give you probability of transfer detection.
GDPR (most probably) does not apply, because the data collected for the model training do not contain personally identifiable information. The model is trained not to tell your mouse movements from my mouse movements, but to tell a bot imitating mouse movements from you or me actually making these movements. At least that's what I understood from their explanations.
Attacks on critical infrastructure (especially during national emergency) should be classified as terrorism and dealt with with extreme prejudice. As if the attackers were blowing up the tube stations or derailing the trains (because those contribute to the virus spread).
If the law enforcement doesn't stop this madness now, coming on it as a ton of bricks, the tube stations and trains may be next.
It is totally useless to preach to the lunatics and try to educate them. They are lunatics. They should be caught and eliminated from the society.
The "celebrities" and other blowhards giving good advice to the terrorists should also be eliminated from the society for terror propaganda.
This is serious, folks, human rights or not. The lunatics have no human right to terrorize other humans and must be eliminated.
Never seen a box of masks made in USA or Europe. Have an old box of masks (don't remember why I bought it a while ago, but it shirley came handy now), it's made in China. So much for "cleaning out worldwide stocks of western-made PPE". I call BS.
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